Ian Wilmore wrote in a message to Charles Angelich:

 IW> Hello Charles,

 CA> Agora servers are 'bot' Perl scripts that accept requests for files
 CA> to be downloaded and sent to any email address as
 CA> attachments. At one time there were dozens of these 'bots'
 CA> around the world. Sadly there are only a very few that remain. :-\ 

 IW> Before I had my own internet connection, my Fido boss node provided
 IW> his users/points with e-mail addresses and I used this facility to
 IW> get loads of web pages via the Agora servers.

I too had an email connection via netmail here,  but that's about to end, 
after a lot of years.  My "connection" was thanks to a friend who
happened to run a unix box at home.

 IW> It was all a bit clumsy because my pointing software was not 
 IW> designed to facilitate the process. 

I'm having a bit of trouble conceptualizing how point software *could* be.

 IW> However the principal was sound. These days I get the majority of 
 IW> my web pages via scripted http, which most people will think very 
 IW> odd but which I find suits me in that I can read material offline 
 IW> and so not worry about online charges.

Scripted http?  That's a new one on me.  I too prefer to snag stuff
completely if I can,  to deal with here offline.  It's just more convenient
sometimes.

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