At 9:53 AM -0700 8/19/05, Peter Naiman wrote:
>I'm looking for the email address of an Ebay seller
>from France to contact him. I know how to do a search
>on Ebay for sellers and contact info, but do not
>recall the sellers Ebay handle. If anyone on the list
>knows David Desmit's email address would you please
>send it to me offlist.
>
>Peter Naiman
>Glendale, WI
Before there was the Web, France had the Minitel. This is a comprehensive web-like system, though more text based than the Web. Some of the services are free, some are payable. However, one of the free services is a national telephone directory that works really well if you know the name and at least the department (something between a state and a county in U.S. equivalents...there are, I belive, 96 of them.)
See: http://www.adminet.com/
I remember this well from when I lived in France in 1988-89, it was the hottest network going until the Internet came along...
Sheldon "Minitel" Brown
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