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Agora (dna.affrc.go.jp)

Category: web-to-email servers

Posting address: agora@dna.affrc.go.jp
Command: in the message body
Web page: none, but there is an online help file at
          http://www.dna.affrc.go.jp/misc/Agora/Help.txt

Syntax and returned document:
SEND <URL>
	Returns a text dump of the requested page.
	If you request a binary file (eg: image, PDF), it returns a
	uu-encoded attachment.

SOURCE <URL>
	Returns the source HTML of the requested page

BSOURCE <URL>
	Returns the requested resource as a uu-encoded attachment.

RSEND <return-email-address> <URL>
RSOURCE <return-email-address> <URL>
	Same as SEND and SOURCE, but Agora will return the requested resource
	to <return-email-address>
	
DEEP <URL>
	Returns the requested resource, and documents to which it is linked,
	each in a separate email. Note that the total number of lines in
	these emails will not be more than 5,000.

Character encoding issues:
	The character set of Agora emails is us-ascii. Web pages which have
	characters with code positions greater than 127 (eg: diacritics,
	Unicode) are corrupted. However, you can use BSOURCE to retrieve such
	files as uu-encoded attachments.

Recommendation:
	Use SEND if your target is
		- a text file
		- an English language web page
	Use SOURCE if you need
		- the markup of an English language web page
	Use DEEP only if your target and *all* its links are
		- small text files
		- small English language web pages
	Use BSOURCE if your target is
		- a web page in a language which uses diacritics
		- a web page in a language which does not use the Latin alphabet
		- a binary file

Other:
	- The Agora server at dna.affrc.go.jp is for requests to research and
	  academic sites only.
	- Before using Agora, get and read the 'help' file: send an email to
	  agora@dna.affrc.go.jp with HELP as the message body.
	- Agora attachments always have the name AGORA.BIN. To save the
	  attachment, give it a name and filetype appropriate for your system,
	  eg: if it is a PDF file, save AGORA.BIN as <something>.pdf
	- The maximum length of an Agora email is 5000 lines. This is long
	  enough for most web pages and text files, but excludes large uu-
	  encoded binary files. Note that uu-encoded files are significantly
	  larger than the original.
	- Use DEEP only if you are *certain* that you will be able to read the
	  return pages, and if you *know* that the combined length of the pages
	  is less than 5,000 lines.

Examples:
	Email to: agora@dna.affrc.go.jp
	Subject: (anything)
	with message body:
		SEND http://szs.net/emailonly/tiny.html
		SOURCE http://szs.net/emailonly/tiny.html
		BSOURCE http://szs.net/emailonly/tiny.gif

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