Xref: utzoo comp.mail.sendmail:2274 comp.mail.misc:4166 Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!wuarchive!julius.cs.uiuc.edu!apple!agate!shelby!msi.umn.edu!cs.umn.edu!thelake!steve From: steve@thelake.mn.org (Steve Yelvington) Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail,comp.mail.misc Subject: Re: Re: Where to get copies of RFC's? --> nic.ddn.mil Message-ID: Date: 17 Oct 90 15:39:46 GMT References: <1990Oct16.161631.522@ataritx.uucp> <26169.271b8651@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu> Followup-To: comp.mail.sendmail Lines: 36 [In article <26169.271b8651@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu>, huff@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu writes ... ] > In article <1990Oct16.161631.522@ataritx.uucp>, dwh@ataritx.uucp writes: >> Simple question - where can one obtain copies of various RFC documents, >> and at what cost? RFC's 819,882, 883,973,974 are the ones of >> interest at the moment. > > Dave, > > I might be wrong about this (and if I am, please advise), but these > have been available via ftp at nic.ddn.mil. They might also be > available at wuarchive.wustl.edu or simtel20.edu. This is a good opportunity for a reminder that most UUCP sites, indeed most sites handling E-mail, are not on the Internet and cannot use FTP. Even the existence of a fully qualified domain name does not indicate that a site is on the Internet. The Internet RFCs and other interesting documents can be fetched by mail from info-server@nnsc.nsf.net or info-server@sh.cs.net. I sent Dave the details last night. The methods are described in a regularly monthly posting to news.admin and news.announce.newusers entitled ``How to Get Information about Networks.'' For the truly desperate, there are ways to use FTP by mail. BITFTP@ PUCC.BITNET is a software robot that will log into an Internet site that allows anonymous FTP, fetch files or directories, and mail the (uuencoded) results to the requester. It is a little bit like driving on the freeway blindfolded, though. -- Steve Yelvington up at the lake in Minnesota The easy way: steve@thelake.mn.org The hard way: {plains,rutgers,apple,cray}!umn-cs!thelake!steve