full-disclosure - Notifying an institution about a vulnerability

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Message-ID: <002f01c66646$6ef67fb0$2732a8c0@cliffs3>
Date: Sat Apr 22 20:53:27 2006
From: bamford at oz.net (Cliff Bamford)
Subject: Notifying an institution about a vulnerability

> i think you may exploit this vuln and get several SSN, and then email 
> to the institute to show the severity of your report.
>

In the US, doing that could get you into a ton of criminal and civil trouble
(I'm sad to say).
What steps did the original poster take to notify the institution, exactly?