Date: Mon, 04 May 1998 19:33:58 -0400
Organization: Bellanet
Subject: Re: Web Pages by Email
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Information about Web access via Email
    (last updated August 5, 1997)

URL:  http://www.bellanet.org/email.html
Email:  info@bellanet.org

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As information is increasingly posted on the World Wide Web, there is still 
a sizable community of Internet users with access only to email. Webmail 
servers are used to retrieve WWW pages via email.  By sending email to the 
servers below, you can retrieve documents from the specified web site. Many 
of these servers also allow access to other types of Internet tools such as 
gopher, archie, ftp and others.

The following is a list of current (June 1997) webmail servers, and links to 
documents on how to use these servers to access information (these webmail 
servers are sometimes unavailable for days or even weeks at a time without 
explanation. If you get an error or no reply, please retry in a day or so):

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WEBMAIL SERVERS (one can use any of these)

Send email to:                    In the body of your message type
                                    ONLY the following:

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getweb@unganisha.idrc.ca            GET http://... (then the URL)

getweb@info.lanic.utexas.edu        GET http://... (then the URL)

getweb@usa.healthnet.org            GET http://... (then the URL)

agora@dna.affrc.go.jp               send http://... (then the URL)

agora@www.eng.dmu.ac.uk             send http://... (then the URL)

agora@kamakura.mss.co.jp            send http://... (then the URL)

agora@mx.nsu.nsk.su                 send http://... (then the URL)

w3mail@gmd.de                       Get http://... (then the URL)

webmail@www.ucc.ie                  GO http://... (then the URL)
                                              or
                                    GET http://... (then the URL)

web-mail@ebay.com                   http://... (then the URL)

Note ** 15 requests a month maximum for shareware users.


Special notes:

1.  The GetWeb servers above can handle web pages which contain fill-in 
forms.  Other webmail servers do not provide this ability.

2.  The email servers listed here are for the most part operated by 
kind-hearted volunteers at companies or universities. If you abuse (or 
over-use) the servers,  there's a very good chance they will be shut 
down permanently. This actually happened to several of the email servers 
recently, so treat them with respect.

If you have direct Web access, let others who are less fortunate use the 
email servers. Try to limit your data transfers to one megabyte per day. 
Don't swamp the servers with many requests at a time.

Thank you.

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LINKS TO WEBMAIL INFORMATION

For a copy of Dr. Bob's guide to webmail servers:

-- If you live in the U.S., Canada or South America, send email to:

    mail-server@rtfm.mit.edu

Enter only the following in the BODY of your message:

    send usenet/news.answers/internet-services/access-via-email

-- In all other areas (Europe, Asia, etc.), for a copy of Dr. Bob's guide 
to webmail servers, send email to:

    mailbase@mailbase.ac.uk

Enter only the following in the BODY of your message:

    send lis-iis e-access-inet.txt

-- For a copy of the W3Mail server help guide, send email to:

    w3mail@gmd.de

Enter only the following in the BODY of your message:

    help


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Read information about the Agora webmail server (access this text via 
email by sending a message to agora@lanic.utexas.edu with only WWW in 
the body).