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Posted by Michael on March 20, 1997 at 08:53:46:

In Reply to: E-MAIL address for the GUILD posted by Highlander on March 20, 1997 at 08:02:35:

: heres the thing

: I have to send outside mail from my mailbox that is given
: to me at my job. When I type in this E-Mail address

: http://www.frognet.net/~msweeney/twguild/

: it says that the site does not exist--what is the correct address
: of the Trek Writers Guild. (maybe I should wait until I get to school
: tonite...it's much easier from there.)

First of all, lets get our terminology straight.

This is a World Wide Wed Universal Resource Location or URL.
It is the internets way of sending instructions for a certain file in a certain folder on a certian server from one computer to another.
Web pages are in HTML, Hyper Text Mark Up Lanuage. HTTP, HyperText Tranfer Protocol, along with its cousin FTP, File Transfer Protocol, is the universal format web servers send these documants and files back and forth.

This is a POP email address, or electronic mail Post Office Protocol. It is used by internet servers to send and recieve electronic mail, or ascii text and attachments.
With this you have Inboxs and instant tranfere without the need for the recipient to be online.

Sorry if you thin I went overboard, but there aren't a whole lot of places where they bother to tell you this stuff. Most of us "experience" player stumbled over the info as we wnet along.
I still don't know what ascii stand for. American Standard Charecter ii. Or something.

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Re: I know it's sad.. Highlander 12:23:53 3/20/97 (2)
- The Andorian blues.. Michael 14:50:06 3/20/97 (1)
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