Subject: INFORMATION

From: Yossaporn Artornchaikul <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 2 Nov 1996 13:01:46 +0700 (TST)

I WAS SUGGESTED TO ASK FOR INFORMATION FROM YOU.
MY ENQUIRY IS WHETHER I CAN SEND MESSAGE DIRECTLY TO ANY USERS WITH
WWW.***.COM (E.G. WWW.DISNEY.COM), I HAVE SEVERAL TIMES TRIED TO DO THIS
BUT IT SEEMED TO BE UNSUCCESSFUL.

ALSO I WOULD LIKE TO KNOW HOW I WILL KNOW WHETHER I AM IN THE WORLD WIDE
WEB.

PLEASE ADVISE.

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From: [email-masked] (Orjan Johansen)
Date: 2 Nov 1996 23:13:53 GMT

[Posted and mailed]

In article <[email-masked]>,
Yossaporn Artornchaikul <[email-masked]> wrote:
[recapitalized]
>I was suggested to ask for information from you.
>My enquiry is whether I can send message directly to any users with
>www.***.com (e.g. www.disney.com), I have several times tried to do this
>but it seemed to be unsuccessful.

If the URL of a Web page is of the form
http://www.***.com/~username/***
or http://www.***.com/users/username/***,
then the email address of the owner will often be
username@***.com (no www.)
No guarantees, though.

Some pages will contain Mailto: links, which you can use to mail
people from within your Web browser. Many people put their address as
a Mailto: link on the bottom of their home page.

>Also I would like to know how I will know whether I am in the world wide
>web.

If you are using a Web browser and the current URL starts with http://
I would say you are on the Web. (Though you could be on a local Intranet,
if your place has one.)

Your letter appeared on a public mailing list and a Usenet newsgroup,
I would not consider either of those part of the WWW, for example.

Greetings,
Ørjan.