David DeSimone an207@cleveland.freenet.edu [This is version 0.0 (beta test) of my E-mail services list. Any and all comments appreciated.] SERVICES AVAILABLE VIA STANDARD E-MAIL This is an attempt at a reasonably complete, accurate, and useful list of services which are available by sending E-mail to a designated server somewhere on The Net. I have attempted to keep this list up-to-date as far as availability of services. If you find errors, omitions, or corrections which need to be made, please contact me at an207@cleveland.freenet.edu. Many thanks go out to the folks who supplied information to make this list possible, such as Andrew Purshottam. (Send me info and get your name put here!) And of course, thanks go to all the wonderful folks out there who make their services available via E-mail! USEFUL SERVICES =============== archie@cs.mcgill.ca Subject: (gives first command, rest in message body) Commands: path (Set return mail path) help (Get help) prog ... (Search for an FTP file. Regular expression Put QUOTES around the expression if it has spaces in it. Search is CASE SENSITIVE) site (Returns a listing of files available on the -OR- requested FTP site) site list ... (Returns a list of FTP sites whose names match the regular expression(s) given) whatis ... (Search a software description database which contains a list of several thousand software packages, documents, and datasets) compress (Compress and uuencode the output of all results generated. Standard .Z compress) quit (Stop processing commands) Services: This is a great way to find stuff available for anonymous FTP. There is too much out there for people to keep track of so this computer does it for you. Send a 'prog' command asking about a filename you think will match what you want, and this server will churn through its database of thousands of FTP sites and mail you a message saying where it is. Notes: Multiple regular expressions on one line will send back one result with the filenames interleaved together. Multiple 'prog' commands will result in multiple mailed results, each searching on the requested string. Please COMPRESS any listings you think will be long, such as site listings or very general searches. For case-insensitive searches, use regular expressions like the following: "prog [Zz][Ii][Pp]" (to find ZIP, zip, Zip, ziP, etc.) ftpmail@decwrl.dec.com Commands: reply (Set return mail path) connect [user] [password] (Connect to foreign host. The default user is 'anonymous' default password is your e-mail address) ascii (FTP files in ASCII mode) binary (FTP files in BINARY mode) chdir (Change directory on foreign host - only ONE chdir allowed per session) compress (Compress [.Z] files before mailing) compact (Compress [Huff] files before mailing) uuencode (Uuencode binaries before mailing) btoa (Encode binaries using btoa - default) ls [directory] (Short directory listing) dir [directory] (Long directory listing) get (Get a file from the host) quit (Disconnect from host and terminate session) Services: This is an FTP-by-Email server. It will connect to any Internet host and get files for you. It is also the ONLY such server that I know of (besides BITFTP), and as such, it is HEAVILY loaded. DO NOT use this server unless you have no alternative. Even so, be prepared to stand in line behind thousands of other E-mail users; expect many days before your files arrive, and expect the server to go down and/or get confused when the load is too heavy. Notes: If the files you are retrieving are not already compressed, 'compress' or 'compact' them to save resources. mail-server@pit-manager.mit.edu Subject: (gives first command, rest in message body) Commands: path (Set return path) help (Get help) send usenet-addresses/ (Search for a user's mail address) send voting/index (Get an index of voting topics) quit (Ignore rest of message) Services: Username search - if unsure of a UseNet user's mail address, send what you know to this server and it will search its database and try to match it up for you. UseNet voting - votes on various topics. None known at present. bitftp@pucc.princeton.edu Subject: (ignored) Commands: ftplist (Send a list of FTP sites) help (Send help) vms (Send help on using BITFTP with VMS) ftp netdata (FTP files from a host, sending files via NETDATA to you) -OR- ftp uuencode (FTP files form a host, sending files via uuencoded mail to your mailbox) user (Gives login information to the host) -OR- user anonymous (Use anonymous FTP, giving