WWW doc retrieval with email

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Greetings Saints in Jesus name!

This is for you saints out there that have no access to the 
World-Wide-Web (WWW) because your email provider isn't an
Internet Service Provider (like Juno).

Ever wanted to be able to get one of those WWW documents that
you've probably seen many-a-time with an address that goes 
something like:   http://www.somethingelse.com ?

Well you now can.  Or, at least I've discovered a way so that
you saints that couldn't get those documents, can now retrieve
those documents (text only) by using the method outlined from
the service below.

   In summary, send email to:  agora@lanic.utexas.edu
  with no particular subject,
with command in message body:  send http://www.whatever.com (whatever
 the URL is).... 

Examples are provided below....

Good luck...

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
=========
    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
=================================================
    Everything appearing in  is mandatory; all arguments are case 
insensitive. Only the first 10 lines of requests will be processed.
    
    send <URL>
    www <URL>
    ----------
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>
    -------------------------
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>
    ------------
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>
    ---------------------------
Same as "source", but you can specify a different return-path

 Example:
 rsource  zorro@horsemen.holywood.com http://lanic.utexas.edu/
    
    help  
    ----
Send you this document.


Enjoy!

  ___________________________________
  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/