Well, the million, zillion problem can be solved by simply changing your form generator script to show only X# of options at a time with a link to go and get more of them. For a contact list this is fairly common. I didn't bother resizing the popup form because I suspect that you really want to include more information about this user than a small window could provide. See your friendly JavaScript reference for details on open() function parameters. 
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
use CGI qw/:standard :debug/;
CGI::initialize_globals();

my $script = q(function open_popup(page) { window.open(page);return fa
+lse;});
my @names = qw/NAMES JOHN SALLY PETER SUE ANDRE/;


print header, start_html(-title=>'See a Name',
                 -script=>$script) , 
      start_form(-name=>qq(NAMEFORM) -action=>'');
      
if (!param()) {
  print '<select name="NAMELIST" onChange="open_popup(\'http://localho
+st/cgi-bin/bouncer.cgi?name=\' + this[this.selectedIndex].text)">' , 
        ( map {option($_) }@names) ,
        '</select>';
  }
 else {
  print h1("NAME RESPONSE"), 
        h3(fake_address(param('name')));
  
  }
  
print &end_form, &end_html;

sub fake_address {
 my $name = shift;
 # Rewrite this to look up this information in a database or something
 return($name . 'lives @ 1818 W. Refectory, New York, NY 22212');
}
1;

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