morgan@ooc.uva.nl (Chris Morgan/RIKS) (04/03/91)
Hi all, I think I read somewhere that you can mail to a mailserver requesting certain files and it will mail those files back to you ??? I saw the end of a discusion about LISTSERVE and RICE. Can anyone explain what this is and how to use it. I can FTP to sumex but the connection from Holland is often expensively slow since I first must dial on to a system in Amsterdam before I can reach the InterNet. I would be very greatful for any information on this subject, thank in advance Chris Morgan morgan@riks.nl
mfader@eeserv1.ic.sunysb.edu (Michael Fader) (04/09/91)
In article <19103@slice.ooc.uva.nl> morgan@ooc.uva.nl (Chris Morgan/RIKS) writes: >Hi all, I think I read somewhere that you can mail to a mailserver >requesting certain files and it will mail those files back to you ??? > >I saw the end of a discusion about LISTSERVE and RICE. Can anyone >explain what this is and how to use it. I can FTP to sumex but >the connection from Holland is often expensively slow since I >first must dial on to a system in Amsterdam before I can reach >the InterNet. > >I would be very greatful for any information on this subject, > >thank in advance > >Chris Morgan >morgan@riks.nl I used to access listserve at Rice via BITNET with the TELL command on an IBM VM/CMS system; I'm not sure if listserve will respond to email with commands in the message. Anyway, send the command (via email? or TELL listserve at rice) $MACARCH INDEX This will mail you a file of all the filenames in the archive. To retrieve a file, issue the command $MACARCH GET filename There's also a general help command, either HELP of $MACARCH HELP, which will mail you a file of all the commands. "Listserve at Rice" is a BITNET ad from within the US; I don't know if it requires any extensions from outside the country. You also might not be able to access Rice since there is a duplicate archive for European use, macserve at IRLEARN (and another one in the US, macserve at pucc). The commands for pucc or IRLEARN are identical: (email? or TELL macserve at IRLEARN) followed by GET INDEX ALL which mails you the master file of all filenames. To retrieve a file, use GET filename. By the way, after you already have the master file, you need only send the commands $MACARCH INDEX (for Rice), or INDEX (for pucc or IRLEARN), which will mail you just a list of files RECENTLY added to the archive. Enjoy!
rosen@cs.utexas.edu (Eric Carl Rosen) (04/09/91)
The previous post gave a good description on how to bootstrap yourself into accessing the INFOMAC [MACARCH] shadow archive at Rice. The full official address to send your e-mail to is: LISTSERV@ricevm1.rice.edu --Eric