From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Nov 27 12:50:17 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0D6AC37B425 for ; Wed, 27 Nov 2002 12:50:16 -0800 (PST) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 820F843E4A for ; Wed, 27 Nov 2002 12:50:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.12.6/8.12.6) id gARKo43L011772; Wed, 27 Nov 2002 14:50:04 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dan) Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2002 14:50:04 -0600 From: Dan Nelson To: Andrew.Hodgson@lpc.tv Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: OFF TOPIC - please help!! (FAQ's by email needed) Message-ID: <20021127205004.GA33989@dan.emsphone.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-OS: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT X-message-flag: Outlook Error User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In the last episode (Nov 26), Andrew.Hodgson@lpc.tv said: > > Hi everybody, > > I am in need of help - I'm stuck at work (night shift, television tx > in London) and I am hopelessly underprepared, with no access to the > net other than email, and I've been surviving in the past by > subscribing to all the FreeBSD mailing lists. But it occurred to me > that I might be able to pull some FAQ's and other stuff from mit.edu > or some other general repository of information. I thought there > might be a way to do this Try this. Send an email To: mail-server@rtfm.mit.edu Enter only this line in the BODY of the message: send usenet/news.answers/internet-services/access-via-email That document will show you how to FTP, read Usenet news, browse the web, access IMDB, and yes, download FAQs :) via email. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message