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Topics of the day:
1. Interbot (2)
2. interbot
3. FTPMail, Agora, etc. statistics
4. next part from www by www4mail
5. Virus-related questions
6. Infobeat Problem
7. Less e-mail only users? (was: NEWS: ACCMAIL subscribers and countries)
8. HealthNet Getweb Policy
9. Less e-mail only users? (was: NEWS: ACCMAIL subscribers and
countries)
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Date: Fri, 7 May 1999 05:26:00 +0100
From: Steve Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Interbot
> However, I know nothing about
> writing service file
In the Help file, look up the Edit topic.
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Date: Fri, 7 May 1999 05:26:00 +0100
From: Steve Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: interbot
> Matter of fact I have
> wtitten a few new "service files" (like some based upon
> G. Boyd's cracking of search engines) and modified some to
> reflect the Getweb's going down and other modifications.
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Date: Fri, 7 May 1999 05:26:00 +0100
From: Steve Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Interbot
> "no destinatary, no object"
I don't know what that message comes from but it is not Interbot.
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Date: Fri, 7 May 1999 05:45:29 +0100
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Subject: FTPMail, Agora, etc. statistics
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Date: Fri, 7 May 1999 08:02:33 +0800
From: huyf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: next part from www by www4mail
hi,
Im a www4mail uers,and have question about it.
I search interesting information from www through www4mail by fill-in
format,but only obtain the first part of result,button that link to next
part don't play.
Any suggestion?
Tnanks
hough
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Date: Fri, 7 May 1999 13:07:15 -0300
From: H Sutter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Virus-related questions
Gerald Boyd wrote:
> You need an uninfected boot floppy disk. This should have:
> COMMAND.COM
> SYS.COM
[...]
> and the hidden files for DOS and BIOS.
> You make these from within Windows or DOS.
Thank you very much for the help. Yes, I had made a boot
floppy disk. But I was a bit paranoid about the next move.
(Different people had told me different things.) What really
scared me was that flashing message from Fdisk when I tried
to break down the partitions--it said there might be a
virus. - McAfee had said the same, but F-Prot said it was fine.
> You then boot the computer from the uninfected boot floppy disk and
> then immediately run an antivirus program or you can boot from the
> uninfected floppy, reformat the drive, and then run sys c: to install a
> barebones system on the hard drive. The barebones system will allow you
> to reboot the hard drive.
I didn't realize that you can scan a hard drive that isn't formatted.
(I did a "government wipe" with Norton and the system doesn't
recognize the C-drive: "Invalid media type reading drive C".)
But the scanning worked fine--both with McAfee and with F-Prot.
(Nothing detected.) - Now I have to work up the courage to
reformat--and scan again.
> If you have a decent version of DOS (not the Win 95 one) you can format
> the drive with the extra parameter /mbr which installs a new Master
> Boot Record.
I have DOS-5--not sure if that's a decent version. But I am
thinking of getting PC-DOS 2000.
Thanks again--I learned a lot...and have more to learn still.
(I'd actually assumed that by wiping the disk I would also
kill any virus.)
/hs
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Date: Fri, 7 May 1999 06:39:32 -0500
From: "Gary R. Welles" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Infobeat Problem
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Date: Fri, 7 May 1999 20:51:15 +0200
From: Frits Westra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Less e-mail only users? (was: NEWS: ACCMAIL subscribers and countries)
> Date: Thu, 6 May 1999 11:17:53 -0700
> From: "Gerald E. Boyd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: NEWS: ACCMAIL subscribers and countries
>
> We seem to be declining in membership from our high of 3000+...
Is this because of the fact that more people obtain full internet
access?
Does somebody know the statistics (or point me to a URL) on full
internet access versus e-mail only access? In other words: how many
people (globally) have e-mail access only, compared to the number of
people having full internet access. And is this ratio changing?
Thanks for the info.
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Date: Fri, 7 May 1999 12:44:36 -0700
From: "Gerald E. Boyd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: HealthNet Getweb Policy
Accmailers,
I just received the official policy statement for using the Getweb
server at Healthnet ([EMAIL PROTECTED]). So far as the list is
concerned, only health professionals may use it. No more free 14
documents a week for non-health related users.
>Get Web Policy statement
>
>GetWeb was developed by SatelLife, a non-profit organization based in
>Boston, Massachusetts, USA. SatelLife's mission is to provide
information
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>countries. Because direct Internet access is both limited and costly in
>developing countries, GetWeb was designed so that World Wide Web pages
can
>be retrieved via e-mail, thereby saving time and money.
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>If you are a health, medical, social service, development, or health
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>GetWeb. We also extend our service to users who are visually impaired.
>However, to help us manage the system and its use, we ask that you
register
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Date: Fri, 7 May 1999 13:29:31 -0700
From: "Gerald E. Boyd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Less e-mail only users? (was: NEWS: ACCMAIL subscribers and
countries)
At 08:51 PM 5/7/99 +0200, Frits Westra wrote the following:
> > Date: Thu, 6 May 1999 11:17:53 -0700
> > From: "Gerald E. Boyd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Subject: NEWS: ACCMAIL subscribers and countries
> >
> > We seem to be declining in membership from our high of 3000+...
