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Topics of the day:
1. Filling forms (2)
2. FTPMail, Agora, etc. statistics
3. Another defunct archie.
4. how do I crack this? (2)
5. Assessing SoftHome pop account via regular mail
6. www4mail- making attachments go in-message (2)
7. World news in your email (2)
8. NEWS: New Trojan Horse Program
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Date: Thu, 27 May 1999 23:01:36 -0400
From: Legolas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Filling forms
Hello, people.
I'm email-only user, and I need to fill a web form... I used getweb server,
but -as far as I can see- they are dying... I can get the HTML source using
www4, but I don't know how to fill the forms manually... Is there any
program that can do that for me? (or any doc that can teach me how to do
it?)
Any help will be appreciated...
Thanks for your time.
Legolas
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Date: Fri, 28 May 1999 06:01:48 +0100
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Subject: FTPMail, Agora, etc. statistics
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Date: Fri, 28 May 1999 19:48:06 +1200
From: Chris Bannister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Another defunct archie.
Gidday all,
I rec this when I sent a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
============== Message Begins ================================
Sorry, the HENSA archie service has been withdrawn.
You may be able to locate the package you are looking for by searching
HENSA at http://www.hensa.ac.uk/search.
Please see Bunyip's Archie home page at
http://www.bunyip.com/products/archie/
for a list of other servers.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
============== Message Ends ================================
notice the url
http://www.hensa.ac.uk/search
I will check it out.
Chris.
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Date: Fri, 28 May 1999 19:48:13 +1200
From: Chris Bannister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: how do I crack this?
Gidday all,
I rec the following when I sent a message to agora and asked for
http://www.tab.co.nz
I want to get the form guides for some races.
Can someone please help.
========================= Results begin ================================
<html>
<head>
<meta name="keywords"
content="TAB, New Zealand, betting, gambling, racing, sports betting, FOB,
wagering, greyhounds, gallops, harness, rugby, league, american football,
grid iron, tennis, cricket, soccer, golf, motorsport, basketball, NZ,
Totalisator Agency Board, Totalizator Agency Board, Basketball, Baseball,
Yachting, Softball, Snooker, Casino, Lotto"> <meta name="GENERATOR"
content="Microsoft FrontPage 2.0"> <title>TAB - New Zealand's Betting
Agency</title> </head>
<frameset rows="60%,40%" frameborder="0" border="0" framespacing="0"
marginheight="0" marginwidth="0">
<frame src="top.html" name="top" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0"
scrolling="no" noresize> <frame src="bottom.html" name="bottom"
marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" scrolling="no" noresize> <noframes>
<body>
</body>
</noframes>
</frameset>
</html>
========================== Results end ========================================
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Date: Fri, 28 May 1999 09:31:36 +0200
From: "Middag, Mark" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Assessing SoftHome pop account via regular mail
Hi!
Since www.SoftHome.net seems to be the only real free (no adds) pop provider
in the world, I would like to ask....
How can I read my SoftHome pop account through my existing mail account
(on my work)?
tx
Mark
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Date: Fri, 28 May 1999 16:29:51 +0100
From: Peter Midler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: www4mail- making attachments go in-message
Hello,
I would prefer to use getweb for this but [EMAIL PROTECTED] seems to
be enforcing their low usage limits.
So, does anyone know a clever way around www4mail insisting on sending
attachments when you only want part of a page? I know the FAQ says you can't
make parts of a page go in the message body. But perhaps there is a kindly
old mailserver out there that can reformat the attachment and remove the
graphics?
regards,
Peter Midler
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Date: Fri, 28 May 1999 09:50:26 -0700
From: "Gerald E. Boyd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: how do I crack this?
At 07:48 PM 5/28/99 +1200, Chris Bannister wrote the following:
>I rec the following when I sent a message to agora and asked for
>http://www.tab.co.nz
[...]
><frameset rows="60%,40%" frameborder="0" border="0" framespacing="0"
>marginheight="0" marginwidth="0">
><frame src="top.html" name="top" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0"
>scrolling="no" noresize> <frame src="bottom.html" name="bottom"
>marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" scrolling="no" noresize> <noframes>
><body>
></body>
></noframes>
></frameset>
></html>
Send for http://www.tab.co.nz/top.html and
http://www.tab.co.nz/bottom.html which will require you to get 12 more
framed sources. Best bet, forget this site as it is made of too many
frames and clickable image maps.
Or find somebody with full web access so they can do the work for you...
In my howto1 document I provided some tips and how to deal with framed
web pages.
See http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/1236/howto1.html
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Gerry Boyd -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Date: Fri, 28 May 1999 20:32:13 +0200
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: World news in your email
Hello,
Is there a service to get the latest news as soon as the news agencies
"type" them directly in your email?
Maybe there's some web service like this that we may conveniently convert
into an email one.
Thanks a lot for your help
Elek
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Date: Fri, 28 May 1999 12:58:59 -0700
From: "Gerald E. Boyd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: NEWS: New Trojan Horse Program
Cross-Posted to Accmail and Help-Net
Excerpt from CNet News 28May99
A new Trojan horse program sent by a hacker over the Internet via an
email spam format as a screensaver could allow PCs to be accessed by
unauthorized users.
