Finding I could link to the site from another American military Web site in Japan, I urgently e-mailed a query to the Kitty Hawk Webmaster: "Where's page?" (though what I really meant was "Where's ship?").
He said he had overlooked the time frame for those contacts when I had e-mailed a query to him about the book before the publication of my column.
Koenig & Bauer's disclosure was contained in a mailed response to a query by United Against Nuclear Iran, a New York-based sanctions advocacy group, which seized upon the 40 percent drop in the rial's value this month to begin a campaign aimed at the currency itself.
"I buy this stuff legally," that dealer replied by e-mail to a query about where he gets the knives.
Lt. Col. Stewart T. Upton, a Marine Corps spokesman, responding by e-mail to a query about Mr. Hekmati, said he was in the Marines from August 2001 to August 2005, attained the rank of sergeant and was deployed in Iraq from April to September 2004.
"Our ideas and actions to grow revenue are paying off as the global, package, priority mail and advertising mail segments of our business are showing growth," Mr. Partenheimer wrote in an e-mail response to a query from a reporter.
In an e-mail response to a query, Mrs. Byers said, "We are actually moving along very quickly and especially harmoniously".
"As the organization matures, organizational structure changes are often required," the company said in an e-mail response to a query.
"We see more and more people around the globe using the Internet, mobile phones and other technologies to make their voices heard as they protest against injustice and seek to realize their aspirations," Mrs. Clinton said in an e-mail response to a query on the topic.
Another study by IDC, a technology consultancy, found that only 5% of the 50 top websites responded appropriately to e-mail queries in a foreign language; most simply asked for the message to be resent in English.
He hired more staff, and established a fee-based research service that allowed anyone in the world to submit a query via mail or telegraph — a kind of analog search engine.
