HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: shadmas@sdf.lonestar.org (a real lamer)
Subject: WARNING: deceptive use of this account by phreaker/cracker
Summary: lamer scams usenet
Reply-To: sysadm@sdf.lonestar.org
Organization: sdf Public Access UNIX, Dallas - 214/436-3281
Date: Sun, 30 Aug 1992 17:45:20 GMT
Expires: Fri, 25 Dec 1992 00:00:00 GMT

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   The person previously using this account (and now barred from it)
   has apparently been deceptively posing as a PBX equipment buyer
   named "Tom Downs".  This is *NOT* the name of the user.  He is also
   known to have used the alias "Patrick ONeal".

   This person is a teenage or early 20's "phone phreak" known (primarily
   to other phreaks) as "shadow master".  It is expected that his intent
   as posing as a PBX buyer is to obtain information on PBX systems which are
   large (easier to conceal diddling), remotely configurable, have outdial
   capability (to thwart CLIDs and call tracing during "phreaking"), and
   voice mail (phreakers communicate with each other via stolen VMB's).

   If you have a system of this type, and have revealed it to this person,
   it is quite probably has been cracked already.  He apparently has acquired
   access to phone company databases and other sources of information to seek
   out places to break into.  Even casual posters to Usenet should beware if
   they manage or deal in such equipment.

   This is certainly not the first or last time for such an event.  It would
   be prudent to exercise caution in dealing with ANYONE who posts and mails
   from public access systems such as this one.

   This will be the final posting from this account, and it is being used
   for this purpose since we expect it increases the chances of this posting
   being seen by people who had formerly been in contact with this person.

   The actual identity of this person will be made available to any authorized
   law enforcement agency in the case any criminal proceeding ensues.

		In utmost sincerity,

		The sdf system administration group.
Newsgroups: alt.dcom.telecom
From: technews@iitmax.iit.edu (Kevin Kadow)
Subject: Re: Will SupraFaxModem V.32bis be upgradable to V.fast?
Organization: Technology News, IIT, Chicago, IL
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 92 03:07:13 GMT

In article <1992Sep1.090655.28872@news.cs.indiana.edu> "Stefan Berg" <sgberg@nectarine.ucs.indiana.edu> writes:
)I'm just curious, if the SupraFaxModem V.32bis will every be
)upgradable to the V.fast protocol? I could imagine, that it
)would be impossible to "easily" increase the throughput of
)the SupraFaxModem V.32bis, but a throughput of 57600bps
)should be fine for most instances, anyway.
)
)Currently a compresses file will go at about 30000bps, a
)little more than twice the connection rate (14400bps). If you
)reflect that to 28800bps, then you got an effective rate of
)60000bps (you just loose a little bit). If you send text,
)then you might be able to go a good deal higher than that,
)but most of the time having text go at such a high speed is
)not needed anyway.
)
)Another point is, that V.fast will not connect at 28800bps
)most of the time anyway. I read somewhere, that 19200bps will
)be seen most often in todays phone lines. Even this will
)increase the performance compared to V.32bis.
)
)Or will additional hardware (chips) be needed to support V.fast?
)I read, that V.fast can scan the available bandwidth. That
)sounds like it would need some special chips (maybe a new
)Rockwell chip could do that).
)
)Stefan
)
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To support V.fast the SUPRA V.32 would need a chip upgrade, but from the
specs I've seen, it should otherwise be able to handle it. All the "special"
features of V.fast would be firmware.

-- 
                      When all else fails.... RTFM


technews@iitmax.iit.edu                           kadokev@harpo.iit.edu
                         My Employer Disagrees.
From: asa@STL-09SIMA.ARMY.MIL (Will Martin on 9000)
Newsgroups: alt.dcom.telecom
Subject: Usage of alt.dcom.telecom
Date: 1 Sep 92 17:56:49 GMT

I had seen passing references to alt.dcom.telecom in the Telecom Digest
(the mailed version of comp.dcom.telecom) but I never had a way to see
it; just today, I discovered that it had finally been added to the
alt groups available on the Cleveland Free-Net, where I read USENET
news. I took a look at the postings in there, and am now somewhat
confused. They read just about exactly the same as postings in 
comp.dcom.telecom, and a couple were actually duplicates of ones
I had read over there. 

