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- Accessing The Internet By E-Mail
- 2nd Edition - August 1994
-
- Copyright (c) 1994, "Doctor Bob" Rankin
-
- All rights reserved. Permission is granted to make and distribute
- verbatim copies of this document provided the copyright notice and
- this permission notice are preserved on all copies.
-
- How to Access Internet Services by E-mail
- -----------------------------------------
- If your only access to the Internet is via e-mail, you don't have to
- miss out on all the fun! Maybe you've heard of FTP, Gopher, Archie,
- Veronica, Finger, Whois, WAIS, World-Wide Web, and Usenet but thought
- they were out of your reach because your online service does not provide
- those tools. Not so! And even if you do have full Internet access,
- using e-mail servers can save you time and money.
-
- This special report will show you how to retrieve files from FTP sites,
- explore the Internet via Gopher, search for information with Archie,
- Veronica, or WAIS, tap into the World-Wide Web, and even access Usenet
- newsgroups using E-MAIL AS YOUR ONLY TOOL.
-
- If you can send a note to an Internet address, you're in the game! This
- is great news for users of online services where there is partial or no
- direct Internet access.
-
- I encourage you to read this entire document first and then go back and
- try out the techniques that are covered. This way, you will gain a
- broader perspective of the information resources that are available, an
- introduction to the tools you can work with, and the best methods for
- finding the information you want.
-
- Finding the Latest Version
- --------------------------
- This document is now available from an automated mail server.
- To get the latest edition, send e-mail to either address below.
-
- To: LISTSERV@ubvm.cc.buffalo.edu (for US/Canada/etc.)
- Leave Subject blank, and enter only this line in the body of the note:
- GET INTERNET BY-EMAIL NETTRAIN F=MAIL
-
- Or: MAILBASE@mailbase.ac.uk (for UK/Europe/etc.)
- Leave Subject blank, and enter only this line in the body of the note:
- send lis-iis e-access-inet.txt
-
- You can also get the file by anonymous FTP at either of these sites:
- At: ubvm.cc.buffalo.edu Or: mailbase.ac.uk
- cd NETTRAIN cd pub/lists/lis-iis/files/
- get INTERNET BY-EMAIL get e-access-inet.txt
-
- A Short Aside... "What is the Internet?"
- ----------------------------------------
- Many introductory texts on the Internet go into excruciating detail on
- the history, composition and protocol of the Internet. If you were
- looking for that you won't find it here, because this is a "how to"
- lesson, not a history book.
-
- When you buy a new car, they don't make you read "The Life and Times of
- Henry Ford" before you can turn the top down and squeal off the lot.
- And when you get a new computer, nobody forces you to read a text on
- logic design before you fire up Leisure Suit Larry or WordPerfect.
-
- So if you're the type that wants to short-circuit the preliminaries and
- just dig in, you've come to the right place. I'm not going to bore you
- with the gory details. Instead, I'll just offer up my Reader's Digest
- condensed definition of the Internet, and encourage you to read more
- about the Internet in one of the many fine Internet books & guides
- listed in the "Suggested Reading" section. Some of them are even free,
- and accessible directly from the Internet!
-
- Internet (noun) - A sprawling collection of computer networks that spans
- the globe, connecting government, military, educational & commercial
- institutions, as well as private citizens to a wide range of computer
- services, resources, and information. A set of network conventions and
- common tools are employed to give the appearance of a single large
- network, even though the computers that are linked together use many
- different hardware and software platforms.
-
- The Rules of The Game
- ---------------------
- This document is meant to be both tutorial and practical, so there are
- lots of actual commands and internet addresses listed herein. You'll
- notice that when these are included in the text they are indented by
- several spaces for clarity. Don't include the leading spaces when you
- try these commands on your own!
-
- You'll also see things like "<file>" or "<name>" appearing in this
- document. Think of these as place holders or variables which must
- be replaced with an appropriate value. Do NOT include the quotes or
- brackets in your value unless specifically directed to do so.
-
- Often you'll be told to "send e-mail with a blank subject" to some
- address. This means to simply leave the "Subject:" field blank in
- your note. If your mailer refuses to send messages with a blank
- subject, give it some dummy value. In most cases this will work fine.
