Have you ever heard someone say, "Wow, check out the cool stuff at http://www.somewhere.com/blah.html" and wondered what the heck they were talking about? Now you can retrieve WWW documents using e-mail! All you need to know is the URL (that long ugly string starting with "http:", "gopher:", or "ftp:") which defines the address of the document, and you can retrieve it by sending e-mail to either of: listserv@www0.cern.ch listproc@www0.cern.ch agora@mail.w3.org In the body of your note include one of these lines, replacing "" with the actual URL specification. send or www This will send you back the document you requested, with a list of all the documents referenced within, so that you may make further requests. deep Same as above, but it will also send you the documents referenced in in the URL you specified. To try WWW by e-mail send the following command to listproc@www0.cern.ch : send http://info.cern.ch You'll receive in due course the "WWW Welcome Page" from Cern which will include references to other Web documents you'll want to explore. As mentioned earlier, you can also get Usenet postings from the WWW mail server. Here are some examples: send news:comp.unix.aix (returns a list of recent postings) deep news:comp.unix.aix (returns the list AND the postings) Note: The URL you specify may contain only the following characters: a-z, A-Z, 0-9, and these special characters /:._-+@%*()?c There is another WWW-mail server whose address is: webmail@curia.ucc.ie This server requires commands in the form: go (eof) I have been using this thing, and it's quite good. You can even conduct slow-time browsings through a document. But, you spend less time on line. From here, this is important. As my mind wanders over this stuff, I can almost image a reader that lets you browse a document, and select up via a key press requests for certain pages. Or, maybe request an entire document in the same manner from a list. Could put a whole new slant on the way we deal with www. Happy New Year everyone on the list Henry Brugsch 75366.317@compuserve.com hbj@bix.com