At 03:17 PM 9/4/2002 +0200, Juraj Fedel wrote (in part) the following: >Acctually I was asking about NEWS -> MAIL server, something as >[EMAIL PROTECTED] - I tryed that but get no response > whatsoever - not even bounced mail >[EMAIL PROTECTED] - responded me that I can not use it !!! > >I would like some server that I could subscribe for newsgroup and get post >when it occure in that group.
Reading usenet by e-mail is getting to be about impossible without direct connection to the Internet and a web browser. However, a few tricks can still be used. One of these is to use the web site http://www.news2mail.com/ with forms requested via a www4mail server. news2mail is a website that allows you to subscribe to a newsgroup via e-mail using your browser. So all we need to do is to mimic these actions through the use of a www4mail server. You need to specify the newsgroup and then get the subscription form for it via the proper web page. For example, you may want to subscribe (or unsubscribe) to comp.lang.perl.misc. The web page form is located here: http://www.news2mail.com/comp/lang/perl/misc.html (all the newsgroups follow this pattern, that is, use news2mail address, replace "." with "/" and add ".html") So your request to www4mail is: To: www4mail server of your choice Subject: [leave blank] Body: XFORMREPLY = TEXT http://www.news2mail.com/comp/lang/perl/misc.html List of active (and defunct) www4mail servers is located at: http://www.expita.com/servers.html When you get the form page you will also see a list of "free" or "open" nntp servers that handle this newsgroup. You may wish to use one of these nntp addresses and your newsreader program to see what is available. Note also that most of these open servers do not allow posting. If you don't know how to use forms via a www4mail server, then you can add these commands to the above request: HELP FORMS HELP XFORM HELP XFORMREPLY -- Gerry Boyd ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 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 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