-
- Most e-mail servers understand only a small set of commands and are
- not very forgiving if you deviate from what they expect. So include
- ONLY the specified commands in the "body" of your note and leave off
- any extraneous lines such as your signature, etc.
-
- Pay attention to upper/lower case in directory and file names when
- using e-mail servers. It's almost always important!
-
- FTP By E-Mail
- -------------
- FTP stands for "file transfer protocol", and is a means of accessing
- files that are stored on remote computer systems. Files are stored in a
- hierarchical "tree" of directories, each of which pertains to a
- different subject. Using FTP by e-mail can be nice even for those with
- full Internet access, because some FTP servers are heavily loaded and
- interactive response can be very sluggish. So it makes sense not to
- waste time and connect charges in these cases.
-
- To access FTP by e-mail, you first need a list of FTP "sites" which are
- the addresses of the remote computer systems that allow you to retrieve
- files anonymously (without having a userid and password on that system).
- To get this list, send an e-mail note to: mail-server@rtfm.mit.edu
-
- without a subject and include these lines in the body of the note.
-
- send usenet/news.answers/ftp-list/sitelist/part1
- send usenet/news.answers/ftp-list/sitelist/part2
- send usenet/news.answers/ftp-list/sitelist/part3
- send usenet/news.answers/ftp-list/sitelist/part4
- send usenet/news.answers/ftp-list/sitelist/part5
- send usenet/news.answers/ftp-list/sitelist/part6
- send usenet/news.answers/ftp-list/sitelist/part7
- send usenet/news.answers/ftp-list/sitelist/part8
-
- You will then receive (by e-mail) 8 files which comprise the "FTP Site
- List". Print them out or store them in a place where you can reference
- the list handily. Another file you might want to retrieve is "FTP
- Frequently Asked Questions", so add this line to your note as well.
- This file contains lots more info on using FTP services.
-
- send usenet/news.answers/ftp-list/faq
-
- If you find an interesting FTP site in the list, send e-mail to one of
- these addresses:
-
- bitftp@pucc.princeton.edu (USA/NJ)
- ftpmail@sunsite.unc.edu (USA/NC)
- ftpmail@decwrl.dec.com (USA/MA)
- ftpmail@doc.ic.ac.uk (UK)
- bitftp@vm.gmd.de (Europe)
- ftpmail@cs.uow.edu.au (Australia)
-
- And in the body of the note, include these lines:
-
- open <name of site>
- dir
- quit
-
- This will return to you a list of the files stored in the root directory
- at that site. In your next mail message you can navigate to other
- directories by inserting (for example)
-
- cd pub
-
- before the dir command. ("pub" is a common directory name, and usually
- a good place to start.) Once you determine the name of a file you want
- to retrieve, use:
-
- get <name of file>
-
- in your note instead of the dir command. If the file you want to
- retrieve is plain text, this will suffice. If it's a binary file (a
- program, zipfile, etc.) you'll need to insert the command:
-
- binary
-
- in your note before the "get" command.
-
- So to summarize, here's the message you would send to one of the ftpmail
- servers in order to retrieve the text of The Declaration of Independence
- from a remote FTP site:
-
- open ftp.eff.org
- cd pub/CAF/civics
- get dec_of_ind
- quit
-
- Some other interesting FTP sites you may want to "visit" are listed below:
-
- ocf.berkeley.edu try: pub/Library for documents, bible, lyrics, etc.
- rtfm.mit.edu try: pub/usenet/news.answers for USENET FAQs, Archives
- oak.oakland.edu try: pub/msdos for a huge DOS software library
- ftp.sura.net try: pub/nic for Internet how-to documents
- quartz.rutgers.edu try: pub/humor for lots of humor files
-
- You should note that FTP mail servers tend to be quite busy so your
- reply may not arrive for several minutes, hours, or days, depending on
- when and where you send your request. Also, some large files may be
- split into smaller pieces and returned to you as multiple messages.
