There are 20 messages totalling 882 lines in this issue. Topics of the day: 1. FTPMail, Agora, etc. statistics 2. other commands on AltaVista exept "host"? (2) 3. Dejanews search syntax (2) 4. Moral servers 5. W3mail or W4mail? 6. ACCMAIL Digest - 20 Jan 1999 to 21 Jan 1999 (#1999-22) (2) 7. <No subject given> (3) 8. Recipients of ACCMAIL digests 9. No subject given (2) 10. Mr. Biogate, you are wrong. (2) 11. Seek-n-Find Mailing List 12. 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The performance reported is dependant on many factors and your experience may vary. You can also access this list: On the Web at http://www.netservs.com/mrcool/stats.htm By FTP at ftp://ftp.cix.co.uk/pub/net-services/stats.txt Mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and say "get file stats.txt" (no quotes) Want this list every day? Send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and in the body of your message put "join statistics" (no quotes) No liability is accepted for inaccuracies. Mirroring, links to and copying of this entire file (not extracts) is permitted until further notice. Slow downloads? Try Mr. Cool! See http://www.netservs.com/mrcool/ Copyright Net Services 1999. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1999 02:30:54 -0800 From: mary m boondy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: other commands on AltaVista exept "host"? Hello all Very helpful hint from Lucian Skyeclathde about HOST command.(Host:microsoft.com). Are there anybody knows other useful search techniques-commands on AltaVista? TIA. George ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1999 14:54:55 +0100 From: "Dr. Thomas Waechter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Dejanews search syntax Could you tell me the Syntax for phrase searching in Dejanews? Does it need the "" (%22) character? The statement in "user guide to www search engines - DEJANEWS search engine <ftp.netcom.com/pub/gb/gboyd/wsdeja.faq> (quoted below) seems unusual. The same Syntax is for phrase searching as for "AND". --- <begin> Using %26 (AND) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ This is the default connector, and is used when you want all the words it connects to appear in a posting. For example, either of the following searches monkey%26business monkey+business would retrieve all records with "monkey" and "business" in them. PHRASE SEARCHING ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Phrase searching is used to search for strings of characters with internal spaces, most commonly multiple words. The engine treats the string as if it were one long keyword. Syntax: "<keyword1>+<keyword2> ..." Example: ?QRY=nuremburg+trials Example: ?QRY=the+end+of+the+world <quote end> --- tia, Thomas ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1999 11:23:19 +0100 From: "Dr. Uwe Klemm" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Moral servers Elek <[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...} >>> But on the other hand you can't make your server run *JUST* for those documents you agree upon. What if you were, say, a conservatory and a user tried to retrieve documents about laburist leaders? Wouldn't it be funny to deny that? Not too much differently about pornography. It has always been so that many hate it and many others read it. Matter of opinion, no more, everyone's got his/her own mind on that and it is equally right and acceptable as far as it doesn't hurt anybody. <<< While siding w/you in your stand about porn in general, I'd like to applaud your pinpointing precisely the cause of shutting down services. To some admins of servers w/in the .edu domain it seems to be an ugly job to revive the servers from *overload* caused by pornophilic requests at times. If the operator have to go wretching w/ dismay of what they see while having to clear the server's store, they are justified *by health issues* to cease serving... So, again, humans with their (mostly unreflected) values are bound to be the weakest link in the service chain. Regards, U. Klemm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1999 08:48:22 -0800 From: "Gerald E. Boyd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: other commands on AltaVista exept "host"? At 02:30 AM 1/22/99 -0800, mary m boondy wrote the following: >Are there anybody knows other useful >search techniques-commands on AltaVista? anchor:text Finds pages that contain the specified word or phrase in the text of a hyperlink. anchor:"Click here to visit AltaVista" would find pages with "Click here to visit AltaVista" as a link. applet:class