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Topics of the day:
1. Offline browser (3)
2. to "Amir.F Ghanbari" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Www4Mail Retreive To Me Asp File !
What This !?
3. RFC - is this files of Standart ? where i can find it ? (3)
4. FTPMail, Agora, etc. statistics
5. <No subject given> (4)
6. Just asking something else
7. ASP
8. Accessing email at SoftHome thru current email account
9. bitftp@princeton down? (2)
10. INFO> email to fax/internet faxing advancements
11. Y2K (2)
12. "/" in e-mail addresses (2)
13. how can I read the file with the suffix of "pdf"? (2)
14. POP watch - remote checking of mails
15. E-mail only use
16. ACCMAIL Digest subscriptions
17. Discussion on free email services
18. FAST Search Engine by E-mail
19. ACCMAIL Digest - 8 May 1999 to 9 May 1999 (#1999-130)
20. Net number system at a crossroads
21. ACTIVE SERVERS (2)
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Date: Tue, 11 May 1999 22:38:07 EDT
From: Rich Prutzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Offline browser
A while ago I used an offline web browser called "Knots". I can't find it
anywhere now and was wondering if anyone knows where I might find it or
any other offline browser. also, is it possible to use any web browser to
view web pages obtained via www4mail? Thanks
Rich
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Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 08:17:18 +0400
From: coffin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: to "Amir.F Ghanbari" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Www4Mail Retreive To Me Asp
File ! What This !?
u WROTE: Www4Mail Retreive To Me Asp File ! What This !?
*.ASP is a HTML language maded in Visual Basic.
U can see ASP source- it is like HTML.
But with Visual Basic U can make your HTML-ASP page more exiting
and cool.
CoFFin. 12.05.1999
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Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 08:23:06 +0400
From: coffin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: RFC - is this files of Standart ? where i can find it ?
Hello ALL
I know what there is some official site with all internet and other
Standarts. (if i know it is RFC files ).
Where can i find it ??
PS i want to find it for learning Telnet.
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Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 06:01:54 +0100
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Subject: FTPMail, Agora, etc. statistics
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Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 06:24:20 +0000
From: "McDade, Christopher" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: <No subject given>
Answer to problem 1 is to rename the file so that its extension is .html,
this also works when you recieve files that have a cgi extension.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Amir.F Ghanbari [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Tuesday, May 11, 1999 12:17 AM
> Subject: <No subject given>
>
> Hi :)
>
> I Have 2 Problem Please Help Me
>
> 1. Www4Mail Retreive To Me Asp File ! What This !?
> 2. Some Site Use Command Buttom For Subscribe But
> My Access Only E-Mail And Web Mail Not Support
> Space After Address :( , For Sample:
>
> Http://Www.Masdn.Com/cgi-bin [EMAIL PROTECTED] !
>
> Please Help Me In This Matter.
>
> Thak You
> Bye & Have Nice Time
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Date: Tue, 11 May 1999 19:40:41 +0200
From: Kai Schindelka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Just asking something else
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Abel Molina) am 11.05.1999:
> I�ll try to bother you only one more time with all my questions at the
> same time. I�ll try to write the best I can but my english is not so
> good. :-)
It's better than others, I can tell you. I've read worse postings
than yours elsewhere, and I'm no native speaker as well... Most
important thing is to be understood, isn't it?
> 1-When I use WWW4Mail servers I put :
> GETSIZE 900000
> http://www.server.com/files/archive.zip
> in order to get 900K split size but it never obeys, it always send me 300K.
> What�s wrong?
The maximum file size for www4mail servers is 300 K per mail. You
cannot get over this limitation.
> 2-Why does each part of an answered binary request to a WWW4MAIL server
> always get 3 points of my quota? If I ask for bigger split size (if it
> works) in order to get less number of parts, does it work to mantain my
> quota?
No, the quota is relative to the number /and/ file size of the
contents of your requests. If you order a lot of web pages or
huge binary files, your quota will drop accordingly. This is to
prevent abuse of the www4mail server (imagine someone requesting
X11 for some reason - nice blocking of resources).
> 3-Is it finally possible to put the ASCCII 12 character under win95 in
> order to use the "More Complicated Servers"? Please, tell me how to do
> that.
Since I'm no PC user, I cannot answer that one. I'm sorry.
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Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 12:01:51 +0530
From: Kousik Bera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: ASP
1. Www4Mail Retreive To Me Asp File ! What This !?
To see the ASP (Active Server Page) file, save the file as something.htm
and open it through some browsers. Same holds true for *.cgi file. In fact
HotBot and some other search engine returns results in this format. The
browser may return some warning, saying whether you want to continue
running the scripts. Ignore this message and press yes.
