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On Mon, 04 Aug 1997 08:27:36 GMT, Wim.Crabbe@aiv.ku*leuven.ac.be (Wim
Crabbe) wrote:

>Weet iemand waar er info te vinden is over het ophalen van
>www-pagina's via email ? Het is bedoeld voor iemand die enkel email
>heeft.

Vroeger heb ik eens een file "Accessing the Internet by E-Mail FAQ" te
pakken gekregen. Heeft er iemand hiervan nog een recente versie? (of
weet er iemand waar ik die kan vinden?)

Dit is voorlopig al hetgeen ik heb, misschien kan het helpen.


                       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
http://www.somewhere.com/blah.html" and wondered what in the world
they
were talking about?  Now 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@info.lanic.utexas.edu  (USA)
   agora@mx.nsu.nsk.su          (Russia)
   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
   web-mail@ebay.com        <URL>      Fee-based, limited free
searching

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.


                           WWW SEARCH BY E-MAIL
                           --------------------

There's a lot of great stuff out on the Web, but how do you find it?
Well, just like Archie and Veronica help you search FTP and gopher
sites,
there are several search engines that have been developed to search
for
information on the Web.  But until now, you had to have direct
Internet
access to use them.

After a bit of research, I have found that it is possible to use
several
WWW search mechanisms by e-mail.  Here are some sample queries that
you
can use to search via Lycos, WebCrawler and the CUI W3 Catalog.  Any
of
these lines can be sent to an Agora server (see above) to perform a
search.  If you're not interested in spam or frogs, then by all means
feel free to use your own search keywords.

For Lycos, append a dot to your keywords to force an exact match, or
you
will get a substring search by default.  Separate words with a "+"
sign.

   http://lycos11.lycos.cs.cmu.edu/cgi-bin/flpursuit?spam
   http://lycos11.lycos.cs.cmu.edu/cgi-bin/flpursuit?spam.
   http://lycos11.lycos.cs.cmu.edu/cgi-bin/flpursuit?frog.+dissection.

For WebCrawler searches you must separate words with a "+" sign.
All searches are exact, no trailing dot required.

   http://webcrawler.com/cgi-bin/WebQuery?spam
   http://webcrawler.com/cgi-bin/WebQuery?frog+dissection

For CUI W3 Catalog searches you must separate words with "%20" as
below.
All searches are exact, no trailing dot required.

   http://cuiwww.unige.ch/cgi-bin/w3catalog?spam
   http://cuiwww.unige.ch/cgi-bin/w3catalog?frog%20dissection


Bruno De Fraine
defraine@glo.be