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- Where and how to get FYIs
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- The Internet For Your Information memos are documented in a small
- subset of the RFCs. Once you know the RFC number of the document
- describing an FYI you may obtain that document by getting the RFC
- (see ways_to_get_rfcs).
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- For convenience these documents are also grouped and listed by their
- FYI numbers.
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- The FYIs may be obtained via EMAIL or FTP from FYI Repositories.
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- 1. FTP.ISI.EDU
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- FYIs are available via anonymous FTP from FTP.ISI.EDU, with the
- pathname: in-notes/fyi/fyiNN.txt (where "NN" is the number of the FYI.
- For example fyi4.txt is the current " FYI on Questions and Answers:
- Answers to Commonly asked "New Internet User" Questions". Login with
- FTP username "anonymous" and password "ftp".
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- FYIs can also be obtained via electronic mail from FTP.ISI.EDU by
- using the RFC-INFO service. Address the request to "rfc-info@isi.edu"
- with a message body of:
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- Retrieve: FYI
- Doc-ID: FYInnnn
-
- (Where "nnnn" refers to the number of the FYI (always use 4 digits, so
- FYI 4 is FYI0004 in the RFC-INFO service). The RFC-INFO@ISI.EDU
- server provides other ways of selecting FYIs based on date ranges and
- such; for more information send a message to "rfc-info@isi.edu" with
- the message body "help: help".
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- Note that FYIs may be very large (greater than 100,000 characters), the
- RFC-INFO service will return large documents in sections of less than
- 50,000 characters each.
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- contact: RFC-Manager@ISI.EDU
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- Changes to this file "fyi-retrieval.txt" should be sent to
- RFC-Manager@ISI.EDU.
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