A FEW NET-GOODIES
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Here are some other interesting things you can do by e-mail. (Some of
them are accessible only by e-mail!)
* 100 THINGS TO DO BY EMAIL
Get instant answers amd information on almost 100 topics by e-mail.
Dictonary, encyclopedia, airfares, almanac, airports, currency
conversion, distance between two points, etc. etc. Send a blank e-mail
message to: topics@halibot.com Also try msnbcnow@msnbc.com
* ANONYMOUS EMAIL
An "anon server" provides a front for sending mail messages and posting
to Usenet newsgroups anonymously, should the need ever arise. To get
instructions send e-mail to remailer@gacracker.org with a Subject:
remailer-help
* ASK DR. MATH
Have a math question? Dr. Math answers questions from K-12 students and
their teachers about Mathematics. Write to dr.math@forum.swarthmore.edu
* ASK-A-GEOLOGIST
Send your earth-shattering questions to
ask-a-geologist@octopus.wr.usgs.gov and a US Geological Service
scientist will try to help.
* ASK-A-TECH
Send your computer hardware or software support questions to
helpdesk@ask-a-tech.org and this non-profit organization will try to
answer your question.
* BIBLE SEARCH
Search the King James version of the Bible. Examples below can be sent
to an Agora server. Use "+" to specify multiple words; prefix proper
names with "%23"; add "&PHRASE=ON" to find a phrase.
  send http://estragon.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/KJV?title=&word=angel+%23Mary
  send http://estragon.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/KJV?title=&word=fig+tree&PHRASE=ON
* CANCER DATABASE
To access the National Cancer Institute's database, send e-mail to
cancernet@icicb.nci.nih.gov with "help" or "spanish" in the message
body.
* CHECK YOUR EMAIL CONNECTION
The following are all autoresponder addresses that you can use to test
if your e-mail is working. You send a blank message to the address shown
and in a few minutes an autoresponse is received.
  echo@seattlelab.com        test-courrier@sogi.com (in French)
  echo@telcomplus.net        test@alphanet.ch
  echo@tu-berlin.de         test@mega.bw
  internet@gurus.com        test@netsydney.com
  ping@stamper.itconsult.co.uk   echo@tu-chemnitz.de
* COUNTRY CODES
The International E-mail accessibility FAQ is retrievable by e-mail.
Send e-mail to mail-server@rtfm.mit.edu and enter only this line in the
BODY of the note:
  send usenet/news.answers/mail/country-codes
  Web site: http://www.nsrc.org/oclb
Stumped by those 2-letter country codes in Internet addresses? Send
e-mail to address-codes@GetResponse.com for an explanation.
* CURRENCY CONVERSION
You can get foreign exchange rates for the U.S. dollar and other
currencies by sending this URL to an Agora or www4mail server:
  send http://cnnfn.com/markets/currencies.html
* EMAIL TO SNAIL-MAIL
Need to get a message to someone in Britain who doesn't have e-mail?
Send it to PaperMail! For full details on this fee-based service, send
e-mail to info@papermail.win-uk.net
* EMOTIONAL SUPPORT
There's a suicide helpline accessible by e-mail. Send your message to
jo@samaritans.org -- No syntax, they have humans! Also any mail to
care@netservs.com returns a listing of hundreds of emotional support
resources on the Internet.
* FINANCIAL AID FAQ
A comprehensive guide to higher education financial aid. Send blank
e-mail to send-faq@finaid.org OR query@finaid.org
* FINDING EMAIL ADDRESSES
For a guide to finding someone's e-mail addresses. Send e-mail to
mail-server@rtfm.mit.edu and enter only this line in the BODY of the
note:
  send usenet/news.answers/finding-addresses
* FREE HOME PAGE BY EMAIL (For German residents only)
InetWire offers free non-commercial homepages with up to 500KB of
space. Make a zip file with index.htm being the home page, put a URL
something like "http://inetw.com/home/myname" in the Subject line and
then send your zip file as an ATTACHMENT to attach@inetw.com. (If your
e-mail program doesn't support file attachments, you're out of luck.)
