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FIDONET IN EUROPE
by Dave Meikle
(2:258/69.2 , 2:258/69.69 & rebeljambo@unforgettable.com)

Nothing much happening apart from five more people joining Astrowars.

Check out Fidonet on the internet featured last week on http://www.track-one.co.uk. If you only have internet email access view it by using www by email here are the instructions :

WORLD-WIDE WEB BY E-MAIL

You can retrieve WWW documents by e-mail using an Agora WWW-mail server.

All you need to know is the Uniform Resource Locator (or 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 one of:

agora@dna.affrc.go.jp (Japan)
agora@kamakura.mss.co.jp (Japan)
agora@info.lanic.utexas.edu (USA)
agora@mx.nsu.nsk.su (Russia ONLY)
agora@www.undp.org (restricted to "developing" countries)
agora@mail.w3.org (out of service)

In the body of your note include one of these lines, replacing "<URL>" with the actual URL specification.

send <URL>
rsend <return-address> <URL> (override your return address)

This will send you back the document you requested, with a list of all the documents referenced within, so that you may make further requests.

To try WWW by e-mail send the following commands to an Agora server :

www
send http://www.w3.org

You'll receive in due course the Agora help file and the "WWW Welcome Page" which will include references to other Web documents you'll want to explore.

THERE ARE SOME OTHER WWW mail servers...

Address             Syntax    Comments
------------------  --------- -------------------------------
webmail@www.ucc.ie  GO <URL>  Same as webmail@curia.ucc.ie
w3mail@.gmd.de      GET <URL> Send HELP command for more info

Note: The WWW-mail servers are sometimes unavailable for days (or weeks) at a time without explanation. If you get an error or no reply, please retry in a day or so.

That's all folks!

Dave

P.S. Any submissions send them to rebeljambo@unforgettable.com or europe@2:258/69.2