HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: heiko@Groucho.Chemie.FU-Berlin.DE (Heiko Schlichting)
Subject: Re: German "Webster's dictionary" internet site?
Organization: Free University of Berlin, Dept. of Chemistry
Date: Sun, 16 Aug 1992 03:09:42 GMT

lexier@fraser.sfu.ca (Lyle Lexier) writes:

>Where could I connect to a German dictionary internet site like UBC's.
>What I would be expecting to do is something like the following:
> 
>     DEFINE MENSCH
> 
>     Mensch meinst eine Person.  Ein Human.

Should me more like:

Mensch	[althochdeutsch mennisco, eigt. "der Maennliche"], nach der biolog.
	Systematik die Unterart Homo sapiens, das einzig noch lebende
	Mitglied der Gattung Homo. Diese gehoert wiederum zur Familie
	Hominidae und zur Ueberfamilie Menschenartige.
	Der Mensch ist das geistig hoechstentwickelte Lebewesen auf der 
	Erde. Die Wissenschaft, die sich speziell mit dem Menschen befasst,
	ist die Anthropologie. Von besonderem Interesse im [...and so on]


But I'm sure that such a server does not exists. :-(  Maybe in a few years...
There is no German Dictonary Internet service yet.

>     The purpose of such a site is that I am wanting to brush up on my 
>advanced German skills so that I can travel to Germany and Austria next year.

Read in the de.* newsgroups if they are available on your newsserver. If
they are not available ask your newsadmin if it is possible to get these
groups from the feed. There are many server in the US and CA which already
have these groups.

Heiko
-- 
Heiko Schlichting                     | Freie Universitaet Berlin
heiko@groucho.chemie.fu-berlin.de     | Institut fuer Kristallographie
From: karr@cs.cornell.edu (David Karr)
Newsgroups: alt.internet.services
Subject: Re: Internet address book.
Date: 15 Aug 92 01:42:48 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: Cornell Univ. CS Dept, Ithaca NY 14853

In article <1992Aug14.175131.25865@usenet.ins.cwru.edu> edguer@ces.cwru.edu (Aydin Edguer) writes:
>In article <1992Aug14.063151.20106@uwm.edu> matthewk@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Matthew Robert Koster) writes:
>>Can anyone out in internet land please tell me if there is a listing
>>of everyones internet address and real name.  I know this sound like
>>a unreal request, but it could be possible.
>
>It is an unrealistic request, and it would not be possible.
>
>[... many reasons why one cannot generate a "canonical" list of users
>     deleted ...]

There's no need for a "canonical" list of sites, nor a "canonical"
list of users.  What would be very useful, however, would be a server
somewhere that given the name of a person who could receive email via
the Internet would, with high probability, return at least one valid
email address for that person.  It would be acceptable for most
legitimate purposes to return some bogus addresses as well--I can
always try the next one in the list if the mail bounces or if the
response is, "Sorry, you must be thinking of a different Joe Smith."

It would also be acceptable for the database to hold bogus data such
as the email address for someone whose "real name" is given as
"Captain Marvel."  Heck, if you want to send email to Captain Marvel,
that's your business; it doesn't concern me.

>The size of the Internet has grown to the point that you cannot get cannonical
>lists anymore.  Just as there is no one phone book for most countries, [...]

	Article: 693 of alt.internet.services
	From: macrakis@osf.org (Stavros Macrakis)

	The latest DAK catalogue advertises a 3-CD-ROM set containing phone
	numbers for 80+% of US subscribers. [...]

Hah!

No, I don't buy the "it's too big" argument.  Maybe the "it's so big
I'm not willing to devote a server to it for free" argument.  Indeed,
I think the biggest obstacles to assembling the collection are like
the "legal" obstacles to which you alluded: most of the ~10^6 hosts on
the Internet are (I would guess) at commercial sites where for business
reasons (i.e. secrecy) they don't want to make available lists of their
valuable employees.

I believe we may well see such a list covering academic sites, however,
as soon as someone decides it's worth their while to set it up.

-- David Karr (karr@cs.cornell.edu)
Newsgroups: alt.internet.services
From: crystal@glia.biostr.washington.edu (Crystal)
Subject: Re: how to do a sig?
Organization: University of Washington
Distribution: usa
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 14:03:58 GMT

In <lexier.713762954@sfu.ca> lexier@fraser.sfu.ca (Lyle Lexier) writes:

>94fc@vax (CRAWFORD, FRONEFIELD) writes:

>>I wonder if someone could either post or email me about how a sig file works.
>>Does it only work when you post to a group or does it attach itself to the
>>end of any email you send?
>>Thanks in advance,

>>Froney

>>address: 94fc@williams.edu

>Hello Crawford,
>     What you do is create a file called ".signature" .  In this file put a
>message such as the following:
> 
>vi .signature
>==============================================================
>=  I am the captain of the Klingon Fleet - ready to kill the =
>=  enterprise.  Input target please.                         =
>=  94fc@williams.edu                                         =
>==============================================================

>GOOD LUCK!!!