So I am wondering just what the purpose of alt.dcom.telecom is. Why
split this topic into groups in two different heirarchies? I can
envision several possible reasons:

1) To discuss things the moderator of Telecom won't allow in there.
(But, as I said, the stuff I see in a.d.t looks no different. Have I
just come in at a quiet time? Is there usually all sorts of illicit
and immoral activity being promulgated in this group, and I should
just wait a while and it will show up? :-)

2) To expand on or draw out a topic that first appeared in Telecom
(c.d.t) byt that the moderator there has cut off. (Since Pat has far
more submissions than he can use, he periodically dumps the queue
of back traffic.)

3) To avoid the moderator for personal or principle reasons. (Some
people might dislike the concept of "moderating" a newsgroup and thus
want to participate in unmoderatoed fora only, or others might have a
grudge against Pat.)

Are any of these the real reason for the existence of a.d.t? Should we all 
use a.d.t as a "mirror" of c.d.t? That is, send any submissions to *both*
groups as a routine? Or should we use a.d.t as a "fall-back" for c.d.t
submissions -- that is, send things to c.d.t as usual, but then send them to
a.d.t if they haven't appeared in c.d.t after a number of days? Or should
a.d.t be completely independent of c.d.t and not ever contain the same
topics or postings?

I realize no one really "runs" this group, and so I am not expecting
an authoritative response, but I would like to learn the group's general
impression of why it exists and when to use c.d.t and when to use a.d.t,
one versus the other.

Regards, Will
wmartin@st-louis-emh2.army.mil OR wmartin@stl-06sima.army.mil
Newsgroups: alt.dcom.telecom
From: "David Coursey" <demoinfo@mail.psi.net>
Subject: Re: TAD TO BEEPR/PAGER
Reply-To: david_coursey@infoworld.com
Organization: InfoWorld News/Dallas
Date: Sun, 30 Aug 1992 04:47:48 GMT
X-Mailer: PSILink (3.01)

>DATE:   26 Aug 92 19:00:00 GMT
>FROM:   Ray Normandeau <ray.normandeau@factory.com>
>
>I am thinking of getting a pager (beeper).
>
>I would like to be paged when my answering machine gets a message.
>
>What are the recommendations to accomplish this?
>
A PC voice/data/fax modem called "The Complete PC" will trigger a beeper 
when a message comes in, but does not handle multiple lines at the same time.

I'd recommend a commerical service to do this, such as a private e-mail 
provide that also offers voice mail. SkyTel does this on a nationwide 
and regional basis.

David Coursey
P.C. Letter/InfoWorld
       

Newsgroups: alt.dcom.telecom
From: lfa1@cec1.wustl.edu (Lorrie Faith Ackerman)
Subject: in-use LED?
Organization: Washington University, St. Louis Mo.
Distribution: usa
Date: Tue, 25 Aug 1992 16:46:51 GMT

hi-
   We share two phone lines in our apartment.  We have built
simple switch boxes so that we can switch our phones between the two lines.  
This works well, except we can't tell if a line is in use before we switch
to it and pick up.   We'd like to add some sort of LED to our switch boxes
which indicate if a line is in use (without running any additional wires
in the apartment).  Are there any reasonably easy to build circuits that 
will do this?   We are not very familiar with the interworkings of the 
phone system....

thanks,
Lorrie, Leslie, and Jen

Newsgroups: alt.dcom.telecom
From: aha@vipunen.hut.fi (Antti Hannula)
Subject: Intelligent Networks
Organization: Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
Date: 26 Aug 92 19:44:35 GMT

Hi,

does anyone know how I could get more information about Intelligent
network services on the Bay Area, California , that is, services
like 1-800/1-900/preferred caller/etc, basicly all the nice new 
services offered through existing normal telephone network.

Which numbers of AT&T, Pacific Bell etc should I call to get
to the right person? I will be 4 more weeks in Palo Alto,CA,
and I will need this info for my studies at my university...

Any info and pointers to the right places will be greatly
appreciated!

Antti Hannula
antti_hannula@sid.hp.com







Newsgroups: alt.dcom.telecom
From: "Stefan Berg" <sgberg@nectarine.ucs.indiana.edu>
Subject: Will SupraFaxModem V.32bis be upgradable to V.fast?
Organization: Computer Science, Indiana University
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 09:06:47 -0500

I'm just curious, if the SupraFaxModem V.32bis will every be
upgradable to the V.fast protocol? I could imagine, that it
would be impossible to "easily" increase the throughput of
the SupraFaxModem V.32bis, but a throughput of 57600bps
should be fine for most instances, anyway.

Currently a compresses file will go at about 30000bps, a
little more than twice the connection rate (14400bps). If you
reflect that to 28800bps, then you got an effective rate of
60000bps (you just loose a little bit). If you send text,
then you might be able to go a good deal higher than that,
but most of the time having text go at such a high speed is
not needed anyway.

