There are 7 messages totalling 472 lines in this issue.
Topics of the day:
1. FTPMail, Agora, etc. statistics
2. NEWS: Monthly Reminder
3. how to upload by ftp ? (2)
4. (Defunct) Archie servers
5. Interbot
6. How to access news via gopher
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Date: Sat, 2 Oct 1999 06:00:56 +0100
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: FTPMail, Agora, etc. statistics
FTPMail, Agora, etc. statistics for Fri 1 Oct 1999, posted Sat, 02 Oct 1999 05:00:07
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Date: Sat, 2 Oct 1999 11:16:23 -0700
From: "Gerald E. Boyd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: NEWS: Monthly Reminder
===================== ACCMAIL Monthly Reminder =======================
Last Updated: 06Aug99
This message is intended to inform you what to do before posting to
[EMAIL PROTECTED], the mailing list discussing "Accessing the
Internet via E-mail".
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P U R P O S E
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This list exists as a forum for communicating news, comments and
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This is the place to find out about new versions, ask questions about
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Read the FAQs that are available.
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G U I D E T O O F F L I N E I N T E R N E T A C C E S S
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"Accessing The Internet By E-Mail" from Gerald E. Boyd
To get the latest edition, send e-mail to one of the addresses below.
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You can also get the file by anonymous FTP at one of these sites:
Site: rtfm.mit.edu
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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.
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4 U S E R I E S
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"The 4u-series" from Bob Appleton - NO LONGER MAINTAINED
These files show in specific detail how to use email to
retrieve files, programs and documents from FTP and WWW sites, etc.
In other words, how to get just about anything by email. The files
are FREE and everything mentioned in them is also FREE. You can now
get these files individually or together in zipped format as well as
in text format. Substitute the file that you want in place of the XXX
in the URL below and add a line for each additional file requested.
Files available are:
email4u.txt getit4u.txt fun4u.txt pix4u.txt
email4u.zip getit4u.zip fun4u.zip pix4u.zip 4useries.zip
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U S E N E T
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To learn about Usenet, Usenet access and newsgroups, Uzi Paz provides
a file that is invaluable. If you are unfamiliar with these topics,
get this file before sending for other files mentioned in Bob Appleton's
document.
Send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] and in the body of the message
use ONE of the following:
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send http://www.geocities.com/ResearchTriangle/Lab/1131/ua.zip
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W W W S E A R C H E N G I N E S
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If your question has something to do with www-search engines
like Altavista, Hotbot, etc, or in general fill-out-forms on WWW sites,
be sure to read "Accessing the Internet via email - User guide to WWW
search engines" by Gerald E. Boyd.
This faq covers the access to all major search-engines, there is a
document with an introduction (wsintro.faq) and also a document that
shows how to "crack" such a form yourself (wscrack.faq). All the
files are available as a zip file in wssearch.zip.
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M O N T H L Y P O S T I N G S E T C.
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Gary Wines has made available THE "EM_AI MANUAL" which is a
FREEWARE collection of manuals for accessing the internet by email,
presented in an executable file with search, print, save, edit to file
features.
Included in this DOS program are:
Perry Rovers Anonymous FTP (FAQ)
Biran Edmonds FAQ Mailing List Etiquette
Gerald E. Boyd's Guide to Search Engines
Gerald E. Boyd's Guide to Offline Internet Access
Mailing List Etiquette by Brian Edmonds
Pix4u, Email4u, Getit4u, Fun4U by Bob Appleton
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Date: Sat, 2 Oct 1999 14:44:22 EDT
From: "Richard W. Miller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: how to upload by ftp ?
How does one upload by ftp using accmail methods?
My son signed up for a free website with Webjump.
He has to use a pasword and user name when accessing the site.
Apparently all uploading at the website is done by ftp.
I looked through all the howto files and can't find anything about
uploading by accmail methods.
So how does one upload by ftp using accmail methods?
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Date: Sat, 2 Oct 1999 13:02:59 -0700
From: "Gerald E. Boyd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: (Defunct) Archie servers
Accmailers,
One of the members in Germany read in a computer magazine that
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has stopped its service due to unclear conditions of a software-license.
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Gerry Boyd -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Date: Sat, 2 Oct 1999 14:37:48 -0700
From: "Gerald E. Boyd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: how to upload by ftp ?
At 02:44 PM 10/2/99 EDT, Richard W. Miller wrote the following:
>How does one upload by ftp using accmail methods?
You can't do it...
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Gerry Boyd -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Date: Sat, 2 Oct 1999 21:25:09 GMT
From: Just Old Stewed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Interbot
I'm using Interbot v1.02 and have activated the option "Links in
clipboard (ftp and http) retrieved by mail automatically".
By default, the retrieval attempt is made via
[EMAIL PROTECTED] which is no longer active.
How can Interbot's default agora server address be permanently
modified to that of an active server? TIA...
Stewed
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Date: Sun, 3 Oct 1999 08:11:04 +0700
From: user <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: How to access news via gopher
Hi, I am from VietNam. I know there 's a way to access news via agoramail
and gophermail. When I sent a mail to an agoramail server
([EMAIL PROTECTED]) with the content:
send news:comp.unix.answers.
And I received a list of subject which was discussed. I relied the mail
with the number of the link to the subject I want to read. But the answer
mail report that the news require cookie and the agoramail server don't
support javascripts.
I can't access newsgroups from VietNam but can access web and gopher. Is
there any way to access news instead of mail?
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