rich@eddie.MIT.EDU (Richard Caloggero) (03/16/88)
Ok, here it is. The responses I got were not overwhelmimg, but
they were informative. Thanks to all of you who answered my query.
What follows are the unedited responses I've received. Hope this
helps others!
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From xanth!tadguy Thu Feb 25 18:43:33 1988
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Organization: Old Dominion University, Norfolk Va.
Status: RO
Here are five that I know of and have used. I think that once you stop
getting replies, you should post a followup to your article with your
findings. They should prove to be useful to many novice users...
Below I have listed the instructions that should allow you to get the
introduction/help document from each of these services...
...tad
Tad Guy (804)-440-4529 UUCP: tadguy@xanth.UUCP
Department of Computer Science or: ...!uunet!xanth!tadguy
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CSNET CIC Info Server (many things -- comp.sources.unix archives, CSNET info,
RFCs, etc.)
address: info@sh.cs.net
body: request: info
topic: help
request: end
BITNET NIC Server (BITNET information and RFCs)
address: nicserve@bitnic.bitnet
body: help
DECWRL Archive Server (alt.gourmand and PostScript stuff)
address: archive-server@decwrl.dec.com
body: help
SIMTEL20 File Server (public domain stuff -- may not exist anymore)
address: archive-request@simtel20.arpa
body: send help
SRI-NIC File Server (official source for RFCs and Internet documents)
address: service@sri-nic.arpa
body: help
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From mit-eddie!bbn!uwmcsd1!leah!itsgw!steinmetz!uunet!hi-csc!slocum Mon Feb 29 11:12:26 EST 1988
Status: RO
I'm aware of two other mail servers: ...decwrl!archive-server which has
a list a recipes and software (including the archive server), and
archive-server@plaid.sun.com which has the back issues of Other Realms,
an electronic (and paper) magazine of SF & fantasy fiction reviews
(excellent quality, including reviews by Chuq von Roshpach, ed.,
Charles deLint, and others).
P.S. I don't know where this should be netwise, either.
--
--Brett Slocum "Never bet with a Sicilian where Death is involved."
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Arpa: hi-csc!slocum@umn-cs.arpa
From mcvax!ethz!wyle@uunet.UU.NET Tue Mar 1 17:47:00 1988
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From: mcvax!solaris!wyle@uunet.UU.NET (Mitchell Wyle)
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Yes. There are a few.
csnet has one for sources, rfc documents, etc. Send
a one-word "help" message to: info-server@sh.cs.net
bitnet has one with a great database and query language
made for e-mail browsing. It archives some moderated
usenet groups and mailing lists, as well as drinks, etc.
Send the "help" messages to: database@bitnic.bitnet
Brian Ried of Dec runs one for recipes and sources.
Ask for "help" from: archive-server@decwrl.dec.com
William LeFebvre got a hold of Brian's software and
lets us non-ftp sites access archived sun-spots (news
about sun computers) source-code, and icons from:
archive-server@titan.rice.edu
There exists the netlib server which you know about,
and an arpa server for people (a net-wide telephone
book) and for rfc documents. Ask:
service%sri-nic.arpa@relay.cs.net
for "help."
My database server isn't up yet. It will contain
bibliographical data in unix _refer_ format, some
local source code (mostly Modula-2 being in the
house that Wirth built :-) and full-text papers.
I shall also announce a subscription service which
will let you keep track of specific concepts as they
flow by on usenet, and as they are archived in these e-mail
queryable databases. I have software (which has been running
for a few months) which periodically automatically queries
these databases for their indexes, diffs the result with
the last query, and mails me the results.
A student is building the SDI subscription service (Selective
Dissemination of Information) as a Masters' Diss. He just
started today, but my design is pretty complete.
Please, please keep me posted about other servers.
-Mitchell F. Wyle wyle@ethz.uucp
Institut fuer Informatik wyle%ifi.ethz.ch@relay.cs.net
ETH Zentrum
8092 Zuerich, Switzerland +41 1 256-5237
You are only young once, but you can stay immature indefinitely.
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The circle is open, but unbroken.
Merry meet, merry part,
and merry meet again.hirai@swatsun.uucp (Eiji "A.G." Hirai) (03/18/88)
In article <8493@eddie.MIT.EDU> rich@eddie.MIT.EDU (Richard Caloggero) writes: > > Ok, here it is. The responses I got were not overwhelmimg, but > they were informative. Thanks to all of you who answered my query. Here are some more that weren't on the list: Postscript stuff: ...!sun!adobe!ps-file-server message: "help" ; uses Brian Reid's file server program. Biological Sciences stuff: ...!rutgers!bioserve%umdc.umd.edu bioserve@umdc.bitnet bioserve@umdc.umd.edu subject line: "help" ; I tried only once - it didn't work. Latex stuff: ...!rutgers!latex-style%cs.rochester.edu latex-style@cs.rochester.edu subject line: "@file request" message: "@ yourname%yoursite.uucp@rutgers.edu 00readme 00index @" their mailer only understands internet style address. Computational Linguistic References - Keyword Lookup ...!rutgers!clbib%russell.stanford.edu clbib@russell.stanford.edu subject line: "help" if the subject line is not "help", then it looks for references with the subject line as the keyword. Fortran Subroutines and other stuff: ...!cbosgd!research!netlib message: "send index" ; research exists on other major ATT sites (I think) Please don't ask me if they don't work. I don't use them that often. Hope this is useful to some (like most of us who don't have ftp). -a.g. hirai -- Eiji "A.G." Hirai @ Swarthmore College, Swarthmore PA 19081 | 215-543-9855 UUCP: {rutgers, ihnp4, cbosgd}!bpa!swatsun!hirai | "All Cretans are liars." Bitnet: vu-vlsi!swatsun!hirai@psuvax1.bitnet | -Epimenides Internet: swatsun!hirai@bpa.bell-atl.com | of Cnossus, Crete