Subj : Getting Around Usenet Censors (part III) ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ * Forwarded (from: libernet) by Ken Wiebe using timEd 1.01. From: Vernon Imrich Reply-To: libernet-d@Dartmouth.EDU [FAQ continues] 2.4 Gopher Usenet news is available through gopher. To find it, search for "usenet news -t7" in veronica, or use these sites: [BEGIN INCLUDED FILE: 3] gopher -pnntp phantom.bsu.edu 4320 gopher -pnntp phred.math.byu.edu 4321 gopher -pnntp jupiter.cc.gettysburg.edu 3030 gopher -pnntp gopher.ic.ac.uk 4320 gopher -pnntp teetot.acusd.edu 4320 gopher -pnntp gopher.sdsu.edu 4320 gopher -pnntp pinus.slu.se 4324 gopher -pnntp services.canberra.edu.au 4320 gopher -pnntp gopher.cc.umanitoba.ca 4320 gopher -pnntp anemone.uta.fi 6671 gopher -pnntp morse.cns.vt.edu 4320 gopher -pnntp gopher.msu.edu 4320 gopher -pnntp gopher.denet.dk 4320 gopher -pnntp rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu 4320 gopher -pnntp cwis.oac.uci.edu 4324 gopher -pnntp gopher.acs.oakland.edu 4320 gopher -pnntp hengill.rhi.hi.is 4324 gopher -pnntp mudhoney.micro.umn.edu 4324 gopher -pnntp pinchy.micro.umn.EDU 4324 gopher -pnntp ccat.sas.upenn.edu 4324 gopher -pnntp info.anu.edu.au 71 gopher -pnntp cc.nsysu.edu.tw 4320 gopher -pnntp nuinfo.nwu.edu 4321 gopher -pnntp knot.queensu.ca 17502 gopher -pnntp info.mcc.ac.uk 4320 [END INCLUDED FILE] Christopher K. Neitzert (neitzert@astro.ocis.temple.edu) posted this list of gopher-accessable news sites: gopher -pnntp rodeo.uwyo.edu 71 gopher -pnntp info-server.lanl.gov 4320 gopher -pnntp gopher.fsu.EDU 4320 gopher -pnntp butler.cc.tut.fi 6671 gopher -pnntp newsserver.rrzn.uni-hannover.de 4320 gopher -pnntp gopher.rz.uni-osnabrueck.de 4320 gopher -pnntp cd4680fs.rrze.uni-erlangen.de 4320 gopher -pnntp infopub.uqam.ca 4320 gopher -pnntp gopher.cranfield.ac.uk 4324 gopher -pnntp gopher.edvz.uni-linz.ac.at 4320 gopher -pnntp gopher.ru.ac.za 4324 gopher -pnntp usage.csd.unsw.OZ.AU 4320 gopher -pnntp gopher.uji.es 4320 gopher -pnntp risc.upol.cz 4320 gopher -pnews saturn.wwc.edu 4320 gopher -p"1/Usenet News" aurora.latech.edu 70 gopher -p"1/News/Usenet" milo.sdsc.edu 70 gopher -p"1/info.sc/tech/srv.ext/news" ifdh.sc.ucl.ac.be 70 gopher -p"1/Usenet" gopher.bham.ac.uk 70 gopher -p"1/Internet/News" solaris.rz.tu-clausthal.de 70 gopher -p"1/news" gopher.ictp.trieste.it 70 gopher -p"1/news" pub.vse.cz 70 gopher -p".news/" mirzam.ccc.upv.es 70 gopher -p"1/.nn" olymp.wu-wien.ac.at 70 2.5 Mail to news gateways Mail to news gateways are sites that will take any article given to them and forward it to news. For information on these, mail mg5n+remailers@andrew.cmu.edu with any message, or finger remailer@chaos.berkeley.edu. From the latest version of the file that I have: [BEGIN INCLUDED FILE: 4] Anonymous postings to usenet can be made by sending anonymous mail to one of the following mail-to-usenet gateways: group.name@demon.co.uk group.name@news.demon.co.uk group.name@bull.com group.name@cass.ma02.bull.com group.name@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca group.name@charm.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu group.name@comlab.ox.ac.uk group.name@nic.funet.fi group.name@cs.dal.ca group.name@ug.cs.dal.ca group.name@paris.ics.uci.edu (removes headers) group.name.usenet@decwrl.dec.com (Preserves all headers) [END INCLUDED FILE] Some of these change fairly often. 2.6 Internet services list This is not a direct way to access news, but it does list many places, and it changes often. To get the internet services list, look in alt.internet.services, comp.misc, biz.comp.services, alt.bbs.internet, news.answers, comp.answers, or alt.answers, or ftp to rtfm.mit.edu, or archie for inet.services.txt, or finger yanoff@csd4.csd.uwm.edu. 2.7 I only have access to... ...telnet. With access to telnet, you can access any of the free services providers listed above. You can also access one of the many gopher servers that will allow you to read news. These are listed in the internet services list. Information on this list is in section 1.7. Here's the relevant information from the latest version I have: [BEGIN EXCERPTS FROM INCLUDED FILE: 1] telnet consultant.micro.umn.edu telnet seymour.md.gov telnet gopher.msu.edu telnet twosocks.ces.ncsu.edu telnet cat.ohiolink.edu telnet wsuaix.csc.wsu.edu (Login: wsuinfo) telnet telnet.wiscinfo.wisc.edu (Login: wiscinfo) telnet infoslug.ucsc.edu [INFOSLUG] telnet infopath.ucsd.edu (Login: infopath) telnet sunsite.unc.edu telnet ux1.cso.uiuc.edu telnet panda.uiowa.edu telnet inform.umd.edu telnet solar.rtd.utk.edu telnet grits.valdosta.peachnet.edu telnet gopher.virginia.edu (Login: gwis) telnet ecosys.drdr.virginia.edu telnet nicol.jvnc.net (Login: NICOL) telnet finfo.tu-graz.ac.at (Login: info) telnet info.anu.edu.au (Login: info) telnet tolten.puc.cl [Chile] telnet gopher.denet.dk [Denmark] telnet gopher.th-darmstadt.de telnet ecnet.ec [Ecuador] telnet gopher.uv.es [Spain] telnet gopher.isnet.is [Iceland] telnet siam.mi.cnr.it [Italy] telnet gopher.torun.edu.pl [Poland] telnet info.sunet.se [Sweden] telnet gopher.chalmers.se [Sweden] telnet hugin.ub2.lu.se [Sweden] telnet gopher.itu.ch [Switz.] telnet gopher.brad.ac.uk (Login: info) offers: Access to other services, gophers, documents, etc. (Login: gopher) [END EXCERPTS FROM INCLUDED FILE] You can also access the web via telnet. From http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/FAQ/Bootstrap.html#z11 via Carl M. Kadie: telnet info.cern.ch telnet ukanaix.cc.ukans.edu (login: www) telnet www.njit.edu (login: www) telnet vms.huji.ac.il (login: www) telnet sun.uakom.cs telnet fserv.kfki.hu (login: www) telnet info.funet.fi ....email. Many groups are mirrored in a mailing list; also, some sites have ftp archives. The best way to find if the group you are interested in has this service is to check the faq; these faqs are available through the ftp site rtfm.mit.edu. Ftp service is available through email. For information on ftp-through-mail, look in the internet services list. Here's the important information from the latest info I have: [BEGIN INCLUDED FILE: 1] mail ftpmail@decwrl.dec.com mail bitftp@pucc.princeton.edu mail bitftp@dearn or to bitftp@vm.gmd.de (Europe only) mail ftpmail@ftp.uni-stuttgart.de mail ftpmail@grasp.insa-lyon.fr mail bitftp@plearn.edu.pl or bitftp@plearn (Europe) mail ftpmail@doc.ic.ac.uk or ftpmail@sunsite.unc.edu Body-of-letter: help or ftplist for a list of anon. ftp sites. [END INCLUDED FILE] Also, it is possible for someone to mail you certain newsgroups with a simple perl script (if they have access to a shell account). For information on this, write me; it's still in the works. It's actually possible to gopher through email. From the internet services list: [BEGIN EXCERPTS FROM INCLUDED FILE: 1] mail gophermail@ncc.go.jp mail gophermail@calvin.edu mail gopher@solaris.ims.ac.jp mail gopher@earn.net [END EXCERPTS FROM INCLUDED FILE] Include any subject but no body. You can also access the web via email. Send mail to listserv@info.cern.ch, and include the line: "help". For any group that is moderated, you can submit messages directly to the moderator (via email) instead of the normal posting method; this is all a newsreader does for moderated newsgroups. To find out which groups are moderated and the moderation address, you can ftp to rtfm.mit.edu and get /pub/usenet/news.answers/moderator-list/partX, where "X" is the number of the separate parts. You can also subscribe to mailing lists that mirror newsgroups. To get a list of these, you can ftp to rtfm.mit.edu and get /pub/usenet/news.ansers/mail/news-gateways/partX, where "X" is the number of the separate parts. ...ftp. Many newsgroups are archived. The best way to find out about this is to check the faq for that group, available at rtfm.mit.edu. ....gopher. News is directly available through gopher; search for "usenet" in veronica, or look at the list above. Also, you can gopher to any of the above gopher sites to see some very full-featured gopher sites. It is also possible to telnet through gopher; this can be done by gohering to services.more.net, or be searching for "Telnet Resources" in veronica. The path is: services.more.net: Other Information and Resources (Internet)/ Tools for surfing the net/ Telnet Resources/ Open telnet/ From there, you can enter any telnet site (including the sites listed above and read news). To search for other possible open telnet sites, search for "telnet -t78" in veronica. You can also ftp through gopher; the path is: gopher.tv.umn.edu: 1/ FTP Searches/ Popular FTP Sites via Gopher/ From there, you can get files from many sites. =======================================================================