"I generally do not connect to web sites from my own machine, aside from a few sites I have some special relationship with. I usually fetch web pages from other sites by sending mail to a program that fetches them, much like wget, and then mails them back to me."

~ Richard Stallman

GNU Womb : Hacks

The sub-project of the GNU Womb package contanins a few random hacks that have been found on the GNU machines.

• grab-url-from-mail: Fetch web pages using email.

• webxfer: Execute commands on a remote host using HTTP (see README.webxfer for details).