On Wed 02 Oct, Gavin Carr bloviated thus: > Strange question - has anyone ever seen anything to let you browse > the web via an email client? I'm thinking of some kind of gateway or > proxy that will accept an email containing URLs, fetch the pages > referenced, and email the results back to you as text or html. I know > it's kind of perverse, :-) but this would occasionally be very useful > somewhere where you've got email access but nothing else.
There certainly used to be and a cursory google* finds that it still exists. http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=web+via+email&ie=ISO-8859-1&hl=en&meta= http://www.bellanet.org/email.html http://www.faqs.org/faqs/internet-services/access-via-email/ * That's right Google, I'm using your trademark as a verb. This is sure to put you on the slippery slope that made Xerox lose their trademark. -- Rev Simon Rumble <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> www.rumble.net Send email with subject "send key pub" for public key. "As long as I am mayor of this city [Jersey City, New Jersey] the great industries are secure. We hear about constitutional rights, free speech and the free press. Every time I hear these words I say to myself, That man is a Red, that man is a Communist. You never hear a real American talk like that." - Frank "I am the law" Hague (1896-1956)
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