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Topics of the day:
1. FTPMail, Agora, etc. statistics
2. Upload files by Email
3. a single comprehensive file that includes all the writings of Mr. Gerald
Boyd (3)
4. No: Re: Upload files by Email
5. pdf file error (2)
6. So how do you pronounce it? (2)
7. Getting the actual FTP URL
8. 100 search results per request? (2)
9. Can I get files such as .mid through email (2)
10. Mobile Phone Users
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Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2000 06:02:18 +0100
From: Steve Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: FTPMail, Agora, etc. statistics
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Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2000 11:16:08 +0700
From: Eko Priono <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Upload files by Email
On Tue, 22 Aug 2000 07:52:18 -0600, Direccion Salud wrote:
> Is it possible to upload files by EMail?, is important to
> know how, rules and others
Yes, it's possible. There are at least two possibilities
I know of:
* http://www.internettrash.com/
A free web hosting service with full-fledged upload by
email support. Signup procedure is also email automated.
Your web URL will be:
http://internettrash.com/users/yourname/
There are also alternate domain names: nettrash.com,
internetdump.com (adult only), netdump.com (adult only),
internetjunk.com, netjunk.com, internetgarbage.com,
netgarbage.com, internettoilet.com, nettoilet.com.
* http://mail2ftp.hypermart.net/
Allows FTP uploads from any POP3-based email servers to
any FTP servers, including those which belongs to free
web hosting services such as HyperMart itself, VirtualAve,
Geocities, Xoom, Tripod, Freeservers, Homestead, Homepage,
BigStep, and all the others.
Please note that like all other ACCmail methods, mail2ftp
is not secure. Your POP3 username and password will be
transfered in open and visible at (for example) www4mail
public logs. The only current workaround is by opening
a free POP3 account dedicated to your mail2ftp use, and
keep changing its password often.
Disclaimer: If the unfortunate happened and someone stole
your FTP password, some free web hosting will require at
least 24 hours to change it. Check this with yours first
*before* tried mail2ftp. Neither me, or the author of
mail2ftp will be responsible for any damages. You have
been warned.
--Eko
http://survpc.virtualave.net/ - Older PC and DOS internet
(an ACCmail-friendly site... ;-)
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Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2000 16:57:24 +0800
From: jinys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: a single comprehensive file that includes all the writings of Mr.
Gerald Boyd
Hi All! I have been looking for a single comprehensive file that includes
all the writings of Mr. Gerald Boyd. Now we have:
http://www.expita.com/howto1.html (and howto2, howto3),
Accessing The Internet By Email Guide to Offline Internet Access V9.1,
usenet/news.answers/internet-services/access-via-email,
wssearch.zip,
EM_AI Manual,
and others.
Please tell which one is the most comprehensive that includes all the
(latest-version) writings of Mr. Gerald Boyd? And what are the RELATIONS
between them?
I think once we know this clearly and the latest versions, we are likely to
work more efficiently.
Cheerio!
Jin
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Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2000 14:25:52 +0300
From: Lena from Kiev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: No: Re: Upload files by Email
> From: Jèrel DD Arbaugh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> }From: Direccion Salud Baracoa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> }Is it possible to upload files by EMail?, is important to know how,
> }rules and others
> With a FEW key exceptions, the answer is NO. You need to check
> with the operator of the site in question to see if an exception applies.
> The exact methods vary widely.
Wrong. Most free webspace providers allow FTP uploading.
Accmail FAQ:
| * FTP UPLOAD VIA EMAIL
| The first free publicly accessible FTP service that allows uploading via
| email has instructions avialable at: http://mail2ftp.hypermart.net/
Servers listing <http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/1236/servers.html>:
| O P E R A T I O N A L F T P M A I L S E R V E R S
| *SPECIAL USE*
| FTP upload via e-mail Get the manual at:
| http://mail2ftp.hypermart.net/
May be wording of the FAQ needs some refining? This service allows
uploading to _any_ FTP server if you know hostname, username and password.
