Miata Mailing List: July 1994, Message #191
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   From: Steve Ling 
Subject: Miata list via Gopher
   Date: Fri, 8 Jul 1994 13:49:02 -0400

OK, so I'm a little slow. Actually, I'm lazy. I had heard all this about 
gophers but never looked into it. Then I moved to a new job and changed 
to Netcom for Internet access. On my old system I could save all the 
daily Miata digests and nobody cared. On Netcom they got pretty riled 
after only a few MB piled up. Touchy touchy. So I deleted all the old 
digests and promptly needed to refer to one of them. I look in Andy's last
monthly reminder for instructions on how to get to the Miata archives and 
there is Gopher. Time to learn. I type in "gopher jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu" at 
the Netcom prompt. I'm in, cool. Now Andy's instructions say choose 
"Academic Computing", but that's not one of the options. Turns out the 
right choices are: "HAC Software Archive and Other Free Stuff", then
"mailing-lists" and then "miata". Once your in, you'll see Brian's FAQ, 
some GIFs, all the monthly archives and the current month/week/day messages. 
Once you see this you will never save another daily digest again.   

Now some of you will say "been there, done that", but the rest of you 
need to try it if you have gopher capability. Of course, ftp and WWW can 
also be used, but one thing at a time.

It turns out I never did find the information I was looking for. I wanted 
to know how to change from daily digest to get each individual message. I 
thought I had seen something like that go by recently.
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  Steve Ling                                    1993 Mazda Miata 
  sling@netcom.com                              Lone Star Miata Club
  Plano, Texas                                  Texas Region SCCA