* FTP UPLOAD VIA EMAIL
The first free publicly accessible FTP service that allows uploading via
e-mail has instructions available at: http://mail2ftp.hypermart.net/
You can also send the word "HELP" in the body of a message to
mail2ftp@rootshell.be or mail2ftp@treelife.org.ua
* FTPMAIL/WEBMAIL SERVER STATUS
Is your favorite FTPmail/Agora/GetWeb site overloaded or down? Find out
by sending the "get file stats.txt" command to mailserv@netservs.com
* INTERNET MOVIE DATABASE
Get tons of info on movies, actors, and directors. Send e-mail to
movie@imdb.com with HELP in the subject line.
* INTERNET TIMELINE
To learn the history of the Internet from 1950 to 1998, send blank e-mail
to timeline@hobbes.mitre.org
* THE INTERNET TOURBUS
Take a virtual tour of the Internet - hop on The Internet TourBus!
You'll receive a short mailing twice a week highlighting fun and
interesting sites on the Internet. It's absolutely free, and you can
join 80,000 others by sending SUBSCRIBE TOURBUS Firstname Lastname in
the BODY of a message to "LISTSERV@LISTSERV.AOL.COM".
* ISPs BY AREA CODE
For a list of Internet Service Providers in your area code, send this
line to an Agora server: http://thelist.iworld.com/areacode/XXX/
(where XXX=your area code)
* LANGUAGE TRANSLATION BY EMAIL
Send an e-mail as usual to a foreign language colleague in your native
tongue. In the "Cc:" line, send a carbon copy of the message to the
Universal T-mail Translator. The way you format the address will
determine how the message is translated.
Cc: (Original language)-(Final translation)@t-mail.com
English (en or an), French (fr), German (ge or de), Italian (it),
Spanish (sp or es), Portuguese (pt or po)
So English to French translation would be en-fr@t-mail.com
* LEARN TO SPEAK GEEK
Get BABEL, a glossary of computer abbreviations and acronyms. Use a
web-to-mail server to retrieve this file.
http://www.geocities.com/ikind_babel/babel/babel.html   [214K]
* MEDICAL INFORMATION BY EMAIL
Send a blank e-mail message to hnet@usa.healthnet.org to receive a FAQ
which lists locations for medical information that can be accessed by
e-mail methods.
* MORE WORD FUN!
The wordserver at wsmith@wordsmith.org will serve up A.Word.A.Day,
Dictionary by Mail, Thesaurus by Mail, Acronym by Mail and Anagram by
Mail. Send blank e-mail for the help file.
Merriam-Webster dictionary offers the word of the day -- To subscribe,
send mail to LISTSERV@LISTSERV.WEBSTER.M-W.COM with the command
SUBSCRIBE MW-WOD [your name].
* MORTGAGE/LOAN CALCULATOR
To calculate your monthly loan payment, send this line to an Agora
server:
http://www.interest.com/hugh/calc/simple.cgi?amt=100000&int=8.00&yrs=30
(Change the values for principle, interest and term as appropriate.)
* NUMBER SEQUENCES
To find out how a number sequence continues (such as 2 3 5 7 11 ..., the
prime numbers), send e-mail to sequences@research.att.com with the
following in the message body: lookup 2 3 5 7 11. For help on
this service, send e-mail with a body of "help" to the same address.
* PDF CONVERSIONS BY EMAIL
You can convert PDF documents to text or HTML via e-mail. For internet
files put the URL in the body of an e-mail message to
pdf2txt@adobe.com (for plain text) or to pdf2html@adobe.com (for HTML).
If the file is on your PC then include as a MIME attachment and send
to the same addresses depending uopn whter you want text or HTML.
* PLAY GAMES BY EMAIL
You can play games via the PBeM Server, for info, send e-mail to
pbmserv@gamerz.net with Subject: help tutorial
* RFCS BY EMAIL
Details on obtaining RFCs via FTP or EMAIL may be obtained by sending
an EMAIL message To: rfc-info@ISI.EDU with help: ways_to_get_rfcs in
the message body.
