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Practical tips http://home.eunet.no/~presno/bok/12.html See http://members.aol.com/bombagirl/freeware/email4u.txt for more hints. Then try the Email Faq. You may also find the Website By Email "tutorial on creating and maintaining an Internet presence using email only methods." interesting. Searching databases by mail You can search Google by email by sending a mail to google@capeclear.com with the text of your query in the "Subject" line. You'll receive your search results via email. Example: Do the query "site:www.capeclear.com ceo" to find out Cape Clear's CEO. It is also possible to search many databases by WWWmail. The trick is to find the correct URL to use when submitting your search terms. Some are given in our examples below. The search URLs of some popular search engines are also given in WWWmail service's help texts. For example, send the word HELP to Agora to receive hints on searching Lycos, Yahoo, the WAIS server at Oxford University, WebCrawler, Hyper RFC, MetaCrawler DQG $OWD 9LVWD If a desired service is not on the list, you can often find out yourself: First, log on to make a manual, interactive search using almost any browser. Save the reported Web address (URL) of the resulting report for analysis. Finally, test variations of this URL with different search words to find one that works. Using the Lynx browser, first make a search using a typical combination of search terms. When the hit report is on your screen, press "=" to show file and link information. Mail this data to yourself, or make a copy before logging off. Then, investigate the URL under "File that you are currently viewing." Locate your original search terms among the codes of the URL, replace them by new search terms, and send the revised URL back to the search service to see if it works. Note: Search URLs are usually long and cumbersome. Therefore, experienced users often save them as templates on disk for easy retrieval and editing on the fly. Many email clients, like Pegasus Mail and Eudora, let you pick from a list of permanently saved messages, edit, and resend the revised search command with a click. Other users tie frequently used search commands to specific keystrokes. Example: Enter keyword "news" followed by Ctrl E to have the string "SEND http://www.newsindex.com/cgi bin /process.cgi?query=" put into the text of your mail. Add search words, and you're ready to send. Searching today's news In Chapter 9, we mentioned the News Index news only search engine. To find today's articles about the term "netpc" using Agora, send this command: SEND http://www.newsindex.com/cgi bin/process.cgi?query=netpc To search for two terms, like "sun" and "java", use this command: SEND http://www.newsindex.com/cgi bin/process.cgi?query=java+sun Searching Alta Vista If you want information about a person named Bill Gates, try this command (write it on one line): SEND http://www.altavista.com/cgi bin/query?sc=on\&hl=on\ &q=%2BBill%2BGates\&kl=XX\&pg=q This command was made after an interactive AltaVista search. I simply copied the web address of my browser's result page, and pasted it into an email message to the Agora server (after the word "SEND"). In my search, I had used "+Bill+Gates" as search terms. The "+" signs forces AltaVista to only display pages containing both terms. As the + sign also works as a separator between terms, I did not bother to use a space. In this way, you can construct complex search strings to satisfy your applications. Just store your successful search term on your disk, and edit them according to needs. The parameters of the search URL are separated by "\&". Thus, the search term (+Bill+Gates) can be found in this part of the string (separators are boldfaced for clarity): \&q=%2BBill%2BGates\& The "+" signs (and also some other signs) are converted to their hexidecimal equivalents, and displayed as %2b. Thus, "\&q=%2BBBill%2BGates" is equivalent to manually entering "+Bill +Gates" at the AltaVista web form. If you really want to include a space between terms, try %20, as in \&q=%2BBill %20%2BGates\&. 5 of 13 23.11.2009 15:48
Practical tips http://home.eunet.no/~presno/bok/12.html Now, to search for "apples," but not "oranges," edit the string above to become \&q=%2Bapples%2Doranges\&. "%2D LV WKH KH[DGHVLPDO FRGH IRU WKH PLQXV VLJQ 7KH mail you send to the Agora server will be: SEND http://www.altavista.com/cgi bin/query?sc=on\&hl=on\ &q=%2Bapples%2Doranges\&kl=XX\&pg=q From time to time, AltaVista changes their search commands. Whenever this happens, you must change your email messages accordingly. Searching Google Groups The trick is the same as for AltaVista. Search for "Bill Gates" by using this command (on one single line): send http://groups.google.com/groups?q=bill+gates&hl=en&btnG=Google+Search Easy. To make a more complex search, first go online and do it interactively. Copy the url off your web browser when you get the hit list, and edit this url for your search by email applications. For Google Groups searches you must separate words with a "+"sign. Send the word "help" to agora@kamakura.mss.co.jp for more information about using this Agora server. For more about searching the Web by email, make sure to check Gerald Boyd's "Email Only" information pages. Usenet by email You can retrieve a list of recent postings to a given newsgroup by sending email to a WWW by email service. Use use the following type of commands: send news:alt.winsock (returns a list of recent postings) deep news:alt.winsock (returns the list AND the postings) The first command (send) will give you a list like this: Newsgroup alt.winsock, Articles 26012 26031 (Earlier articles[1]...) Articles in alt.winsock "Program wanted" Leslie Mark Styles[2] "[HELP] twinsock (makefile vs Makefile)" Scott Ehrlich[3] *** References from this document *** [orig] news:alt.winsock [1] news:alt.winsock/25992 26011 [2] news:175@lmsprog.win uk.net [3] news:3d04qm$c72@narnia.ccs.neu.edu Now, if you want article [3], just send a mail back to the WWW by email service with the following command in the body of your mail send news:3d04qm$c72@narnia.ccs.neu.edu Note: Some Agora servers may return the list of recent postings to you in html format, presented something like this: Newsgroup: alt.winsock Newsgroup: alt.winsock HERE WE CAN PUT INFORMATION AND EXTRA LINKS Re:Determining Winsock Version David Beaver NEEDED Someone who really knows KA9Q,DOS and PPP dialup Steve Re:Eudora Mail Program for Win95 J. Wayne Waller 6 of 13 23.11.2009 15:48
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