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From: [email protected] (Mark Lindsay)
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
Subject: Re: Files without FTP?
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
Date: Wed, 22 Jun 94 15:44:38 EDT
References: <[email protected]>
Organization: Overture Systems
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[email protected] (RockyMoore) writes:

> How can you obtain files from FTP sites if you don't have FTP
> access??  One person said you can do it via E-Mail... How's that?

It's easy, really.  Send mail to [email protected] with the
message body consisting of:

       HELP
       QUIT

This will give you a lengthy help file on using the server.  I use it
on a regular basis.  It is quite slow, but requests usually get
processed within two or three days.

I believe another such server is [email protected].  There's a
more complete listing of ftpmail servers in Scott Yanoff's Internet
Services listing, available on Overture's file server.  You can get it
by sending mail to [email protected] with a message of:

       GET /public/text/internet/inetsvcs.txt
       QUIT

You can do many things by email that were once reserved for people with
interactive Internet service.

Mark

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