~Kousik
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Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 09:09:57 +0200
From: "Middag, Mark" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: <No subject given>
Hello ACCMAILERS,
I finally found a free POP3 account at http://www.polbox.com,
but I think it's really slow!
For just sending a mail with the body "test"
and not receiving any more messages, it takes 3 minutes time
in PEGASUS.
What could be the matter?
If it is Poland (the long journey) that makes it slow, then
where could I find a free POP3 account that is faster accessible?
Thanks!
Mark
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Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 15:38:08 +0530
From: Tejinder Singh Rawal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Accessing email at SoftHome thru current email account
Ian Trider, here is what you said:
{I'm not exactly sure what you mean. It is POP based, so you need to be
able to connect to the POP server to get mail. It isn't webbased.
Yes it is POP based, and not web based. It POPs the mail to the mail
account that you specify. Very good for people who do not have web access,
or for people ( like me) who find it a bit boring to go to a website every
time and check mail. This mail gets delivered to your computer and you can
read it offline.
Tejinder
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{On 5/7/99, at 10:16 AM, Dr. S K Choudhary wrote:
{
{>>Well, try useing a WWW4MAIL server to sign up at SoftHome
{>>(www.SoftHome.net - Excellent free e-mail.. I'm using it right >now). Of
{>course, you would have to have POP3 or SMTP access, >if >your on a bbs you
{>wouldn't have this. If you are using a >BBS, and >it has telnet access try
{>telnetting to tinys.oix.com >and signing >up there (the Sysop has a Online
{>utility to let you use a pop3 >email account).
{>
{>But . . could you read/send your mail at www.SoftHome.net through your
{>current e-mail account ? That would be really great!
{>
{>Sol Ch
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Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 16:14:53 +0300
From: "Dr. Abdul Azeem" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: bitftp@princeton down?
Dear Matt,
I have been using Bitftp very frequently till today and never
had any
problems at all. Why don't you post one of the failed requests on this list
and we can figure out what you did wrong. :)
Dr. A. Azeem.
>Date: Tue, 11 May 1999 12:58:00 CDT
>From: Matthew A Bahls <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: Re: bitftp@princeton down?
>
>I have tried it with the slash and without the slash, with cd and chdir
>and I get the same thing everytime. I have used this mailer many times,
>but lately I keep getting this error. I also tried without the chunksize
>command and I still got the same thing. I haven't changed anything that
>I type from when it was working. Anybody else having any problems with
>it or is it just me?
>
>Thanks,
>Matt
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Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 19:12:31 +0500
From: Rajan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: INFO> email to fax/internet faxing advancements
Sriram N. A." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in ACCMAIL Digest - 10 May 1999
to 11 May 1999 (#1999-132):-
>Date: Tue, 11 May 1999 10:44:03 +0530
>From: "Sriram N. A." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: INFO> email to fax/internet faxing advancements
>
>See
>http://www.freefax.net/ffservice.htm
>
>for an interesting new approach to internet faxing.
>
>--
>Sriram N. A.
>------------------------------
Hi!
For one thing, unlike TPC.INT, freefax is not entirely free - there is a
registration charge (one-time?) if you are going to use it beyond 30 days.
There is another site which claims free faxing via email. It is at:
http://www.chinabusiness.org/freeware.htm
I don't know how it works but some one could try and evaluate it.
Rajan
12-5-99
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Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 09:13:04 -0500
From: "Gary R. Welles" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Y2K
Gerry,
I'm new to ACCMAIL, and just missed reading your off topic comments on the
Y2K "bug." I assume the bug has something to do with school leaver /
computer "geniuses" who could not understand existing date algorithms.
How can I get a copy? Perhaps you would like to take this
opportunity to revise and extend your remarks.
Gary
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Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 09:24:02 -0500
From: "Gary R. Welles" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: "/" in e-mail addresses
I have recently encountered problems with newer list servers ignoring the
"/" character in my e-mail address although RFC822 says it is a legal
character. I suspect the invisable hand of a Microsoft "standardization".
Gary
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Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1998 16:33:00 -0500
From: ������ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: how can I read the file with the suffix of "pdf"?
thanks for your help.
why must the FTP server of borland use two files "readrtip.pdf
" and "startup.pdf" instead of files with suffix of ".txt"?
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Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 18:29:23 GMT
From: Bob Appleton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: bitftp@princeton down?
