And the ad side found Mr. Hodge aloof; he removed his listing from the office's voice mail directory and lacked the recognition of Mr. Lapham.
While trying to convey the wonders of the web to his unimpressed wife, Barshack came up with the idea of an E-mail directory, like a phone book for E-mail addresses.
Last year, around 3,400 Guatemalans signed up for Chapines (pronounced cha-pee-nez, a casual term Guatemalans use to address each other) Online, an E-mail directory, begun by a Guatemalan student in Texas.
To help the students deliberate, Wesleyan created a list-serve -- a mass e-mail directory in which a message posted by one registered applicant is automatically sent to all -- in which the accepted students counseled each other, joined by the occasional Wesleyan undergraduate.
Mr. Finkel, 28, is the director of business development at Bigfoot.com, an e-mail directory, in Manhattan.
St. Stephen Catholic Church near St . Petersburg Fla., has an e-mail directory of members and offers electronic religious greeting cards.
In 1995 Jurvetson, then a 28-year-old partner in the Palo Alto venture capital firm of Draper Fisher Jurvetson, was wondering whether to fund a small e-mail directory outfit called Four11.com.
She didn't have to warn each successive temp at her office switchboard that the school nurse might call and ask for someone not in the voice-mail directory.
The fast-growing conspiracy seems to have originated from a few would-be sleuths who found her boyfriend's name, Riley Roberts, listed in online House directories with a "mail.house.gov" email address.
Yahoo!, which includes features such as a search engine, an e-mail service, a directory, and a news branch, began as a simple collection of Yang and Filo's favourite Web sites.
The association has 250 members, including 69 remote lodges throughout the state (Peace of Selby and the Gustavus Inn, among them) and will mail a directory for $2.
