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- From: alizard@tweekco.uucp (A.Lizard)
- Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
- Subject: re: mailing lists / re: Internet to Kuwait
- Message-ID: <7HwqwB2w164w@tweekco.uucp>
- Date: Sat, 02 Jan 93 02:33:17 PST
- Organization: Tweek-Com Systems BBS, Moraga, CA (510) 631-0615
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- If you've subscribed to a mailing list, what you do to receive
- the files is ... wait, they will be automatically sent to you.
- To post to the mail list, you send an E-mail to the posting
- address which will be in every copy of the mailing (or in the
- e-mail that confirmed that you were on the mail list)
-
- As for access to Kuwait, good luck, you'll need it, this is
- info from the regularly posted list of top-domain - country
- names posted to news.lists , here, I think, and other places.
-
-
-
- International Standard ISO 3166 Names
- Compiled by Olivier M.J. Crepin-Leblond
- email: <ocl@ic.ac.uk>
- Release: 92.12.3
-
- Release Note: a. I am including some domain names with a P tag.
- This is either because I have not yet been able
- to verify the validity of the domain, or that
- the domain has been provisionally accepted but
- not officially used yet or connected.
- b. New up-to-date experimental mailserver
- KW Kuwait PFI B * No computers for Gulfnet(B)
-
- - FI stands for FULL INTERNET access. This includes 'telnet', 'ftp',
- and internet email.
- - B stands for BITNET access although the address may be in internet
- DNS (Domain Name System) format.
- - * (Asterisk) means that the country is reachable by email. If this is
- not preceded by FI or B, it means that the connection may be a UUCP
- connection. An asterisk is included after FI or B for continuity.
- - PFI stands for a provisional full internet connection.(+)
- - P stands for provisional connection. (+)
- (+) This is used when one or more of the following is true:
- - address not verified or lack of address
- - domain connected but not officially announced
- - premature official announcement of connection
-
-
- Some hobbyists have put together networks using their PCs which store
- and forward email to remote locations. This is the case of FIDONET
- users. Some FIDO nodes apparently exist throughout Africa, the Middle-
- East, etc. Those have not been included since the forwarding of email
- is to the discretion of the SYSADMINS of the forwarding systems and,
- once again, it costs money.
-
- So there appears to be an Internet connect of some sort in Kuwait,
- and maybe there are Fido connects.
- Are you sure your friend is anywhere that he might logically be expected
- to have Internet access? In Kuwait, I'd expect that to be limited to
- the university, a few goverment agencies, and perhaps a few businesses,
- e.g. US corporations with offices there.
-
- Another thing you might check is
- one of the whois services...
- To query the database, send an E-mail message to
- "mail-server@pit-manager.mit.edu" with "send usenet-addresses/name" in
- the body or subject of the message. The "name" should be one or more
- space-separated words for which you want to search; since the search
- is fuzzy (i.e., all of the words you specify do not have to match),
- you should list all of the words you think might appear in the
- address, including (for example) first and last name, possible
- username, and possible components of the host name (e.g. "mit" for a
- person who you think is at MIT). The case and order of the words you
- list are ignored.
-
- Note that multiple requests can appear (on separate lines) in mail
- to the mail server, but each request will be answered in a separate
- message.
-
- In many cases, you will get a list of quite a few matching
- addresses, and you will have to go through it looking for ones that
- may be the one you're looking for. However, the mail server will
- return a maximum of only 40 matches.
-
- Note that the usenet-addresses database is accessible via WAIS (in
- fact, the script that does mail server searches is actually just a
- front-end to a WAIS database) on two different hosts:
- pit-manager.mit.edu and cedar.cic.net. In both cases, the database is
- called "usenet-addresses" and is on port 210. Note that the version
- on pit-manager is slightly more up-to-date with respect to the master
- address list than the version on cedar. If you don't know what WAIS
- is, then don't worry about this paragraph; if you're curious, see the
- "comp.infosystems.wais" newsgroup.
-
- -----------------------
- In your case, anything ending in .kw (Kuwait top-domain name) will
- give you somewhere to look.
-
- Good luck.
- A.Lizard
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