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Fun with E-Mail
by smbea < mabelle@msc.net.ph >
A Little Fun With E-Mail
Who says you can't have any fun using e-mail? More than just a means of sending a note to someone you've met on the internet, e-mail has several useful and fun uses for you. You can do your searching by e-mail. You can have pizza delivered to you on your mailbox. You can play games through e-mail. You can ftp via e-mail. You can even have Shakespeare insult you. All these by just using your e-mail.
Here're some samples:
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Get insulted by Shakespeare. |
Send e-mail to: agora@dna.affrc.go.jp and put "SEND http://www.nova.edu/Inter-Links/cgi-bin/bard.pl" in the BODY |
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What's in your name? |
Send e-mail to agora@dna.affrc.go.jp and put
SEND http://www.kabalarians.com/male/<name>.htm"
(if you're male) or
"SEND http://www.kabalarians.com/female/<name>.htm"
(if you're a female).
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Order a Cyber-Pizza!
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Send empty messages to
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Aesop's Fables |
Send a message to bitftp@pucc.princeton.edu and put in the BODY of the message:
open ftp.cdrom.com
cd /pub/simtelnet/msdos/educate
get fables.zip
quit
You will receive a 136Kb zipped file of a free program that will give you over 300 Aesop's fables. |
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Ask-A-Geologist |
Send your earth-shattering questions to ask-a-geologist@octopus.wr.usgs.gov |
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WWW Search by E-mail |
Now you can search the web without having to open up your browser.
To access search engines by e-mail, send a message to getweb@unganisha.idrc.ca
with a line like this in the message body:
search <engine> <keywords>
Replace "engine" with Yahoo, Altavista, Lycos, or any other search engine and substitute your search parameters to "keywords". |
For more fun stuff on how you can use your e-mail, you can send mail to: agora@dna.affrc.go.jp with ONE of these lines in the body of the message:
http://inetw.com/home/ak/4useries/email4u.txt
send http://members.aol.com/bombagirl/freeware/email4u.txt
ftp://ftp.crl.com/users/iv/iverham/email4u.txt
References
- Internet Essentials by Linda Armbruster, 1994
- ICONnect Online Courses, 1996
- Fun4U by Bob Appleton, 1997
- Email4U by Bob Appleton, 1997
- Accessing the Internet by E-Mail by Bob Rankin, 1998
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All rights reserved.
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