There are 14 messages totalling 469 lines in this issue. Topics of the day: 1. GRIPE: Missing Subject Lines (2) 2. SMTP - is in the world some free servers ? 3. FTPMail, Agora, etc. statistics 4. look for answer 5. Advanced LISTSERV commands (2) 6. publishing personal webpages by accmailing? (2) 7. setting up mailing list through accmail? 8. Accessing the internet beyond 1999; a possible and free solution for some 9. Free translation service 10. <No subject given> 11. How do to access www with e-mail? (was blank) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ACCMAIL Info (automatically generated) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ To UNSUBscribe: Send UNSUBSCRIBE ACCMAIL to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To get the ACCMAIL FAQ: Send e-mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" and enter only this line in the BODY of the note: send usenet/news.answers/internet-services/access-via-email ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 20 May 1999 20:25:23 -0500 From: Mike Webb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: GRIPE: Missing Subject Lines > From: "Gerald E. Boyd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > At 05:25 PM 5/18/99 -0500, Mike Webb wrote the following: > >And today in one message download, our own Gerry Boyd left out the > subject > >line; TWICE! (Bad example, Gerry!) > 11 no subjects in 1263 archived postings isn't that bad is it? > You are 0 for 31... Yeah, I was just hassling you. All in fun. But I hope the message got thru, too. I have no problems ruthlessly deleting messages when I know what they're about. But I feel awkward when I don't know what it's about. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 20 May 1999 20:25:23 -0500 From: Mike Webb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: SMTP - is in the world some free servers ? > From: coffin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Hello All ! > I have trouble with my SMTP. > Can u give to me some addresses of free SMTP-servers. > Many, many thanx to ALL. At <http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/Stadium/1769/smtp.html> there is a list of open SMTP servers that (at least yet) have not set up a relay block mechanism. Particularly, I have used mail.dunkerton.k12.ia.us frequently as a backup SMTP server and it's worked quite well. I would encourage you to keep the existence of this list "under your hat", so to speak, 1) because these appear to be school-related servers (your tax dollars at work) and 2) because if the spammers get hold of this list, you can imagine how they'll bombard them with their crap and that list will go from 50 open servers to zero. (And that goes for the rest of the folks on this list!) ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 21 May 1999 05:13:25 +0100 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: FTPMail, Agora, etc. statistics FTPMail, Agora, etc. statistics for Thu 20 May 1999, posted Fri, 21 May 1999 04:11:19 GMT Less than 1 hour [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1-4 hours [EMAIL PROTECTED] 4-10 hours [EMAIL PROTECTED] More than 10 hours [EMAIL PROTECTED] Response within 4 hours in at least 5 out of 7 recent tests [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Note: [EMAIL PROTECTED] doesn't reply to .net or .com addresses. This data is generated automatically around 0600 GMT/BST most days. The performance reported is dependant on many factors and your experience may vary. You can also access this list: On the Web at http://www.netservs.com/mrcool/stats.htm By FTP at ftp://ftp.cix.co.uk/pub/net-services/stats.txt Mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and say "get file stats.txt" (no quotes) Want this list every day? Send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and in the body of your message put "join statistics" (no quotes) No liability is accepted for inaccuracies. Mirroring, links to and copying of this entire file (not extracts) is permitted until further notice. Slow downloads? Try Mr. Cool! See http://www.netservs.com/mrcool/ Copyright Net Services 1999. