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The Agora email server allows Internauts without a full Internet connection to download Web pages and read them with a workstation browser. Web documents can be retrieved as HTML or text with absolute or relative embedded URLs. (Doesn't work with image maps.) Two US servers are and . [08Mar96.]

Doctor Bob's "Accessing The Internet By E-Mail" is in its 5th edition, as of Mar96. Post a "send usenet/news.answers/internet-services/access-via-email" message to . (For translations into 25 languages, post a "send list" message to .) To join an announcement/discussion list, send a "subscribe accmail your name" message to . [Ken Scrogan , comp.mail.eudora.ms- windows, 17Jun97.]

See also Mary Houten-Kemp's Internet E-Mail Resource Site, . Discussion lists, news by email, address directories, business uses, etc. Tips include starting your own email-based mailing list or autoresponder. [, net-hap, 06Feb97.]

Email4U, Getit4U, and Pix4U are files that explain how to use email to retrieve files, programs, and documents from FTP and WWW sites. Post a "send email4u" subject line (or whichever) to . [26Aug96.]

Other sources of Email4U, etc., include and . (You can retrieve them with a "send URL" message to , where URL is replaced with "ftp:..." or "http:...".) [Bob Appleton , 16Feb97, net-hap.] (Appleton has also compiled a Fun4U list of "random" or humor sites, such as two that return synthetic speeches in the styles of Bill Clinton and Newt Gingrich.)

Gophermail can retrieve gopher menus and text through email. .

To send free faxes via the Internet, post a "send usenet/news.answers/internet-services/fax-faq" message to . [26Aug96.]

Ftpmail is a service that makes ftp files more accessible through email. . [08Mar96.]

For a full-featured service that sends faxes from email, contact . Free trial period. [26Aug96.]

Scott Yanoff's listing of ftpmail servers is also available. . [08Mar96.]

"PaperMail!' will send an email message via snailmail, for a fee, if the recipient does not have email. . [26Aug96.]