Re: Looking at were we are...

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Al Gilman (asgilman@iamdigex.net)
Tue, 25 May 1999 09:22:50 -0400


At 08:28 PM 5/24/99 +0100, Paul Hilling wrote:
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>Does rtfm have a FAQ request mail-bot? That would be a useful addition, as
>at the moment, I send FAQ's by hand to those that request it via e-mail.

Quoting from the access-by-email FAQ:

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: mail-server@rtfm.mit.edu (for US, Canada & South America)
Enter only this line in the BODY of the note:
send usenet/news.answers/internet-services/access-via-email

Make the body HELP or empty and you get instructions.

I got that by ftp from RTFM.

You could get it by HTTP from faqs.org.

But you shouldn't have to look in a FAQ for that one. The archive should
tell you every time you touch it, or at least when you enter it at the top.

This points out a gap in the self-documentation of the archives. The file
which generates the text that follows at the head of the ftp directory for
<ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/faqs/> should give a little more overview of the
archive and mention the mail-server service.

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Al



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