On Tue, 11 May 1999 12:58:00 CDT, Matthew A Bahls <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I have tried it with the slash and without the slash, with cd and chdir
>and I get the same thing everytime. I have used this mailer many times,
>but lately I keep getting this error. I also tried without the chunksize
>command and I still got the same thing. I haven't changed anything that
>I type from when it was working. Anybody else having any problems with
>it or is it just me?
It might help if you posted the EXACT message you sent to the bitftp server.
Then we could see if anything is amiss. Bob A.
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Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 19:49:45 +0200
From: Massimo Mezzini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: POP watch - remote checking of mails
>On 9 May 99, Jaroslav Suchanek asked:
>Does anybody know what PC software (mail client or POP checker) is able
>to check the mailbox and download only selected messages?
You already received a few suggestion, but I would add a free PCMagazine
utility, MailCall, that does exactly what you need. Download it (251 Kb) from
ftp.zdnet.nis.newscorp.com/pub/private/sWlIB/internet/e_mail_newsreaders/mai
lcall.zip
ciao
Massimo
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Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 11:12:59 -0700
From: "Gerald E. Boyd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: E-mail only use
Accmailers,
A week ago or so, I posted some sites that had Internet statistics in
reply to a question about how many E-mail only users there were. One of
the sites that I mentioned was
NUA Internet Surveys
http://www.nua.ie/
The more time I spend at this site the more I'm amazed about how much
information, graphs, and charts they have made available. I found this
article from Oct 1998
http://www.nua.ie/surveys/analysis/weekly_editorial/archives/issue1no45.
html
Email - The Net's Cinderella
October 5th 1998
The Net and the Web aren't synonymous, even though the media often
mention them in the same breath. Using the Internet is not quite the
same thing as "surfing the Web". Why? Because, time and again, surveys
show that email is the number one Internet tool. Email is far more
pervasive than Web access, and millions of people around the world use
email but rarely (if ever) go on the Web.
There's one obvious reason for this big gap between email and Web use:
a large proportion of users might have the Internet at work, but this
is confined to email access. A recent study by Inteco
(http://www.inteco.com) showed that two in five adults in the US - some
78 million people � now have Internet access. Around 45 million access
it from home, while 31 million go online at work and 11 million at school.
[...]
How many online?
The art of estimating how many are online throughout the world is an
inexact one at best. Surveys abound, using all sorts of measurement
parameters. However, from observing many of the published surveys over
the last two years, here is an �educated guess� as to how many are
online worldwide as of May 1999. And the number is 165 million.
World Total 165 million
Africa 1.14 million
Asia/Pacific 26.97 million
Europe 40.09 million
Middle East 0.88 million
Canada & USA 90.63 million
Latin America 5.29 million
http://www.nua.ie/surveys/how_many_online/index.html
Feb 16 1999:
Over 147 million people had Internet access worldwide at the close of
1998, up from 61 million in 1996, according to a report from Computer
Industry Almanac Inc. The report ranked the 15 most wired countries
worldwide.
Top of the list was the United States, with an estimated 76.5 million
users, followed by Japan and the UK in second and third places with
9.75 million and 8.1 million users respectively. Other countries ranked
in the top ten were Germany, with 7.14 million users, followed by
Canada, 6.49 million, Australia, 4.36 million, France, 2.79 million,
Sweden, 2.58 percent, Italy, 2.14 million, and Spain with 1.98 million.
The remaining five countries in the top fifteen were the Netherlands
with 1.96 million online, Taiwan, 1.65 million, China 1.58 million,
Finland, 1.57 million and Norway 1.34 million. Taken together, the top
fifteen countries account for 89 percent of the global online
population. Overall, Europe was estimated to have an Internet
population of 36.02 million.
http://www.nua.ie/surveys/?f=VS&art_id=905354702&rel=true
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Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 14:13:04 EDT
From: David Ames <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: ACCMAIL Digest subscriptions
Various people on the JunoAccmail list, myself included, are remarking
that no ACCMAIL digest has been received since April 28.
David Ames
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Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 12:41:32 -0700
From: "Gerald E. Boyd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: how can I read the file with the suffix of "pdf"?
At 04:33 PM 11/5/98 -0500, ������ wrote the following:
>why must the FTP server of borland use two files "readrtip.pdf
>" and "startup.pdf" instead of files with suffix of ".txt"?
Many sites are now starting to use Adobe Acrobat PDF files for their
old "text" documents. Main reason for the change is do the fact that so
many users access the 'net via a browser and are used to seeing nicely
formatted web pages. When they read a "text" file, they want to see
something similar. Hence, the PDF files.
For Accmailers, you must use a separate Adobe Acrobat reader program.