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 21 May 1999 08:25:37 -0700 From: "Gerald E. Boyd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: GRIPE: Missing Subject Lines At 08:25 PM 5/20/99 -0500, Mike Webb wrote the following: >> From: "Gerald E. Boyd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> At 05:25 PM 5/18/99 -0500, Mike Webb wrote the following: >> >And today in one message download, our own Gerry Boyd left out the >> subject >> >line; TWICE! (Bad example, Gerry!) >> 11 no subjects in 1263 archived postings isn't that bad is it? >> You are 0 for 31... > >Yeah, I was just hassling you. All in fun. But I hope the message got thru, >too. I have no problems ruthlessly deleting messages when I know what they're >about. But I feel awkward when I don't know what it's about. I couldn't tell if it was in fun or not. You should have added an emoticon (:>) -- Gerry Boyd -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 20 May 1999 22:52:30 -0400 From: JIAN SUN <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: look for answer Hello, Every time I use www4mail server fetching html index file,the annotation in it say that if you want to get other html files linked with above one, you must check the box before every item you want,and these requests will be submitted in e-mail form immediately.But I receive nothing after doing this.I think it is relevant with my email system:I am in a LAN,so must add something after email address when I want to make internet mail,isn't it? Can you help me? ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 21 May 1999 00:05:08 -0700 From: Anonymous <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Advanced LISTSERV commands Dear friends of AccMail: I have a couple of questions which I expect someone might answer: Is it possible to receive the AccMails in DIGEST, NOMIME and not including postings containing the word (e.g.) MERCURY? I know I can ask SET ACCMAIL DIGEST NOMIME, but I am also interested in excluding a word. If the answer is yes, please tell me how-to. Furthermore, is it possible to do it in other LISTSERV-based lists? Thanks in advance. Dogberry ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 20 May 1999 19:12:56 +0800 From: wang wenjie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: publishing personal webpages by accmailing? is there a way to publish my personal webpages on the internet by accmailing? ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 20 May 1999 19:10:01 +0800 From: wang wenjie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: setting up mailing list through accmail? envious of mr. boyd's success, I also would like to run a mailing list of my own. is there an accmail approach to set up one and maintain it? ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 21 May 1999 10:54:23 -0500 From: Bruce Cordero <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Accessing the internet beyond 1999; a possible and free solution for some Sorry if this may be stretching things a little to make this an on-topic post. But I think I've seen worse.... I just enjoyed reading Mr. Boyd's article "The Millennium Bug: A programmer's story" found at http://members.tripod.co.uk/netmi Thanks, Gerald, for writing it. I felt compelled to comment on one passage: > 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. My comment is that there may be many machines being used with a very similar problem. I found that mine, made in 1994, won't work with years beyond 1999. The system itself rolls over to 2000 fine but when you re-boot it comes back as the year 2094. This happens for any year beyond 1999. The fault lies in the CMOS. Researching this on the net, by e-mail of course, I find that as late as 1998 such machines may have been made and that their only available fix is, at the very cheapest, an 8 bit ISA card for around $80.00! Now to the point, I made a little program to conveniently work around this problem. It isn't much, I'm not an accom- plished programmer by any means; rank amateur in fact. I am very pleased, though, with the way it inexpensively and effectively resolves the problem. So, I'll be using this machine to access the internet via e-mail into the next millennium, God willing. I thought others might benefit from it too. I know there are many, like me, for whom going out and buying new hardware is not an easy option. The program is ENTIRELY FREE. I'm not making money off of it. The only way it could please me more than it already has is if it helped someone else. It can be downloaded from: http://bcordero.home.sprynet.com/y2kwa.htm or, more directly: http://bcordero.home.sprynet.com/y2kwa10.exe the latter is a self extracting compressed file with the program, Y2KWA.COM, plus Y2KWA.TXT which gives a detailed explanation. Total download size is about 32K. By the way, the program doesn't do anything intrusive like get into BIOS and redirect calling vectors. It just updates a reference file every time it runs. Mr. Boyd's article also says... > Large programs were limited to 1500K in size lest you bog down > and hog up CPU cycles. Programs larger than 1500K had to be run > in off-peak hours, not during the business hours. We all > learned good programming techniques such as overlays so that we > could squeeze a 2200K program in less than 1500K. In this same spirit I tried to make this program as small as possible, compiling it to a .COM file. It still turned out to be a whopping 19K! I guess I'll have to learn assembler code to make it any smaller. Sorry