WWW SEARCH BY E-MAIL
There’s a lot of great stuff out on the Web, but how do you find it? Well, just like Archie and Veronica help you search FTP and gopher sites, there are several search engines that have been developed to search for information on the Web. But until now, you had to have direct Internet access to use them. After a bit of research, I have found that it is possible to use several WWW search mechanisms by e-mail. Here are some sample queries that you can use to search via Lycos and WebCrawler. Any of these lines can be sent to an Agora server (see above) to perform a search. If you’re not interested in frogs, then by all means feel free to use your own keywords.
For Lycos, append a dot to your keywords to force an exact match, or you will get a substring search by default. Separate words with a “+” sign.
http://www.lycos.com/cgi-bin/pursuit?query=frog.+dissection.
For WebCrawler searches you must separate words with a “+” sign. All searches are exact, no trailing dot required.
http://webcrawler.com/cgi-bin/WebQuery?frog+dissection
For a more detailed discussion of web searching by e-mail, use a webmail server (see above) to retrieve this document:
ftp://ftp.netcom.com/pub/gb/gboyd/wsintro.faq
MAILING LISTS
There are literally thousands of discussion groups that stay in touch using e-mail based systems known as “mailing lists”. People interested in a topic “subscribe” to a “list” and then send and receive postings by e-mail. For a good introduction to this topic, send e-mail to: LISTSERV@vm1.nodak.edu In the body of your note include only this command: GET NEW-LIST WOUTERS
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