>I miss Usenet :-) Back in the day, any FAQ posted to Usenet was gold. Got to agree (or most were, anyway). In an early company where I worked (large Unix hard

>I miss Usenet :-) Back in the day, any FAQ posted to Usenet was gold. Got to agree (or most were, anyway). In an early company where I worked (large Unix hardware and software vendor), when I first got to know about FAQs and had Internet access in the office (initially via long-distance dialup to the head office), I must have spent tons of hours poring over many FAQs that I got by doing "ftp rtfm.mit.edu" and then going to the FAQs section, downloading and reading them. I even bought a book about using the Internet (I think it was Internet for Dummies :), also bought Modems for Dummies, to learn how to use my dial-up modem at home with my PC) and from one of those books, found this great resource called "Accessing the Internet by Email". It had ways of doing searches and downloads (of Archie, Gopher, and FTP, IIRC) via email - there were proxy / gateway sites that let you do that - and getting the results in your email inbox. I must have used up a lot of bandwidth (of both kinds :) trying out most of those techniques and getting (and reading) many of those FAQs and other interesting tutorials, documents, etc. For multiple programming languages and other software topics, as well as other topics. It was huge. Many of those FAQs are still available at www.faqs.org . Also, just googled and found that the "Accessing ..." doc is still around. May still be useful to anyone who has limited Internet access or only email access, anywhere in the world: Accessing the Internet by Email: https://www.google.com/search?q=Accessing+the+Internet+by+Email https://www.google.com/search?q=Accessing+the+Internet+by+Em... 2nd hit: http://www.faqs.org/faqs/internet-services/access-via-email/ http://www.faqs.org/faqs/internet-services/access-via-email/