The Discordant Opposition Journal Issue 9 - File 5
Accessing banned web pages!
By: Kleptic - kleptic@grex.org
If you can't visit a banned website directly, you can retrieve it by e-mail using a Webmail server. Just e-mail the Webmail server with the URL of the webpage you would like to see, and within a few minutes, hours, or days (depending on the server) the server will send you the page as HTML code. Once you have the HTML, you can view the website's text (but not always the graphics) on your computer. If the server returns only a sites text, you can view the sites graphics by retrieving them with the server, by telling it to follow the URLs for the various graphics.
For example, to retrieve text from a website, you could send e-mail to the webmail@www.ucc.ie site using the following:
To: webmail@www.ucc.ie
Subject: none
GO http://www.cnn.com
This tells the server webmail@www.ucc.ie to send you the webpage at http://www.cnn.com
NOTE: For the agora, getweb, and w3mail servers, you don't get HTML code, you get a text version. Replace SEND with SOURCE to get the actual HTML code for the page.
Of course, half the fun of visiting websites is vciewing their graphics. If you want to retrieve the text and graphics from a website, use the w3mail@gmd.de server, which can send you text and images as unencoded text. To use the w3mail server, send a message like this:
To: w3mail@gmd.de
Subject:
get -img http://www.unitedmedia.com/comics/dilbert/
When you decode the file you receive (probably sent as several parts), you'll create an HTML file and several GIF files. You can then open the HTML file with your favorite Web browser and see the webpage exactly as it would appear with ta "live" Web connection.
Here are some webmail servers to try together with the text to send in the body of your message. Leave the Subject blank in all cases.
WEB MAIL ADDRESSES SYNTAX TO USE
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agora@dna.affrc.go.jp END <URL>
agora@kamakura.mss.co.jp SEND <URL>
getweb@usa.healthnet.org GET <URL>
getweb@unganisha.idrc.ca GET <URL>
webmail@www.ucc.ie GO <URL>
w3mail@gmd.de GET <URL>
Web-mail@ebay.com <URL>
Although time consuming, using e-mail to view the World Wide Web can help you avoid any parental, office, or government restrictions you might face. Unless someone takes the time to examine every e-mail you receive, no one will likely know that you've been accessing forbidden websites.
Thats all for now... later!
- kleptic
kleptic@grex.org