-
- If the file that is returned to you ends up looking something like what
- you see below, (the word "begin" with a number and the filename on one
- line, followed by a bunch of 61-character lines) it most likely is a
- binary file that has been "uuencoded" by the sender. (This is required
- in order to reliably transmit binary files.)
-
- You'll need to scrounge up a version of the uudecode program for your
- operating system (UNIX, DOS, OS/2, VM, etc.) in order to unscramble the
- file. Most likely you'll find a copy already at your site or in your
- service provider's download library, or you can use the instructions in
- the next section to find out how to search FTP sites for a specific file.
-
- begin 666 sample.zip
- M4$L#!`H`!@`&`/6H?18<$-Z$F@P```@?```,````5$5,25@S,34N5%A480I[
- M!P8;!KL,2P,)!PL)"PD'%@<(!@4&!P8%-@<6%PL*!@@*"P4&%00&%P4*"`4&
- M%08*)08(!Q@*!PH("P<+!"4$)00*!@0%%`4)-`<&%PD:*_S\_/O[^PP++`LL
-
- Another point to consider... If your online service charges you to
- store e-mail files that are sent to you and you plan to receive some
- large files via FTP, it would be wise to handle your "inbasket"
- expeditiously to avoid storage costs!
-
- Archie By E-Mail
- ----------------
- Let's say you know the name of a file, but you have no idea at which
- what FTP site it might be lurking. Or maybe you're curious to know if a
- file matching a certain naming criteria is available via FTP. Archie is
- the tool you can use to find out!
-
- Archie servers can be thought of as a database of all the anonymous FTP
- sites in the world, allowing you to find the site and/or name of a file
- to be retrieved. And using Archie by e-mail can be convenient because
- some Archie searches take a LONG time to complete, leaving you to tap
- your toes in the meantime.
-
- To use Archie by e-mail, simply send an e-mail message to one of the
- following addresses:
-
- archie@archie.rutgers.edu (USA/NJ)
- archie@archie.sura.net (USA/MD)
- archie@archie.unl.edu (USA/NE)
- archie@archie.doc.ic.ac.uk (UK)
- archie@archie.luth.se (Sweden)
- archie@archie.kuis.kyoto-u.ac.jp (Japan)
-
- To obtain detailed help for using Archie by mail, put the word
-
- help
-
- in the subject of the note and just send it off. You'll receive e-mail
- explaining how to use archie services.
-
- If you're the "just do it" type, then leave the subject blank and enter:
-
- find <file>
-
- where "<file>" is the name of the file to search for, in the body (not
- the subject) of the note.
-
- This will search for files that match your criteria exactly. If you
- want to find files that contain your search criteria anywhere in their
- name, insert the line
-
- set search sub
-
- before the "find" command. Some other useful archie commands you might
- want to use are:
-
- set maxhits 20 limit amount of output , default 100 files
- set match_domain usa (restrict output to FTP sites in USA)
- set output_format terse (return output in condensed form)
-
- When you get the results from your Archie query, it will contain the
- names of various sites at which the desired file is located. Use one of
- these site names and the exact filename listed for your next FTP file
- retrieval request.
-
- Now you've learned enough to locate that uudecode utility mentioned
- in the last section. Use the "file uudecode" command (after the
- "set search sub") and optionally include "maxhits" and "match_domain"
- commands in your archie query.
-
- Note: You'll be looking for the uudecode source code, not the executable
- version, which would of course be a binary file and would arrive
- uuencoded - a Catch 22! Try for "uudecode.c" (if you have a C compiler)
- or "uudecode.bas" (if you have BASIC available).
-
- Gopher By E-Mail
- ----------------
- Gopher is an excellent tool for exploring the Internet and is the best
- way to find a resource if you know what you want, but not where to find
- it. A gopher system is menu-based, and provides a user-friendly
- "front-end" to Internet resources, searches and information retrieval.
- Without a tool like Gopher, you'd have to wander aimlessly through the
- Internet jungles and swamps to find the treasures you seek. Gopher
- "knows where things are" and guides you to the good stuff.
