WORLD-WIDE WEB (WWW) BY EMAIL
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The World-Wide Web is the premier Internet navigational tool - 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 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 Server Address     Location       Usenet Access?
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  agora@dna.affrc.go.jp    (Japan)        Y
  agora@kamakura.mss.co.jp   (Japan)        Y
  agora@www.eng.dmu.ac.uk   (DMU.UK users ONLY)
  agora@uit.no         (Norwegian users ONLY)
  agora@mx.nsu.nsk.su     (NSU.RU users ONLY)
In the body of your note include one of these lines, replacing "<URL>"
with the actual URL specification.
  send <URL>
  rsend <return-address> <URL> (to 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:
  help
  send http://www.w3.org
In a few minutes you should receive the Agora help file and the "W3C WWW
Welcome Consortium Page" which will include references to other Web
documents you'll want to explore. Please read the Agora help file, as
it contains answers to many commonly asked questions!
THERE ARE SOME OTHER webmail servers listed below, which run software
other than Agora. They work pretty much the same, but it's a good idea
to request the help file for the server you decide to use.
Note: The GetWeb servers below can handle web pages which contain fill-in
forms. Other webmail servers do not provide this ability.
  Address           Syntax   Comments
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  data@downloadslave.com    <URL> in body
  getweb@emailfetch.com    GET <URL> intermittent since Mar99
  getweb@usa.healthnet.org   GET <URL>
  page@grabpage.org      URL: <URL> in Subject
  text@pagegetter.com     <URL> in body returns text
  web@pagegetter.com      <URL> in body returns graphic page
  webgate@vancouver-webpages.com GET <URL> or DUMP <URL> in body
  webmail@www.ucc.ie      SEND <URL> or GET <URL> in body
  www@web2mail.com       URL of page (omit http://) in Subject
Note: The webmail servers are sometimes unavailable for days (or weeks)
at a time without explanation. If you get an error or no reply, please
try another address or retry in a day or so.
THE NEW WWW4MAIL servers (combine functions of agora, getweb, and new
browser e-mail integration):
  Address            Comments
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  www4mail@collaborium.org    send help in body of a message
  www4mail@ftp.uni-stuttgart.de send help in body of a message
  www4mail@kabissa.org      send help in body of a message
  www4mail@unganisha.idrc.ca   send help in body of a message
  www4mail@web.bellanet.org   send help in body of a message
  www4mail@wm.ictp.trieste.it  send help in body of a message
If you want an up-to-date listing, then look at:
http://www.expita.com/servers.html
              WWW SEARCH BY EMAIL
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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 and WebCrawler. Any of these lines can be
sent to an Agora server (see above) to perform a search. If you're not
interested in frogs, then by all means feel free to use your own
keywords.
For Lycos searches you must separate words with a "+" sign. All
searches are exact.
  http://www.lycos.com/srch/?lpv=1&loc=searchhp&query=frog+dissection
For WebCrawler searches you must separate words with a "+" sign. All
searches are exact.
  http://www.webcrawler.com/cgi-bin/WebQuery?searchText=frog+dissection
Another way to access search engines is to send a message to one of the
GETWEB servers (see list above) with a line like this in the message
body:
  SEARCH <engine> <keywords>
Replace "engine" with YAHOO, ALTAVISTA, or INFOSEEK, and use your own
search words. Here's an example:
  SEARCH YAHOO consumer protection