"How to Find Out Someone's E-Mail Address Without Using the Telephone" by Billy Barron is a 2-page file from a 6/92 Benchmarks article. Send a "get address barron_b" message to listserv@bitnic.bitnet. [Current Cites, PACS-L, 11/22.] Sometimes it's easiest to just call and ask, of course. White pages directories on gopher servers often list both phone numbers and email addresses.

Knowbot Information Service is a "white pages" service that searches several sources of net addresses. Telnet to nri.reston.va.us 185 and invoke "netaddress username" or "netaddress firstname lastname". [Peter Scott (aa375 @freenet.carleton.ca), HYTEL-L, 6/29/93. net-happenings.] The NetFind nameserver at bruno.cs.colorado.edu seems more interesting. [R. Chandrasekar (mickey@saathi.ncst.ernet.in), comp.ai, 1/25/93.]

To find an internet host that corresponds to a known bitnet host, send a "show alias " message to listserv@.bitnet. [John S. Makulowich (verbwork@access.digex.net), CARR-L, 7/20/93.]

If you need to know that your email is getting through, put "Return-Receipt-To: " in the header. [John Stracke (francis@xyzzy.aati.com), 3/3.]

If your message bounces with a notice of "Mail forwarding not supported," it doesn't mean that your intended recipient has left with no forwarding address. It means that his mailer has not been given permission to accept mail from you. IBM's VNET domain is among those that must validate a sender before accepting mail. This keeps out junk mail and unauthorized traffic. [Arlene Rinaldi (rinaldi@acc.fau.edu), NETTRAIN, 10/14.]

If you want to run TCP/IP (FTP, telnet, etc.) from a PC, check out the FAQ ibmtcp.zip in /pub/mailcom/IBMTCP on netcom1.netcom.com. [Bernard Aboba (aboba@world.std.com), net-happenings, 7/16/93.]

If you commonly FTP files from a particular site, say wuarchive.wustl.edu, you may be able to same time by putting "machine wuarchive.wustl.edu login anonymous password user@machine.site.domain" in your Unix .netrc file. This will perform the anonymous login automatically. [Dan Mahoney (dmahone@hal.unm.edu), PACS-L, 5/7/93.] (Supply your own net address as the password so that sysops can compile usage statistics to justify free FTP services.)

You can convert your Internet email to NetNews format for use with threaded mailreaders. Use the Unix program mail2news in your /etc/aliases file to route discussion lists to private newsgroups. [Robert Berger (rberger@cerf.net), com-priv, 6/10/93.]

You can log onto CompuServe by telnetting to hermes.merit.edu and answering "Which Host?" with "compuserve". Or answer with "help" to learn how to transfer binary files from CompuServe. Your remote login to CIS via Merit network is billed as a collect call from Ann Arbor via SprintNet, at $11.70/hour during prime time and $1.70/hour otherwise. [Jeffrey Needleman (needje@msen.com), bit.listserv.help-net, 5/11/93. Bill Park.]