-
- Gopher takes the rough edges off of the Internet by automating remote
- logins, hiding the sometimes-cryptic command sequences, and offers
- powerful search capabilities as well. And of course you can use
- Gopher by e-mail!
-
- Although not every item on every menu will be accessible by "gopher
- mail", you'll still find plenty of interesting things using this
- technique. Down to brass tacks... let's send e-mail to one of these
- addresses:
-
- gopher@earn.net (USA)
- gophermail@calvin.edu (USA)
- gopher@dsv.su.se (Sweden)
- gomail@ncc.go.jp (Japan)
-
- Leave the Subject blank, enter HELP in the body of the note, and let it
- rip. You'll soon receive by e-mail the text of the main menu at the
- gophermail site you selected. (You can optionally specify the address
- of a known gopher site on the Subject line to get the main menu for that
- site instead.)
-
- To proceed to a selection on the returned menu just e-mail the whole
- text of the note (from the menu downwards) back to the gopher server,
- placing an "x" next to the items(s) you want to explore. You'll then
- receive the next level of the gopher menu by e-mail. Some menu choices
- lead to other menus, some lead to text files, and some lead to searches.
-
- To perform a search, select that menu item with an "x" and supply your
- search words in the Subject: of your next reply. Note that your search
- criteria can be a single word or a boolean expression such as:
-
- document and (historical or government)
-
- Each of the results (the "hits") of your search will be displayed as
- an entry on yet another gopher menu!
-
- Note: You needn't actually return the entire gopher menu and all the
- routing info that follows it each time you reply to the gophermail
- server. If you want to minimize the size of your query, you can strip
- out the "menu" portion at the top and include only the portion below
- that pertains to the menu selection you want. The example that follows
- shows how to select one specific item from a gopher menu:
-
- ------- begin gophermail message (do not include this line)
- Split=0 bytes/message <- For text, bin, HQX messages (0 = No split)
- Menu=0 items/message <- For menus and query responses (0 = No split)
- #
- Name=EE Telecommunication Overview
- Numb=2
- Type=0
- Port=70
- Path=0/.d-f/eetel.info
- Host=nceet.snre.umich.edu
- ------- end gophermail message (do not include this line)
-
- If this message looks like nonsense to you, here's a human translation:
-
- Connect to PORT 70 of the HOST (computer) at "nceet.snre.umich.edu",
- retrieve the FILE "eetel.info" (whose NAME is "EE Telecommunication
- Overview") and send it to me in ONE PIECE, regardless of it's size.
-
- Veronica By E-Mail
- ------------------
- Speaking of searches, this is a good time to mention Veronica. Just
- like Archie provides a searchable index of FTP sites, Veronica provides
- this function for "gopherspace". Veronica will ask you what you want to
- look for (your search words) and then display another menu listing all
- the gopher menu items that match your search. In typical gopher
- fashion, you can then select one of these items and "go-pher it"!
-
- To try Veronica by e-mail, retrieve the main menu from gopher@earn.net
- using the method just described. Then try the choice labelled "Other
- Gopher and Information Servers". This menu will have an entry for
- Veronica.
-
- You'll have to select one (or more) Veronica servers to handle your
- query, specifying the search words in the Subject of your reply. Here's
- another example of where using e-mail servers can save time and money.
- Often the Veronica servers are very busy and tell you to "try again
- later". So select 2 or 3 servers, and chances are one of them will be
- able to handle your request the first time around.
-
- A Gophermail Tip:
- -----------------
- The path to some resources, files or databases can be a bit tedious,
- requiring several e-mail messages to the gophermail server. But here's
- the good news... If you've done it once, you can re-use any of the
- e-mail messages previously sent in, changing it to suit your current
- needs. (This applies to all gophermail services.) You'll see an
- example of this in the next section.
-
- Usenet By E-Mail
- ----------------
- Usenet is a collection of over 5000 discussion groups on every topic
- imaginable. In order to get a proper start and avoid embarrasing
- yourself needlessly, you must read the Usenet new users intro document,
- which can be obtained by sending an e-mail note to:
-
- mail-server@rtfm.mit.edu
-
- without a subject and including this line in the body of the note:
-
- send usenet/news.answers/news-newusers-intro
-
- Once you've handled the preliminaries, you'll need to know how to read
- and contribute to Usenet newsgroups by e-mail. To read a newsgroup, you
- will use the gophermail service discussed earlier in this guide.
