HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: pe@dasc.nl (Peter J. Ebbelink)
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
Subject: Re: What is Distribution??
Date: 13 Apr 92 19:28:06 GMT
Organization: Data Sciences B.V.

In <1145@tuvie.UUCP> zacherl@tuvie.UUCP (WANG Oesterreich GmbH) writes:

>While posting an article I'm asked about a 'distribution'.
>The sugested default is the first word of the newsgroup's name.
>What's the purpose of that? I think  I don't know the 'system' of 
>groupnames at all ..
>So anyone can inform me??

It's definitely NOT the first word of the newsgroup's name!
It represents an other addressing hierarchy:
First there is the special interest group you want your posting
to read, let's say comp.sys.sun.admin   Here, comp.sys.sun.admin is
the leaf of a tree, with the root in comp. This way you limited your
public to only those who are interested in reading about "admin"
flavoured articles, concerning "sun" brand "sys"tems.
Next there is the distribution hierarchy: Say you want to post the
question: "How good is the system administration helpdesk support of
Sun MicroSystems Inc. in Holland?" This is definitely a question for
the "comp.sys.sun.admin" group, but is of no importance for someone in
the U.S.A. This is where the the distribution comes in: I now set the
"Distribution: " header to "nlnet" and my message will only be
distributed to sites receptable for "nlnet" postings.
This limits your public to only those interseted in reading about Dutch
("nlnet") flavoured articles.  There should be such a distribution
restriction for Austria as well. Currently andyb@wndrsvr.uucp (Andy Brager)
has compiled a list of all known distributions; drop him a line if you
want the complete list.
All that the Distribution: header boils down to is:
No "Distribution: " header says everybody
"Distribution: world" says every one on earth (in fact this is not
completely right, but serves the purpose)
"Distribution: local" says every one local to your company network|hierarchy
"Distribution: usa" says every one in the U.S.A. etc, etc
Ask your news administrator for the name of your land distribution
and other interesting distributions.
(Try mailing to "NewsMaster" or "usenet")

I hope this is somewhat clear; I am preparing a detailed posting,
describing distribution, to be posted in a few days. Stay tuned to
news.newusers.questions

Regards,

Peter.
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From: J024330@LMSC5.IS.LMSC.LOCKHEED.COM
Subject: Re: 6 Re: Internet to Prodigy
Organization: Lockheed Missiles & Space Company, Inc.
Date: Mon, 6 Apr 92 14:19:55 GMT

In an original article I worte:

>In the past there have been questions pertaining to the possibility of
>communicating with users of Prodigy via the Internet. In a recent
>communication I received from Prodigy, it was stated that a gateway was not
>open, and at this point, there are no plans to open a gateway. Their reason is
>that their screens are really graphic images and not text. What looks like
>text to the user is a graphic with text. They have a limitation of 6 screens
>per e-mail packet sent because of the graphics mode they operate in. Most
>Internet mail is sent in the form of ASCII characters, a mode that Prodigy
>cannot, and does not plan to support.

To which Eric Smith replied:


>I attempted to post a follow-up to this earlier but I think my news system
>choked and swallowed it, so I apologize if this is a repeat message.
>
>After thinking about this statement, it seems that this is just a lot of
>baloney from Prodigy. I find it hard to believe that in this age of
>information exchange anyone would design an information service that
>could not handle ASCII characters. If in fact this is what Prodigy did,
>then they have intentionally prevented their subscribers from ever
>accessing any outside information services or networks, an incredibly
>backward and insular attitude for today's world.

>For whatever reason, Prodigy does not want its subscribers to access
>any services that aren't provided by them, which is just one reason
>why I will never become a Prodigy subscriber.
>
>-----
>Eric Smith
>erics@sco.com
>erics@netcom.com
>erics@infoserv.com
>CIS: 70262,3610

To which I reply:

Eric is right.  This is why I've joined the happy ranks of Compuserve.  With
the new $7.95 basic monthly service, it is almost as economical as Prodigy.
I've gotten membership sign up kits for all my friends and relatives currently
on the Prodigy service and they're switching.

