Genealogy Online wrote:
>
> TINY TAFEL EMAIL SERVER
>
> There are now nearly 800 Tiny Tafels, having a total of more than
> 41,000 data entries, available at Genealogy Online. They can now be
> searched and retrieved via email.
>
> What follows is specific to the Tiny Tafel server. There are other
> databases that can be searched via the server. Send the command 'send help'
> (do not include the quotation marks) to server@genealogy.org.
>
>
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> Commands
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>
> All commands go in the _subject_ of your message and are to be sent
> to server@genealogy.org. Path and file names are _case_ sensitive. In other
> words, send tt/CRAWFORD.TT will get you nothing, but send tt/crawford.tt
> will return the appropriate file.
>
> * DO NOT INCLUDE THE BRACKETS *
>
> send tt/<file.name>
> send tt-help
> find tt <word>
> soundex <word>
> soundex all
> dir <path>
>
> soundex all
> ~~~~~~~~~~~
> Send a message with 'soundex all' as the subject and a list of
> surnames as the message body and receive the converted soundex codes in
> reply. The names may be separated by spaces or 'newlines.'
>
> PLEASE NOTE: The name _up_to_the_first_space_ will be coded.
> Therefore, surname prefixes, such as St. and Van may give undesirable results. You may either
> You may eliminate the prefix or prepend it with no space.
>
> Examples
> ~~~~~~~~
>
> find tt foster
> find tt A354
> soundex reynolds
> soundex vandoren
> dir tt
> send tt/crosen.tt
>
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> SUBMISSIONS
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>
> Email your Tiny Tafel to ttafel@genealogy.org. Once accepted, the
> server will read _every_ Soundex entry in your file and match them to the
> complete database, then return the results to you. However, for this to work
> right, these points _must_ be observed:
>
> - Include no additional text. Comments can be sent to
> emcee@emcee.com.
> - Do not uuencode the file.
> - Do not send it as an attachment.
> - Submissions _must_ adhere to the Tiny Tafel Specifications.
>
> Once accepted, the server will:
>
> - Remove the email header.
> - Assign a unique file name.
> - Initiate the Soundex search.
> - Mail the results back.
>
> Because the search could potentially yield hundreds of entries, the
> the resultant file will be zipped and uuencoded. You will need the proper
> utilities to extract the data. PC versions can be FTPed from Genealogy
> Online as files uucode.zip and pkz204g.exe:
>
> ftp://genealogy.org/pub/software/pc/
>
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> Michael Cooley, System Administrator emcee@emcee.com
> Genealogy Online * http://genealogy.org/ * info@genealogy.org
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