-
- To obtain a list of recent postings to a particular newsgroup, send the
- following lines to one of the gophermail servers mentioned previously.
- Leave "Subject" blank and include only these lines in the message body.
-
- (You must replace "<groupname>" below with the name of the Usenet
- newsgroup you wish to access. eg: alt.answers, biz.comp.services,
- news.newusers.questions, etc.)
-
- ------- begin gophermail message (do not include this line)
- Split=32K bytes/message <- For text, bin, HQX messages (0 = No split)
- Menu=100 items/message <- For menus and query responses (0 = No split)
- #
- Name=<groupname>
- Numb=1
- Type=1
- Port=4320
- Path=news group <groupname>
- Host=saturn.wwc.edu
- ------- begin gophermail message (do not include this line)
-
- The gophermail server will mail you a typical gopher menu on which you
- may select the individual postings you wish to read.
-
- Note: The gophermail query in this example is the greatly edited result of
- many previous queries. I've pared it down to the bare essentials so
- it can be tailored and reused. If you're curious as to what these
- commands actually do, here's a human translation:
-
- Connect to PORT 4320 of the HOST (computer) at "saturn.wwc.edu",
- send me up to 100 ITEMS from the SUBMENU "news group <groupname>",
- SPLITting the resulting message into 32K byte chunks before sending.
-
- If you decide to make a post of your own, mail the text of your post to:
-
- newsgroup.name.usenet@decwrl.dec.com (USA)
- newsgroup.name@news.demon.co.uk (UK)
-
- For example, to post to news.newusers.questions, you would send your
- message to one of:
-
- news.newusers.questions.usenet@decwrl.dec.com
- news.newusers.questions@news.demon.co.uk
-
- Be sure to include an appropriate Subject: line, and to include your real
- name and e-mail address at the close of your note.
-
- WAIS Searches By E-Mail
- -----------------------
- WAIS stands for Wide Area Information Service, and is a means of
- searching a set of over 500 indexed databases. The range of topics is
- too broad to mention, and besides, you'll soon learn how to get the
- topic list for yourself!
-
- I recommend that you send e-mail to "waismail@quake.think.com" with HELP
- in the body of the note to get the full WAISmail user guide. But if you
- can't wait, use the info below as a quickstart.
-
- A list of WAIS databases (or "resources" as they like to be called) can be
- obtained by sending e-mail to "waismail@quake.think.com" with the line
-
- search xxx xxx
-
- in the body of the note. Look through the returned list for topics that
- are of interest to you and use one of them in the next example.
-
- OK, let's do an actual search. Send e-mail to:
-
- waismail@quake.think.com
-
- with the following commands in the note body:
-
- maxres 10
- search bible flood
-
- This will tell WAISmail to search through the text of the "bible"
- database and return a list of at most 10 documents containing "flood".
-
- You will receive an e-mail response something like this:
-
- From: WAISmail@Think.COM
- Searching: bible
- Keywords: flood
-
- Result # 1 Score:1000 lines: 0 bytes: 3556 Date:910101 Type: TEXT
- Headline: Genesis: Chapter 9 9:1 And God blessed Noah and his sons...
- DocID: 0000000457KJV :cmns-moon.think.com@cmns-moon.think.com:210%TEXT
-
- To retrieve the full text of a matching document, just use one the
- returned "DOCid:" lines exactly as is. So your next e-mail to WAISmail
- would be:
-
- DocID: 0000000457KJV :cmns-moon.think.com@cmns-moon.think.com:210%TEXT
-
- This will cause the referenced "document" to be sent to you by e-mail.
-
- World-Wide Web By E-Mail
- ------------------------
- The World-Wide Web is touted as the future of Internet navigational
- tools. It's a hypertext and multimedia system that lets you hop around
- the Net, read documents, and access images & sounds linked to a source.