for any disappointment. Thanks again for the article Gerry. Happy accessing the internet by e-mail y'all. Sincerely Bruce Cordero [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 21 May 1999 10:11:57 -0700 From: "Gerald E. Boyd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Advanced LISTSERV commands At 12:05 AM 5/21/99 -0700, Anonymous wrote the following: >Is it possible to receive the AccMails in DIGEST, NOMIME and not >including postings containing the word (e.g.) MERCURY? No... >I know I can ask SET ACCMAIL DIGEST NOMIME, but I am also >interested in excluding a word. > >If the answer is yes, please tell me how-to. Furthermore, is it >possible to do it in other LISTSERV-based lists? No... -- Gerry Boyd -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 21 May 1999 10:19:55 -0700 From: "Gerald E. Boyd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: publishing personal webpages by accmailing? At 07:12 PM 5/20/99 +0800, wang wenjie wrote the following: >is there a way to publish my personal webpages on the internet by >accmailing? I've answered this question at least three times in the past 2 weeks... There are literally hundreds of sites that allow you to have free home pages. For a list of them, see The Free Site http://www.thefreesite.com/freewebpages.htm There are only two sites that can be accessed by E-mail only users: AngelFire and InternetTrash The old work SunZoomSpark did at the AngelFire site is located on their InternetTrash site. You can get this old work (probably out of date) at: http://internettrash.com/users/sunzoomspark/afire.htm The message to the list is in the archive: To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [leave blank] Body of message GETPOST ACCMAIL 5533 The new work SunZoomSpark did at the InternetTrash site is in the archive To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [leave blank] Body of message GETPOST ACCMAIL 5443 -- Gerry Boyd -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 21 May 1999 22:01:19 GMT From: Bob Appleton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Free translation service It supports English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, and Portugese. The short of it is that you send a message to a friend and a cc: copy to the translation service. They then send the message to your friend in the language you specify. For more info: http://www.t-mail.com/ Bob A. -- ----- Bob Appleton mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----- ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 21 May 1999 18:01:24 -0300 From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?=22Medina=2C_Rub=E9n=22?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: <No subject given> Alguien me puede ayudar? Como hago para acceder a www con mi e-mail? help me!!!! How do to access www with e-mail? thanks ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 21 May 1999 16:13:36 -0700 From: "Gerald E. Boyd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: How do to access www with e-mail? (was blank) At 06:01 PM 5/21/99 -0300, Medina, Rub�n wrote the following: >Alguien me puede ayudar? >Como hago para acceder a www con mi e-mail? >help me!!!! >How do to access www with e-mail? A few points first. First, Mail should have a meaningful subject heading which reflects the content of the message -- it helps others to find messages of interest (and is necessary if you receive a lot of messages per day), and it helps to follow a thread on a particular topic. Non-meaningful subjects are: 1. empty or blank subjects 2. Subject: I need help 3. Subject: A question 4. Subject: Re: ACCMAIL Digest .... Second, this list is in English. Please refrain from posting in any other language. "Accessing The Internet By E-Mail" from Gerald E. Boyd To get the latest edition, send e-mail to one of the addresses below. To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (for US, Canada & South America) Enter only this line in the BODY of the note: send usenet/news.answers/internet-services/access-via-email To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (for Europe, Asia, etc.) Enter only this line in the BODY of the note: send lis-iis e-access-inet.txt To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: send accmail.faq You can also get the file by anonymous FTP at one of these sites: Site: rtfm.mit.edu get pub/usenet/news.answers/internet-services/access-via-email Site: ftp.mailbase.ac.uk get pub/lists/lis-iis/files/e-access-inet.txt This document is the standard document about accessing the internet via email. You shouldn't ask questions already covered in this document. -- Gerry Boyd -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------ End of ACCMAIL Digest - 20 May 1999 to 21 May 1999 (#1999-142) **************************************************************
