The Online World resources handbook

Practical tips http://home.eunet.no/~presno/bok/12.html
These lists are harder to read unless you use an offline Web browser. To retrieve individual items, the
trick is to isolate the address codes between the two html code pairs'' in the list.
Example: The first article above is written by David Beaver, and the title is "Re:Determining
Winsock Version". The associated address code is given as "32365905.2574992@newsvr". You can
send this code to a WWW by email service as given above using the format
send news:32365905.2574992@newsvr
More Usenet by email tricks
Many newsgroups are connected to mailing lists that you can subscribe to by email. Articles submitted
to the newsgroup through these mailing lists will often pass through a moderator, who reviews the
submissions before posting them.
In some cases, articles are stored in log files that may be searched. In other cases, you can have
selected newsgroup articles sent to you by email.
Some mailing lists will not let you search unless you are a subscriber to the given list.
However, you may not have the time, nor be interested in, reading all the postings. You
just want those items containing your specific keywords.
For example, I want to track references to this book. The search term "Online
World" is likely to give too many false hits. Regular searches for the word "Presno" is a
better search strategy.
The trick is to adjust your subscription, so you will receive no mail. You can
achieve this by sending an email to the LISTSERV in question containing this
command:
SET NOMAIL
Now, search whenever you like.
For a list of newsgroups with associated mailing lists, send mail to listserv@cc1.kuleuven.ac.be
containing the command "//NNHELP" for instructions. Add "//NEWSGROUPS" for a current list of
available newsgroups.
Many documents that appear periodically in newsgroups are available for retrieval over the net.
Read under FAQ in Appendix 6 about how to retrieve.
Reference.COM (see Chapter 11) lets you search for recent Usenet articles that are already in
the local database on this host. For example, to search for articles related to "information filtering,"
send an email message to email queries@Reference.COM containing the following command in the
TEXT of your mail:
find 'information filtering'
Several News Mail Servers let users post to Usenet news by email. Note that none of these support all
existing newsgroups. Example: Send your mail to [news group name]@cs.utexas.edu . Replace
[news group name] with the name of the desired newsgroup, as in mail comp sys
misc@cs.utexas.edu .
Other News Mail Servers:
[news.group.name] news@newsbase.cs.yale.edu
[news.group.name]@pubnews.demon.co.uk
[news.group.name]@paris.ics.uci.edu
[news.group.name]@crs4gw.crs4.it
Send a messages to mg5n+remailers@andrew.cmu.edu for a list or remailers with detailed
instructions. For information on anonymous remailers, try http://www.skypoint.com/~gimonca
/anonmail.html.
Note: All gateways will reject posts without Subject lines. Also, make you read about the
Unwritten Laws about Personal Conduct below before using this feature!
Finally, for more on what you can do by email, check G.E.Boyd's How To Do Just About
Anything by E mail.
Handling email overload
It is easy to get overwhelmed by the quantity of messages in mailing lists and discussion groups.
Luckily, there are things you can do.
Learn more about the software you use for reading mail. Some programs have filtering features
that permits automatic storage of incoming mail in folders or files depending on sender, subject, or
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