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From: "Richard N. Freedman" <rnf@null.net>
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Although the IAP Guide does not indicate
a requirement for advance registration, I am sending this
message to inform you that it is my intention to attend your
IAP class, "The Internet - Technical Topics".

Lacking access to Athena, I request that you send me, if
convenient, the "actual topics and specific schedule" as
mentioned in the IAP Guide.

I have a specific goal. It may be that your lectures will teach
me what I need to accomplish this goal, perhaps you can use
a suggestion for a topic, or perhaps the answer is simple enough
that you will take the time to tell me directly how to do it.
I have a list of addresses in an Access database. I can manually
enter addresses one by one in an Internet form
(http://www.usps.gov/ncsc/lookups/lookup_zip+4.html) to
find the nine-digit zip code associated with that address.  How
can I write a program (in compliance with Internet conventions
regarding robots) to automate this query process?  It might be that
my problem generalizes to the issue of how to write Internet robots,
and that may or may not be a subject you wish to address in a general
forum.
-- 
Richard N. Freedman '65 (http://www.wp.com/rnf) rnf@null.net
All gains are incremental; some increments aren't gains.
   Law #18 from Laws of the Public Policy Process