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Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2000 12:11:53 -0400
From: Roberto Safora <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: pdf file error
Trying to get http://www.teleport.com/~ffsupprt/spec/atx/ATX12VPSDGV1.pdf
I received it from [EMAIL PROTECTED] and from [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In both cases an error ( 9 ) saying that the file cant be read appears. The
size is 182,747 bytes in both downloads.
What could be wrong?
TIA
Roberto
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Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2000 18:04:29 -0400
From: Christine W Indigo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: So how do you pronounce it?
I've recently returned to the accmail world due to phone line problems
(lightning struck my house and blew out my phone lines, so until I can
save up the money to get them fixed, I have to connect to the Net by
hooking up to the main line outside); and I've been wondering, how do you
pronounce the word "Accmail?" Ace-i-mail? A-C-C-mail? Asc-i-mail?
--
Christine "Green Leafy Dragon" Indigo, Internet/Ultima Pornographer,
Roguelike/Interactive
Fiction Missionary, and proud member of the -=UDIC=-
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Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2000 04:30:37 +0300
From: "Ali M. Al-Umran" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Getting the actual FTP URL
Hi
Use the getright, this will retrieve the url for you while attempting to download.
Best regard
> Subject: Getting the actual FTP URL
> Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2000 11:18:48 +0530
> From: "Sriram N. A." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> I am trying to download the Efax Messenger software (efxsetup.exe) from
> somewhere on the server ftp://ftp.efaxsoftware.com/ . Unfortunately, The
> form on http://www.efax.com/need (for downloading the Messenger software)
> uses cgi and a POST method to redirect the user to the download site.
>
> When I attempt the download through a live connection, the Internet Explorer
> progress dialog gives no information on the actual path to the file.
>
> Is there any way of finding out the actual path to the file on the server
> under these circumstances?
>
> Sriram
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Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2000 18:28:46 +0800
From: A Solomon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: 100 search results per request?
Fellow Accmailers,
Question: How does one use the major search engines via email so that a search would
return 100 results per request? I know from the archives that you can do this with
Google like so:
http://www.google.com/search?q=%22search+phrase%22&num=100&sa=Google+Search
Just pop it off to Grabpage or a www4mail server and bingo. Now, how do you get
Altavista, Metacrawler, Excite, Hotbot, Metor, and Ask Jeeves to do the same?
Art
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Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2000 20:42:34 +0800
From: Bai Kun <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Can I get files such as .mid through email
If such media files such as .mid is located in Http service.
Can I get them through email?
Thanks
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Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2000 13:16:23 -0700
From: "Gerald E. Boyd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: So how do you pronounce it?
At 06:04 PM 8/23/00 -0400, Christine W Indigo wrote the following:
>I've recently returned to the accmail world due to phone line problems
>(lightning struck my house and blew out my phone lines, so until I can
>save up the money to get them fixed, I have to connect to the Net by
>hooking up to the main line outside); and I've been wondering, how do you
>pronounce the word "Accmail?" Ace-i-mail? A-C-C-mail? Asc-i-mail?
ACK-mail
The ACK sound from the word accessing...
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Gerry Boyd -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2000 01:03:34 +0600
From: K Sethu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Mobile Phone Users
At 15:06:39 23/08/00 -0700, Gerald E. Boyd wrote the following:
>>>
>I started looking up web-based SMS gateways but most are in languages other than
>English so I'm not sure how they work.
>Is a list of SMS gateways something that should now be included in the servers
>listing?
<<<
Have you looked at http://www.mtnsms.com? It is in English - I guess it is from
Zimbabwe and/or South Africa. Since a month ago I have used it (though as of yet not
frequently), but only by online access.
To use it to send SMS to someone's SMS enabled GSM mobile phone, first one must
register with this site for a free, username / password type log in account for which
the username should be a genuine e-mail address (because the confirmation of us
setting up is by us returning a confirmation code sent to that e-mail address). Also
I guess all such web site should necessarily be "sign up account" types so as to keep
out or minimize mail-bomb/spam type victimization of SMS enabled phone owners.
While signing up in the site, there is a box to enter registrant's own GSM phone
number (with country code preceding and all), but it is not mandatory and can be left
as a blank - that is, ownership of a SMS enabled phone is not a prerequisite. Because
this site is only a Website-to-SMS gateway. And if a receiver of the SMS (sent via
this site) chooses to respond by using the Reply Message feature in his/her phone,
then that reply message is *supposed* to come to original sender's Inbox in this site.
