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- Date: Sat, 12 Oct 1996 08:00:47 GMT
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- From: netannounce@deshaw.com (Mark Moraes)
- Subject: Changes to "How to Get Information about Networks"
- Newsgroups: news.admin.misc,news.misc,news.answers
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- Archive-name: internet/network-info/diff1
- Last-change: 8 Oct 1996 by netannounce@deshaw.com (Mark Moraes)
- Changes-posted-to: news.admin.misc,news.misc,news.answers
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- The following are the differences between two versions.
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- Archive-name: internet/network-info/part1
- -Last-change: 21 Nov 1995 by netannounce@deshaw.com (Mark Moraes)
- +Last-change: 8 Oct 1996 by netannounce@deshaw.com (Mark Moraes)
- Changes-posted-to: news.admin.misc,news.misc,news.answers
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- ...
- mail from the Internet, you can get various documents from the InterNIC's
- automated mail server. Send mail to
-
- - mailserv@is.internic.net
- + listserv@is.internic.net
-
- and leave the "Subject" line blank. Here's a suggested initial message:
-
- - begin
- help
- index
- - send about-infoguide/about-infoguide
- - end
-
- Be sure your mailer puts out a valid "From:" line that the server can
- -respond to! If you have problems with the reply (eg. you don't get
- -a reply within a few days), try sending the same message with the line
- -
- - reply YOUR-EMAIL-ADDRESS
- -
- -after the begin line. Make sure YOUR-EMAIL-ADDRESS is one that can
- -be replied to from the Internet. Ask your site's postmaster for
- -help, if you need to.
- +respond to! Ask your site's postmaster for help, if you need to.
-
-
- + Using Gopher (Internet access needed)
- ...
-
- Included among these are:
-
- - RFC-1325 FYI-4: Answers to commonly asked "new Internet user" questions
- + RFC-1594 FYI on Questions and Answers - Answers to Commonly asked "New
- + Internet User" Questions
- + RFC-1463 FYI on Introducing the Internet-- A Short Bibliography of
- + Introductory Internetworking Readings or the Network Novice
- RFC-1462 FYI-20: "What is the Internet"
- RFC-1208 Glossary of Networking Terms
- RFC-1207 FYI: Answers to commonly asked "experienced Internet user" questions
- RFC-1178 Choosing a Name for your Computer
- + RFC-1175 FYI on where to start: A bibliography of internetworking information
- RFC-1150 FYI on FYI: Introduction to the FYI notes
-
- +
- To learn how to retrieve RFCs, get the following document by anonymous
- ftp from isi.edu:
-
- --
-