Finds pages that contain a specified Java applet. Use applet:morph to find pages using applets called morph. domain:domainname Finds pages within the specified domain. Use domain:de to find pages from Germany, or use domain:org to find pages from organizations. host:name Finds pages on a specific computer. The search host:altavista.digital.com would find pages on the AltaVista computer, and host:dilbert.unitedmedia.com would find pages on the computer called dilbert at unitedmedia.com. image:filename Finds pages with images having a specific filename. Use image:elvis to find pages with images called elvis. link:URLtext Finds pages with a link to a page with the specified URL text. Use link:altavista.digital.com to find all pages linking to AltaVista. text:text Finds pages that contain the specified text in any part of the page other than an image tag, link, or URL. The search text:cow9 would find all pages with the term cow9 in them. title:text Finds pages that contain the specified word or phrase in the page title (which appears in the title bar of most browsers). The search title:Elvis would find pages with Elvis in the title. url:text Finds pages with a specific word or phrase in the URL. Use url:altavista to find all pages on all servers that have the word altavista in the host name, path, or filename--the complete URL, in other words. These are all described in my wsalta.faq. You can get the file by anonymous FTP at: get ftp.netcom.com/pub/gb/gboyd/wsalta.faq Or by Agora, Getweb, or W3mail send ftp://ftp.netcom.com/pub/gb/gboyd/wsalta.faq -- Gerry Boyd -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1999 17:41:20 +0800 From: Raymond Tau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: W3mail or W4mail? At 21:13 1999/1/20 +0800, you wrote: >I like to download .zip file by email. Before, I be used the >[EMAIL PROTECTED], but now it is die. >Maybe you can tell me, now which servers are more good for downloading >the .zip file. How to do? You may use www4mail servers. There's 3. WWW by MAIL Gateway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [EMAIL PROTECTED] www4mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sorry, I only paste them from Eudora Light. -- File Supporter Personal Feeling.... Net (Virtual ISP) URL : http://www.personet.net Support : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1999 10:14:45 +0300 From: Mohamed Thameem <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: ACCMAIL Digest - 20 Jan 1999 to 21 Jan 1999 (#1999-22) Hi All, Could anybody advise me how I should write command to get the newspaper from www.dinamani.com Your advise would be highly appreciated. Mohamed Thameem, Riyadh Saudi ARabia. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1999 04:13:32 -0800 From: mary m boondy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: <No subject given> Hi all >From Gerry Boyd reply: These files can be downloaded and viewed instead of executed by replacing '.' in a URL with a '%2e'. If anybody can point me to some good info on converting this hex,decimal,octal,etc.,and there relationship ?Confused.... FAQ? TIA. George. -- ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1999 09:18:05 -0000 From: Patricia Rousseau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Recipients of ACCMAIL digests Hi, my names is Patrícia and I'm from Portugal - Leiria. I'm new here in ACCMAIL. Can anyone send me e-mail about Tai Chi Quan? Patrícia Rousseau ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1999 23:59:07 +0800 From: Sky Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: No subject given [EMAIL PROTECTED] was a very good FREE web-by-email (WBE) service, but its provided help message what can retrieved by help command was to short, does anybody know any more information about it? such as 'retrieve split/max. size', etc. Thanks! Sky Lee ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1999 01:39:07 +0800 From: Sunnie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Mr. Biogate, you are wrong. Hello Biogate, Wed. Jan. 20, 1999, you wrote: >About China, we do remember that in that country just speaking out one's >opinion is a crime, so let's let that alone (I don't mean to offend chinese >people, on the contrary I think they should react to change this situation). Sir, you are totally wrong. I am a Chinese living China now. YES. I cannot guarantee you there is no such a case in China. But most of them are the defendant(s) not only speak(s) out his(her, their) opinion(s) but also execute(s) criminal things which really do very harm to national