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From : Yaroslav Klyukin 2:5020/400 09 Aug 2002 02:34:33
To : Andriy Semen
Subject : web via e-mail
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FTP SEARCH BY EMAIL
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Archie servers could 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. This function has been taken over by a web-based
FTP search engine.
To use FTP Search by e-mail, simply send an e-mail message to one of the
webmail servers (see WWW section) with this line in the message
BODY:
send http://ftpsearch.lycos.com/cgi-bin/search?form=lycosnet\
&query=[file name or keyword]&filetype=All+files
Now you've learned enough to locate that UUDECODE utility mentioned in
the last section. Replace [file name or keyword] with uudecode.bas to
find Basic source code, so our e-mail request looks like this:
send http://ftpsearch.lycos.com/cgi-bin/search?form=lycosnet\
&query=uudecode.bas&filetype=All+files
Note: You'll be looking for the uudecode Basic source code, not the
executable version, which would of course be a binary file and would
arrive uuencoded - a Catch 22! The output of your ftp query will
contain lots of information like this:
2 /.2/simtelnet/msdos/00_start/uudecode.bas
5.4K - 1996 Feb 24 00:00
FTP Site: ftp.cdrom.com
3 /.3/msdos/00_start/uudecode.bas
5.4K - 1996 Feb 24 00:00
FTP Site: ftp.eunet.cz
4 /.4/cpm/starter-kit/uudecode.bas
1.9K - 1986 Oct 11 00:32
FTP Site: ftp.southcom.com.au
Now you can use an ftpmail server to request "uudecode.bas" (if you have
BASIC available) from the ftp.cdrom.com site or one of the others.
GOPHER BY EMAIL
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Gopher is a tool for exploring the Internet and is one way to find a
resource if you know what you want, but not where to find it. Gopher
systems are menu-based, and provide a user-friendly front end to
Internet resources, searches and information retrieval.
When visiting a Gopher site using a "live" Internet connection, one
would specify the name of the site, navigate through a series of
hierarchical menus to a desired resource, and then either read or
transfer the information back to their home system.
Using Gopher by e-mail is very similar, except that the desired site is
reached through a special "gophermail server" which gophers to the
remote site on your behalf and and returns the requested menu, submenu
or file to you in response to a set of commands in an e-mail message.
NOTE: In recent years, Gopher has fallen in popularity and most of the
gophermail servers have closed down. But still there is quite a
bit of information available on gopher servers, and a few working
gophermail servers.
Although not every item on every menu will be accessible by
"gophermail", 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@dna.affrc.go.jp Japan
gopher@ncc.go.jp Japan
You can optionally specify the address of a known gopher site on the
Subject line to get the main menu for that site instead.
gopher.tc.umn.edu (home of gopher)
Let's be bold and skip the HELP stuff for now. Send off a note to one
of the gophermail servers and specify
Subject: gopher.tc.umn.edu
You'll get a message back from the server that looks something like the
text in the figure below.
+--------------------------------------------------------------------+
This is response to your request with Subject: gopher.tc.umn.edu
Mail this file back to gopher with an X before the menu items that
you want. If you don't mark any items, gopher will send all of them.
1. Information About Gopher/
2. Computer Information/
3. Discussion Groups/
4. Fun & Games/
5. Internet file server (ftp) sites/
6. Libraries/
7. News/
8. Other Gopher and Information Servers/
9. Phone Books/
10. Search Gopherspace with Veronica-2 /
11. Search lots of places at the University of Minnesota <?> (Send
keywords in Subject:)
12. University of Minnesota Campus Information/
You may edit the following two numbers to set the maximum sizes after
which GopherMail should send output as multiple e-mail messages:
Split=64K bytes/message <- For text, bin, HQX messages (0 = No split)
Menu=100 items/message <- For menus and query responses (0 = No split)
#
Name=Information About Gopher
Numb=1
Type=1
Port=70
Path=1/Information About Gopher
Host=gopher.tc.umn.edu
#
# ... (62 lines deleted) ...
#
Name=Search Gopherspace with Veronica-2
Numb=10
Type=1
Port=70
Path=/v2
Host=gopher.ptloma.edu
#
Name=Search lots of places at the University of Minnesota
Numb=11
Type=7
Port=70
Path=mindex:/lotsoplaces
Host=spinaltap.micro.umn.edu
#
Name=University of Minnesota Campus Information
Numb=12
Type=1
Port=70
Path=1/uofm
Host=gopher.tc.umn.edu
+--------------------------------------------------------------------+
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.
In the example above, let's select
x 8. Other Gophers & Info Resources
and mail the whole thing right back to the gophermail server. You should
then get a menu with a number of interesting selections including "All
the Gopher Servers in the World". You'll find that many of the gopher
servers have closed down but still there are quite a few remaining.
If a menu item is labelled "Search" you used to be able to select that
item with an "x" and supply your search words in the Subject: of your
reply. However, the Veronica searches are all DEFUNCT. The few
remaining Jughead searches are listed in the next section.
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.
Just remember that if you use this approach, you must specify "get all"
on the Subject line. (Exception: for searching, specify only the search
terms on the Subject line.) The example below is equivalent to
selecting "option 8" as we did earlier.
Split=0
Menu=0
#
Name=Other Gopher and Information Servers
Numb=8
Type=1
Port=70
Path=1/Other Gopher and Information Servers
Host=gopher.tc.umn.edu
If this looks like nonsense to you, here's a human translation:
Connect to PORT 70 of the HOST (computer) at "gopher.tc.umn.edu",
retrieve the sub-menu "Other Gophers", and send it to me in
ONE PIECE, regardless of its size.
Note: Sometimes gophermail requests return a blank menu or message.
This is most likely because the server failed to connect to the host
from which you were trying to get your information. Send your request
again later and it'll probably work.
Всех благ! Мой настоящий имел: bulldozer@skintwin.no-ip.com ICQ# 1045670
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