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From: gors@well.UUCP (Gordon Stewart)
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
Subject: Re: RFC ?
Message-ID: <12961@well.UUCP>
Date: 1 Aug 89 16:15:07 GMT
References: <14733@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU> <14734@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU> <TALE.89Jul29185736@imagine.pawl.rpi.edu> <12926@well.UUCP> <KARL.89Jul31115236@triceratops.cis.ohio-state.edu>
Reply-To: gors@well.UUCP (Gordon Stewart)
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Thanks for the responses -- the straight dope is that the RFC's are available
from NIC -- an automated mail server processes requests that are placed
in the 'Subject:' line of mail.

if you do the following, you'll get a list of what's available:

mail -s "HELP" SERVICE@SRI-NIC.ARPA 

<contents of your message are ignored>

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