>-- 
>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>|  Lyle Lexier        | There should be no discrimination against any person   |
>|lexier@fraser.sfu.ca | for his/her race, sex, or sexual orientation.          |
>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

That's apparently not ALL there is to it... you have to read it into what you are sending. It doesn't appear automatically.  At least mine doesn't, and I made
mine the same way as stated above on my UNIX machine.


Newsgroups: alt.internet.services
From: andy@homebase.vistachrome.com (Andy Finkenstadt)
Subject: Re: GEnie/Internet gateway?
Reply-To: andy@homebase.vistachrome.com
Organization: Vista-Chrome Incorporated
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 14:52:45 GMT

laurelh@titan.ucc.umass.edu (Laurel Hellerstein) writes:
>[stuff about GEnie's ridiculous charges deleted]
>It is my understanding that America OnLine does not charge users for
>internet email access either!
>
>Corporate greed at its best!  
>
>-- 
>  %%%%%%%%%%%%---------------------------------------------%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
>    Laurel Hellerstein,Ph.D             Laurelh@titan.ucc.umass.edu
>    Manager, Housing Services           (413) 545-4638
>    Cable Network                       FAX (413) 545-2232

Indeed, America Online does "charge" its users based on connect time.
With a number of different pricing plans in use at AOL, your costs
will vary, of course, depending on A: hourly charge, B: small message
sizes, C: monthly hourly usage in excess of pricing plan, and
D: the efficiency of the connection between your computer and AOL.


-- 
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GEnie Unix Sysop/Manager | The Printing House   |    NIC Handle: AF136
+1 904 222 2639 home     | 1600 Capital Cir SW  |   ...!uunet!rde!andy
+1 904 575 0189 work     | Tallahassee FL 32310 | andy@vistachrome.com
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From: leonard@qiclab.scn.rain.com (Leonard Erickson)
Newsgroups: alt.internet.services
Subject: Re: GEnie/Internet gateway?
Date: 19 Aug 92 02:15:48 GMT
Reply-To: 70465.203@compuserve.com
Organization: SCN Research/Qic Laboratories of Tigard, Oregon.

cust_ts@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Tero Sand) writes:

>I'm kinda confused.. do _I_ have to have an account on Genie so that I
>can mail from my internet account to a Genie account?

 No. But the person you are sending to must have signed up (for a
$9/month fee!) to *receive* Internet messages.

-- 
Leonard Erickson		      leonard@qiclab.scn.rain.com
CIS: [70465,203]			 70465.203@compuserve.com
FIDO:   1:105/51	 Leonard.Erickson@f51.n105.z1.fidonet.org
(The CIS & Fido addresses are preferred)
Newsgroups: alt.internet.services
From: tdowling@lib.washington.edu (Thomas Dowling)
Subject: Re: search for patents?
Keywords: patent
Organization: University of Washington Libraries
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 23:13:08 GMT

In article <1992Aug13.040824.5354@cco.caltech.edu>, talal@cco.caltech.edu (Talal T. Balaa) writes:
> Is there a site where one can search for patents. (US and hopefully the world)
> 


I doubt very much whether you'll find such a thing.  Patent databases in the commercial arena are about the most expensive databases to be found.

(Of course, if you're willing to pay, you could search on Dialog.)

With the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office now having to operate on a cost-recovery basis, I don't imagine any free or even inexpensive net access to U.S. patents will be forthcoming.

Since you're posting from Cal Tech, you may want to contact the patent depository library in the LA Public Library.  They'll have the CASSIS cd-rom database for searching patents--it's a far cry from Internet access, but it's worlds better than plowing through print indexes.

Thomas Dowling
University of Washington Engineering Library
(Another Patent and Trademark Depository)
From: ir_johns@csd.brispoly.ac.uk (Ian Johnson)
Newsgroups: alt.internet.services
Subject: USENET by email?
Date: 14 Aug 92 09:56:28 GMT
Followup-To: alt.internet.services
Organization: The Transputer Centre, Bristol Polytechnic, UK


Searching for info ...

