Center for Civil Society International (ccsi@u.washington.edu)
Mon, 23 Jan 1995 13:38:25 -0800 (PST)
Sender: kedzie@rand.org (Chris Kedzie)
Subject: Finding Email Addresses in the FSU
There are several ways to obtain addresses in the cities of the former
Soviet Union.
1) The Who-is-Who Directory
Send the following message to who_is_who@kiae.su in order to get a list of
those who have access to email in, for instance, Samarkand:
---- SELECT
#P Samarkand
---- END
Of course, you can replace Samarkand with the name of whatever city
interests you.
For more information on the database and thorough instructions on how to
use it, send an email message with the single word HELP at the first line
to the same address as above.
2) The Intermap Database
A message in the following form to intermap@botik.yaroslavl.su will help
you discover who uses email in Smolensk:
list a=smolensk end
quit
To get help, send a one line "HELP" email message to the same address.
3) CDC Compilation
The Citizen's Democracy Corps has a (somewhat dated) list of 5,000 FSU
email addresses. You can search this database on-line. The URL is
gopher://solar.rtd.utk.edu/7waissrc:/etc/cdc
4) Lip's List
Benoit Carl Lips <lips@pcpm.ucl.ac.be> has compiled a list of all the
email providers in Eurasia. Look for the provider closest to the city of
interest, then send the postmaster a letter asking about clients in your
target city.
The URL for the main menu is:
The URL's for each country are listed below:
Azerbaijan
http://www.earth.org/~lips/Providers/Azerbaijan.html
Belarus
http://www.earth.org/~lips/Providers/Belarus.html
Estonia
http://www.earth.org/~lips/Providers/Estonia.html
Georgia
http://www.earth.org/~lips/Providers/Georgia.html
Latvia
http://www.earth.org/~lips/Providers/Latvia.html
Lithuania
http://www.earth.org/~lips/Providers/Lithuania.html
Russian Federation
http://www.earth.org/~lips/Providers/Russian_Federation.html
Ukraine
http://www.earth.org/~lips/Providers/Ukraine.html
Uzbekistan
http://www.earth.org/~lips/Providers/Uzbekistan.html
5) FRIENDS Listserv
Alternatively, send a brief message containing your travel plans and
assistance requests to the FRIENDS Listserv. FRIENDS is a "free service
started by friends in Russia and the United States" and the Listserv is one
element of that service. Hundreds of people in both the FSU and the USA
read this list.
First, subscribe to FRIENDS by sending a one line email "SUBSCRIBE FRIENDS
firstname lastname" to listproc@solar.rtd.utk.edu then, post your
substantive message to substantive message to friends@solar.rtd.utk.edu.
FRIENDS also has a World Wide Web server. Use the following URL if you
have a WWW browser: http://solar.rtd.utk.edu/friends/home.html
If you don't have a WWW browser, just telnet to solar.rtd.utk.edu
and enter 'friends' (in lower case and without the quotes) at the
login prompt.
Good luck.
This archive was generated by hypermail 2.0b3 on Sun May 23 1999 - 13:32:11 EDT