BackDoor-G Trojan horse is considered a potentially dangerous new
Trojan horse program that could allow hackers to remotely access and
control infected PCs over the Internet, according to network security
and management software maker Network Associates.
http://www.news.com/News/Item/0%2C4%2C37180%2C00.html?dd.ne.txt.0528.10
Excerpt from McAfee site:
Windows 9x Internet Backdoor trojan. When running it gives virually
unlimited access to the system over the Internet to anyone running the
appropriate client software.
http://www.avertlabs.com/public/datafiles/valerts/vinfo/va10182.asp
Updates for McAfee Virus Scan at:
http://www.avertlabs.com/public/datafiles/4xupdates.asp
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Gerry Boyd -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Date: Fri, 28 May 1999 13:22:47 -0700
From: "Gerald E. Boyd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: World news in your email
At 08:32 PM 5/28/99 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote the following:
>Is there a service to get the latest news as soon as the news agencies
>"type" them directly in your email?
Nope. Most of the news services provide a daily news summary depending
upon your selections. You get it just once a day unless there is some
special bulletin issued.
>Maybe there's some web service like this that we may conveniently convert
>into an email one.
Reuters, the world's leading financial and online new service has a web
page at:
http://www.reuters.com/
They provide information to newspapers, TV, and other sources
world-wide. They also provide the news to search engines like Yahoo,
Lycos, InfoSeek and CNET.
The country specific sites and languages in parentheses are:
http://www.reuters.at -- Austria (de)
http://www.reuters.com.br -- Brazil (po)
http://www.reuters.ca --Canada (en,fr)
http://www.reuters.com.eg -- Egypt (ar)
http://www.reuters.fr -- France (fr)
http://www.reuters.com/gulf/ -- Gulf (en)
http://www.reuters.hu -- Hungary (hu,en)
http://india.reuters.com -- India (en)
http://www.reuters.com/japan/ -- Japan (jp)
http://www.reuters.com.mx -- Mexico (es)
http://www.reuters.se -- Nordic (en)
http://www.reuters.pl -- Poland (pl)
http://www.reuters.com/cis/ -- Russia (ru)
http://www.reuters.com/turkey/ --Turkey (tr)
http://www.reuters.com.ve -- Venezuela (es)
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Gerry Boyd -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Date: Fri, 28 May 1999 14:32:07 -0700
From: "Gerald E. Boyd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Filling forms
At 11:01 PM 5/27/99 -0400, Legolas wrote the following:
>I'm email-only user, and I need to fill a web form... I used getweb
server,
>but -as far as I can see- they are dying... I can get the HTML source
using
>www4, but I don't know how to fill the forms manually... Is there any
>program that can do that for me? (or any doc that can teach me how to do
>it?)
No programs do it for you. No documents (yet) either. However, I will
show you how to do it for yourself which is what I have been doing.
Let's say you would like to use the Inference find search engine to
search the web. Here is what I have done.
To: www4mail server
Subject: [leave blank]
Body of message:
http://www.infind.com/
www4mail returns the search engine page as an attachment to Eudora called:
FIND_COM.HTM
In this web page attachment, I take the line
<FORM METHOD = POST ENCTYPE = "text/plain" ACTION
="mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]">
and change the mailto: reference to myself as follows.
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
If I now click on the attachment link in Eudora, Netscape (or MS IE)
starts this web page in my broswer. I then fill out the form and click
on search. However, instead of sending the web page to a www4mail
server to search the internet, the web page is sent to me.
This is the mail I see:
XBASE=BASE HREF "http://www.infind.com/index.html"
XFORM=<form method "GET" action
"http://www.infind.com/infind/infind.exe" target "_top" name "infind">
query=
XSUBMIT_NOW=Submit Query
time=7
GETSIZE=
GETPART=
So now I have a form that I can use and reuse to search at Inference by
just filling out the search (query=) line and mailing off to any
www4mail server.
Suppose I wish to look for "spam", then the form looks like
XBASE=BASE HREF "http://www.infind.com/index.html"
XFORM=<form method "GET" action
"http://www.infind.com/infind/infind.exe" target "_top" name "infind">
query=spam
XSUBMIT_NOW=Submit Query
time=7
GETSIZE=
GETPART=
If I wish to look for "frog dissection", the form looks like
XBASE=BASE HREF "http://www.infind.com/index.html"
XFORM=<form method "GET" action
"http://www.infind.com/infind/infind.exe" target "_top" name "infind">
query=frog dissection
XSUBMIT_NOW=Submit Query
time=7
GETSIZE=
GETPART=
Notice, that with www4mail servers, the "+" sign between search terms
is not required as in the old method I used for agora servers.
If you compare this method with my old wsifind.faq you will see the
similarities between the agora methods and the ww4mail methods. I'm
working on a set of new FAQs that use www4mail methods instead of agora
methods.
Now, you may prefer to always use the browser page method intead of the
method that I'm using (that is, sending a blank page to myself that I
reuse) but I prefer it because it relates to all my old work with the
agora methods.
Simple enough?
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Gerry Boyd -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Date: Fri, 28 May 1999 14:37:06 -0700
From: "Gerald E. Boyd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: www4mail- making attachments go in-message
At 04:29 PM 5/28/99 +0100, Peter Midler wrote the following:
>I would prefer to use getweb for this but [EMAIL PROTECTED]
seems to
>be enforcing their low usage limits.
>
>So, does anyone know a clever way around www4mail insisting on sending
>attachments when you only want part of a page? I know the FAQ says you
can't
>make parts of a page go in the message body. But perhaps there is a
kindly
>old mailserver out there that can reformat the attachment and remove the
>graphics?
Simple, use the Agora GET or SEND command. For instance, to get my home
page (sans graphics), do this:
To: www4mail server
Subject: [leave blank]
Body of message:
SEND http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/1236/index.html
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Gerry Boyd -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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