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1993 Fools: New Mail service available: IRC by Mail
From samba!concert!uvaarpa!caen!msuinfo!uwm.edu!wupost!uunet!inmos!marble.uknet.ac.uk!mcsun!sun4nl!dutrun!donau!zen.et.tudelft.nl!cornet Thu Apr 1 06:05:50 EST 1993 Article: 4466 of alt.internet.services Xref: samba alt.internet.services:4466 alt.irc:8642 Newsgroups: alt.internet.services,alt.irc Path: samba!concert!uvaarpa!caen!msuinfo!uwm.edu!wupost!uunet!inmos!marble.uknet.ac.uk!mcsun!sun4nl!dutrun!donau!zen.et.tudelft.nl!cornet From: cornet@zen.et.tudelft.nl (Jan-Pieter Cornet) Subject: New Mail service available Message-ID: <1993Apr01.003459.27958@donau.et.tudelft.nl> Summary: mail <ircmail@ircserver.et.tudelft.nl> and see what happens Keywords: irc,mail Sender: news@donau.et.tudelft.nl (UseNet News System) Nntp-Posting-Host: zen.et.tudelft.nl Organization: Delft University of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering Date: Thu, 01 Apr 1993 00:34:59 GMT Lines: 63 Dear reader, As of today, 1-4-1993, a new mail service is made available. Parallel to developments like ftpmail and the archie mail interface, we've decided to make yet another useful internet service available to anyone capable of sending and receiving Email messages. IRCMAIL -- IRCMAIL -- IRCMAIL -- IRCMAIL -- IRCMAIL -- IRCMAIL -- IRCMAIL The IRCMAIL interface allows you to access the Interactive Remote Conferencing (IRC) system using your mailer! This opens unique possiblities for people with UUCP connections, people behind firewalls, people on private networks with no direct internet access, etcetera! Usage of the server is extremely simple: Send a mail message to: <ircmail@ircserver.et.tudelft.nl> If you are located on a net that requires a special address format to send messages to the internet, then adapt accordingly. As the subject, choose a channel name. IRC is divided into several channels to organise the discussions. You will join the channel that is mentioned in the subject line. The current version of ircmail does not allow you to switch channels during the discussion. Any text in the body of the mail will be sent to the channel. ircmail will try to be smart and allows other participants of the discussion to reply to your remarks before continuing with the next line. After completing your session, a logfile with the progress of the discussion will be sent back to you. Here's an example ircmail session from a fictive unix host that's able to send mail directly to the internet: % mail ircmail@ircserver.et.tudelft.nl Subject: aussies Hello, are you concerned about the hole in the ozone layer? Oh, really? . EOT After completing the discussion you will get a logfile with all the conversations that took place via Email. We hope you will enjoy this new service. If you have any questions you are free to mail the admin of ircserver, irc@ircserver.et.tudelft.nl. Or you can call TOLL-FREE: 800-040193 MAIL !! This service was jointly develloped by JohnPC, jim_bob and Nono. Sincerely, -- Jan-Pieter Cornet James Grinter Arnaud Girsch
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