safety and people's life & living. Therefore no government would sit on her hands and see it happens. Sir, I am sorry to say: "You may be misguided by western medias and/or beclouded by some Chinese who is dissipated in the foreign lands with ulterior motives." Have you been to China? Say, I like Italian movies but I do not judge Italy is full of Maffia and is a paradise of all kinds of criminals. Sir, China is being a developing country. Yes, it need improvement, but closing-eye's imagination and self-righteous criticism is no good to help her and only get counterwork that I don't want to see and I bet you don't want too. Sir, you are welcome to China. To visit and to see what have happened in China in the last ten years will let you know how hard Chinese are working on and what Chinese will win in the future. By the way, Chinese say that the affair of Sitsang (Tibet) is always Chinese internal affair, which DO NOT need the outsiders to deal with. Remember that SIR(s). Chinese mean it. ========================================================================== Sorry, Mr. Boyd. I know it is far off topic. You can kick me off. However, I shall do that for my motherland's name and glory. I beg your pardon for abusing your forum. Best regards, Sunnie mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1999 11:04:31 -0800 From: "Gerald E. Boyd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Mr. Biogate, you are wrong. At 01:39 AM 1/23/99 +0800, Sunnie wrote the following: >Sorry, Mr. Boyd. I know it is far off topic. You can kick me off. >However, I shall do that for my motherland's name and glory. I beg >your pardon for abusing your forum. You weren't. I let many posts through to to generate a little change of pace but now I think it's time to close this subject and get back to ACCMAIL business. -- Gerry Boyd -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1999 03:06:35 +0600 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Seek-n-Find Mailing List At 22:06 21-01-99 +0100, you wrote: >The below announcement was on New-List recently: > >--[snipped]----- > >Subject: NEW: SEEK-N-FIND - Humans AS Search Engines > >SEEK-N-FIND on onelist.com > >The best search engine are the people who search the Web. Seek-n-Find >is an email list where you send in request to the other members for >sites on the subject you are looking for. For example: "Looking for >web sites on apples". Any members knowing sites that answer you >request will reply to the list with the sites. This is a family safe >site. No porno/"R"/"X" rated request allowed. > >To subscribe, email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >--[snipped]----- > >Frits Westra -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] > If you are on the list . . . how many post do you get on average? Sen C. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1999 16:44:38 -0800 From: "Gerald E. Boyd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: <No subject given> At 04:13 AM 1/22/99 -0800, mary m boondy wrote the following: >>From Gerry Boyd reply: >These files can be downloaded and >viewed instead of executed by replacing '.' in a URL with a '%2e'. > >If anybody can point me to some good info on converting this >hex,decimal,octal,etc.,and there relationship ?Confused.... Convert from decimal to binary by dividing by 2 or learn the byte code from 0-255. To convert to hex; group the binary digits in groups of 4 each. Convert to hexadecimal equivalent. To convert to octal; group the binary digits into groups of 3 and convert to the octal equivalent. This actually sounds harder than it is. Here are some examples: You look in an ASCII table and find that the decimal value of an uppercase 'A' is 65. The binary code for this is: 01000001 To convert to hex, group by four; 0100-0001 and write hex value 41 To convert to octal, group by three; 01-000-001 and write octal value 101 Still don't get it? Well the binary value 01000001 can be read (starting from the right) as 1-one, 0-two's, 0-four's, 0-eight's, 0-sixteen's, 0-thiry-two's, 1-sixty-four's, and 0-hundred twenty-eight's. Hex values Octal values 0000 - 0 000 - 0 0001 - 1 001 - 1 0010 - 2 010 - 2 0011 - 3 011 - 3 0100 - 4 100 - 4 0101 - 5 101 - 5 0110 - 6 110 - 6 0111 - 7 111 - 7 1000 - 8 1001 - 9 1010 - A 1011 - B 1100 - C 1101 - D 1110 - E 1111 - F The binary values of the ASCII chart go from 00000000 to 11111111 which is 0-255 in decimal and 0 to FF in hex and 0 to 377 in octal. You can write a program to do this, make a spreadsheet of them to print and save, buy a Sharp calculator that has