Grab this web page which programs the download information for Adobe
Acrobat reader in various languages.
http://www.adobe.com/supportservice/custsupport/LIBRARY/acrwin.htm
You might have to retrieve some other web pages depending upon which
program you want to download.
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Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 12:48:36 -0700
From: "Gerald E. Boyd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Offline browser
At 10:38 PM 5/11/99 EDT, Rich Prutzer wrote the following:
>A while ago I used an offline web browser called "Knots". I can't find it
>anywhere now and was wondering if anyone knows where I might find it or
>any other offline browser. also, is it possible to use any web browser to
>view web pages obtained via www4mail? Thanks
I found this on The Demon (UK) site in
FAQ: MS-DOS Applications for Internet Use
http://www.dendarii.demon.co.uk/FAQs/dos-apps.html
Name of Program: KNOTS: An off-line browser for World Wide Web
Location/Filename: <URL:http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~ng94/knots/>
<URL:ftp://ftp.simtel.net/pub/simtelnet/msdos/html/knots2_0.zip>
Date/Version: 31 Jan 97 ver 2.0
Author/Email Contact: Nick Gray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Status: Shareware ($15)
Documentation: included as help screens
Features: KNOTS is a DOS based html browser designed for the owners of
low powered PCs, who wish to create WWW pages (or Knots of a net) at
home, either for their personal, one node intranet, or to be displayed
later on a World Wide Web server.
What makes KNOTS different to other DOS browsers is that it displays
the pages graphically, to give a better idea of the final result.
Comments: No GIF or JPEG support yet. It is for Offline use ONLY.
Demon Config Location: N/A
Demon Config Email Contact: N/A
The ftp address for Simtel download is correct, the other URL at Soton
is missing (404 error message)...
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Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 12:51:50 -0700
From: "Gerald E. Boyd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: RFC - is this files of Standart ? where i can find it ?
At 08:23 AM 5/12/99 +0400, coffin wrote the following:
> I know what there is some official site with all internet and other
> Standarts. (if i know it is RFC files ).
> Where can i find it ??
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Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 12:57:52 -0700
From: "Gerald E. Boyd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: <No subject given>
At 09:09 AM 5/12/99 +0200, Middag, Mark wrote the following:
>I finally found a free POP3 account at http://www.polbox.com,
>but I think it's really slow!
>
>For just sending a mail with the body "test"
>and not receiving any more messages, it takes 3 minutes time
>in PEGASUS.
>
>What could be the matter?
Run traceroute and ping from your site to polbox.com to find
bottlenecks and traffic jams on the Internet.
Here is an example traceroute from Netcom to polbox.com
gboyd>traceroute polbox.com
traceroute to polbox.com (212.244.200.10), 30 hops max, 40 byte packets
1 192.100.81.254 (192.100.81.254) 5 ms 11 ms 2 ms
2 sjx-ca-gw1.netcom.net (163.179.1.29) 4 ms 1 ms 1 ms
3 h0-0.mae-west.netcom.net (163.179.233.214) 3 ms 3 ms 3 ms
4 Fddi9-0.San-Jose9-gw.CA.Alter.Net (198.32.184.42) 3 ms 8 ms 7 ms
5 118.ATM2-0.XR1.SJC1.ALTER.NET (146.188.144.130) 4 ms 3 ms 3 ms
6 293.ATM1-0.TR1.SCL1.ALTER.NET (146.188.146.42) 3 ms 5 ms 3 ms
7 107.ATM6-0.TR1.SEA1.ALTER.NET (146.188.137.186) 33 ms 34 ms 35 ms
8 299.ATM7-0.XR1.SEA4.ALTER.NET (146.188.200.205) 35 ms 35 ms 35 ms
9 193.ATM8-0-0.GW1.SEA4.ALTER.NET (146.188.200.89) 36 ms 36 ms 36 ms
10 teleglobe-sea-gw.customer.alter.net (157.130.176.202) 113 ms 31
ms 36 ms
11 gin-sep-core1.Teleglobe.net (207.45.222.37) 31 ms 38 ms 33 ms
12 gin-paix-core1.Teleglobe.net (207.45.222.14) 31 ms 37 ms 31 ms
13 gin-nyy-core1.Teleglobe.net (207.45.222.178) 102 ms 100 ms 98 ms
14 gin-nyy-bb4.Teleglobe.net (207.45.222.6) 98 ms 98 ms 98 ms
15 cust-gw.Teleglobe.net (207.45.199.138) 205 ms 229 ms 228 ms
16 do-r1.warcst3.tpnet.pl (194.204.128.2) 245 ms * 222 ms
17 do-polbox-piekna.tpnet.pl (195.205.229.62) 232 ms 216 ms 222 ms
18 marianska-r1-s0.man.polbox.pl (195.117.80.38) 268 ms 231 ms 321 ms
19 wola-r1-s1.man.polbox.pl (195.117.80.29) 284 ms * 282 ms
20 astro-r1-s0.man.polbox.pl (195.117.80.25) 258 ms * 279 ms
21 free.polbox.pl (212.244.200.10) 547 ms 524 ms 393 ms
Actually, this is pretty fast (West coast of US)
traceroute
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A Unix TCP/IP utility which allows the user to determine the route
packets are taking to a particular host. Traceroute works by
increasing the "ICMP time to live (ttl)" value of packets and seeing
how far they get, until they reach the given destination; thus, a
lengthening trail of hosts passed through is built up.
