Hersch posted about conantalumni.com (notice the lack of link). Who runs conantalumni.com? Conant has a half-working alumni directory on their own site (conantcougars.com - which should actually be www.chs.d211.org, but there’s a little resistance in getting rid of the .com monicker). Also, I just made a submission form for alumni at PHS. The search feature and actual directory to appear soon.
I’m still a little wary of an alumni directory not hosted by or affiliated with the school. Seems like a good way to scrape for snail mail and e-mail addresses. No matter what their privacy policy says about them sharing information, it looks to me like anybody can join (they let Hersch join :-)). If anyone can join, anyone can scrape for information. As it is, you can’t verify that someone is or isn’t an alumnus just by the information they submit. The best you can do is check for a name and a graduation year, if it even matters to you as the service provider. It looks more like money would be the chief concern here, not accuracy. Of course, I’m just talking right now, because I am not signing up for the service.
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