- From: Katherine Morrow <kmorrow@bellanet.org>
- Date: Tue, 19 Jan 1999 17:50:24 -0500
- To: <www4mail-comments@w3.org>
Bellanet has set up a new free www4mail server at www4mail@web.bellanet.org Here is a copy of the announcement: >--------START----- > >Bellanet is setting up a free Webmail server as a public service to people >whose access to the Internet is limited to email -- especially people in >developing countries. > >WHAT IS WEBMAIL? > >If you have email, but are unable to surf the Web, Webmail lets you retrieve >information from any public Web site, anywhere in the world. > >There is still a large community of Internet users who only have access to >email. They cannot surf the Web. Webmail is an automated Internet service >that grabs documents from the Web, and sends them to users as email >messages. > >People in remote areas, or who are isolated by politics or by poverty, often >rely on email for long-distance communication, and for access to current >medical, scientific, human rights, and business information, not to mention >world news. Webmail is an information lifeline for people in Africa and >other parts of the world where communication, whether by mail, fax, phone, >or dial-up access to the Internet, is expensive, and often unreliable. > >There are approximately 15 servers worldwide that offer Webmail service free >of charge. These servers, mainly run by volunteers, are bombarded with >requests, with the result that they are frequently overloaded and subject to >crashes. To help ease the pressure, The Bellanet International Secretariat >in Ottawa, Canada has set up a new Webmail server using www4mail technology. > >HOW DOES IT WORK? > >To use the system, send an email message to: www4mail@web.bellanet.org > >Your email message should look like this: > >-------------------------------------------- >TO: www4mail@web.bellanet.org >CC: >BCC: >SUBJECT: >-------------------------------------------- >http://www.bellanet.org/email.html > > > > >-------------------------------------------- > >In the example shown above, the sender is requesting a page from the >Bellanet Web site which contains more information about Webmail. In your >message, substitute http://www.bellanet.org/email.html with the URL (a Web >address beginning with http://) of the Web page you wish to read. > >You will receive your document by return email in HTML format. You can then >view the document in any Web browser (such as Netscape, Lynx, or Internet >Explorer), but without having to be connected to the Internet to do so. To >receive a plain text (ASCII) message instead of HTML, insert the word GET >before the URL. > >ABOUT BELLANET > >Bellanet is an international initiative which is looking at ways of using >information and communications technology to enhance information sharing and >collaboration in the area of international development assistance. The >Webmail Project will further this agenda by helping to close the information >gap between rich and poor. > >Bellanet -- Supporting Development Collaboration > http://www.bellanet.org > info@bellanet.org > >---------END------------ > >Best regards, > >Katherine Morrow >Communications Officer >(613) 236-6163 ext. 2398 > >Bellanet -- Supporting Development Collaboration > http://www.bellanet.org > > >
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