* SCOUT REPORT
...is a weekly featuring announcements of new and interesting resources
on the Internet. To subscribe, send e-mail to listserv@cs.wisc.edu with
"Subscribe scout-report Your Name" in the body.
* SENDING A FAX BY EMAIL
The TPC.INT "Remote Printing Experiment" is the grandfather of Internet
faxing services. Send e-mail to tpcfaq@info.tpc.int with no subject and
"help" in the body. For a list of country phone numbers served by this
service, send e-mail to tpccover@info.tpc.int with no subject and nothing
in the body.
You can also get the FAX FAQ via electronic mail. Send e-mail to
mail-server@rtfm.mit.edu and enter only this line in the BODY of the
note:
  send usenet/news.answers/internet-services/fax-faq
* SENDING MAIL TO VARIOUS NETWORKS
For a guide to communicating with people on the various networks that
make up the Internet, send e-mail to mail-server@rtfm.mit.edu and enter
only this line in the BODY of the note:
  send usenet/news.answers/mail/inter-network-guide
* STATLIB
A system for distributing statistical software, datasets, and
information by electronic mail, FTP, and WWW. To get the index, send
e-mail to statlib@lib.stat.cmu.edu with the one line message "send
index".
* STOCK MARKET QUOTE
To get a stock market quote, send this line to an Agora server:
http://finance.yahoo.com/q?d=t&s=xxxx where xxxx is the stock market
symbol.
* TRACK UPS PACKAGES
You can track your UPS packages now thru e-mail. Send an e-mail to
totaltrack@ups.com and in the subject or the body place the complete
tracking number.
* THE USENET ORACLE
A cooperative, anonymous and humorous exchange of questions and
answers. Send e-mail to oracle@cs.indiana.edu for more information.
* U.S. CONGRESS AND THE WHITE HOUSE
You can contact the President (president@whitehouse.gov) or Vice
President (vice_president@whitehouse.gov).
* OTHER SOURCES OF US GOV'T INFO:
Send e-mail to mail-server@rtfm.mit.edu and enter only these lines in
the BODY of the note:
  send usenet/news.answers/us-govt-net-pointers/part1
  send usenet/news.answers/us-govt-net-pointers/part2
* VIRTUAL PIZZA!
Order an electronic pizza by e-mail. Send e-mail to
"pizza@ecst.csuchico.edu" with a subject of "pizza help" for details.
* VIRUS PROTECTION SOFTWARE
F-Prot, one of the top PC virus scanners can be requested by e-mail. To
get the current version (uuencoded) send e-mail to
f-prot-update@complex.is with this message body:
  send-as: uue
* WEB PAGES BY EMAIL
Use web2mail to have your favorite web pages delivered by e-mail whenever
they change.
The basic subscription form is at this web page:
  http://www.web2mail.com/signup.php
* WEBSTER DICTIONARY LOOKUP
To retrieve the definition of a word, send either of these lines to an
Agora type server:
  send http://www.britannica.com/dictionary?book=Dictionary&va=whatever
  send www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?book=Dictionary&va=whatever
* FOR FURTHER READING
For more details on using web search engines by e-mail use a web-to-mail
server to get this file
  send ftp://ftp.expita.com/wsintro.faq
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This file should be somewhere between 1300 and 1500 lines of text, and
about 58KB in size. If the file you have is much smaller, or says
something like "part 2 of 2" near the top, you're missing something.
Most likely, that's because your mail system has file size quotas that
prevented part 1 from reaching you. Here's the solution:
To get the file in multiple chunks, send to mail-server@rtfm.mit.edu and
enter only these lines in the BODY of the note:
size 25000
send usenet/news.answers/internet-services/access-via-email
The mail server will break up the file into chunks of 25000 bytes and
send them in separate messages. You can change "25000" to another
number if it suits your needs.
          CONTACTING THE AUTHOR
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I welcome your feedback on this guide and can be reached at the
following addresses. Send corrections, ideas, suggestions and comments
by e-mail. I'll try to include any new services in future editions of
this guide.
E-mail : gboyd@expita.com
Web   : http://www.expita.com/
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