Well, I say "supposed to" because that feature had not commenced still or was
malfunctioning whenever I checked (till about 2 weeks back) if a reply from my phone
had reached back my Inbox.
But as regards including in servers listing, first requirement should be that this
mtnsms.com site or any other such site should be ACCMAIL friendly. Well I have not
tried yet - but I think chances are high that ACCMAIL is either impossible or be
rather cumbersome - because there is the need of a log-in session to do the SMS
sending activity; secondly I see that there is cookie for this site in my cache. So
only the cookie supporting ACCMAIL servers might work (ie, some of the www4mail
servers).
Someone has to try ACCMAIL way and let us know.
Sethu
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Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2000 14:04:14 -0700
From: "Gerald E. Boyd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: a single comprehensive file that includes all the writings of Mr.
Gerald Boyd
At 04:57 PM 8/24/00 +0800, jinys wrote the following:
>Hi All! I have been looking for a single comprehensive file that includes
>all the writings of Mr. Gerald Boyd. Now we have:
> http://www.expita.com/howto1.html (and howto2, howto3),
> Accessing The Internet By Email Guide to Offline Internet Access V9.1,
> usenet/news.answers/internet-services/access-via-email,
> wssearch.zip,
> EM_AI Manual,
> and others.
>
>Please tell which one is the most comprehensive that includes all the
>(latest-version) writings of Mr. Gerald Boyd? And what are the RELATIONS
>between them?
The Accmail FAQ is the primary document. The distribution is world-wide and
the information in it is enough to get people started using email to do
just about everything Internet related. The Accmail FAQ was started by
"Dr." Bob Rankin in late 1994 and turned over to me January 1999. Bob also
started the Accmail mailing list and turned this over to me in October 1997.
My HTML howtos and server listing pages were developed to further expand
the information contained in the FAQ. The pages were based on work that I
had done long before I took over as the Accmail FAQ maintainer and Accmail
mailing list owner. They will probably continue even after the Accmail FAQ
and mailing list are turned over to others.
The Accmail FAQ is about 60Kb in size and I try not to exceed this. Because
of this, not everything can be shown in the FAQ, BUT it can be described.
The web pages try to show in more detail (and with examples) what is
described in the FAQ. The Accmail FAQ is for the general public to see and
read. Most users will never go any further than this. My web pages are for
those users with more than a passing interest in how to use email to access
the internet.
Also, the Accmail FAQ is only updated about two times per year but my web
pages are changed much more frequently. The servers listing seems to change
weekly (:>)
The ws (web search) series of documents were the very first things I did by
email methods and predate my web pages. The Accmail FAQ originally showed 3
or 4 search engines using email. I went further and described the methods
used to "crack" (wscrack.faq) any search engine by email methods. I made an
introductory document (wsintro.faq) and then started adding search engines
that people requested. This work started in early 1996 and was posted to
the Accmail mailing list. In July 1996, I made the ws series of faqs
official and added them to my ftp site at Netcom.
When the www4mail server came out in 1998, I decided that the ws series
really had reached it's end-of-life because the forms capability of
www4mail made it easy to use a web search engine. However, some users still
request me to update and maintain these documents because they like using
the simple long URL string rather than using a www4mail form. I have since
updated the wscrack.faq and wsintro.faq but none of the others. These two
form the basis of the methods I used to develop the long search engine
strings and which other users can use to do the same for their favorite
search engine. I doubt the other ws series faqs will be updated. In fact, I
haven't even moved them all from my Netcom site to my Expita site.
The EM_AI manual is not mine so I'll leave the explanation of it to Gary
Wines (the developer and owner).
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Gerry Boyd -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2000 14:33:27 -0700
From: "Gerald E. Boyd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: a single comprehensive file that includes all the writings of Mr.
