Is Juno a Good ISP?
Tyler Nally (tnally@csci.csc.com)
Thu, 26 Sep 1996 9:24:43 CDT
Bro. Bunch speaking of Juno:
> The only problem I know of : you do not have access to the WWW
> so you can surf.
As far as click, click, click, click, surf, surf, surf, going from
here to there to there... nope can't do it because Juno isn't an
ISP (internet service provider). They don't do usenet news, they
don't do gopher, they don't to telnet, they don't do ftp.
They are only an IMP (internet mail provider - my abbreviation).
However, you can retrieve documents on the WWW (world-wide-web)
through an email bot (short for "robot") that'll do the work for
you. You just send the bot a command, and it'll go out to the
www and retrieve the page that you want. When it's done, it'll
send the page back to you in the email.
I sent instructions on how this works a couple of days ago. It's
a pretty neat utility.
Bro. Tyler
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*** Agora: Retrieving WWW Documents through mail ***
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Welcome to Agora, the World-Wide Web email browser!
To retrieve a document, you just have to specify its "address",
called a "Uniform Resource Locator" (URL). For example, the URL of
this document is
http://lanic.utexas.edu/info/agora/help.txt .
This means that to get it, you just have to send a mail to
agora@lanic.utexas.edu, with whatever subject you like, the body of
the mail being:
SEND http://lanic.utexas.edu/info/agora/help.txt
If you are interested in Latin American studies and curious about World-
Wide Web services, you may take a look at the following documents:
http://lanic.utexas.edu/
UT Latin American Network Information Center[1]
http://www.w3.org/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html
The World-Wide Web Initiative[2]
http://www.boutell.com/faq/
World-Wide Web Frequently Asked Questions[3]
In WWW services, most documents are hypertext. In such a case
you will notice numbers in square brackets such as [12] next to
some special words.
This means you may access a new document, hopefully related to
the word(s) preceding the [12]. If you are interested to see this
new document, you will find at the bottom of the document containing
the [12] a list of URLs, next to numbers. Then, just copy the URL
next to [12], and paste it to the body of a mail you send to
agora@lanic.utexas.edu . If you are lazy, there is another way to
retrieve WWW documents through email: just reply to
agora@lanic.utexas.edu , and specify in the body the number(s) you are
interested in. This program will figure out which document you are
interested in by looking at the subject header that you then have to
preserve.
Example 1
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You'd like to know more about UT-LANIC (University of Texas -- Latin
American Network Information Center)? All right, the number between brackets
is 1. Let's look at the bottom of this page. 1 corresponds to
http://lanic.utexas.edu/
So you have to send a mail to agora@lanic.utexas.edu with the body:
SEND http://lanic.utexas.edu/
Example 2
=========
You are still curious about World-Wide Web? All right, the
appropriate documents are "World-Wide Web Initiative" and
"Frequently Asked Questions". They have the numbers 2 and 3 in
brackets next to them. So you reply to the mail from
agora@lanic.utexas.edu that you are currently reading, and write in
the body:
2 3
Note: If your mail tool truncates subject lines, it may be
useful for you to know that this robot needs only the part
(URL: ...) to determine what the numbers refer to.
Commands related to the retrieval of WWW documents
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Everything appearing in is mandatory; all arguments are case
insensitive. Only the first 10 lines of requests will be processed.
send <URL>
www <URL>
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this will send you back the document you requested, with all its
hrefs, so that you may ask further requests. (if the document is too
large, you will get only its first 5,000 lines). The url sent may
contain the following characters:
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJK
LMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ0123456789:/._-+@%*()?$#&
Example:
SEND http://lanic.utexas.edu/
WWW http://www.w3.org/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html
rsend <return-path<URL>
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Same as "send", but you can specify a different return-path
Example:
rsend zorro@horsemen.holywood.com http://lanic.utexas.edu/
deep <URL>
----------
Same as "send", but it will also send you the documents refered to in
the URL you mentioned. (If the documents are too large, you will get
only the first 5,000 lines of what "deep" should provide).
Be cautious when using "deep"! Agora might mail to you
several dozens of documents!
Example:
deep http://lanic.utexas.edu/
source <URL>
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Same as "send", but allows you to see the source of the document, so
that you may use a nicer HTML browser to read it
Example:
source http://lanic.utexas.edu/
rsource <return-path<URL>
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Same as "source", but you can specify a different return-path
Example:
rsource zorro@horsemen.holywood.com http://lanic.utexas.edu/
help
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Send you this document.
Enjoy!
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This document was originally provided by Arthur Secret at CERN, and
modified by UT-LANIC for its users. Please send bug report to
agora-admin@lanic.utexas.edu.
*** References from this document ***
[1] http://lanic.utexas.edu/
[2] http://www.w3.org/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html
[3] http://www.boutell.com/faq/
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> Henry
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