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Subject: Help From CSNET INFO SERVER
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Request: info
Topic: help
Document Updated: 15 Nov 90
Subject: 'Help' for request 'info' in the CSNET Info-Server
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CSNET Coordination and Information Center (CIC) Hotline: (617) 873-2777
10 Moulton Street, Cambridge, MA 02138 Email: cic@sh.cs.net
Info-Server requests to: info-server@sh.cs.net
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'HELP' FOR REQUEST 'INFO' IN THE CSNET INFO-SERVER
REQUEST: INFO is a set of CSNET general information documents. See
below for a list of topics.
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* IMPORTANT *
* To prevent failed messages from causing infinite loops, the *
* mail address 'cic@sh.cs.net' is placed in the From: and *
* Reply-To: field of the documents sent by the automated Info- *
* Server. But please do NOT use 'cic@sh.cs.net' when you *
* order documents from the automated Info-Server. You should *
* send document requests to 'info-server@sh.cs.net'. *
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There are several REQUEST collections, each with its own HELP document:
They are: CALENDAR, FTP, INFO, CREN, NSFNET, RFC, MOD-SOURCES.
An example request to 'info-server@sh.cs.net' is:
request: INFO
TOPIC: HElp
request: end
Requests are insensitive to case and the number of spaces on a line.
For detailed information about REQUEST categories, using the
Info-Server, including splitting large messages, and for FTP
instructions for Internet users, see the end of this message.
You are encouraged to suggest additional documents you would like to
have available from the CSNET Info-Server.
Thank you.
The CSNET Staff
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CURRENT CSNET INFO DOCUMENTS FOR 'REQUEST: INFO'
Order by either topic name (help) or topic no. (info-1), but not both!
For set of 'basic' documents (marked *), order 'topic: basic'
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Topic Name Topic No. Date Subject Length
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GENERAL INFO
help info-1 25 Oct 90 *This document 13K
what-is-csnet info-2 16 Oct 89 *What is CSNET? 6K
csnet-cic info-3 2 Oct 90 *CSNET CIC 5K
csnet-routing 4 Apr 90 Draft CSNET Routing Topology Design 8K
cren-acceptable-use 3 Aug 90 CREN Acceptable Use Policy 5K
nsfnet-acceptable-use 3 Aug 90 NSFNET Acceptable Use Policy 4K
fips-500-166 16 Apr 90 Computer Viruses and Related
Threats: A Management Guide 136K za
fips-500-166.ps 16 Apr 90 fips-500-169: POSTSCRIPT version 312K
fips-500-169 16 Apr 90 Executive Guide to the Protection
of Information Resources 23K
fips-500-170 16 Apr 90 Management Guide to the Protection
of Information Resources 24K
fips-500-169 16 Apr 90 Computer User's Guide to the Pro-
tection of Information Resources 16K
virus 4 Nov 88 Internet Computer Virus Update 22K
trojan 16 Dec 89 All three Trojan messages (see below)
trojan-1 12 Dec 89 Major Trojan Warning 4K
trojan-2 13 Dec 89 AIDS Trojan Update 4K
trojan-3 16 Dec 89 AIDS Trojan Update #3 12K
hgi rfc1118 11 Sep 87 Hitchhiker's Guide to Internet 60K
local-network 3 Oct 88 Introduction to Administration of
(also Topic: hedrick-article) an Internet-based Local Network 184K
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tcp-ip-over-x.25 CSNET Technical Recommendations for TCP/IP-over-X.25 3K
amt.telenet X.121 Address Mapping Table for X.25 hosts 4K
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mail-lists-intro 24 Mar 89 *Mailing lists on the Internet 13K
interest-groups 21 Sep 90 Detailed info on mailing lists 520K
usenet-uucp ml-3 8 Apr 86 Introduction to USENET and UUCP 4K
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SITES (Human-readable site lists)
csnet-sites sites-1 2 Oct 90 *CSNET Sites (Alphabetical) 14K
mil-host-administrators 30 Jul 90 MILNET Admin Names and Addresses 1280K
arpa-equiv sites-3 16 Apr 87 EQUIV ARPA-TOP NAMES 92K
dfn-sites 7 Sep 87 DFN (W. Germany) 7K
jnt-nrs-sites sites-9 11 Oct 89 JNT NRS (JANET - United Kingdom) 280K
csnet-geo-sites sites-10 2 Oct 90 CSNET Sites by Geography 14K
acsnet-sites sites-11 15 Jan 87 acsnet (Australia) 18K
sdn-sites sites-15 2 Apr 87 SDN (Korea) 5K
csnet-config.ps 8 Nov 89 Cognfiguration of CSNET CIC hosts 22K
csnet-map.ps 15 Oct 89 Geographic map of CSNET sites 112K
predomain-sites 14 Nov 89 Predomain Names of CSNET Sites 7K
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csnet-adr adr-1 20 Jun 90 *CSNET Addresses/Domains 13K
