> I'd like to be able to point readers without WWW access to a WWW-by-email
> gateway. I can't lay my hand on one at the moment. Tom Boutell's FAQ just
> brushes off the notion. I thought I'd ask here since I've seen such gateways
> cited in other FAQ headers. Can anyone point me to one which they know
> exists and works now?
This is what I include in the alt.sex.movies FAQ:
17 I don't have Web Access, what can I do to access some of the Web based
services on the net?
You're in luck! Almost every feature available to Internet users is
also available to a user who only has e-mail access. The Web is no
different.
Pick up a copy of the following document:
"INTERNET BY-EMAIL"
Summary: This guide will show you how to retrieve files from FTP sites,
explore the Internet via Gopher, search for information with Archie,
Veronica, or WAIS, tap into the World-Wide Web, and even access Usenet
newsgroups using E-MAIL AS YOUR ONLY TOOL.
Finding the Latest Version
--------------------------
This document is now available from several automated mail servers. To
get the latest edition, send e-mail to one of the addresses below.
To: listserv@ubvm.cc.buffalo.edu (for US/Canada/etc.)
Leave Subject blank, and enter only this line in the body of the note:
GET INTERNET BY-EMAIL NETTRAIN F=MAIL
To: mail-server@rtfm.mit.edu (for Eastern US)
Leave Subject blank, and enter only this line in the body of the note:
send usenet/news.answers/internet-services/access-via-email
To: mailbase@mailbase.ac.uk (for UK/Europe/etc.)
Leave Subject blank, and enter only this line in the body of the note:
send lis-iis e-access-inet.txt
You can also get the file by anonymous FTP at one of these sites:
Site: ubvm.cc.buffalo.edu
get NETTRAIN/INTERNET.BY-EMAIL
Site: rtfm.mit.edu
get pub/usenet/news.answers/internet-services/access-via-email
Site: mailbase.ac.uk
get pub/lists/lis-iis/files/e-access-inet.txt
The Word Wide Web organization has set up a mail server to send you WWW
documents through the mail!
To get a full document on how to do this, send an e-mail message to
listserv@mail.w3.org, with whatever subject you like, and the body of
the mail being:
SEND http://www.w3.org/hypertext/WWW/Agora/Help.txt
To retrieve a document, you only have to have to specify its "address",
called a "Uniform Resource Locator" (URL). So, to get the Better Bosom
Bureau list, send an e-mail message to listserv@mail.w3.org with
whatever subject and the body of the message:
SEND http://www.io.com/~rwilhelm/bbb.html
It's that easy!
+---------------------------------------------------------------+
| Jeff http://w3.gti.net/director |
| "The Director" director@gti.net |
+---------------------------------------------------------------+
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Parking offense, schmarking offense! We must leave no stone
unturned!
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