You can get your own copy of the latest edition
of Dr. Bob's guide by sending an e-mail to mail-server@rtfm.mit.edu
with only the following in the text space, or body, of the e-mail:
send usenet/news.answers/internet-services/access-via-email
You can get your own copy of the latest edition
of Dr. Bob's guide by sending an e-mail to mail-server@rtfm.mit.edu
with only the following in the text space, or body, of the e-mail:
send usenet/news.answers/internet-services/access-via-email
Alternatively, you can send an e-mail to the UK mail server mailbase@mailbase.ac.uk with only the following in the body: send lis-iis e-access-inet.txt
Perhaps you would like to have Dr. Bob's instructions
in, say, Chinese (cn or tw), Farsi (ir), Somali (so) or even Esperanto
(eo). Volunteers have translated the guide into about 30 languages. Just
send an e-mail to BobRankin@mhv.net with the following
as the subject of the e-mail: send accmail.xx (replacing
"xx" with the appropriate two-letter code). Files in languages
that don't use the English alphabet will generally need to be uudecoded,
and you may also need special font files. For a list of languages
and related files available, use send readme.txt as the subject. For
general information on accessing these files automatically from Dr.
Bob, use send help as the subject. Naturally, the translations
tend to be less up-to-date than the original. Now, on to a few of
the servers. . . .
agora@dna.affrc.go.jp
agora@kamakura.mss.co.jp
To use these servers, send them an e-mail with a command
line in the body of the e-mail. For example, to have Physics
Today's home page sent to your return e-mail address, the
command line would be send http://www.aip.org/pt/
If you want the file sent to another address, say, fred@phys.edu, use rsend fred@phys.edu http://www.aip.org/pt/
Agora will send the page you've requested formatted in ASCII (text). Images are indicated by "[IMAGE]" or other alternative text. Links to other pages are indicated like numbered references in square brackets, with the addresses (URLs) of the links listed at the end of the document. The Agora help file is summoned with the simple command line www in the body of the e-mail.
Other Agora servers are listed in Dr. Bob's current instructions, but my tests in March and April suggest they are not on-line.
w3mail@gmd.de
getweb@usa.healthnet.org
These two servers use the command "get" instead
of "send." Use the command "help" to get their
help files. The German W3mail server sends the actual html file,
so if you have browser software you can use it to view the file. The
Getweb server sends the requested page formatted in ASCII like the
Agora servers. Many Web pages use forms---documents that are displayed
with various "buttons" that can be set and with spaces where
you can enter information or choices. Getweb lets you handle such
pages by e-mail; send it this command for more information: help
forms
webmail@www.ucc.ie
With this server, use "go" instead of "send"
or "get."
Finally, a few notes about etiquette, quoted directly
from Dr. Bob's guide: "The e-mail servers . . . are for the
most part operated by kind-hearted volunteers at companies or universities. If
you abuse (or over-use) the servers, there's a very good chance they
will be shut down permanently. This actually happened to several
of the e-mail servers in 1995 and 1996. If you have more direct Internet
access, let others who are less fortunate use the e-mail servers. Try
to limit your data transfers to one megabyte per day. Don't swamp
the servers with many requests at a time."
Compiled by Graham P. Collins