-
- Have you ever heard someone say, "Wow, check out the cool stuff at
- URL http://www.somewhere.com/blah.html and wondered what the heck they
- were talking about? Now you can retrieve WWW documents using e-mail!
-
- All you need to know is the URL (that long ugly string starting with
- "http:", "gopher:", or "ftp:") which defines the address of the
- document, and you can retrieve it by sending e-mail to:
-
- listproc@www0.cern.ch
-
- In the body of your note include one of these lines, replacing "<URL>"
- with the actual URL specification.
-
- www <URL>
-
- This will send you back the document you requested, with all a list of
- its documents referenced within, so that you may make further requests.
-
- deep <URL>
-
- Same as above, but it will also send you the documents referenced in
- in the URL you specified.
-
- To check out WWW by e-mail, send this command to listproc@www0.cern.ch:
-
- www http://info.cern.ch
-
- You should receive the "WWW Welcome Page" from Cern, in which
- you'll be able to find lots of other interesting URL's to explore!
-
- Note: The URL you specify may contain only the following characters:
- a-z, A-Z, 0-9, and these special characters /:._-+@%*()?
-
- I've heard that there is another WWW-mail server whose address is
- "webmail@curia.ucc.ie". This server requires commands in the form:
-
- go <URL>
-
- Mailing Lists
- -------------
- There are literally thousands of discussion groups that stay in touch
- using e-mail based systems known as "mailing lists". People interested
- in a topic "subscribe" to a "list" and then send & receive postings by
- e-mail. For a good introduction to this topic, send e-mail to:
-
- LISTSERV@vm1.nodak.edu
-
- In the body of your note include only this command:
-
- GET NEW-LIST WOUTERS
-
- To find out about mailing lists that are relevant to your interests,
- send the following command to the same address given above.
-
- LIST GLOBAL /keyword
-
- (Of course you must replace "keyword" with an appropriate search word
- such as Marketing, Education, etc.)
-
- Another helpful document which details the commands used to subscribe,
- unsubscribe and search mailing list archives can be had by sending to:
-
- LISTSERV@ubvm.cc.buffalo.edu
-
- In the body of your note include only this command:
-
- get mailser cmd nettrain f=mail
-
- Finger By E-mail
- ----------------
- "Finger" is a utility that returns information about another user.
- Usually it's just boring stuff like last logon, etc., but sometimes
- people put fun or useful information in their finger replies. To try
- out finger, send e-mail with
-
- Subject: #finger jtchern@headcrash.berkeley.edu.
- To: jfesler@netcom.com
-
- You'll receive current major league baseball standings! (The general
- form is #finger user@site.)
-
- "Directory Assistance" by E-Mail
- --------------------------------
- "Whois" is a service that queries a database of Internet names and
- addresses. If you're looking for someone or you want to know where
- a particular computer is located, send e-mail with
-
- Subject: whois <name>
- To: mailserv@internic.net
-
- Try substituting "mit.edu" or the last name of someone you know in place
- of "<name>" and see what comes back!
-
- Another alternative name looker-upper is a database at MIT which keeps
- tabs on everyone who has posted a message on Usenet. Send e-mail with
- a blank subject to "mail-server@rtfm.mit.edu" and include this command
- ONLY in the note body:
-
- send usenet-addresses/<name>
-
- Specify as much information as you can about the person (lastname,
- firstname, userid, site, etc.) to limit the amount of information that
- is returned to you. Here's a sample query to find the address of
- someone you think may be at Harvard University:
-
- send usenet-addresses/Jane Doe Harvard
-
- A Few Net-Goodies
- -----------------
- Here are some other interesting things you can do by e-mail. Some of
- them are accessible only by e-mail!
-
- * WEBSTER BY E-MAIL
- Don't have your dictionary handy? Send e-mail to jfesler@netcom.com
- again, but this time make the subject #webster test and you'll get a
- definition of the word "test" in reply.
-
- * ALMANAC & WEATHER
- Jason Fesler offers a bunch of other services by e-mail! Almanac
- (daily updates), Weather, CD Music Catalog, etc. Send e-mail to
- jfesler@netcom.com with subject #HELP. While you're at it, why
- not send a note with a subject of "Thanks!".
