From bobrankin@MHV.NET Sat Oct 11 00:26:33 1997 Date: Wed, 8 Oct 1997 01:33:45 -0400 From: Bob Rankin Reply-To: TOURBUS-Request@LISTSERV.AOL.COM To: TOURBUS@LISTSERV.AOL.COM Subject: TOURBUS - 07 Oct 1997 - Free Pizza! [For best results, switch to a monospace font like Courier] _________ ____________ ________ __________ _____________ ___ _ / | / | | / | \ | People of All Ages Wanted for Worldwide Advisory Panel / | \ |__________|__________/__________|__________|___________/ | \ / /______|----\ | We need your advice on a variety of subjects. |//////| | | Weekly $$$ drawings. For more information, |//////| | | Send e-mail to info@AdvisoryPanel.com |//////| | | Or visit |//////| | \________________________________________________________|______|____| / \ / \ / \ \___/ \___/ T h e I n t e r n e t T o u r B u s \___/ TODAY'S TOURBUS SITE : The Pizza Server TODAY'S TOURBUS ADDRESS: http://www.ecst.csuchico.edu/~pizza Almost two years ago, the Tourbus pulled into one of my favorite spots on the Net - the Internet Pizza Server. Since then over 40,000 new riders have climbed aboard, so today we're going to revisit this fun site which can be used by web or e-mail. The Internet is full is wild and wacky people. Brian Hall, also known as "beej", is one of them. While a student at California State University Hall and some friends felt a burning need to create a mechanism to enable the delivery of free pizza over the Internet. Why? Just because! The service originally started out as a text-based server that would take requests and make pizza deliveries by e-mail. Although the e-mail portion of The Pizza Server still functions, it's also available on the Web, and has been rated as one of the "Top 5%" of web sites by Point Communications. Ever wonder what a pizza with kittens and green M&M's would be like? Or how about pepperoni and legos? The Pizza Server has been delivering these and a host of other "make your own" pizza creations since April of 1994. Wanna try your own? * Pop on over to * Select "Order and view a pizza over the Web!" * Choose from a list of toppings that includes bacon, beetles, eyeballs, kittens, pepperoni, sausage, Garlick (funny!), mushrooms, olives, baseballs, footballs, bolts, green M&M's, floppy disks and Legos * Press "Order Pizza" and watch your pizza appear on the screen If you're limited to e-mail access, don't worry -- you still get a pizza. Just send e-mail to pizza@ecst.csuchico.edu with "pizza help" in the SUBJECT line (ditch the quotes, though). You will need software to decode and view the returned image if that feature is not built into your e-mail program. If you need a decoding program, send e-mail as shown below: To: BobRankin@MHV.net Subject: send uudecode.com It doesn't matter what you put in the message body, but your Subject line must look EXACTLY like the one shown above. If you do it wrong, my mailbot won't recognize your request and it'll go straight into the bit bucket. (If you use the Web version of the Pizza server, you can ignore all this stuff.) Note: Normally you can't send an executable program by e-mail without first encoding it, but this version of UUDECODE is special. It's pure ASCII, so you can save it as a file and run it from the DOS prompt! There are lots of fun little tidbits scattered around the Pizza Server web site. If you poke around a bit you'll see: * Why the denizens of digital dough have declared war on Pizza Hut * Who Garlick really is * Links to interesting pizza sites * Lists of online pizza joints * How to order a pizza (the kind you can eat) by FedEx! One final note, the digital pizza delivered by the Pizza Server really is free. That stuff about Beej Bux is all in fun. Digital pizza may not taste great, but it certainly is less filling. Enjoy! TOURBUS Miscellany ------------------ Just a reminder, the Tourbus Home Page, found on the Web at now sports a new Chat Room where you can yack it up with other Tourbus riders. We encourage you to use this chat facility to meet others from around the world and to discuss the latest Tourbus postings. It's also a great place to ask any burning Internet questions you may have. *----------------------[ MASTER YOUR DOMAIN ]-----------------------* The NO B.S. GUIDE TO LINUX book and CD-ROM includes Linux Pro, Apache web server, and no-nonsense instructions for running your own web site on an ordinary PC. Just add modem! Read sample chapters and order your copy today. *------------------- --------------------* See you next time! --Bob =====================[ Tourbus Rider Information ]=================== The Internet Tourbus - U.S. Library of Congress ISSN #1094-2238 Copyright 1995-97, Rankin & Crispen - All rights reserved Archives on the Web at http://www.TOURBUS.com Join: Send SUBSCRIBE TOURBUS Your Name to LISTSERV@LISTSERV.AOL.COM Leave: Send SIGNOFF TOURBUS to LISTSERV@LISTSERV.AOL.COM =====================================================================