Another point is, that V.fast will not connect at 28800bps
most of the time anyway. I read somewhere, that 19200bps will
be seen most often in todays phone lines. Even this will
increase the performance compared to V.32bis.

Or will additional hardware (chips) be needed to support V.fast?
I read, that V.fast can scan the available bandwidth. That
sounds like it would need some special chips (maybe a new
Rockwell chip could do that).

Stefan

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| Internet sgberg@ucs.indiana.edu        GE Mail: s.berg5            |
| Bitnet   sgberg@iubacs  NeXT Mail: sgberg@arapahoe.ucs.indiana.edu |
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From: nicos@cs.bu.edu (Nicos Kontopoulos)
Newsgroups: alt.dcom.telecom
Subject: info wanted
Date: 2 Sep 92 17:10:32 GMT
Organization: Computer Science Department, Boston University, Boston, MA, USA
Originator: nicos@csa


There was some dicussion earlier this month on
comp.dcom.telecom about some features/services the phone company provides.

I am referring to calling back the person that last called
you (*61 I think) and some other services, which I do not recall.

Where is this usage documented? Is this (and other "secret" services like
this one) something one has to subscribe to? Is there any specific
publication I should ask for when I get in touch with the phone
company? Are these available everywhere (I am in Boston -New England Telephone)



Thanks for any info,




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   INTERnet: nicos@cs.bu.edu                    BITnet: ecolpqc@buacca
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From: aryeh@cash.ucsc.edu (Aryeh Friedman)
Newsgroups: alt.uu.virtual-worlds.misc
Subject: Conferencing systems
Date: 30 Aug 1992 17:37:44 GMT
Organization: Mars
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: cash.ucsc.edu

	Look around the net and around uu it seems that attention should
focused by the Adms and Techies in UU and the net in general should be focused
on conferencing systems as well as the possibility of inter system message 
passing.  Like pico<->news or something like that.  If it is ok I whould like
to set up a hieracy of groups to help do research, tutorals, and teaching
on the techincal side of conferencing.  Our main goal should be to allow
eventually allow users to use what ever interface the prefer to have access
to all confernce message bases and systems they are allowed to.
-- 
Aryeh M. Friedman, Just an other bum from net land.
"Thats not a widget it is an intearctive template of some strange kind"
aryeh@cash.ucsc.edu or sarek@tmi (as in the mud)
Newsgroups: alt.uu.future
From: jkp@cs.HUT.FI (Jyrki Kuoppala)
Subject: Re: ADMIN: DOC: FAQ for Usenet University
Reply-To: jkp@cs.HUT.FI (Jyrki Kuoppala)
Organization: Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 16:20:47 GMT

>I missed the original posting. I assume that the poster whose posting
>I am following up to didn't go all the way entering all newsgroups by
>hand. Then what is the point of specifying 
>
>[Followups directed to alt.uu.future]
>
>and not setting a "Followup-To:" header. 

There's no point, it was a simple matter of forgetting to add the
Followup-To: line.  Sorry about that.

>Please take alt.config out of your posting the next time around. I
>assume it is not for FAQs of some groups formed eons ago. I see there
>is an alt.uu.announce. For persons like me who are tuned only to see
>newgroup announcements, these type of postings are unnecessary. Am I
>wrong?

You are right - I have already submitted the next FAQ which will be
only in alt.uu.announce, alt.uu.future and news.answers.

//Jyrki
Newsgroups: alt.uu.future
From: aa248@yfn.ysu.edu (Nicholas Sturm)
Subject: Re: problem with alt.uu.* groups?
Reply-To: aa248@yfn.ysu.edu (Nicholas Sturm)
Organization: St. Elizabeth Hospital, Youngstown, OH
Date: Sat, 29 Aug 1992 15:56:08 GMT


In a previous article, jkp@cs.HUT.FI (Jyrki Kuoppala) says:

>(expanding the newsgroup line a bit and removed alt.config)
>
>>>>I haven't seen any traffic in any of the alt.uu.* groups in over a week.
>>>>Is there some problem or posting I missed that would explain this?
>>>
  When I saw an early cross post of your proposal, I found it interesting and
started looking.  Our system apparently had a bug and was receiving only the
first 50 categories under alt.***  We are now getting the alt.uu.*** group
but there is essentially nothing here to see what is happening.