Traceroute traces the route of UDP (User Datagram Protocol) packets
from the local lost to a remote host. It prints the name (if it can
be determined) and IP address of each gateway along the route to the
remote host. The format of the output is:
hop count - gateway name - gateway IP address - round trip time for
each packet (usually three are sent).
When traceroute fails to get packets through to the remote
end-system, the trace trails off, displaying a series of three
asterisks (* * *) at each hop count until the count reaches 30.
Some of the individual packets in each hop may also fail to be sent
in which case a (*) will appear in the packet arrival times.
ping
----
Packet InterNet Groper. A protocol and program for sending a signal
to see whether another network host or other device is online and
responding. ping is used to test reachability of destinations by
sending them an ICMP (Internet Control Message Protocol) echo
request and waiting for a reply. The term is used as verb: "Ping
host X to see if it is up!" Ping is useful for testing and debugging
networks. It sends an ICMP Echo packet to a specified host, and
waits for a response. It reports success or failure and statistics
about its operation.
If the host responds, ping will print that the host is alive and
then exit. Otherwise after timeout seconds, it will write no answer
from the host. The default value of timeout is 20 seconds.
If you know the name, then use the ping command which will return
the IP address and well as the travel times and packet losses to the
site.
--
Gerry Boyd -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 21:13:28 GMT
From: Bob Appleton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Discussion on free email services
I suggest that those of you who want free email services, check out:
http://www.emailaddresses.com
You'll find many categories plus comments from people who have used the
service that you select. BTW Hotmail has an entire page devoted to comments
received - most are derogatory. Bob A.
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Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 16:28:44 -0400
From: Ian Trider <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Offline browser
try http://www.fdisk.com full of dos internet stuff, including Knots.
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On 5/11/99, at 10:38 PM, Rich Prutzer wrote:
>A while ago I used an offline web browser called "Knots". I can't find it
>anywhere now and was wondering if anyone knows where I might find it or
>any other offline browser. also, is it possible to use any web browser to
>view web pages obtained via www4mail? Thanks
>
> Rich
>
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Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 16:31:14 -0400
From: Ian Trider <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: <No subject given>
like I've said before for free pop3 email, SoftHome.Net is excellent, I use it right
now. http://www.SoftHome.net
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>Hello ACCMAILERS,
>
>I finally found a free POP3 account at http://www.polbox.com,
>but I think it's really slow!
>
>For just sending a mail with the body "test"
>and not receiving any more messages, it takes 3 minutes time
>in PEGASUS.
>
>What could be the matter?
>If it is Poland (the long journey) that makes it slow, then
>where could I find a free POP3 account that is faster accessible?
>
>Thanks!
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Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 14:55:59 -0700
From: "Gerald E. Boyd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: "/" in e-mail addresses
At 09:24 AM 5/12/99 -0500, Gary R. Welles wrote the following:
>I have recently encountered problems with newer list servers ignoring the
>"/" character in my e-mail address although RFC822 says it is a legal
>character. I suspect the invisable hand of a Microsoft
"standardization".
Well I have agree with this assessment. A slash as defined in RFC0822
Section 2.2
2.2. RULE1 / RULE2: ALTERNATIVES
Elements separated by slash ("/") are alternatives. There-
fore "foo / bar" will accept foo or bar.
3.1.2. STRUCTURE OF HEADER FIELDS
Once a field has been unfolded, it may be viewed as being com-
posed of a field-name followed by a colon (":"), followed by a
field-body, and terminated by a carriage-return/line-feed.
The field-name must be composed of printable ASCII characters
(i.e., characters that have values between 33. and 126.,
decimal, except colon). The field-body may be composed of any
[...]
and
3.2. HEADER FIELD DEFINITIONS
These rules show a field meta-syntax, without regard for the
particular type or internal syntax. Their purpose is to permit
detection of fields; also, they present to higher-level parsers
an image of each field as fitting on one line.
field = field-name ":" [ field-body ] CRLF
field-name = 1*<any CHAR, excluding CTLs, SPACE, and ":">
where
CHAR = <any ASCII character> ; ( ASCII 0.-127.)
