Doing the Entire Internet by Email Only!

["Charles T. Turley" <cturley@wco.com>]

Below is a short but useful article I just added to all sections of my web site. I thought it 
would be rather useful for all those that only have email service and nothing else available to 
use.

Cheers,
Tom
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Doing the Entire Internet by Email Only!

By 

Peter A. Kasting 

So, you want to be able to; ftp or use; gopher, archie, usenet, agora, veronica, etc. But, all 
you have available is simply email service and nothing else. Following are the major addresses 
to write and they'll send you (by email) all the information you need to do it all yourself - 
with nothing more than your standard email service. This tells how to do (via email service 
only); ftp, gopher, archie, usenet, agora, veronica, etc. all by email - as well as doing web 
searches, downloading web pages, and playing games on an email game server.

To get some dox - telling you exactly how to do it all - use your email service and send these 
messages EXACTLY (all in
lowercase - required):

TO: mail-server@rtfm.mit.edu
SUBJ:
BODY: send usente/news.answers/internet-services/access-via-email

TO: infomart@acy.digex.net
SUBJ: send email4u
BODY:

TO: infomart@acy.digex.net
SUBJ: send getit4u
BODY:

Note that all of these are autoresponders, so they're unforgiving if you make an error. They 
should send you some documents, if you want more read the documents and they tell you how to 
get even more info. If you have trouble, email me and I'll send you whatever you need, I have 
successfully obtained copies of the documents. And yes, I have tried a couple of the things 
they list and they do seem to work. Can't vouch for the safety of everything in the dox, but 
the stuff I have tried seems to be OK.

Hope this information will help others that are stuck with email only service - to allow them 
to do virtually everything that somebody with a full ISP could do.

You can email the author, Peter A. Kasting - mailto:pkasting@juno.com