Directory Services questions

[professor_tbone]

Version: 2008
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
Processor: Power PC
Email Client: pop

After I send email, I see a message in the lower right-hand portion of the screen that Entourage is connecting to ldap.four11.com, which is one of the four Directory Services listed in my Entourage account. I see from another question on this forum that ldap.four11.com no longer exists and that I can delete it. The other three Directory Services I have (Bigfoot, Infospace and WhoWhere) all indicate either that the server can't be found or that Entourage can't connect to that service. I am not sure that any of them exist any longer, at least as ldap servers. So my questions are:

1) Should I have at least one working ldap server in my Directory Services, and
2) If so, is there a good one to include?

FWIW, I don't seem to suffer any ill effects if I quit Entourage while it is still attempting to connect to the four11 server.

Thanks for your assistance.

 

[Adam Bailey]

1) Should I have at least one working ldap server in my Directory
Services

In my opinion: No. Have you ever had the need to search for a person on the
Internet whose address you did not know?

Public directory services, IMO, have never been reliable or useful.