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.: Iliad help.
Dear ILIAD User,
The ILIAD knowbot is programmed to respond to four categories
of
email which are sorted based on information contained in the
Subject line. The four categories of mail for ILIAD are:
1. Subject: start iliad
start iliad in the subject line causes ILIAD to send system
instructions to the requestor. These instructions are listed
below for your convenience.
2. Subject: iliad query
iliad query in the subject line initiates the query processing
mode. If the entire format of the query is correct, the query
is
processed and the answers are emailed to the user. If the
query format
is incorrect, an error message is sent to the user indicating
the
problem to be corrected.
3. Subject: get url
get url in the subject line initiates the URL retrieval mode.
For every
line in the email that started with "url: <the-url-name>"
iliad will
retrieve the <the-url-name> and emails the document
to the user.
4. Subject: iliad admin
iliad admin in the subject line forwards the email message
to the ILIAD
system administrator. These instructions are listed below
for your
convenience also.
5. All other cases receive this mail message. If you are
reading this
message, please reformat your mail message to conform to one
of the
above formats.
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ASK ILIAD by sending it E-Mail.
Here's How:
1. Type an E-Mail message in the format listed below. You
can save this
format in your E-mail address book so each E-mail only requires
that you
enter the keywords.
2. Questions should be keywords relevant to your request.
Avoid
common and cross-disciplinary words. Select narrow, unique
search terms that are focused on your topic.
Submit 1 query per E-Mail.
3. E-mail your request to:
iliad@prime.jsc.nasa.gov
or
iliad@rosy.tenet.utexas.edu
4. The format required is:
Subject: iliad query
[blank line]
?Q: your query keywords
[blank line]
For Example:
Subject: iliad query
?Q: NASA Learning Technologies Project
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A special option exists for those who have Web browsers and
would prefer
their answers as a list of hyperlinks in an html document.
If you request
this option, save the file you receive as a .html file and
bring it up in the
Web browser as a local file.
Example:
Subject: iliad query
*OutputType : urls
?Q: NASA Learning Technologies Project
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If you wand embedded hot links in your document, add "*outputtype:
dwl"
(document with links) before your the query line.
Example:
Subject: iliad query
*outputtype: dwl
?q: NASA Learning Technologies Project
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A tip about query terms:
Recently an instructor wanted information concerning Division
1 NCAA
swimming. The best terms to use for this query are NCAA and
swimming. The
terms Division and 1 are too broadly interpreted to be useful
in this
particular question. Apply this example to your selection
of keywords.
Stopwords:
Stopwords are words that should not be used as keywords. ILIAD
stopwords
are: about above almost am and anything are around do everything
how if
is less more not nothing something that the was were what
when where why
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Example 1 of get url:
Subject: get url
url: http://prime.jsc.nasa.gov/iliad/index.html
url: http://prime.jsc.nasa.gov/Qwhiz/
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Example 2 of get url:
To see embedded hot links in returned document:
Subject: get url
*outputtype: dwl
url: http://prime.jsc.nasa.gov/iliad/index.html
url: http://prime.jsc.nasa.gov/Qwhiz/
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System administration:
If you would like to communicate with the ILIAD system administrator
send
mail to:
iliad@prime.jsc.nasa.gov
Subject: iliad admin
with your message in the body of the mail.
The system administrator will reply to your mail.
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