Get your own Free Home PageHelpful files (using email) : If you need information on how to access some of the Internet's most popular tools (including the world wide web) using nothing but e-mail, send email to LISTSERV@UA1VM.UA.EDU and type in the body of the message "GET NEWUSER PACKAGE F=MAIL" (no quotes needed). Helpful files (using ftp) : ftp://bitnic.educom.edu/ANONYMOU/EMAIL.GUIDE (48K) (192.52.179.2) ftp://hydra.uwo.ca/LIBSOFT/LISTSERV_GUIDE.TXT (95K) (129.100.2.13) | A Resource Guide to Listservers, BITNET, Internet, and Usenet ftp://hydra.uwo.ca/LIBSOFT/EMAIL_SERVICES.TXT (15K) (129.100.2.13) | Services Available via Standard E-Mail ftp://hydra.uwo.ca/LIBSOFT/email_address.txt (15K) (129.100.2.13) | List of techniques for finding somebody's e-mail address given | the name. Helpful sites (using web) : http://alpha.acast.nova.edu/cgi-bin/inmgq.pl (Internetwork mailing guide) http://www.lookup.com (Name to Email address mapping) o ANONYMOUS mail.You can send a message to everywhere in the world, anonymously, using the services of anon.penet.fi.You can even send messages to Usenet areas.. (only to those that are received at penet.fi though).. For more details,send a message to help@anon.penet.fi with the word "help" in the body of the message. The same text in German is available from german@anon.penet.fi (deutsch@anon.penet.fi) or in Italian from italian@anon.penet.fi (italiano@anon.penet.fi). o CIX : Send e-mail to everyone that owns an account in the commercial network service CIX, via internet e-mail. The address would be alias@cix.compulink.co.uk where alias is the CIX nickname of the account. o Compress programs : Email addresses for authors of various shareware [..] compressing programs. AIN : 100125.3526@compuserve.com (Transas Marine Ltd.) AR : 74050.1022@compuserve.com (Haruhiko Okumura) ARJ : robjung@world.std.com (Robert K Jung) ARJZ : Bulat.Ziganshin@f10.n5049.z2.fidonet.org ARX : mkosior@acad.bryant.edu (Michael A. Kosior) CODEC : telvox.teleinf@bologna.nettuno.it (Telvox Teleinform) CRUSH : 100031.3537@compuserve.com (J Rollason) GZIP : jloup@chorus.fr (Jean-loup Gailly) HA : harri.hirvola@vaisala.infonet.com (Harri Hirvola) HAP : feldmann@xs4all.nl (Harald Feldmann) HPACK : pgut@cs.aukuni.ac.nz (Peter Gutmann) HYPER : in307@dhafeu11.bitnet (P. Sawatzki) INFOZIP: info-zip@wkuvx1.bitnet (Info-ZIP) JRCHIVE: jrsys@io.org (JAYAR Systems) LHARC : coo236@sinet.ad.jp (Haruyasu Yoshizaki) LIMIT : jlim@cs.stanford.edu (J Y Lim) MDCD : 76676.1362@compuserve.com (Mike Davenport) PKZIP : support@pkware.com (Pkware Inc.) PUT : 73057.3113@compuserve.com (Jim Hass) QUANTUM: davids@cruzio.com (Cinematronics) SQWEZ : 74131.1704@compuserve.com (Jim Miller) SQZ : Jonas.Hammarberg@p24.f107.n200.z2.fidonet.org RAR : as@hq.icb.chel.su (Eugene Roshal) UC2 : desk@aip.nl (Ad Infinitum Programs) X1 : sv@id.dtu.dk (Stig Valentini) YAC : as@ashurna.msk.ru (Alexander Shurna) ZOO : dhesi@bsu-cu.bsu.edu (Rahul Dhesi) If any of the above addresses has changed, please email me. o Compuserve : Send e-mail to everyone that owns an account in compu- serve, via internet e-mail.Just replace the comma with a full stop and send it to first.second@compuserve.com.Where first,second is the actual compuserve account.For example if you want to send an e-mail to 100021,3321, you should write to 100021.3321@compuserve.com NOTE: Be careful when using this service.I don't know whether every account in Compuserve accepts email from internet (for technical or other, reasons). o FILES By E-MAIL : Obtaining files by e-mail (FTPMAIL) o EXAMPLE : ftpmail@decwrl.dec.com (FTP from specified host) See below for other servers. For details, send an e-mail to ftpmail@decwrl.dec.com (with help as the body of the message). To receive files, or listings of directories, you should send a message to ftpmail@decwrl.dec.com with ftp-by-mail commands in the body of the message. Commands you can use in the body of the message (one per line): reply set reply addr, since headers are usually wrong connect [HOST [USER [PASS [ACCT]]]] defaults to gatekeeper.dec.com, anonymous ascii files grabbed are printable ascii binary files grabbed are compressed or tar or both chdir PLACE "get" and "ls" commands are relative to PLACE (only one CHDIR per ftpmail session, and it executes before any LS/DIR/GETs) compress compress binaries using Lempel-Ziv encoding compact compress binaries using Huffman encoding uuencode binary files will be mailed in uuencode format btoa binary files will be mailed in btoa format chunksize SIZE split files into SIZE-byte chunks (def: 64000) ls (or dir) PLACE short (long) directory listing index THING search for THING in ftp server's index get FILE get a file and have it mailed to you (max 10 GET's per ftpmail session) quit terminate script, ignore rest of mail message e.g. to get pkz204g.exe from /pc/arcers at garbo.uwasa.fi, enter the following as the body of your e-mail message addressed to ftpmail@decwrl.dec.com ... connect garbo.uwasa.fi binary uuencode chdir /pc/arcers get pkz204g.exe quit And you should get an uuencoded copy of pkz204g.exe in the mail some hours