the conversion between bin, hex, oct, and dec, or do it with paper and pencil. It's really very easy! Here's a simple C++ program that I use in my C++ class: // Example stream processing // Print a table of the ASCII characters from 0 to 255 in character, // decimal, octal and hexadecimal format. // Use the integral stream processing functions with the setf and // unsetf functions using ios. #include <iostream.h> #include <iomanip.h> // ios functions #include <ctype.h> // isprint function int main() { char c; // define character c cout << "ASCII characters and values" << endl; cout << "char\tdec\toct\thex" << endl; for ( int i = 0; i < 256; i++ ) { c = i; if ( isprint( c ) ) cout << c; else cout << " "; cout.setf( ios::dec ); cout << "\t" << i; cout.unsetf( ios::dec ); cout.setf( ios::oct ); cout << "\t" << i; cout.unsetf( ios::oct ); cout.setf( ios::hex ); cout << "\t" << i << endl; cout.unsetf( ios::hex ); } return 0; // indicate that program ended successfully } -- Gerry Boyd -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1999 20:03:29 -0500 From: Lisa Purcell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Images Hello I am very much a beginner at all this. I would appreciate it if someone could give me some tips on how to get images off a web page by email. Thanks - Lisa ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1999 17:15:11 -0800 From: "Gerald E. Boyd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: ACCMAIL Digest - 20 Jan 1999 to 21 Jan 1999 (#1999-22) At 10:14 AM 1/22/99 +0300, Mohamed Thameem wrote the following: >Could anybody advise me how I should write command to get the newspaper >from www.dinamani.com The site moved to: http://www.xpres-net.com/dinamani/ -- Gerry Boyd -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1999 17:11:06 -0800 From: "Gerald E. Boyd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Dejanews search syntax At 02:54 PM 1/22/99 +0100, Dr. Thomas Waechter wrote the following: >Could you tell me the Syntax for phrase searching in >Dejanews? Does it need the "" (%22) character? The statement >in "user guide to www search engines - DEJANEWS search >engine <ftp.netcom.com/pub/gb/gboyd/wsdeja.faq> (quoted >below) seems unusual. The same Syntax is for phrase >searching as for "AND". >--- ><begin> > >Using %26 (AND) >~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ >This is the default connector, and is used when you want all the >words it connects to appear in a posting. For example, either >of the following searches > monkey%26business > monkey+business >would retrieve all records with "monkey" and "business" in >them. If you use the web page you would type in "monkey business" in the search box. This is the same as typing "monkey AND business" in the search box. DejaNews uses an automatic AND between words. Some search engines force you to add the AND word if you want both words treated together. DejaNews doesn't. Other search engines require you to add a "+" sign explicity for connecting words together (like AltaVista). Because we need the "+" to join words in our E-mail strings, we have to do things like "monkey+%26business" . The "+" is our connector and the %26 is the "+" for the forced connection of words required by the search engine. -- Gerry Boyd -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1999 17:24:26 -0800 From: "Gerald E. Boyd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: No subject given At 11:59 PM 1/22/99 +0800, Sky Lee wrote the following: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] was a very good FREE web-by-email (WBE) service, but its > provided help message what can retrieved by help command was to short, > does anybody know any more information about it? such as 'retrieve > split/max. size', etc. This site doesn't have any options, except for the words "bin" to force uuencoding and "raw" to force saving of the HTML code. Other than that, there are no options. http://someplace.com - sends stripped HTML documents, i.e., plain ASCII text raw,http://someplace.com - sends HTML document as is bin,http://someplace.com/pub/sample.gif - sends uuencoded GIF image -- Gerry Boyd -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1999 09:05:35 +0700 From: Gunawan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Images Lisa Purcell wrote: > > Hello hello Lisa, > I am very much a beginner at all this. so am I... > I would appreciate it if someone could give me some tips on how to get images > off a web page by email. send an e-mail to : [EMAIL PROTECTED] subject: (.....what ever you like) in the body of