sorry too late

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Excellent job, thank you.

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Thanx a lot!

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Thank you

Thank you

Bless Errol-ga.  :-)  Great shot, close miss.  :-)  Your fine research
on Google and further found that Google, built by us humans, is
humanly loaded with quite a lot of wrong information.  :-)  Charles
Dickens, despite all the Google attributions, did NOT write, "The law.
sir, is an ass!"  :-)  "Close but no cigar."  I had gotten that far
myself and stuck there.  Dickens' character (I believe it was "Mr.
Bumble" in the book, OLIVER TWIST, and tried to find it at
http://www.online-literature.com/booksearch.php said something like,
"If that be the law, the law be a ass." My quick search did not bring
it up and I am out of time this morning at dawn on a Sunday here in
Santa Barbara, but while I surely thank you for your effort, my
question is, "Who said, 'The law. sir, is an ass!'", and Dickens said,
"...the law be a ass." As I say, "Close, but no cigar."  :-)  If this
fact-checking interests you as it does me,  stay tuned.  :-) 
--"Thinker Bill" Hackett

Errol,

Nice! Just what I needed. I was able to use the VeriSign Labs LDAP
Whois service to find a cluster of web sites for my investigation,
then use my knowledge of the names and TLDs this person might use to
findd a second cluster (they were grouped under organizations with the
effective identities of "John Smith" and "Smith,John"). If that link
closes down, I'll follow up on the other resoruces. Beautifully
complete answer.

I'll just note that historically, the old monolithic registry provided
ways to do lookups by name field and other text searches. Also, tools
like the "whois" in Matthew Schneider's net.demon supported these
kinds of queries. But they haven't yet caught up to the new structure
of the Net.

I've spent the last hour or two playing with both the VeriSIgn Labs
and the Google Labs sites, and it's taken me this long to tear away
and rate your answer!

Thanks,
Raymond

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After receiving erroll-ga's answer it was not necessary to clarify
quetion to scriptor-ga.  Thanks to both!

Thanks, Errol - This has a lot of good choices meeting the criteria.

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Dilligent work errol-ga -- you earned your US$2.50.  I'd have given
full credit if you had found the list of 21 states.  Thanks for all
the great information!!

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