>
>Is this because of the fact that more people obtain full internet
>access?
It appears to be so. We peaked in mid 1998 and have been steadily
declining since that time. About the only new jump in users is from
China, Saudi Arabia and Cuba. The other nations represented on the list
are all slowly moving away.
>Does somebody know the statistics (or point me to a URL) on full
>internet access versus e-mail only access? In other words: how many
>people (globally) have e-mail access only, compared to the number of
>people having full internet access. And is this ratio changing?
Some sites and numbers:
81 million Americans use e-mail, at least occasionally
The average American sends or receives 26.4
e-mail messages every day
On a daily basis, the total number of e-mail messages sent by U.S.
internet users is 2.1 billion (81 million X 26.4 messages/day = 2.1
billion)
In addition to this 2.1 billion figure, another 7.3 billion
"commercial" e-mail messages are sent, and -- you guessed it -- over
96% of these represent SPAM
For Perspective
There were 107 billion pieces of First Class Mail delivered in the U.S.
in 1998
84% of net surfers use e-mail to communicate
On average, people receive twice as many e-mails as they send on a
given day
There are now 263 million e-mail boxes worldwide, and over 100 of these
are managed by ISPs (Sources: Electronic Mail & Messaging Systems and
the Yankee Group)
The above from:
http://www.emarketer.com/estats/020199_email.html
The Internet Index by Win Tresse who I been following for 5 years.
http://www.openmarket.com/intindex/index.cfm
You may want to check eStats
http://www.estats.com/estats/welcome.html
Lots of great charts and graphs you can use.
Try http://www.nua.ie/surveys/
they have some of the best stats on the web. Stuff like:
Dramatic Increase in Number of Medics Online
May 07 1999: An estimated 85 percent of US
physicians are Internet users, according to a survey
conducted by the Healtheon Corporation.
2.3 Million Dutch Users Online in March 1999
May 06 1999: An estimated 2.3 million Dutch
people over the age of 15 now have Internet access,
according to a survey by ProActive.
2.3 Percent of Qatar Population Online
May 06 1999: There were 12,200 Internet Users in
Qatar by the end of 1998, up from 2,200 in 1996,
according to a report in the Gulf Times.
Network Wizards have some statistics relating to their Domain survey,
which could be useful, as will as links to related sites.
This can be found at:
http://www.nw.com/zone/WWW/top.html
Internet Domain Survey, January 1999
Number of Hosts advertised in the DNS
| Survey Adjusted Replied
Date | HostCount HostCount To Ping*
------+-----------------------------------
Jan 99| 43,230,000 8,426,000
Jul 98| 36,739,000 6,529,000
Jan 98| 29,670,000 5,331,640 [first NEW Survey]
Jul 97| 19,540,000 26,053,000 4,314,410 [last OLD Survey]
Jan 97| 16,146,000 21,819,000 3,392,000
Jul 96| 12,881,000 16,729,000 2,569,000
Jan 96| 9,472,000 14,352,000 1,682,000
Jul 95| 6,642,000 8,200,000 1,149,000
Jan 95| 4,852,000 5,846,000 970,000
Jul 94| 3,212,000 707,000
Jan 94| 2,217,000 576,000
Jul 93| 1,776,000 464,000
Jan 93| 1,313,000
http://www.nw.com/zone/WWW/top.html in addition to the Internet
domain survey, they have links to other sites
Matrix Information
http://www.mids.org/topics/index.html which appears to have several
monitoring links with statistics -- graphs and charts
Robert Zakon's Internet History is an oft-quoted source:
http://www.isoc.org/zakon/Internet/History/HIT.html#Growth
This site predicts future trends:
http://www.nua.ie/surveys/?f=VS&art_id=905354593&rel=true
This site estimates January 1999 numbers:
http://www.nua.ie/surveys/how_many_online/index.html
Pew Research has a January '99 report:
http://www.people-press.org/tech98sum.htm
Some Media Metrix numbers:
http://www.mediametrix.com/PressRoom/Press_Releases/01_21_99.html
Number of domain names worldwide:
http://www.domainstats.com/index.cfm
The Statistics ToolBox at:
http://www.iw.com/daily/stats/index.html
has a selection of links to the latest Internet statistics.
Check out the free information available that is abstracted from 65
journals. This service provides a great overview of the entire computer
and communications
industries.
http://www.cif1.com
NOTE: Many of these sites are web pages, traffic counts and all kinds
of assorted statistics, not just E-mail. I use these to track and find
answers to questions like the one you posed.
And the statistic I use on my web page from 1997:
According to some estimates, 26% of the 48 million US and Canadian
Internet users use e-mail. Other surveys show that 15 million global
Internet users access the Internet exclusively by e-mail.
Hmmm, might have to update these numbers...
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Gerry Boyd -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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