From: alizard@tweekco.uucp (A.Lizard)
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
Subject: re: mailing lists / re: Internet to Kuwait
Date: Sat, 02 Jan 93 02:33:17 PST
Organization: Tweek-Com Systems BBS, Moraga, CA (510) 631-0615

If you've subscribed to a mailing list, what you do to receive
the files is ... wait, they will be automatically sent to you.
To post to the mail list, you send an E-mail to the posting
address which will be in every copy of the mailing (or in the
e-mail that confirmed that you were on the mail list)

As for access to Kuwait, good luck, you'll need it, this is
info from the regularly posted list of top-domain - country
names posted to news.lists , here, I think, and other places.

 
 
International Standard ISO 3166 Names
Compiled by Olivier M.J. Crepin-Leblond
email: <ocl@ic.ac.uk>
Release: 92.12.3
 
Release Note: a. I am including some domain names with a P tag.
                 This is either because I have not yet been able
                 to verify the validity of the domain, or that
                 the domain has been provisionally accepted but
                 not officially used yet or connected.
              b. New up-to-date experimental mailserver 
KW        Kuwait                PFI B *        No computers for Gulfnet(B)   
     
- FI stands for FULL INTERNET access. This includes 'telnet', 'ftp',
and internet email.
- B stands for BITNET access although the address may be in internet
DNS (Domain Name System) format. 
- * (Asterisk) means that the country is reachable by email. If this is
not preceded by FI or B, it means that the connection may be a UUCP
connection. An asterisk is included after FI or B for continuity.
- PFI stands for a provisional full internet connection.(+) 
- P stands for provisional connection. (+)
   (+) This is used when one or more of the following is true:
       - address not verified or lack of address
       - domain connected but not officially announced
       - premature official announcement of connection
 
 
Some hobbyists have put together networks using their PCs which store
and forward email to remote locations. This is the case of FIDONET
users. Some FIDO nodes apparently exist throughout Africa, the Middle-
East, etc. Those have not been included since the forwarding of email 
is to the discretion of the SYSADMINS of the forwarding systems and,
once again, it costs money.
 
So there appears to be an Internet connect of some sort in Kuwait,
and maybe there are Fido connects. 
Are you sure your friend is anywhere that he might logically be expected
to have Internet access? In Kuwait, I'd expect that to be limited to
the university, a few goverment agencies, and perhaps a few businesses,
e.g. US corporations with offices there.

Another thing you might check is 
one of the whois services...
  To query the database, send an E-mail message to
"mail-server@pit-manager.mit.edu" with "send usenet-addresses/name" in
the body or subject of the message.  The "name" should be one or more
space-separated words for which you want to search; since the search
is fuzzy (i.e., all of the words you specify do not have to match),
you should list all of the words you think might appear in the
address, including (for example) first and last name, possible
username, and possible components of the host name (e.g. "mit" for a
person who you think is at MIT).  The case and order of the words you
list are ignored.
 
  Note that multiple requests can appear (on separate lines) in mail
to the mail server, but each request will be answered in a separate
message.
 
  In many cases, you will get a list of quite a few matching
addresses, and you will have to go through it looking for ones that
may be the one you're looking for.  However, the mail server will
return a maximum of only 40 matches.
 
  Note that the usenet-addresses database is accessible via WAIS (in
fact, the script that does mail server searches is actually just a
front-end to a WAIS database) on two different hosts:
pit-manager.mit.edu and cedar.cic.net.  In both cases, the database is
called "usenet-addresses" and is on port 210.  Note that the version
on pit-manager is slightly more up-to-date with respect to the master
address list than the version on cedar.  If you don't know what WAIS
is, then don't worry about this paragraph; if you're curious, see the
"comp.infosystems.wais" newsgroup.
 
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In your case, anything ending in .kw (Kuwait top-domain name) will
give you somewhere to look.

Good luck.
A.Lizard

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