Now it's true that a slash "/" is ASCII 47 which is in the range 33 to
126 however by following section 3.3 LEXICAL TOKENS and the parsing
rules we come to the realization that section 2.2 may apply and that
E-mail programs may not handle the slash correctly. I know that Unix
mail programs work properly because they resolve X.400 address, which
contain plenty of slashes.
The best rule of thumb for creating an E-mail address (or username) is
use characters (a-z), numbers(0-9), the underscore(_) and a period (.)
Forget all the other possiblities. In fact some domains limit the
username to 8 charcaters maximum.
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Gerry Boyd -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 23:50:13 +0200
From: Frits Westra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: FAST Search Engine by E-mail
Hello all,
Yesterday I spent some time on a pc with full internet access. For you
listers, I've bookmarked a few search strings from a new search
engine: FAST.
Quotes from the FAST welcome page:
"FAST, Dell team to build World's Biggest Search Engine service
Super-fast, Low-cost System Designed to Scale with Explosive Web
Growth;
Offers 80 Million Searchable Documents Today;
200 Million Targeted for Summer 1999, Quest for Entire Web"
Sounds promising! Let's try this powerhouse.
EXAMPLE 1
You want to search for documents containing the word "cats".
Send the following e-mail:
TO: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
SUBJECT: {you may leave this blank}
BODY: GET http://www.alltheweb.com/cgi-bin/search?query=cats
EXAMPLE 2
You want to search for documents that may contain the word "cats" and
may contain the word "dogs"
Send the following string to one of the www4mail servers:
GET http://www.alltheweb.com/cgi-bin/search?query=cats+dogs
EXAMPLE 3
You want to search for documents that MUST contain the word "cats" and
MAY contain the word "dogs"
Send the following string to one of the www4mail servers:
GET http://www.alltheweb.com/cgi-bin/search?query=%2Bcats+dogs
EXAMPLE 4
You want to search for documents that contain the exact phrase:
"cats in the dark"
Send the following string to one of the www4mail servers:
GET http://www.alltheweb.com/cgi-bin/search?query=%22cats+in+the+dark%22
Of course in the above examples you have to replace the word "cats",
"dogs", and also the phrase "cats in the dark" by words and phrases of
your own choice.
FAST will return URLs and descriptions of the first twenty documents.
At he botom of the returned document you'll find a new search string
that you can use for the retrieval of the next twenty URLs.
*You'll also find a search string for FTP files at the bottom of
this returned document*
And you know you can use one of these fine www4mail servers:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Please don't ask me questions about other FAST search options, I don't
know them yet.
Best regards,
Frits Westra -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Net-Tamer V 1.11.2 - Registered
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Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 15:38:50 +0000
From: juan guerra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: ACCMAIL Digest - 8 May 1999 to 9 May 1999 (#1999-130)
hello
the program that you need is MAILCALL, and it is good to see the messages in your
server without necessity that you discharge them. I use the pegasus mail that also
makes the same thing, but the MAILCALL it is a small program.
greetings
juanguerra
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Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 15:21:50 -0700
From: "Gerald E. Boyd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Y2K
At 09:13 AM 5/12/99 -0500, Gary R. Welles wrote the following:
>I'm new to ACCMAIL, and just missed reading your off topic comments on
the
>Y2K "bug." I assume the bug has something to do with school leaver /
>computer "geniuses" who could not understand existing date algorithms.
>
>How can I get a copy? Perhaps you would like to take this
>opportunity to revise and extend your remarks.
Well, actually I posted a new and somewhat revised posting to Help_net
the other day. Here is what I had to say.
Y2K is a three-part problem: mainframe legacy Cobol programs, PC clock
timers and microprocessor embedded micro code.
It's a major problem for the first and third item and only a minor
problem in PC clock timers.
Once upon a time, way back in the 60s when the IBM mainframe was king,
the critical clock routines in IBM 360 series computers and their
operating systems only provided a macro instruction that yielded a two
character year in the form of YY. Hence, Cobol programmers began
saving dates in the form MMDDYY. The saving of a two character year in
code as well as disk space was of major consequence because computing
and disk space was expensive. In fact, most corporate computer systems
were seen as a cost rather than a business need. Therefore, many of the
costs of computing were billed back to the originating division. Hence,
the need for cheap computing so your division didn't exceed it's
budget. So was born the two character YY year that now must be fixed
before Y2K rolls around.
