Volcanoes
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| What is this "Big list" – a list of mail-lists one can FTP-download from
| somewhere? Have you an address for that? FTP is something CIS users cannot
| yet do, but I would like to grab it at work and upload the geo-related parts
| here.
Ha! This is yer lucky day. Stand by for a bodacious upload containing:
1) The blurb for ask-a-geologist
2) The sign on message you get when you subscribe to VOLCANO
3) A text on how to get the lessons from the RAODMAP course so you will learn
how to use e-mail for ftp and like that.
4) A ROADMAP extra lesson listing lots of neat stuff you can get on the net
including the "Big List"
Read this stuff and the force will be strong in you.
Hi, Martin–
Thanks a lot, what you CISmailed was much more than I expected!
Since "volcano" and "ask a geologist" may be of interest to many who visit this
section, I am posting them as separate topics, and integrating them into
INTERN.TXT, the list of geo mail-lists and instructions on using them from CIS
which I am uploading (I am separating off the usenet newsgroup info into
SCIGEO.TXT, a new upload).
I am also sending away for the lists of lists you referred me to and will
integrate anything I find in them when I get organized.
I figure I was technically correct when I said FTP cannot be done from CIS, but
should have hedged in that when there is an FTP mail server on the target
system, CIS users can do an FTP-equivalent by mail – but many systems may not
have this and it may be too cumbersome and technical for many CIS users where a
binary file is involved. CIM does not automatically UUDECODE like some mail
software does (or has CIM changed about that lately?).
–Doug
Hmmmm,
Doug I wouldn't attempt to do extensive internet E-mail work via CIS. Internet
access has exploded around San Diego. I pay $25 a year dues to the San Diego
Computer Society and that gives me unlimited E-mail access tot eh net.
There are several ftpmail servers around on the net. I just make up an E-mail
message with the proper ftp commands and post it in the Internet sectionof the
BBS. The next day the job output is there. There is also ARCHIE available as
well, but I haven't used it. Might be interesting to send out a query on Rabaul
or Pinatubo and see what shows.
Hi, Martin–
I use a second CIS account on the alternate pricing plan to subscribe to
mail-lists, since mail above a certain volume becomes cheaper on that plan as I
describe in INTERN.TXT in the forum library. I have been spending maybe
$10/month that way. $25/year sounds enticing by comparison, though I do not
look forward to learning/organizing another way of doing things. I will have
to study such alternatives when I move back to greater Los Angeles, perhaps in
a few months.
In the other branch of this thread, you mention ftp mail servers perhaps as if
such a server can get something from a different machine via ftp and mail that
to the requestor; I had assumed there had to be an ftp mail server on the
_same_ system, and that a large fraction of systems with files available by
anonymous ftp did not have an ftp mail server.
–Doug
| In the other branch of this thread, you mention ftp mail servers perhaps as if
| such a server can get something from a different machine via ftp and mail that
| to the requestor; I had assumed there had to be an ftp mail server on the
| _same_ system, and that a large fraction of systems with files available by
| anonymous ftp did not have an ftp mail server.
Naw, it doesn't work like that. Here is some information I'm pulling from
a book called "The Internet by E-mail" by Clay Shirkey…
Suppose I want some files called "Part1" & "part2" in a directory called
"zines" at "rtfm.mit.edu" I send this..
TO: ftpmail@pucc.pprinceton.edu
SUBJECT: [Leave blank]
OPEN RTFM.MIT.EDU
CD PUB/USENET/NEWS.ANSWERS/WRITING/ZINES
GET PART1
GET PART2
QUIT
If I have the info all correct, part1 and part2 come to me at sdcs.org. If
you wanna find the files you send to an archie server like this…
TO:archie@archie.rutgers.edu
SUBJECT:[LEAVE BLANK]
SET SEARCH SUB
FIND ZINES
QUIT
Got it?
I'm running 50-100 K of mailing list stuff per day. CI$ would have me in the
poor house for that!
Hi, Martin–
Thanks for the info. This fits my original notion; the key question is how
many interesting sites support this kind of access by mail.
–Doug