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- MAP22: GOPHERMAIL
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-
- "(T)he International Standards Organization (ISO) and the
- International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) designated
- Oct. 14 as World Standards Day to recognize those volunteers
- who have worked hard to define international standards ....
- The United States celebrated World Standards Day on Oct. 11;
- Finland celebrated on Oct. 13; and Italy celebrated on Oct. 18"
- -- Open Systems Today, 10/31/94
-
-
- One of the most frustrating experiences in the world is being told that
- you can't do something. For those of you who only have "Level One"
- Internet connectivity, this week must have been especially trying.
-
- Fortunately, thanks to a server program called GopherMail, those of
- you with Level One connectivity can now access all of the neat Gopher
- sites we talked about this week using nothing but a simple e-mail letter
-
- There are really just four basic steps to using GopherMail:
-
- 1. You send an e-mail letter to a GopherMail server. In your letter
- to the GopherMail server, it really does not matter what you
- put in the subject line or the body of your letter, so long
- as you don't use the word "help" ("help" tells the GopherMail
- server to send you its help file).
-
- 2. Gophermail responds to your letter by sending you its main
- Gopher menu in the body of an e-mail letter.
-
- 3. You respond to this Gopher menu letter by forwarding it back to
- the GopherMail server after you have cleaned the letter up a
- little and marked which menu options you want the GopherMail
- server to send you.
-
- 4. Gophermail responds to your response by sending the information
- that you requested. If what you have requested is another menu,
- Gophermail sends you the menu in the body of another e-mail
- letter, and the cycle keeps repeating itself :)
-
-
- GopherMail sites are incredibly dynamic -- they appear and disappear
- every second -- so any list of GopherMail sites is immediately outdated.
- Nonetheless, here are the addresses of a few of the GopherMail servers
- that were working recently (1):
-
-
- E-mail Address Location
- ----------------------------------- ---------------
-
- gophermail@calvin.edu Michigan (US)
- gopher@ucmp1.berkeley.edu California (US)
- gophermail@mercury.forestry.umn.edu Minnesota (US)
- gopher@pip.shsu.edu Texas (US)
- gophermail@eunet.cz Czech Republic
- gopher@earn.net France
- gopher@ftp.technion.ac.il Israel
- gopher@solaris.ims.ac.jp Japan
- gopher@nig.ac.jp Japan
- gopher@nips.ac.jp Japan
- gopher@join.ad.jp Japan
- gomail@ncc.go.jp Japan
- gopher@dsv.su.se Sweden
-
-
- Let's try one of these addresses and see what happens!
-
- To keep Net traffic to a minimum, you should always use the server that
- is closest to you. Since Texas is closer to Alabama than any of the
- other locations, I am going to use the gopher@pip.shsu.edu address.
-
- I send an e-mail letter to
-
- gopher@pip.shsu.edu
-
- and leave the subject line and body blank (remember, it does not matter
- what I put in body or the subject line, so why waste the effort?).
-
- It may take the GopherMail server several hours to respond to my letter --
- just like every other Internet server, GopherMail is almost always
- incredibly overburdened -- but eventually I will receive the following
- e-mail letter from the GopherMail server:
-
-
- Date: Fri, 7 Oct 1994 02:59:04 -0600
- From: gopher@pip.shsu.edu
- To: PCRISPE1@UA1VM.UA.EDU
- Subject: Sam Houston State University Gopher Server
- X-Menu: Max. 100 items/message
-
- Mail this file back to gopher with an X before the menu items that you
- want. If you don't mark any items, gopher will send all of them.
- For best results, remove this message and all e-mail headers above it
- prior to returning it to the GopherMail server.
-
-
- 1. Sam Houston State University Information/
- 2. Current Time and Weather in Huntsville, Texas, USA.
- 3. Daily Almanac (from UChicago).
- 4. Economics (SHSU Network Access Initiative Project)/
- 5. Information by Subject Area/
- 6. DEU Library Prototype Demonstration Area/
- 7. Network-based Information and References/
- 8. Other Gopher and Information Servers in the World/
- 9. TeX-related Materials/
- 10. Literate Programming Library/
- 11. VMS Gopher-related file library/
- 12. Veronica (search menu items in most of GopherSpace)/
- 13. Professional Sports Schedules from culine.Colorado.edu/
- 14. anonymous ftp archives on Niord.SHSU.edu/
- 15. anonymous ftp archives on ftp.shsu.edu/
- 16.
- 17. GopherMail -- Gopher via Electronic Mail!!.
-
-
- COOLNESS!!
