Where and how to get FYIs
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The Internet For Your Information memos are documented in a small
subset of the RFCs.  Once you know the RFC number of the document
describing an FYI you may obtain that document by getting the RFC
(see ways_to_get_rfcs).

For convenience these documents are also grouped and listed by their
FYI numbers.

The FYIs may be obtained via EMAIL or FTP from FYI Repositories.

Many of these repositories also now have World Wide Web servers. Try
the following URL as a starting point:

                http://www.isi.edu/rfc-editor/

1.  FTP.ISI.EDU

FYIs are available via anonymous FTP from FTP.ISI.EDU, with the
pathname: in-notes/fyi/fyiNN.txt (where "NN" is the number of the FYI.
For example fyi4.txt is the current " FYI on Questions and Answers:
Answers to Commonly asked "New Internet User" Questions".  Login with
FTP username "anonymous" and password "ftp".

FYIs can also be obtained via electronic mail from FTP.ISI.EDU by
using the RFC-INFO service.  Address the request to "rfc-info@isi.edu"
with a message body of:

	 Retrieve: FYI
	   Doc-ID: FYInnnn

(Where "nnnn" refers to the number of the FYI (always use 4 digits, so
FYI 4 is FYI0004 in the RFC-INFO service).  The RFC-INFO@ISI.EDU
server provides other ways of selecting FYIs based on date ranges and
such; for more information send a message to "rfc-info@isi.edu" with
the message body "help: help".

Note that FYIs may be very large (greater than 100,000 characters), the
RFC-INFO service will return large documents in sections of less than
50,000 characters each.

contact: RFC-Manager@ISI.EDU


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