An increasing percentage of Web users is wasting time finding old friends. Alumni.net, among other sites, will help that rapidly growing segment. Alumni.net says it has 1.5 million people listed, although ClassMates.com says it has more. Alumni.net, however, is free. To actually get useful information from Classmates.com (and many others), you pay up first ($25 is typical). Alumni.net, at least for now, gives you e-mail addresses free, as long as you register. It also lists organizations other than schools (add virtually any group you want) and claims to have worldwide coverage. Downsides? Most schools and groups are in the US, and there aren't near as many people registered as at ClassMates.com. That's today; tomorrow may well be different.

Alumni: http://www.alumni.net/
ClassMates: http://www.classmates.com/

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