trans-dom adr-2 20 Jun 90 *Transition to Domains 2K
othernets adr-3 11 May 89 Addresses for Other Networks 15K
cmr adr-9 11 May 89 Commercial Mail Relay Service 15K
compuserve 25 Oct 90 Compuserve-Internet Email Gateway 2K
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csnet-bbl bbl-1 9 May 88 *CSNET bibliography 5K
rfc-sets bbl-3 2 Aug 88 *RFC Sets (by topic) 7K
rfc1000 15 Aug 87 RFC Reference Guide 20K
rfc-index bbl-6 automatic update RFC Index: Since 1969 112K
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BITNET
bitnet-domain-guide 18 Sep 89 Guide to domain names & VM mailer 19K
bitnet-domain-names 18 Sep 89 Internet style, for BITNET hosts 22K
bitnet-gates Mar 90 Gateways BITNET to other nets 26K
bitnet-links sites-5 Apr 90 BITNET/ASIANET/EARN/NETNORTH nodes 240K
bitnet-nodetree 17 Feb 90 BITNET Nodetree 184K
bitnet-overview Nov 89 BITNET Overview 6K
bitnet-servers Feb 90 (Most not accessible from Internet) 51K
bitnet-topics Dec 89 BITNET Discussion topics 3K
bitnet-topology sites-6 18 Feb 90 BITNET/ASIANET/EARN/NETNORTH nodes 184K
bitnet-userhelp Jun 89 For new users 43K
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csnet-dom-reg dom-1 10 Feb 88 CSNET Domain registration appl. 7K
domain-summary dom-2 31 Oct 89 *DDN NIC Domain Summary 5K
top-domains-IP dom-3 31 Oct 89 *Top, foreign, with IP nos. 3K
top-domains-short 9 Jun 89 *Top, foreign, short explanantion 12K
top-domains-long 3 Mar 89 *Top, foreign, long explanantion 23K
domain-CA 25 Nov 87 Canadian domains 4K
US-domain Mar 90 Policy and registration appl. 16K
using-mx 21 Apr 89 Using MX Records, PhoneNet & IP 10
mx-domains automatic update Domains that handle MX records 4K
what-the-nic-does Jun 90 DDN Network Information Center 17K
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fixaddr *Mail-based, converts mailing lists to domain-style hostnames 2K
nslookup Mail-based, queries domain-servers about Internet and MX hosts 3K
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forum-1-1 ... forum-1-14 CSNET-FORUM vol 1 1984-85 forum-1 Complete volume
forum-2-1 ... forum-2-12 CSNET-FORUM vol 2 1986 forum-2 Complete volume
forum-3-1 ... forum-3-7 CSNET-FORUM vol 3 1987 forum-3 Complete volume
forum-4-1 ... forum-4-6 CSNET-FORUM vol 4 1988 forum-4 Complete volume
forum-5-1 ... forum-5-6 CSNET-FORUM vol 5 1989 forum-5 Complete volume
forum-6-1 ... forum-6-4 CSNET-FORUM vol 6 1990 forum-6 to date
mr-protocol THE COLLECTED MR. PROTOCOL 1984-85 60K
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mh6 msys-1 5 Nov 86 MH.6 Message System 4K
vms-mailer msys-2 23 May 86 VMS-PMDF Mailer 9K
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domain-template Oct 90 Domain Registration Template 7K
host-template Dec 89 Internet Host Template 2K
number-template May 90 Internet Number Template 8K
arpanet-user-template Mar 89 ARPANET User Template 9K
vendors-template Aug 89 DDN Protocol Implementations and
Vendors Guide 4K
netinfo-index Mar 89 NETINFO directory listing 3K
asn-template Jul 90 Autonomous Number Template (ASN) 7K
in-addr-template Jun 90 In-Addr.Arpa Registration Template 3K
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netlib-paper 4 Mar 86 Dist. of Math Software (Troff) 25K
netlib-paper.txt 4 Mar 86 same, plain text 29K
netlib-index 8 Jan 88 General Index (partial) 10K
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ns-intro ns-1 25 Jan 90 *User Name Server: Intro 12K
ns-query ns-2 25 Jan 90 *Query the User Name Server 13K
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SENDMAIL
sendmail-cf-doc Apr 87 Tutorial for Erik Fair's cf files 6K
sendmail-bbn 21 Feb 90 cf file for bbn.com 9K
ease2 8 Feb 89 Ease2.0, a language for sendmail.cf (3 parts)
(in Request: mod.sources, volume 17)
sendmail-generic Apr 87 cf file for Internet-UUCP, by Erik Fair 12K
sendmail-internet-generic cf file for Internet-only, by Erik Fair 10K
sendmail-tutorial 1985 Tutorial, by Dr. Charles Hedrick 16K
sendmail-debug 22 Apr 87 Shell script for sendmail.cf files 2K
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sigcomm-paper 26 Feb 88 CSNET Info Server (troff) 32K
status automatic update Exceptional CSNET Systems 3K
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usenet-map 10 Dec 87 The USENET Backbone 6K
usenet-uucp ml-3 8 Apr 86 Introduction to UUCP and USENET 4K
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"REQUEST" CATEGORIES
REQUEST: CALENDAR Information about meetings and conferences of
interest to the Internet community, by month.