  A general problem I've found with the newgroups is the transient nature of
most of the material.  If one does not have the opportunity to check very
frequently local copies are soon lost and a system seems to have nothing to
show.  The use of FAQ files seems to help keep a system looking like it is
more that just a "on paper" idea.  Perhaps later the FAQs should be more
selectively edited, but for now, it might be a way for those of us checking
only once aweek would have some idea of what is happening.

  List groups require more space in local systems, but do provide the
opportunity for a few days of continuity for those whose newsnet files seem
to evaporate so rapidly.

  Nick

-- 
Nicholas Sturm, 4037 Ward Beecher, 410 Wick Ave., Youngstown, Ohio 44555
  * aa248@yfn.ysu.edu *
Xref: sparky alt.uu.future:209 alt.education.distance:323
From: sridhar@enuxhb.eas.asu.edu (Sridhar Venkataraman)
Subject: Re: ADMIN: DOC: FAQ for Usenet University
Followup-To: alt.uu.future
Organization: Arizona State University, Tempe AZ
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 14:47:48 GMT

Adriaan@scinet.up.ac.za (Adriaan Odendaal)
writes on alt.config:

)jkp@cs.HUT.FI (Jyrki Kuoppala) writes:
)>From: jkp@cs.HUT.FI (Jyrki Kuoppala)
)>Subject: ADMIN: DOC: FAQ for Usenet University
)>Keywords: self, distance, education, uu, volunteer
)>Date: 29 Aug 92 21:07:34 GMT
)>[Followups directed to alt.uu.future]

I missed the original posting. I assume that the poster whose posting
I am following up to didn't go all the way entering all newsgroups by
hand. Then what is the point of specifying 

[Followups directed to alt.uu.future]

and not setting a "Followup-To:" header. 

)>FAQ for Usenet University		Last changed 29 August 1992

Please take alt.config out of your posting the next time around. I
assume it is not for FAQs of some groups formed eons ago. I see there
is an alt.uu.announce. For persons like me who are tuned only to see
newgroup announcements, these type of postings are unnecessary. Am I
wrong?

[Followups to alt.uu.future.. this time around, I will make sure]

Sridhar.
Newsgroups: alt.uu.tools,alt.uu.comp.misc
From: jkp@cs.HUT.FI (Jyrki Kuoppala)
Subject: A way of distributed authoring and maintenance of documents
Reply-To: jkp@cs.HUT.FI (Jyrki Kuoppala)
Organization: Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
Date: Sun, 30 Aug 1992 01:09:28 GMT

This was originally a reply to a question about a free dictionary, but
the idea could be applied to UU activity as well:

>Anyone got any suggestions on how to get hold of a PD dictionary?

Set up a mail address to which people can send definitions, which will
put the definitions into a gopher tree (and a webster server).
Announce the address on Usenet.  On the gopher and webster servers,
announce the mail address and urge people to submit new definitions
for words there's no definition or the definition is less than perfect.
Publicize the project and the gopher and webster servers.

Gather a list of volunteers willing to write definitions for ten words
each.  Take a word list, then take ten random words from the list for
each volunteer, submit them to the volunteers and tell them to send
definitions to the mail address mentioned above.

Alternatively (easier), write a program to compute a hash from user's
email address which is then used as an index to a public word list,
and urge people to write definition to the word found by hashing their
email address.  Make the program so it suggests several alternatives.
Instead of a program distributed it could be a mail server or perhaps
a gopher server.  Publicize the program and project on Usenet, on the
GNU newsgroups, on the Gutenberg mailing list, on
comp.infosystems.wais etc. and write a description of it to the next
GNU bulletin.  Consider also other places to publicize the project.

//Jyrki
From: vilva@viikki21.Helsinki.FI (VEIJO VILVA (KEJAL))
Newsgroups: alt.uu.lang.misc
Subject: RE: MATERIAL: information on Lojban
Date: 31 Aug 92 07:59:27 GMT
Organization: University of Helsinki, Fac.Agric.For.

The address of the Lojban listserver has changed since the publication
of the brochure contained in the original posting.

To join the list, send the message "subscribe lojban firstname lastname" to:

                  listserv@cuvmb.cc.columbia.edu

and send mailings to all newsgroup members via:

                   lojban@cuvmb.cc.columbia.edu


                    .e'osai ko sarji la lojban

                         co'omi'e vei,on
Newsgroups: alt.uu.lang.misc
From: maennig@edith.informatik.uni-dortmund.de (Olaf Maennig)
Newsgroups: alt.uu.lang.misc
Subject: 'Dictionary for AE and BE words'
Date: 31 Aug 1992 14:20:57 GMT
Organization: CS Department, Dortmund University, Germany
Distribution: world
Reply-To: maennig@siggi.informatik.uni-dortmund.de
NNTP-Posting-Host: edith

Hello, there.
I'm surely in the wrong group, but I haven't seen a better one. Maybe anyone
can tell me where else to post this article.