-
- This is a *real* Gopher menu. Just like the UNIX Gopher server examples
- we looked at earlier this week, entries that have "/" at the end of
- them are menus, and entries that have a "." at the end of them are
- documents.
-
- The only difference between this Gopher menu and one that I access
- through a Gopher client or through Telnet is that I have to send my
- responses back to the GopherMail server before my responses can be
- processed.
-
- Notice that the letter tells me to "remove this message and all e-mail
- headers above it prior to returning it to the GopherMail server." If
- I don't do this, I run the chance of getting an error message from
- the GopherMail server when I forward the letter back to the server.
-
- (In MAP04: E-MAIL, I asked you to contact your local Internet service
- provider to learn how to "include text in a reply (and how to edit
- this text)." You *NEED* to know how to do this if you want to use
- GopherMail).
-
- Before I send the letter back to the GopherMail server, I need
- to mark which menu item(s) I want to select. To do this, I put
- an "X" next to the menu item(s) that I want the GopherMail server
- to send back to me:
-
-
- 1. Sam Houston State University Information/
- 2. Current Time and Weather in Huntsville, Texas, USA.
- 3. Daily Almanac (from UChicago).
- 4. Economics (SHSU Network Access Initiative Project)/
- 5. Information by Subject Area/
- 6. DEU Library Prototype Demonstration Area/
- 7. Network-based Information and References/
- X 8. Other Gopher and Information Servers in the World/
- 9. TeX-related Materials/
- 10. Literate Programming Library/
- 11. VMS Gopher-related file library/
- 12. Veronica (search menu items in most of GopherSpace)/
- 13. Professional Sports Schedules from culine.Colorado.edu/
- 14. anonymous ftp archives on Niord.SHSU.edu/
- 15. anonymous ftp archives on ftp.shsu.edu/
- 16.
- 17. GopherMail -- Gopher via Electronic Mail!!.
-
-
- Hopefully, this will send me a menu that looks like the "Other
- Gopher Servers" menu that we used earlier this week.
-
- I mail the menu back to the GopherMail server. Eventually, I get the
- following reply:
-
-
- Date: Fri, 7 Oct 1994 03:18:03 -0600
- From: gopher@pip.shsu.edu
- To: PCRISPE1@UA1VM.UA.EDU
- Subject: Other Gopher and Information Servers in the World
- X-Menu: Max. 100 items/message
-
- Mail this file back to gopher with an X before the menu items that you
- want. If you don't mark any items, gopher will send all of them.
- For best results, remove this message and all e-mail headers above it
- to returning it to the GopherMail server.
-
-
- 1. All the Gopher Servers in the World/
- 2. Search All the Gopher Servers in the World <?> (Send keywords in
- Subject:)
- 3. Search titles in Gopherspace using veronica/
- 4. Africa/
- 5. Asia/
- 6. Europe/
- 7. International Organizations/
- 8. Middle East/
- 9. North America/
- 10. Pacific/
- 11. Russia/
- 12. South America/
- 13. Terminal Based Information/
- 14. Texas-based Gopher Servers/
- 15. VMS-based Gopher Servers/
- 16. WAIS Based Information/
- 17. Gopher Server Registration.
-
-
- YIPPEE!! This menu *IS* like the menu that we used earlier this
- week!! SURAnet, here I come ...
-
- Nah ... I wouldn't do that to you again :)
-
- One last thing, and I will send you home for the weekend: to do a
- Veronica or a Phonebook search using GopherMail, put the keyword
- in the subject line of the letter that you send back to the
- GopherMail server.
-
-
- HOMEWORK:
-
- - Have a great weekend!
-
- - I've decided to be kind and move the pop quiz to next week.
- You may want to review FTP and Gopher just to be on the
- safe side, though.
-
- - If you do NOT have regular Gopher access through a client
- or through Telnet, play around with GopherMail. You may
- want to get the help document too by putting the word
- "help" in the body of your initial letter to the GopherMail
- server.
-
- SOURCES:
-
- (1) from Yanoff's List (10/15/94), Veronica searches with the
- keyword "Gophermail", and letters posted to NETTRAIN by
- Glee Willis and Thomas Copley
-
-
- PATRICK DOUGLAS CRISPEN THE VIEWS EXPRESSED IN THIS LETTER DO NOT
- PCRISPE1@UA1VM.UA.EDU NECESSARILY REPRESENT THE VIEWS OF THE
- THE UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA - TUSCALOOSA
-
- ROADMAP: COPYRIGHT PATRICK CRISPEN 1994. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
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