your Email write: XIMAGE url_type the url > Thanks - Lisa please anyone, correct me if I'm wrong Gunawan ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1999 07:58:18 +0600 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: <No subject given> At 16:44 22-01-99 -0800, you wrote: >At 04:13 AM 1/22/99 -0800, mary m boondy wrote the following: > >>>From Gerry Boyd reply: >>These files can be downloaded and >>viewed instead of executed by replacing '.' in a URL with a '%2e'. >> >>If anybody can point me to some good info on converting this >>hex,decimal,octal,etc.,and there relationship ?Confused.... > This should answer you question. Here is the complete list given to me by Mr. Boyd some time back . . . < begin > On Sat, 28 Nov 1998 03:39:22 +0600 you wrote: >In the "ACCESSING THE WWW BY E-MAIL, USER GUIDE TO WWW SEARCH >ENGINES Copyright (c) 1996-98, Gerald E. Boyd Version 1.7 31Aug98". [...] >it goes on to give the most commonly used hexadecimal values. >>From were can I get the entire list? You don't need to get the entire list as you can derive it yourself. All need is an ASCII list of all the characters from 0 to 255. You then convert the decimal value for a character to its hexadecimal equivalent by dividing by 16. If you don't have an ASCII table at hand, write a simple program to print the values from 0 to 255 as characters, decimal, or hexadeciaml values. If you can't program in any simple language, you can resort to the DOS prompt and type values using the alt key with a decimal value to get the characters. Then convert the decimal values to hex by dividing by 16. Example; type alt 65 and you will see the uppercase letter A. 65 decimal is hexadecimal 41 (16 goes into 65, 4 times with 1 left over) If this is too complicated for you, here is a hint, the special characters run from decimal values 32 to 47, the numerics run from decimal 48 to 57, some more special characters are at 58 to 64, the uppercase alphabet is from 65 to 90, some more special characters are from 91 to 96 and the lowercase alphabet runs from 97 to 122, followed by 4 more special characters and the delete. Another hint, decimal 32 is hex 20... Now if you are real lazy, here is the table: ASCII characters and values char dec oct hex space 32 40 20 ! 33 41 21 " 34 42 22 # 35 43 23 $ 36 44 24 % 37 45 25 & 38 46 26 ' 39 47 27 ( 40 50 28 ) 41 51 29 * 42 52 2a + 43 53 2b , 44 54 2c - 45 55 2d .. 46 56 2e / 47 57 2f 0 48 60 30 1 49 61 31 2 50 62 32 3 51 63 33 4 52 64 34 5 53 65 35 6 54 66 36 7 55 67 37 8 56 70 38 9 57 71 39 : 58 72 3a ; 59 73 3b < 60 74 3c = 61 75 3d > 62 76 3e ? 63 77 3f @ 64 100 40 A 65 101 41 B 66 102 42 C 67 103 43 D 68 104 44 E 69 105 45 F 70 106 46 G 71 107 47 H 72 110 48 I 73 111 49 J 74 112 4a K 75 113 4b L 76 114 4c M 77 115 4d N 78 116 4e O 79 117 4f P 80 120 50 Q 81 121 51 R 82 122 52 S 83 123 53 T 84 124 54 U 85 125 55 V 86 126 56 W 87 127 57 X 88 130 58 Y 89 131 59 Z 90 132 5a [ 91 133 5b \ 92 134 5c ] 93 135 5d ^ 94 136 5e _ 95 137 5f ` 96 140 60 a 97 141 61 b 98 142 62 c 99 143 63 d 100 144 64 e 101 145 65 f 102 146 66 g 103 147 67 h 104 150 68 i 105 151 69 j 106 152 6a k 107 153 6b l 108 154 6c m 109 155 6d n 110 156 6e o 111 157 6f p 112 160 70 q 113 161 71 r 114 162 72 s 115 163 73 t 116 164 74 u 117 165 75 v 118 166 76 w 119 167 77 x 120 170 78 y 121 171 79 z 122 172 7a { 123 173 7b | 124 174 7c } 125 175 7d ~ 126 176 7e del 127 177 7f And here is a simple-minded C++ program that I use in my class to emphasize integral stream processing using setf and unsetf functions. // Example stream processing // Print a table of the ASCII characters from 0 to 255 in character, // decimal, octal and hexadecimal format. // Use the integral stream processing functions with the setf and // unsetf functions using ios. #include <iostream.h> #include <iomanip.h> // ios functions #include <ctype.h> // isprint function int main() { char c; // define character c cout << "ASCII characters and values" << endl; cout << "char\tdec\toct\thex" << endl; for ( int i = 0; i < 256; i++ ) { c = i; if ( isprint( c ) ) cout << c; else cout << " "; cout.setf( ios::dec ); cout << "\t" << i; cout.unsetf( ios::dec ); cout.setf( ios::oct ); cout << "\t" << i; cout.unsetf( ios::oct ); cout.setf( ios::hex ); cout << "\t" << i << endl; cout.unsetf( ios::hex ); } return 0; // indicate that program ended successfully } -- Gerry Boyd -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] < END > ------------------------------ End of ACCMAIL Digest - 21 Jan 1999 to 22 Jan 1999 (#1999-23) *************************************************************