Most major businesses started revising Cobol code in the 90s to accept
a four character year in the form MMDDYYYYY (the IBM mainframe
operating systems and macro instruction for a four character year were
changed in the 80s). However, as with all legacy systems most
businesses didn't see fit to start conversion processes right away. The
prevailing attitude was "Why should we redesign and recode all our
legacy code?" -- this is a very expensive proposition indeed. By
1995-96 most corporate computer operations had indeed "seen the light"
and began the expensive process of recoding old Cobol legacy systems --
payroll and billing being the first.
The problem with recoding is that it's a time consuming and very
expensive due to the fact that you must keep the old systems up and
running while at the same time running a test system and test programs
that simulate dates after 2000. Where I worked we ended up buying
another mainframe computer just to install all the test programs for
Y2K and duplicate all our existing systems; DB2, CICS, IMS, etc. All
changes were essentially complete at the end of 1998. 1999 has been
used to run parallel systems to thoroughly test all changes throughout
the year by duplicating transactions on both the legacy system and the
new. Year 2000 change-over should not cause a problem because they will
have had a whole year to test. Note that many programs are not run on a
daily or weekly basis. Budgeting is done annually so is W2 forms and
tax programs. Some programs are run quarterly, or at some other time
period. So a whole year of testing is not that far fetched.
As you can guess, all of the above is an expense that can never be
recovered in day to day operations. How many major corporations in the
US and rest of the world are done is anybodys guess. So legacy code in
the mainframe world is a culprit that may not be conquered in time.
Depending upon the industry, these problems could be construed as major
(wall street stock market, commodities, life insurance and annuity
calculations, flight and room reservations, etc.) or minor (pay check
errors, bad billing, ordering problems, etc.) Anything related to date
calculations can cause problems. Most of these would be in programs
that subtract one date from another to give a time frame, like your age
-- subtract birth year from current year to find age. How many days is
it between date1 and date2 (short terms loans, investment calcs, etc.)?
PC clock timers and operating systems probably won't be affected as
much as the above due to the fact that most BIOS (Basic Input Output
System) chips have been changed in newer PC since the 90s to carry a
four-character year. Only old 286, 386, and early 486s with old BIOS
chips and running old DOS versions would be affected. However, it's
possible that many of your favorite old PC programs won't work
correctly. If you check Microsoft's Y2K site you can check the status
of their programs. Note that many of the old programs will not be fixed
for Y2K. See http://www.microsoft.com/technet/year2k/
IBM DOS 7.0 (with Y2K fix pak) and the new IBM DOS 2000 should meet the
needs of any old DOS users that needs a Y2K fix for old PCs. M$ is not
providing one!
See http://www.software.ibm.com/os/dos/
The real problem comes from embedded micro code in microprocessor
controlled devices. For a simple example, How does my VCR know when
it's daylight savings time? It appears to do it properly but how is the
microprocessor coded? Does it do a date calc? If so, will it be valid
in 2000? What about controllers in medical equipment? or the electic
utlility industry? or your car? or your TV? or any other microprocessor
controlled device? We could be in for a big surprise in Y2K or then
again maybe nothing will happen. This is the area that gives the
informed individual the most fear -- devices failing for which no fix
is available, except to buy a new one.
Best advice in December 1999, is to make sure you car is full of gas,
you have plenty of groceries stored away, all bills have been paid, and
you have plenty of cash on hand. Things could get tricky for a month or
so in January and February 2000 (This is a leap year).
For anyone interested in old IBM assembler macro instructions, here is
what caused the original 2 character year problem.
The original OS/360 TIME macro instruction (the assembler language macro
that gets the time value from the computer system clock) returned, in
register 1, the date in packed decimal format: 00YYDDDF where YY was
the year as 2 digits, DDD was the Julian day number (1-365) and F is the
sign byte '1111' . So any date routine by any computer program or
computer language would only return a 2 digit year. If you wanted 4
digit years, they would have to have been coded in the computer program.
The mainframe sure wasn't going to give it to you!
As an aside, I can tell you that as a programmer, none of us
were going to code the year as YYYY, too much wasted space.
NOTE: The time macro since about 1980 or so with MVS, MVS/XA, MVS/ESA,
and OS/390 now returns data in the form 0CYYDDDF where C is a digit
representing the century. In the years 1900 through 1999, the macro will
return a value of C=0. In the years 2000 through 2099, the macro will
return a value of C=1. YY is the last two digits of the year. DDD is
the Julian day of the year (1-365) and F is a 4-bit sign character
'1111' that allows the data to be unpacked and printed.
