-- eegtti/$Id: HOWTO,v 2.3 1994/09/12 23:04:05 joke Rel $ * HOWTO USE E-MAIL SERVERS TO RECEIVE A COPY OF THE GUIDE? The generic way ia, to go for an (unextended) ASCII version, by sending (any) e-mail to netguide@ef.org. The guide will then be sent to you split into several pieces. In order to get *any* version of the Guide try one of theses: EUROPE Address: Software: Squirrel mail server Message layout: BEGIN REPLY SEND SEND ... END Sample: To: archive-server@germany.eu.net Subject: BEGIN REPLY dummy@neverland.com SEND books/eff-guide/README SEND books/eff-guide/extended-guide/eegtti-2.3.ps END NORTH AMERICA Address: Software: FTPmail Message layout: reply connect get get ... quit Sample: To: ftpmail@decwrl.dec.com Subject: reply joke@foo.bar connect ftp.eff.org get /pub/Net_info/EFF_Net_Guide/Other_versions/eegtti-2.3.ps quit And then? You'll receive a mail from with a contents similar to the following: We processed the following input from your mail message: reply joke@foo.bar connect ftp.eff.org get /pub/Net_info/EFF_Net_Guide/Other_versions/eegtti-2.3.ps quit We have entered the following request into our job queue as job number 749212187.29067: connect ftp.germany.eu.net anonymous -ftpmail/joke@foo.bar reply joke@foo.bar get pub/Net_Info/EFF_Net_Guide/Other_versions/eegtti-2.3.ps There are 876 jobs ahead of this one in our queue. You should expect the results to be mailed to you within a day or so. [..] NOTICE * If you don't know how to uncompress gzip'ed files (.gz), or any other howevercompressed files, just don't tell FTPmail the suffix! FTPmail and Squirrel are clever enough to *automatically* uncompress the file(s) split them, and mail them to you. * is the *full* filename, ie. including the PATH!