WAIS SEARCHES BY E-MAIL
WAIS stands for Wide Area Information Service, and is a means of searching a set of over 500 indexed databases. The range of topics is too broad to mention, and besides, you’ll soon learn how to get the topic list for yourself.
A list of WAIS databases can be obtained by sending e-mail to a gophermail server with “Subject: get all” and these lines in the message body:
Type=1
Name=All WAIS Sources
Path=1/other/wais/all
Host=info.asu.edu
Port=70
Look through the returned list for topics that are of interest to you and select one to search. Specify your search term(s) on the Subject line, and clip out just the section of the returned gopher menu that corresponds to your target database. Use these lines and with Subject of “seafarer” :
Type=7+
Name=poetry.src
Path=waissrc:/other/wais/all/poetry
Host=info.asu.edu
Port=70
You will (hopefully) receive a gophermail menu in response listing the matching “documents”. To retrieve the full text of a matching document, just make a selection from the returned gopher menu, and the referenced file will be sent to you. In my testing, WAIS by gophermail was not reliable. Often a blank menu was returned but repeated attempts did occasionally meet with success. You are more likely to find what you’re after by using the webmail services listed in the next section.
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