later (the amount of time needed may vary). o ftpmail@ftp.sunet.se (FTP from local host, ONLY) Send a message to the address ftpmail@ftp.sunet.se with the word "help" in the body of the message for more information. You'll get directions on how you can get files from ftp.sunet.se o mail-server@cs.ruu.nl (FTP from local server only) Send a message to mail-server@cs.ruu.nl with the contents: send HELP to get information on the offered service. o mailserver@nic.funet.fi (FTP from nic.funet.fi only) Send message with the word "help" (no quotes) in the body of the message for information. o Other ftpmail servers (similar to the EXAMPLE server above) follow. Send message with the word "help" in the body. Finland (Garbo) ftpmail@garbo.uwasa.fi France ftpmail@grasp.insa-lyon.fr Australia ftpmail@cs.uow.edu.au Germany ftpmail@ftp.uni-stuttgart.de Great Britain ftpmail@doc.ic.ac.uk Ireland ftpmail@ieunet.ie Sweden ftpmail@luth.se USA ftpmail@sunsite.unc.edu USA ftpmail@ftp.uu.net o FILESERV : FILESERV is Sam Houston State University's automated file distribution service which uses electronic mail facilities to deliver files.Send message To: FILESERV@SHSU.edu HELP (in the body of the message) Get file FILESERV_HELP.TXT for help regarding FILESERV. o Finger by e-mail : You can use the unix command finger by sending a message to dlangley@netcom.com with a subject of "#finger user@site" (without the quotes).You can send a message to the same address with a subject line "#help" to get more details. See Also: INFOBOT finger service just below o INFOBOT: Many helpful services via e-mail.For an updated list of avai- lable services, send message to infobot@infomania.com .In the subject line, type HELP In the subject line you can type any of the following commands, along with any necessary parameters. Alternately, you may use the command@infomania.com, with any parameters by themselves on the subject line. An example: To: finger@infomania.com Subjct: buddy@sme.univ.edu Brief summary of commands: (to be put in the subject) [example of command is given in brackets] ACRONYM {var} Looks up {var} for matching acronyms [ACRONYM NASA] ALMANAC Looks up today in history (weather, trivia, etc) AREA {city or country name, or telephone code} Returns the international telephone code of a country or the country with the specified telephone code.. [AREA 916] or [AREA NETHERLANDS] DIG {parms} Runs the name service lookup program.Useful to those that know how to use the dig unix command.To get in- structions on it's syntax, use a parameter of "-h". FINDCD {search} Search throuch CD (music) catalog.. Send the HELP command for a full description of this command and what it actually does. FINGER {user} Fingers {user} and mails you the results.Send email to infobot@infomania.com with a subject of "man finger" for more details.[FINGER st@complex.is] JARGON {word} Check the Hacker's Jargon File for a word.If you don't specify a word, you'll get back an index of all searchable keywords.[JARGON pizza] MAN {search} Returns the manual pages for whatever program.[MAN ps] NSLOOKUP {parms} Runs the name server lookup program.For more info, send message to man@infomania.com and in the subject type "nslookup".You'll get the manual pages for the unix command nslookup. PDIAL {search} Get or scan latest PDIAL publc access list.If you don't specify area, you'll get the full listing. [PDIAL 212 SLIP] (this will return all SLIP providers in the 212 area code). PING {site} Tells our site to ping another site (in other words checks whether the site is connected to the internet and is "alive").[PING nic.funet.fi] WHOIS Look up domain registration with the internet.For more, send email to infobot@infomania.com with a subject of "man whois".See Also WHOIS section near the end of this list. HELP Shows help file Many more commands are available.Send the HELP command in the subject of the message to get full listing and instructions. o NETWORKS: Access various network accounts via e-mail.Replace username, screename, user etc. with the relevant account name, number etc. America Online: screenname@aol.com Applelink : username@applelink.apple.com AT&T Mail : username@attmail.att.com Bitnet : Bitnet address in the form of user@site.bitnet becomes user%site.bitnet@cunyvm.cuny.edu (or, alternatively) user%site.bitnet@mitvma.mit.edu BIX : user@dcibix.das.net Delphi : username@delphi.com eWorld : username@eworld.com Genie : username@genie.geis.com MCI Mail : 123-4567@mcimail.com username@mcimail.com Prodigy : userID@prodigy.com Microsoft Net : username@msn.com See Also: CIX, Compuserve, FidoNET above o Oracle : Send questions to oracle@cs.indiana.edu and you'll get some strange but helpful answers ! (-: The subject of the message must be "tell me" (no quotes).For details send an empty message with a sub- ject of "help" (no quotes) to the same address. You have to answer a question yourself, too !! Check out this newsgroup: rec.humor.oracle o TOP 100 GAMES : You can get the internet top 100 games list from apelo@dutiba.twi.tudelft.nl See also : LISTS, USENET
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