Archives, Gateway/Mailing List, and Mirrors A. Archives are located at ftp.hawaii.edu and available via anonymous ftp. To send material directly to the archives, use the address kite@ftp.hawaii.edu. Archive maintenance is usually done once a week, so it may be several days before GIFs, etc., are available. Kevin Mayeshiro (kevin@hawaii.edu) maintains the archives. Path for archives is pub/rec/kites. For more information on the archive, see pub/rec/kites/README For a complete listing of all files in the archive, 'get' the file pub/rec/kites/.ls-lR To send pictures: uuencode and send to kite@ftp.hawaii.edu. See Section C for instructions on accessing the archives via email. File extensions you may find in the archive: .Z Basic Unix compression .gz GNU utility, compressed .ps postscript .jpg image file; use binary mode to ftp .gif image file; use binary mode to ftp B. rec.kites is available to people who do not have USENET access but can receive email. Marty Sasaki (sasaki@netop3.harvard.edu) maintains a mailing list and a gateway; people on the mailing list receive rec.kites as email and can email articles back to rec.kites through this gateway. Mailing list requests and inquiries should be sent to "kites-request@das.harvard.edu." Send mail to "kites@das.harvard.edu" to post to rec.kites. C. Archive (ftp) access via email Edward C. Sarlls, III (sarlls@wg2.waii.com) wrote: Send the message "help" to ftpmail@decwrl.dec.com (no subject) for information. I used this to access the kites area of ftp.hawaii.edu via mail. For example, I sent the following message to ftpmail@decwrl.dec.com: reply sarlls@wg2.waii.com connect ftp.hawaii.edu chdir pub/rec/kites/faq dir I got the following response: total 125 -rw-r--r-- 1 kite ftp 39059 May 1 20:10 faq.address -rw-r--r-- 1 kite ftp 18553 Apr 17 11:14 faq.general -rw-r--r-- 1 kite ftp 18529 May 20 10:09 faq.kite-plans -rw-r--r-- 1 kite ftp 44745 Apr 15 03:30 faq.kite-reviews -rw-r--r-- 1 kite ftp 3510 May 20 10:06 how.to.contribute D. Mirrors There are two archive mirrors: ftp.uni-bremen.de ftp.funet.fi Services available from ftp.uni-bremen.de: 1. ftp-by-Mail Usage: Send e-mail to 'mailftp@ftp.uni-bremen.de' with a 'Subject:'-line containing the word 'help.' The system will answer with a detailed usage text. Important Note: If your e-mail access is based on modem-driven networks, please make sure that you're allowed to contact a mail- server like this one. Improper requests result in network breakdowns. 2. HTML-based system for interactive event announcements. To use this service interactively you need on-line Internet access and an HTML-client like NCSA's Mosaic 2.0. Connect to 'http://ftp.uni-bremen.de/' (Port 80) and follow the 'kites' links. By starting the 'Add an Event' link you get a fill-in form that requests the event's name, beginning and ending dates, a description, and a contact address. If you press the 'Send' button at the end of the form, your data will immediately be inserted into the on-line list. (An ascii-version is also created in the kites-section of our local ftp-server: /pub/kites/local/events.asc.gz). When accessing the on-line list you get a brief list of all events currently inserted. By clicking on an event's name the description and address will be sent. Send comments to Sven Hapke (svh@pc-labor.uni-bremen.de) E. WWW sites There are two WWW sites: 1. A World Wide Web site devoted to kiting can be located at the following URL: http://www.latrobe.edu.au/Glenn/KiteSite/Kites.html The site can be accessed by WWW client programs such as Mosaic. The kite site contains a large collection of images of single, dual, quadline kites and also buggies. In addition there are links to the major FTP archives and an assortment of newsletters. Jason Hellwege Melbourne University, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia. J.Hellwege@latrobe.edu.au 2. A second URL is: http://www.ensta.fr/~germond/kites.html or http://www.ensta.fr/~germond/kites (link to the previous one) The main goals are, at the moment : * to provide a list of all other web resources dealing with kites * to provide a list of events as large as possible Emmanuel Germond germond@ensta.fr