e-mail Directory Equiries

[WendyS]

I often get e-mails bouncing back because individuals have changed their e-mail address and forgotten to notify everybody on their address list. Does an e-mail version of "Directory Enquiries" exist so that we can track individuals' e-mail addresses down?

[WoWo]

There was one a few years back (8-9) which was run by Yahoo but that was at a time when very few people had an email address.

The problem is that email addresses are not controlled by anybody in the same way Telephone numbers are. You can just make up a new telephone number because of the way the infastructure works (not so hard these days with digital exchanges but anyway). But with email even I can create a new address tomorrow which I can destroy the next day.

It's too big a job to make one, would be an administative nightmare, cause you to get tons of spam email and be totally inaccurate to make it point less.

[WoWo]

Sorry, that should have been can't make up a phone number rather than can.