-
- * U.S. CONGRESS & THE WHITE HOUSE
- Find out if your congressman has an electronic address! Just send mail
- to the address congress@hr.house.gov and you'll get a listing of
- congressional e-mail addresses.
-
- You can also contact the President (president@whitehouse.gov) or Vise
- President (vice.president@whitehouse.gov), but don't expect a reply by
- email. Messages sent to these addresses get printed out and handled
- just like regular paper correspondence!
-
- * USENET SEARCHES
- A new service at Stanford University makes it possible to search USENET
- newsgroups for postings that contain keywords of interest to you. You
- can even "subscribe" and receive a daily list of newsgroup postings that
- match your search criteria. Send mail to netnews@db.stanford.edu with
- blank subject and HELP in the body of note for full details.
-
- * MOVIE INFO
- To learn how to get tons of info on movies, actors, directors, etc.
- Send mail to movie@ibmpcug.co.uk with blank subject and HELP in the body
- of note for full details.
-
- * STOCK MARKET REPORT
- Send e-mail with subject STOCK MARKET QUOTES to martin.wong@eng.sun.com
- and you'll receive a rather lengthy stock market report (every day until
- you ask Martin to stop sending them)! Please note that this is not an
- automated server, so be sure to include a word of appreciation for this
- useful service.
-
- * STOCK MARKET QUOTES
- If you want to get a current quote for just 1 or 2 stocks, you can use
- the QuoteCom service. They offer this free service along with other fee
- based services. For details, send e-mail to "services@quote.com" with a
- subject of HELP.
-
- * ANONYMOUS E-MAIL
- The "anon server" provides a front for sending mail messages and posting
- to Usenet newsgroups anonymously, should the need ever arise. To get
- complete instructions, send e-mail to:
-
- help@anon.penet.fi (English version)
- german@anon.penet.fi or deutsch@anon.penet.fi (German version)
- italian@anon.penet.fi or italiano@anon.penet.fi (Italian version)
-
- Suggested Reading
- -----------------
- There are lots of good books and guides to help you get started on the
- Internet, and here are some that I recommend. The first few are free
- (FTPmail commands listed below), and the others can be found in most
- bookstores that carry computer-related books.
-
- "Zen and the Art of the Internet", by Brendan Kehoe
- open ftp.std.com
- cd obi/Internet/zen-1.0
- get zen10.txt
-
- "There's Gold in them thar Networks", by Jerry Martin
- open nic.ddn.mil
- cd rfc
- get rfc1402.txt
-
- "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Internet", by Ed Krol
- open nic.ddn.mil
- cd rfc
- get rfc1118.txt
-
-
- "The Whole Internet User's Guide and Catalog", by Ed Krol
- Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates
- ISBN: 1-56592-063-5
- Price: $24.95
-
- "The Big Dummy's Guide to the Internet", by Adam Gaffin
- Publisher: MIT Press
- ISBN: 0-262-57105-6
- Price: $14.95
-
- "The Internet for Dummies", by John Levine & Carol Baroudi
- Publisher: IDG Books
- ISBN: 1-56884-024-1
- Price: $19.95
-
- Contacting the Author
- ---------------------
- "Doctor Bob", also known as Bob Rankin, welcomes your feedback on this
- guide and can be reached at the following addresses. Send corrections,
- ideas, suggestions and comments by e-mail. I'll try to include any new
- e-mail services in future editions of this guide.
-
- Delphi: BobRankin@Delphi.com
- AmericaOnline: BobRankin@AOL.com
- US Mail: Doctor Bob / PO Box 39 / Tillson, NY / 12486
-
- Something Else From Doctor Bob!
- -------------------------------
- Announcing ...
-
- **************************************************
- "100 COOL THINGS TO DO ON THE INTERNET!"
- Doctor Bob's Internet Tour Guide
- **************************************************
-
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-
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- * Shopping in Cyberspace * Job Postings
- * Vast software libraries * ALL FREE!
-
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-
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-
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-
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-
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