Are there any mailservers or other services that enable you
to receive a specific newsgroup by mail? I know that a service
to post by mail exists, but what about receiving a group?


Ian
ir_johns@csd.brispoly.ac.uk --Usual disclaimer applies


-- 

Ian Johnson  (irj@uk.ac.brispoly.hal) 
             Usual disclaimer applies
Newsgroups: alt.internet.services
From: cee1@ra.msstate.edu (Charles Evans)
Subject: Stock Market Reports Avaliable via internet?
Organization: Mississippi State University
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1992 19:13:58 GMT

Is there? If there are such telnet sites, please email me.


-- 
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cee1@ra.msstate.edu       / ./|\   / withsogreatacloudofwitnesses,letuslayaside
		         /   /|'  / everyweight,andthesindothsoeasilybesetus,
cee1@msstate.bitnet     /    , ' / andletusRUNwithpatiencetheracethatissetB4us.
From: tdowling@lib.washington.edu (Thomas Dowling)
Newsgroups: alt.internet.services
Subject: Re: STN via Internet - password?
Date: 17 Aug 92 20:45:54 GMT
Organization: University of Washington Libraries

In article <maryelen.40@hfx001.nstn.ns.ca>, maryelen@hfx001.nstn.ns.ca (Mary Ellen ) writes:
> I was just reading this group, and someone gave an Internet address for the 
> Science and Technology Network (stnc.cas.org). Unfortunately, my newsreader 
> automatically deletes articles after I have read them, so I no longer know 
> who it was.
> 
> Anyway, I tried telnetting to this site, and it wanted a login ID and a 
> password - HELP!!
> 
> Thanks in advance
> Mary Ellen Foster
> MARYELEN @ hfx001.ns.istc.ca


My note to Mary Ellen bounced back at me in record time, so sorry for 
the bandwidth.

STN is a commercial service that requires you to get an account and password
from them.  You'll also want to study up on their search command language
(as I mentioned before, I don't search STN, so I don't know what they offer
to novice searchers).

The number I have for STN (in North America) is (614) 421-3600.


Thomas Dowling
University of Washington Libraries
From: emv@msen.com (Edward Vielmetti)
Newsgroups: alt.internet.services
Subject: Re: Welcome to alt.internet.services
Date: 21 Aug 1992 09:23:57 -0400
Organization: Msen, Inc. -- Ann Arbor, Michigan
NNTP-Posting-Host: nigel.msen.com
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL3

another source for information (or for ideas) about internet servers and
services or about data that's readily available on the internet for you to
put into your own server is the newsgroup "comp.archives".  

--Ed

Newsgroups: alt.internet.services
From: rbrink@hubcap.clemson.edu (Rick Brink)
Subject: gif file scrambling
Summary: Why do gifs sometimes get scrambled when transmitted for FTP?
Keywords: gif, mac
Organization: Clemson University
Distribution: alt
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 17:01:08 GMT

Sometimes, when I download a gif from some site, it ends up looking like 
a scrambled TV picture.  The top 10 or so lines might be ok, but the
rest are offset to the left in a pattern that is impossible to fix with
Giffer.

Is this something I can fix in the file with an editor?  Of are they just
getting mangled by my network connections?

I appreciate any advice.

I use a Mac, connected to internet via localtalk gateway (gatorbox.)

Rick Brink (rbrink@hubcap.clemson.edu)
Clemson University Libraries

Newsgroups: alt.internet.services
From: msw1633@summa.tamu.edu (Mark S. Whitsitt, N5RJF)
Subject: Re: Accessing BRS via Internet
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    
Reply-To: MSW1633@SUMMA.TAMU.EDU
Organization: Texas A&M University, Biochemistry Department
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 05:21:00 GMT

In article <1992Aug12.191118.15024@unixg.ubc.ca>, educ@unixg.ubc.ca (Vicki Domansky) writes...
>As far as I can tell from the documentation we have here, BRS doesn't
>stand for anything in particular.  The full name is BRS (tm)
>Information Technologies, a division of Maxwell Online Inc.  Our
>faculty occasionally uses their BRS Afterdark system, which allows
>evening access to their various abstract databases.

Uhhh... don't quote me on this, but, I would venture a guess that BRS stands for 
Bibliographic Research Service ( or System, or whatever) since that is what it 
is used for.  I use BRS AfterDark (my PI has an account for lab use) and I have 
never taken the time to find out exactly what the acronym means for sure.