REQUEST: FTP (Currently not available.)
The EMAIL-FTP service will be provided by CSNET for
sites that do not have FTP access to the Internet.
This service is temporarily down for repairs.
When it is back in service, we will announce it
in CSNET-FORUM and in this help document.
REQUEST: INFO CSNET general information documents. We are in the
process of switching from document numbers, e.g.,
'sites-1' to document names, e.g., 'csnet-sites'.
In the near future, we will drop the document numbers
and place the listing of info documents in a separate
INDEX file. Even so, we will continue to recognize
and honor the document numbers from older help files.
REQUEST: CREN Documents about CREN (Corporation for Research and
Educational Networking. Board List, Board Minutes,
and documents about the BITNET-CSNET merger.
REQUEST: NSFNET NSFNET general information documents.
REQUEST: RFC Documents in the 'Request for Comments' series
published by the DDN Network Information Center
(NIC). We don't stock all of them but we will
try to get any you want if we don't have them.
Document names are 'rfcnnn' where 'nnn' is
the report number. Last topic: rfc1138
REQUEST: MOD-SOURCES (or MOD.SOURCES) An archive collection of public-
domain programs from from the 'mod.sources' mailing
list, distributed by USENET netnews. These Unix
source files have been selected and tested by the
mod.sources moderator. Send for the topics HELP and
INDEX.
GENERAL INFORMATION ABOUT THE INFO-SERVER
The CSNET Info-Server is an automatic program that delivers information
by electronic mail. To order a document from the Info-Server, send a
message to 'INFO-SERVER@sh.cs.net'. You do not need a subject field. The
text of your message must be in a special format, such as:
REQUEST: INFO
TOPIC: HELP
TOPIC: ADR-3
REQUEST: END
This request asks for two documents 'HELP' and 'ADR-3' from the
collection 'INFO'. Your message must have a 'REQUEST' line, and one or
more 'TOPIC:' lines to specify one or more documents. The line
'REQUEST: END' is optional; it tells the Info-server to ignore the rest
of the message.
To send documents to an address that is different from the address in
your From: field, please include a Reply-to: field in the header of
your message. Do NOT include a Reply-to: or Acknowledge-to: field in
the body of the message -- the Info-Server won't recognize them.
For each request message, the Info-Server generates a receipt message
which includes the list of documents sent, a report of errrors in the
request, and, if a Reply-to: field is used, the address in the From:
field of the request message.
You may combine different requests in the same message, and use any
combination of upper- and lower-case letters in your text. You may also
include or omit spaces and tabs, use any number of REQUEST and TOPIC
lines, and omit 'REQUEST: END'.
REQUEST : info
byte-limit: 22000
topic: tbl-4a (Byte-limit in effect; see below)
TOPIC: ml-2
Request : rfc
TOPIC : rfc822 (Byte-limit not in effect)
If you include 'REQUEST: END', the Info-Server will ignore whatever
follows in your message. If you include 'REQUEST: ATTENTION', the INFO
SERVER will ignore whatever follows and deliver your entire message to
'cic@sh.cs.net'. (This conforms to MOSIS; we prefer that you send
ordinary questions directly to 'cic@sh.cs.net.)
IF YOU HAVE PROBLEMS WITH LARGE MESSAGES
The CSNET Info-Server is now set to split transmit documents with a
maximum size of 49000 bytes (49K bytes). The reason is that some
important mail gateways reject messages longer than an arbitrary limit,
and others have difficulty with long messages from time to time.
You may specify a limit, in lines or bytes, to the maximum size of
document that you wish to have sent in a single message. For example:
LINE-LIMIT: 1000 or BYTE-LIMIT: 25K
The Info-Server will break the documents at exactly the specified number
of lines, or at the line preceeding the specified number of bytes. The
minimum limit is 250 lines or 19000 bytes. You may use the form '25000'
or '25K' in either limit, but NOT '25,000'. The limit affects only
lines up to the next REQUEST: line.
You should set your limit at least 5K lower than the limit set by your
gateway to allow for added header lines.
INTERNET, LEASED-LINE, X25NET AND DIAL-UP IP USERS
You may use the file transfer protocol, 'ftp', to retrieve documents
from SH.CS.NET. Log in as 'anonymous' with password 'guest'.
Info documents and copies of the CSNET-FORUM are individual files in
the directory 'info'. For example, a copy of CSNET-FORUM V1 #10 has
The pathname 'info/forum1-10'. (This is a Unix host, so type all
filenames in lowercase.)
RFCs (e.g., RFC822) are in 'rfc' (e.g., 'rfc/rfc822.txt'), and sources
are in 'sources'.
A single topic may be split up into multiple files, in which case the
document name may be a directory, and the individual files in the
directory will have names such as 'part01'.
The mod.sources documents are also available from sh.cs.net by
anonymous FTP, in the directory 'mod.sources', which contains the
usbdirectories 'volume1', 'volume2', etc. These documents are also
available as compressed files, ending with '.Z', on the host
uunet.uu.net.