I'm looking for a kind of dictionary which contents a list of words having a
different spelling in American and British English, but the same meaning.
Examples of this would be can - tin, color - colour, program - programme and
so on.

Has anyone seen this kind of list anywhere, or can tell me where I can get
such one. It doesn't have to be an electronic list. If someone knows where
to get it by postal mail, tell it to me!

Please reply only via e-mail, because I don't read this group.

Thank you very much.
-- 

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     _                   Department of Computer Science IV
    / \     |\/|         University of Dortmund, Germany
    \_/laf  |  |aennig   e-mail: maennig@siggi.informatik.uni-dortmund.de
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Newsgroups: alt.uu.lang.misc
From: jkp@cs.HUT.FI (Jyrki Kuoppala)
Subject: A possible way of developing dictionaries for UU
Reply-To: jkp@cs.HUT.FI (Jyrki Kuoppala)
Organization: Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
Date: Sun, 30 Aug 1992 01:25:35 GMT

This is in answer to a question in comp.infosystems.gopher.

>Anyone got any suggestions on how to get hold of a PD dictionary?

Set up a mail address to which people can send definitions, which will
put the definitions into a gopher tree (and a webster server).
Announce the address on Usenet.  On the gopher and webster servers,
announce the mail address and urge people to submit new definitions
for words there's no definition or the definition is less than perfect.
Publicize the project and the gopher and webster servers.

Gather a list of volunteers willing to write definitions for ten words
each.  Take a word list, then take ten random words from the list for
each volunteer, submit them to the volunteers and tell them to send
definitions to the mail address mentioned above.

Alternatively (easier), write a program to compute a hash from user's
email address which is then used as an index to a public word list,
and urge people to write definition to the word found by hashing their
email address.  Make the program so it suggests several alternatives.
Instead of a program distributed it could be a mail server or perhaps
a gopher server.  Publicize the program and project on Usenet, on the
GNU newsgroups, on the Gutenberg mailing list, on
comp.infosystems.wais etc. and write a description of it to the next
GNU bulletin.  Consider also other places to publicize the project.

//Jyrki
Newsgroups: alt.uu.lang.esperanto.misc
From: jkp@cs.HUT.FI (Jyrki Kuoppala)
Subject: [soc.culture.esperanto] HyperCard Course
Reply-To: jkp@cs.HUT.FI (Jyrki Kuoppala)
Organization: Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 02:07:47 GMT

A repost from soc.culture.esperanto:

From: urban@COBRA.JPL.NASA.GOV (Michael Urban)
Subject: HyperCard Course
Date: 1 Sep 92 22:23:40 GMT

There is a new version of the HyperCard Esperanto course in the
rand.org anonymous FTP directory:
 /pub/esperanto/software.dir/hypercourse.dir/new-stack.sit.hqx

This is in Binhex Stuffit form.  It works much better with HyperCard 2.0
and later versions than the stack that has been circulating for 
the last five (!) years, corrects some mistakes, and has updated
and expanded information in the final chapter (the one that deals
with Esperanto culture).

People are invited to attempt to download it and report any problems
with the downloading or the stack itself.  Note that `MacinTalk doesn't
work with System 7.0' is _NOT_ a problem with the stack itself; you can
get a System-7 capable version of MacinTalk by buying the Talking Moose
at your local software store for $22 or thereabouts.

If everything goes well with this version, I will start distributing
it through channels like Compu$erve and ELNA.

	Mike
Newsgroups: alt.uu.lang.esperanto.misc
From: scott_silverstein@yccatsmtp.ycc.yale.edu (Scot Silverstein)
Subject: Survivor in denial?
Followup-To: alt.sexual.abuse.recovery
Organization: Yale University
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 12:42:18 GMT

Further followup to my previous posts about my (ex?)friend,

I think she's in denial about the effects on the abuse on her current
situation and behavior.  She speaks disparangingly about therapy & to my
knowledge has only been involved a few months.  Yet she spoke openly about
the fact that she is a survivor.

Would it help re-establish communication if I dropped her a note indicating
I had read "The Courage to Heal", "Allies in Healing", and saying I'd like
to talk?

Opinions?