e-mail address) acct (Send host-dependent account information) ascii (FTP files in ASCII mode) binary (FTP files in BINARY mode) -OR- binary fixed (FTP binary files with fixed record len) -OR- binary variable (FTP binary files with variable record len) cd (Change directory on the host) close (Disconnect from host) dir [directory] (List directory on host) ebcdic (FTP files in EBCDIC mode) get [localfile] (Get a file from the host) locstat (Display local status information) ls [directory] (List the files in a directory) pwd (Print working directory name) quit (Disconnect from host) status [name] (Print status info from host) system (Print name of operating system on host) type (Set file type, A, I, or E) Services: This is an FTP-by-Email server for BITNET users only. It will connect to any Internet host and get files for you. Notes: Non-BITNET requests are rejected immediately. Binary files with an unspecified record length with have a length of 128. Case of filenames is shifted to upper when sending. Only one "." may appear in a filename, with only 8 characters preceding or following. Non-conforming filenames will be changed, as must be renamed on the receiving end if your host allows such names. ARCHIVE SERVERS =============== mail-server@pit-manager.mit.edu Subject: (gives first command, rest in message body) Commands: path (Set return path) help (Get help) index (Get top-level index of files available) send /index (Get lower-level index) send [archive]/ (Ask for a file to be sent) quit (Ignore rest of message) Stuff available: Activism, humor, the Jargon file, UseNet information, UseNet address information (see above), voting polls (see above), and other neat stuff. archive-server@dsi.com Subject: (gives first command, rest in message body) Commands: path (Set return path) help (Get help) index [archive] (Get list of files available - Causes any 'send' command to be ignored) send ... (Get files from the archive) Stuff available: Elm (mailer extraordinaire), other stuff. archive-server@titan.rice.edu Subject: (gives first command, rest in message body) Commands: path (Set return path) limit (Specify largest mail to send, default is 64K) uuencode (Set uuencoding, the default) btoa (Set btoa encoding) index [archive] (Get index of an archive) send ... (Send one or more files) resend ... (Resend part of a file) help (Get help) end (Cease processing) exit (Cease processing) Stuff available: Sun stuff. goodies-lib@cs.man.ac.uk Subject: (gives first command, rest in message body) Commands: reply (Set return path) help (Get help) index (Get index of files available) summary ... (Send a description of a file) send ... (Send one or more files) copyright (Sends copyright info) submit (Sends help on how to submit files) news (Sends the latest archive news) Stuff available: Smalltalk goodies. wrl-techreports@decwrl.dec.com Subject: (gives first command, rest in message body) Commands: path (Set return path) help (Get help) index [archive] (Get index of files available - causes 'send' commands to be ignored) send ... (Send one or more files) add (Puts you on the mailing list for this archive) order ... (Orders a PostScript-printed copy of a file, sent via Snail-Mail. If your mailing address is not on file, include it somewhere in the header of your mail) status [order-ID] (Inquire the status of an order) Stuff available: Technical reports. statlib@lib.stat.cmu.edu Subject: (???) Commands: send index (Send top-level index, and help) send from (Send a file) send of from (Send list of files) send submissions from (Send submission guidelines for an index) find ... in (Search for keywords in a file) find all ... in (Search for keywords in all files of an index) Stuff available: Statistical software, data sets. Available by FTP to lib.stat.cmu.edu, login statlib, e-mail password. service@nic.ddn.mil Subject: (used for commands - message body ignored) Commands: help (Get help) host (Request info about a host) ien (Retrieve an IEN, or use INDEX for index) index (Get master index list) netinfo (Get an information file, or INDEX for index) rfc (Retrieve an RFC, or INDEX for index) rfc .PS (Retrieve a PostScript-formatted RFC. See index) fyi (Retrive an FYI, or INDEX for index) fyi .PS (Retrieve a PostScript-formatted FYI. See index) send (Send an arbitrary file. See index) whois (Send information about someone. HELP for help) Stuff available: RFC's are documents describing network interfacing requirements. Not sure what FYI's or IEN's are.