Gerald Boyd
At 04:57 PM 8/24/00 +0800, jinys wrote the following:
>...the writings of Mr. Gerald Boyd. Now we have:
> http://www.expita.com/howto1.html (and howto2, howto3),
> Accessing The Internet By Email Guide to Offline Internet Access V9.1,
> usenet/news.answers/internet-services/access-via-email,
> wssearch.zip,
> EM_AI Manual,
> and others.
>
>Please tell which one is the most comprehensive that includes all the
>(latest-version) writings of Mr. Gerald Boyd? And what are the RELATIONS
>between them?
Usenet postings requires an archive name (for rtfm.mit.edu). Hence,
Archive-name: internet-services/access-via-email
The name of the document is "Accessing The Internet By Email -- Guide to
Offline Internet Access -- Version 9.3 - August 1, 2000" or more
commonly referred to as the Accmail FAQ. The FAQ name is derived from the
mailing list (Accmail) which stands for ACCessing the internet by eMAIL
I'm currently the FAQ maintainer and owner/moderator of the mailing list.
The Accmail FAQ is posted weekly to the Usenet Newsgroups:
alt.internet.services,
alt.online-service,
alt.bbs.internet,
alt.answers,
comp.mail.misc,
comp.answers,
news.newusers.questions,
and news.answers
See other posting for more details...
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Gerry Boyd -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2000 15:00:31 -0700
From: "Gerald E. Boyd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: 100 search results per request?
At 06:28 PM 8/24/00 +0800, A Solomon wrote the following:
>Question: How does one use the major search engines via email so that a
>search would return 100 results per request? I know from the archives
>that you can do this with Google like so:
>
>http://www.google.com/search?q=%22search+phrase%22&num=100&sa=Google+Search
>
>Just pop it off to Grabpage or a www4mail server and bingo. Now, how do
>you get Altavista, Metacrawler, Excite, Hotbot, Metor, and Ask Jeeves to
>do the same?
Unless the search engine has a particular variable that can be changed to
indicate the number of results, the answer is you can't get 100 results
back for all search engines.
The parameter &num is from the Advanced Google search web page, not the
default.
AltaVista GUI or text search and advanced search has no variable for number
of results but does have a variable on where to start the results (&stq).
10 results are always returned.
MetaCrawler has a hidden "results per page" variable (&rpp) that defaults
to 20. Change it to see more although I don't know what the maximum is.
send http://search.metacrawler.com/crawler?general=spam\
&method=0&redirect=web&rpp=20&hpe=10®ion=0\
&timeout=0&sort=0&format=beta99&theme=classic&refer=mc-search
Excite has no variable to change for results returned on the default page
although it does after the first 10 results are returned. The default is 10
per page although I don't know what the maximum is.
send http://search.excite.com/search.gw?c=web&s=spam&showSummary=true\
&start=0&perPage=10&next=Next+Results
I'll leave the rest of the search engines to you to work out.
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Gerry Boyd -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2000 16:57:20 -0700
From: "Gerald E. Boyd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: pdf file error
At 12:11 PM 8/24/00 -0400, Roberto Safora wrote the following:
>Trying to get http://www.teleport.com/~ffsupprt/spec/atx/ATX12VPSDGV1.pdf
>I received it from [EMAIL PROTECTED] and from [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>In both cases an error ( 9 ) saying that the file cant be read appears. The
>size is 182,747 bytes in both downloads.
>What could be wrong?
Don't know what you did wrong, but this worked for me. I got the PDF file.
To: www4mail-wm.ictp.trieste.it
Subject: [leave blank]
Body of message:
GETSIZE 200000
http://www.teleport.com/~ffsupprt/spec/atx/ATX12VPSDGV1.pdf
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Gerry Boyd -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2000 17:35:20 -0700
From: "Gerald E. Boyd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Can I get files such as .mid through email
At 08:42 PM 8/24/00 +0800, Bai Kun wrote the following:
>If such media files such as .mid is located in Http service.
>Can I get them through email?
This works for me (A MIDI file of the classic "Light My Fire" by the Doors)..
To: www4mail-wm.ictp.trieste.it
Subject: {leave blank]
Body of message:
GETSIZE 200000
http://www.midizone.totalserve.co.uk/mid/tdsligh4.mid
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Gerry Boyd -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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