Re: Email Bot

[mgraffam@mhv.net]

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On Wed, 13 May 1998 cons0005@algnet.algonquinc.on.ca wrote:

> I was wondering if anyone knows of such a creature that I could send 
> email to with an URL, and I would get a reply of that HTML file?
> example I email   bot@somewhere.com with the 
> Subject:http://www.hotmail.com
> 
> and I will get an email of the HTML file at www.hotmail.com
> This would be handy because I don't have a broswer (2 meg RAM (I 
> know)) and also for anonymity, cookies etc I couldn't be traced.

Uhm.. this service used to exist.. I dont know what the email addy
was though :( 

Another solution is to find a school that has a publicly usable lynx
account. Lynx is a text-based browser for Unix, and is fully usable
from a telnet session. Lynx is a nice browser. I use it all the time
on my local machine in an xterm. Yeah, I could fire up netscape ..
but lynx is better. :)

Try telneting to:

sailor.lib.md.us       login: guest
trfn.clpgh.org         login: trfn 
bob.bob.bofh.org       login: supply your email address
public.sunsite.unc.edu login: lynx
lynx.cc.ukans.edu      login: lynx

Be nice to these machines. 

Michael J. Graffam (mgraffam@mhv.net)
http://www.mhv.net/~mgraffam -- Philosophy, Religion, Computers, Crypto, etc
"..the isle is full of noises, sounds and sweet airs that give delight and
hurt not. Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments will hum about mine
ears, and sometimes voices.." Caliban, Shakespeare's "The Tempest"

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