--
Gerry Boyd -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 16:04:47 -0700
From: "Gerald E. Boyd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Net number system at a crossroads
Cross-posted to Accmail, Help-Net and Nettrain
Net number system at a crossroads
By Dan Goodin and Courtney Macavinta
Staff Writers, CNET News.com
May 12, 1999, 4:00 a.m. PT
Forget about ".com." The critical resource under the Net's hood is
numerical addresses, and the Internet Corporation for Assigned
Names and Numbers now is in charge of those, too.
Every online device or computer needs an Internet Protocol (IP)
numerical address to connect to the global network. When the
system was being designed, hardly anyone imagined that its 4.2
billion unique addresses would ever be exhausted. Just a few
decades later, however, some in the technical community fear that
the rapid pace of innovation one day may cause the Net to run out of
numbers.
[...]
See this site for complete article -- scary to say the least...
http://www.news.com/SpecialFeatures/0%2C5%2C36425%2C00.html?dd.ne.txt.05
12.11 -- one long URL
--
Gerry Boyd -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 18:23:05 -0400
From: Roberto Safora <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: ACTIVE SERVERS
Where can I find a list of the active servers to acces the www through
e-mail ?
Roberto Safora
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Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 22:15:01 +0200
From: =?utf-7?Q?Ra+APo-l_Larsen?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I've received this answer after request to www+AEA-kfs.com:
+AD4-
+AD4-
+AD4-This is an automatically generated message from Globe Wireless
+AD4-
+AD4-Referencing your message included below. It was received by
+AD4-Globe Wireless on 11 May 1999 at
+AD4-17:47 UTC.
+AD4-
+AD4-If you have a commercial account with Globe Wireless, please
+AD4-contact our Customer Support Department to confirm your billing
+AD4-instructions. We apologize for any inconvenience this may have
+AD4-caused.
+AD4-
+AD4-If you are sending your message using a personal account, please
+AD4-contact Globe Wireless Customer Support to confirm your VISA
+AD4-or MasterCard account with expiration date. Private messages must
+AD4-be billed to your credit card only.
+AD4-
+AD4-The Customer Support Department may be reached as follows:
+AD4-
+AD4-EMAIL: customersupport+AEA-globewireless.com
+AD4-FAX: 650 372 9761
+AD4-TEL: 650 372 2650
+AD4-Toll Free (USA) 1 888 456 2394
+AD4-
+AD4-Thank you for using Globe Wireless.
+AD4-
+AD4-Regards,
+AD4-Operations Department
+AD4-
+AD4- -------------------------------------------------------------------------
---
+AD4-Message:
+AD4-From: Larsen +ADw-cantalupo+AEA-iname.com+AD4-
+AD4-To: www+AEA-kfs.com AT INTERNET
+AD4-Date: Tue, 11 May 1999 19:39:41 +020-
+AD4-Subject: request
+AD4-Contents:
+AD4-
+AD4-
+AD4-bin
+AD4-http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/Battlefield/2841/Puff+AF8-Daddy-No+AF8-Way+AF8-Out
.
+AD4-GIF
+AD4-
+AD4-
+AD4-
+AD4-
+AD4-
+AD4-Received: from ssq at Globe Wireless+ADs-
+AD4-Tue, 11 May 1999 17:50 UTC
+AD4-Message-id: 913834
Does it means that www+AEA-kfs.com is no more free?
Raul Larsen
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Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 16:10:32 -0700
From: "Gerald E. Boyd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: ACTIVE SERVERS
At 06:23 PM 5/12/99 -0400, Roberto Safora wrote the following:
>Where can I find a list of the active servers to acces the www through
>e-mail ?
The old standby, mine (:>)
http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/1236/servers.html
--
Gerry Boyd -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Date: Thu, 13 May 1999 02:05:25 +0300
From: Uzi Paz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: RFC - is this files of Standart ? where i can find it ?
> Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 08:23:06 +0400
> From: coffin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> I know what there is some official site with all internet and other
> Standarts. (if i know it is RFC files ).
>
> Where can i find it ??
> PS i want to find it for learning Telnet.
RFC files are mirrored in many places. If you are an e-mail only user,
then I guess that the mail-bot recommended by Gerry is the best for you,
if you have a direct connection to WWW, then my favourite one is:
http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/
which has a nice search engine (uses forms of method=post, unfortunately).
RFCs include standards related to the Internet and networking. They do not
include other standards.
Not all RFCs are standards, some of them informational (contain
information) Experimental, or BCP (Best current practices).
Uzi
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