I also tried to connect to BRS.com, and the connection was established, but 
since BRS-AD is only available after 6:00 local time, and I tried at 10:30 this 
morning, I cannot report on the quality of the service.  This is gonna be a 
great way to keep from tying up phone lines ;)

Mark S. Whitsitt, N5RJF        Texas A&M University, Dept of Biochemistry
Internet:  msw1633@summa.tamu.edu 	  College Station, Tx. 77843-2128
AMPRnet:   n5rjf@n5rjf.ampr.org 			   (409) 845-0832
Packet/APLINK:  N5RJF @ KE5HE.TX.USA.NA
   "You can't throw darts when you're empty, man." - another Shadelism
Newsgroups: alt.internet.services
From: fsfrick@lerc.nasa.gov (David Fricker)
Subject: Re: COSMOS Address
Reply-To: fricker@lerc.nasa.gov
Organization: NASA Lewis Research Center, Cleveland, OH
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1992 16:05:06 GMT

In article <5688@m1.cs.man.ac.uk>, fortuna@cs.man.ac.uk (Armando Fortuna) writes:
> Hello,
> I'm looking for the internet address of the University of Georgia, so that
> I can contact the COSMOS group in there. Can anyone help me?
> Thanks, 
> Armando

I assume you mean COSMIC, a source of programs under NASA's
Technology Utilization Program.

From my monthly email update:
> Questions?
> Send them to service@cossack.cosmic.uga.edu
> 
>                    ***COSMIC E-MAIL UPDATE***
> 
> The following notes briefly describe new and updated programs
> that have been added to the COSMIC inventory in August, 1992. You
> may request full abstracts of the programs (we recommend you do
> this before you order) or additional information about any of our
> other services by contacting the COSMIC Customer Support staff.
> 
> These programs are made available for re-use by domestic
> industries, government agencies, and universities under NASA's
> Technology Utilization Program.  Source code is included and
> programs and documents may be copied without restriction for use
> by the acquiring institution unless otherwise noted. Educational
> discounts may apply.
> 
> You may download the DOS version of the 1992 COSMIC catalog via
> anonymous ftp or via internet mailings. Online access via modem
> or telnet is also available.  For more information, contact
> COSMIC customer support.
> 

Hope this helps.

-- 
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Newsgroups: alt.internet.services
From: garys@netcom.com (Gary Stollman)
Subject: games
Date: Sun, 16 Aug 92 01:40:36 GMT
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 
Summary: want to know about games on the internet
Keywords: games



I would like to know what games are available on the internet, and how to
access them...I particularly would like any information on Zork-type games
that are around...Thanks!

-- 
Gary Stollman    Internet: garys@netcom.com     GEnie: G.STOLLMAN
-----------------------------------------------------------------
          The world is your playground.  Keep it clean! 
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Newsgroups: alt.internet.services
From: svanbure@gucis.cit.gu.edu.au (Seth Van Buren)
Subject: mailing to apple link
Organization: Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia.
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 92 00:57:58 GMT

s there any way that I can send mail to someone with an  apple link 
address?


-- 
Seth van Buren
Bachelor of Informatics Student
Griffith University 
Australia
From: backon@vms.huji.ac.il
Newsgroups: alt.internet.services
Subject: Re: IP in Africa?
Date: 19 Aug 92 19:06:23 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

In article <1992Aug18.125332.1228@guvax.georgetown.edu>, troberts@guvax.georgetown.edu writes:
> Some colleagues are flying out to Cameroun, Central Africa, next month
> to conduct some research at the University of Yaounde, Cameroun.  They
> are taking a PC with them.  Does anyone know if the University of
> Yaounde is hooked up to Internet?  or if there is any way I can find
> out (short of flying out there myself to look over their system)?
>
> Our guest researcher says there is a CS department at UYaounde, but
> knows no one there, and can't say what sort of networking services are
> available.
>
> Any information (IP address, FAQ's, names of gurus) will be immensely
> appreciated.  E-mail responses preferred.
>
> Thank you
> TROBERTS@GUVAX.GEORGETOWN.EDU

Apart from CGNET (which I just posted), if your colleagues are in a
health-related field they could use (for free) the SatelLife ground stations
that are in Zambia, Uganda, Tanzania, Kenya, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Ghana, and
the Congo. These access HealthNet via the HealthSat satellite. HealthNet has a
gateway station at Memorial University in Newfoundland, Canada, and I believe
can send mail to and from the Internet.

HealthNet's satellite uses radio  waves for transmission and reception, and
a HealthNet ground station  consists of a computer attached to an amateur radio
using a TNC modem. Messages are uploaded and downloaded 4 times a day.

