This information is based on recent tests, and is believed to be accurate
on the date of the post.
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Agora (dna.affrc.go.jp)
Category: web-to-email servers
Posting address: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Command: in the message body
Web page: none, but there is an online help file at
http://www.dna.affrc.go.jp/misc/Agora/Help.txt
Syntax and returned document:
SEND <URL>
Returns a text dump of the requested page.
If you request a binary file (eg: image, PDF), it returns a
uu-encoded attachment.
SOURCE <URL>
Returns the source HTML of the requested page
BSOURCE <URL>
Returns the requested resource as a uu-encoded attachment.
RSEND <return-email-address> <URL>
RSOURCE <return-email-address> <URL>
Same as SEND and SOURCE, but Agora will return the requested resource
to <return-email-address>
DEEP <URL>
Returns the requested resource, and documents to which it is linked,
each in a separate email. Note that the total number of lines in
these emails will not be more than 5,000.
Character encoding issues:
The character set of Agora emails is us-ascii. Web pages which have
characters with code positions greater than 127 (eg: diacritics,
Unicode) are corrupted. However, you can use BSOURCE to retrieve such
files as uu-encoded attachments.
Recommendation:
Use SEND if your target is
- a text file
- an English language web page
Use SOURCE if you need
- the markup of an English language web page
Use DEEP only if your target and *all* its links are
- small text files
- small English language web pages
Use BSOURCE if your target is
- a web page in a language which uses diacritics
- a web page in a language which does not use the Latin alphabet
- a binary file
Other:
- The Agora server at dna.affrc.go.jp is for requests to research and
academic sites only.
- Before using Agora, get and read the 'help' file: send an email to
[EMAIL PROTECTED] with HELP as the message body.
- Agora attachments always have the name AGORA.BIN. To save the
attachment, give it a name and filetype appropriate for your system,
eg: if it is a PDF file, save AGORA.BIN as <something>.pdf
- The maximum length of an Agora email is 5000 lines. This is long
enough for most web pages and text files, but excludes large uu-
encoded binary files. Note that uu-encoded files are significantly
larger than the original.
- Use DEEP only if you are *certain* that you will be able to read the
return pages, and if you *know* that the combined length of the pages
is less than 5,000 lines.
Examples:
Email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: (anything)
with message body:
SEND http://szs.net/emailonly/tiny.html
SOURCE http://szs.net/emailonly/tiny.html
BSOURCE http://szs.net/emailonly/tiny.gif
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