Xref: utzoo comp.sys.apollo:796 comp.unix.questions:6077 Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!bloom-beacon!mit-eddie!rich From: rich@eddie.MIT.EDU (Richard Caloggero) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo,comp.unix.questions Subject: Arpanet/Internet Publicaly Accessable Servers Message-ID: <8493@eddie.MIT.EDU> Date: 15 Mar 88 20:50:56 GMT Organization: MIT EE/CS Computer Facility, Cambridge, MA Lines: 163 Keywords: Server, Automatic, E-mail, Arpanet, CSnet ... Ok, here it is. The responses I got were not overwhelmimg, but they were informative. Thanks to all of you who answered my query. What follows are the unedited responses I've received. Hope this helps others! ---------- From xanth!tadguy Thu Feb 25 18:43:33 1988 Received: by EDDIE.MIT.EDU with UUCP with smail2.5 with sendmail-5.45/4.7 id ; Thu, 25 Feb 88 18:43:23 EST Received: by xanth.cs.odu.edu (5.51/odu-gateway) id AA02848; Thu, 25 Feb 88 18:40:10 EST Message-Id: <8802252340.AA02848@xanth.cs.odu.edu> Date: Thu, 25 Feb 88 18:40:10 EST From: Tad Guy To: rich@eddie.MIT.EDU Subject: Re: Servers Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions,comp.sys.apollo In-Reply-To: <8252@eddie.MIT.EDU> Organization: Old Dominion University, Norfolk Va. Status: RO Here are five that I know of and have used. I think that once you stop getting replies, you should post a followup to your article with your findings. They should prove to be useful to many novice users... Below I have listed the instructions that should allow you to get the introduction/help document from each of these services... ...tad Tad Guy (804)-440-4529 UUCP: tadguy@xanth.UUCP Department of Computer Science or: ...!uunet!xanth!tadguy Old Dominion University new ARPA: tadguy@cs.odu.edu Norfolk, Virginia 23529-0162 old ARPA: tadguy%xanth.UUCP@SUN.COM ------------------------------ cut ------------------------------ CSNET CIC Info Server (many things -- comp.sources.unix archives, CSNET info, RFCs, etc.) address: info@sh.cs.net body: request: info topic: help request: end BITNET NIC Server (BITNET information and RFCs) address: nicserve@bitnic.bitnet body: help DECWRL Archive Server (alt.gourmand and PostScript stuff) address: archive-server@decwrl.dec.com body: help SIMTEL20 File Server (public domain stuff -- may not exist anymore) address: archive-request@simtel20.arpa body: send help SRI-NIC File Server (official source for RFCs and Internet documents) address: service@sri-nic.arpa body: help ------------------------------ cut ------------------------------ From mit-eddie!bbn!uwmcsd1!leah!itsgw!steinmetz!uunet!hi-csc!slocum Mon Feb 29 11:12:26 EST 1988 Status: RO I'm aware of two other mail servers: ...decwrl!archive-server which has a list a recipes and software (including the archive server), and archive-server@plaid.sun.com which has the back issues of Other Realms, an electronic (and paper) magazine of SF & fantasy fiction reviews (excellent quality, including reviews by Chuq von Roshpach, ed., Charles deLint, and others). P.S. I don't know where this should be netwise, either. -- --Brett Slocum "Never bet with a Sicilian where Death is involved." UUCP: ...{uunet,ihnp4!umn-cs}!hi-csc!slocum Arpa: hi-csc!slocum@umn-cs.arpa From mcvax!ethz!wyle@uunet.UU.NET Tue Mar 1 17:47:00 1988 Received: by EDDIE.MIT.EDU with sendmail-5.45/4.7 id ; Tue, 1 Mar 88 17:46:38 EST Received: from mcvax.UUCP by uunet.UU.NET (5.54/1.14) with UUCP id AA16463; Tue, 1 Mar 88 17:48:41 EST Received: by mcvax.cwi.nl; Tue, 1 Mar 88 23:42:15 +0100 (MET) Received: by cernvax.uucp (1.2/Ultrix2.0-B) id AA03786; Tue, 1 Mar 88 16:35:43 +0100 Received: by solaris.uucp (3.2/SMI-3.2) id AA08773; Tue, 1 Mar 88 16:13:19 +0100 Date: Tue, 1 Mar 88 16:13:19 +0100 From: mcvax!solaris!wyle@uunet.UU.NET (Mitchell Wyle) Message-Id: <8803011513.AA08773@solaris.uucp> Favorite-Compiler: Sun Modula-2 2.0 Return-Receipt-To: mcvax!solaris!wyle@uunet.UU.NET Errors-To: mcvax!solaris!wyle@uunet.UU.NET Clearance: Top Secret SPECAT CM Priorty: Medium X-Mailer: Mail User's Shell (Vers 6.0) Thu Jan 21 10:42:30 PST 1988 To: rich@eddie.mit.edu Subject: Servers Cc: cernvax!wyle@uunet.UU.NET Status: RO Yes. There are a few. csnet has one for sources, rfc documents, etc. Send a one-word "help" message to: info-server@sh.cs.net bitnet has one with a great database and query language made for e-mail browsing. It archives some moderated usenet groups and mailing lists, as well as drinks, etc. Send the "help" messages to: database@bitnic.bitnet Brian Ried of Dec runs one for recipes and sources. Ask for "help" from: archive-server@decwrl.dec.com William LeFebvre got a hold of Brian's software and lets us non-ftp sites access archived sun-spots (news about sun computers) source-code, and icons from: archive-server@titan.rice.edu There exists the netlib server which you know about, and an arpa server for people (a net-wide telephone book) and for rfc documents. Ask: service%sri-nic.arpa@relay.cs.net for "help." My database server isn't up yet. It will contain bibliographical data in unix _refer_ format, some local source code (mostly Modula-2 being in the house that Wirth built :-) and full-text papers. I shall also announce a subscription service which will let you keep track of specific concepts as they flow by on usenet, and as they are archived in these e-mail queryable databases. I have software (which has been running for a few months) which periodically automatically queries these databases for their indexes, diffs the result with the last query, and mails me the results. A student is building the SDI subscription service (Selective Dissemination of Information) as a Masters' Diss. He just started today, but my design is pretty complete. Please, please keep me posted about other servers. -Mitchell F. Wyle wyle@ethz.uucp Institut fuer Informatik wyle%ifi.ethz.ch@relay.cs.net ETH Zentrum 8092 Zuerich, Switzerland +41 1 256-5237 You are only young once, but you can stay immature indefinitely. -- -- Rich (rich@eddie.mit.edu). The circle is open, but unbroken. Merry meet, merry part, and merry meet again.