In the worst scenario where Cameroun (an East African country) has not yet set
up their own ground station, you could literally carry on-board the necessary
equipment and software to communicate. Assuming the university there has a PC
and a regular 2400 baud MNP modem, the rest of the equipment would cost around
$5000.
Modified Kenwood TS-790 transceiver                   $2000
2 antennas (1 uplink and 1 downlink)                  $ 750
Terminal Node Controller                              $ 350
AC/DC power supply                                    $ 150
Cables for antennas, transceiver, and TNC             $ 150
Kansas City tracker/tuner board                       $ 300
HealthNet ground station software                     $ 300
PC Anywhere                                           $ 200
DOS 5.0                                               $ 100
GrafTrak and Silicon Ephemeris                        $ 150
FrontDoor                                             $ 300
Shipping and insurance                                $ 500


Good luck !


           Dr. Josh Backon
           backon@VMS.HUJI.AC.IL
From: schin@acs.bu.edu (neil schier)
Newsgroups: alt.internet.services
Subject: How do I get to Yale's bboard server through e-mail
Date: 16 Aug 92 15:35:23 GMT
Organization: Boston University, Boston, MA, USA
Originator: schin@acs.bu.edu

Helllo

I am trying to send a message to one of the Yale bulletin boards. How can
I do that.

Regards
Neil Schier
From: troberts@guvax.georgetown.edu
Newsgroups: alt.internet.services
Subject: IP in Africa?
Date: 18 Aug 92 12:53:32 -0400
Distribution: world
Organization: Georgetown University

Some colleagues are flying out to Cameroun, Central Africa, next month 
to conduct some research at the University of Yaounde, Cameroun.  They 
are taking a PC with them.  Does anyone know if the University of 
Yaounde is hooked up to Internet?  or if there is any way I can find 
out (short of flying out there myself to look over their system)?

Our guest researcher says there is a CS department at UYaounde, but 
knows no one there, and can't say what sort of networking services are 
available.

Any information (IP address, FAQ's, names of gurus) will be immensely 
appreciated.  E-mail responses preferred.

Thank you
TROBERTS@GUVAX.GEORGETOWN.EDU
Newsgroups: alt.internet.services
From: mesm@netcom.com (Mary E. S. Morris)
Subject: Re: Commercial nodes:  Advice, please
Date: Sun, 23 Aug 92 02:11:24 GMT
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 

cfejm@ux1.cts.eiu.edu (John Miller) writes:
: 
: What's the
: procedure for a company to get a node established?  A for-profit, but
: educational publisher (mine) has approached me about information.  They'd
: like an internet association, and I promised to try and find out. 
: 

There are different levels of access. By node, do you mean that
they want to just receive mail? 
Or netnews access?
Or actually login and get onto the Internet?

A domainname such as netcom.com needs to be registered with 
hostmaster@nic.ddn.mil.

If they expect to actually connect to the Internet they MUST
get a IP address. This can be obtained also from hostmaster@nic.ddn.mil.
If they just want mail and maybe news, and an Internet account they
should go check out what different Internet providers offer.
There should be a FAQ in news.answers about Internet providers.


--
Mary E. S. Morris    |  The future exists first in imagination, then
mesm@netcom.COM      |  in will, then in reality. -- Galivan Burwell
=====================================================================
Netcom - Online Communication Services San Jose, CA
Newsgroups: alt.internet.services
From: andy@homebase.vistachrome.com (Andy Finkenstadt)
Subject: Re: GEnie/Internet gateway?
Reply-To: andy@homebase.vistachrome.com
Organization: Vista-Chrome Incorporated
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1992 01:36:28 GMT

cust_ts@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Tero Sand) writes:
>I'm kinda confused.. do _I_ have to have an account on Genie so that I
>can mail from my internet account to a Genie account?
>-- 
>-Tero Sand
>  EMail: cust_ts@cc.helsinki.fi     Snail mail: Auroran Sairaala os. 6-1
>  (if that doesn't work, try                    Nordenskioldinkatu 20
>   cust_ts@kruuna.helsinki.fi)                  00250 Helsinki 25, Finland

The answer is no.  You (or anyone else on the Internet) can send mail
to a GEnie subscriber who has signed up for the Internet gateway. 

-Andy

-- 
Andrew Finkenstadt       | Vista-Chrome, Inc.   |           andy@GEnie
GEnie Unix Sysop/Manager | The Printing House   |    NIC Handle: AF136
+1 904 222 2639 home     | 1600 Capital Cir SW  |   ...!uunet!rde!andy
+1 904 575 0189 work     | Tallahassee FL 32310 | andy@vistachrome.com
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