Listen up Prodigy.  Open your E-Mail net.  Closed systems went out with the
Bolsheviks.
From: asexual@citron.ucsb.edu (Witteles;Todd;B;;;COMS;Undergraduate;930630;;;8-402525-19906-7;1000)
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
Subject: "?" New newsgroups
Date: 14 Apr 92 17:51:53 GMT

I'd like to start up some world-distribution newsgroups, but
I do not know how.  Could someone please educate me on this?

Thanks,
Asexual
From: mikeb@yarra.pyramid.com.au (Michael Bethune)
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
Subject: HELP! IP to network/host name
Date: 8 Apr 92 04:17:57 GMT
Organization: Pyramid Technology Corp PL, Melb., Australia

Hi.

Two of my customers have IP addresses whose origins are shrouded in mystery.

I have real doubts that these addresses are officail NIC addresses.

Neither network is connected to the internet yet.

Before I connect them to a client who is connected to the internet, 
I want to validate the addresses, or at least find who it is allocated to.

I've queried whois on the sri-nic.arpa like so,

net 192.7.

or 

net 188.

and it claims no knowledge.

But then when I throw addresses at whois that I  *know* are official
B class addresses that are recently allocated it doesn't know about them either.

It seems that the whois database is substantially out of date.

So how do I get an authoritative answer short of mailing the
hostmaster?

If this is an inappropriate newsgroup, then direct me to an better one.

else mail me and I will summarise.
From: edw@caligula.cts.com (Ed Watkeys)
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
Subject: Re: A good newsreader for Mac!?
Date: 17 Apr 92 14:52:18 GMT
Reply-To: edw@caligula.cts.com (Ed Watkeys)
Organization: Guerrilla Networking Project
X-Mailer: uAccess - Macintosh Release: 1.5v4


In article <1992Apr16.055719.18794@usenet.ins.cwru.edu> (news.newusers.questions), sa124@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Heikki Korpinen) writes:
> 
> Can someone help me and adcive how and from where to get
> a good newsreader software for Macintosh.
> 
> I use PowerBook 170 with 7.0 system.
> 
> Regards
> Heikki (Henry) Korpinen
> Finland
> 
> -- 
> 

If you are accessing an NNTP news server, then I would recommend NewsWatcher,
which is available on ftp.apple.com in the dts/mac/hacks or similar directory.
It's freeware, I think.

If you're looking for a UUCP system, then I would recommend uAccess from ICE
Engineering. I'm using it now, and is very nice (much nicer than rn or xrn
or any newsreader I've seen on other platforms. It's also very good at email.
The catch is that uAccess costs about $300. I think it's very much worth it.
You can get info on it by mailing to info@ice.com.  You'll get an automated
reply, but any questions you ask will eventually be answered by humans (I
don't know how long it takes -- I'd rather use my phone to call them...)

Ed

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Subject: Is there a way to post into a local newsgroup from somewhere else?
From: ecmtwhk@ccu1.aukuni.ac.nz (Thomas Koenig)
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1992 08:09:33 GMT
Organization: University of Auckland, New Zealand.


Is there a way to post into a local newsgroup from somewhere else (except
for asking somebody at the site, of course :-) ?

Please e-mail, I'll summarize.
-- 
Thomas Koenig, ecmtwhk@ccu1.aukuni.ac.nz
Snail-Mail: 
c/o Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering, University of Auckland,
Private Bag 92019, Auckland, New Zealand
From: hutch@bellman.lanl.gov (John Hutchinson)
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
Subject: Signatures?
Date: 13 Apr 92 19:35:32 GMT
Article-I.D.: newshost.1992Apr13.193532.15154
Reply-To: hutch@bellman.lanl.gov
Organization: Los Alamos National Laboratory

I imagine this has been asked and answered a million times but could someone please tell me how to create and use a signature file?  I'm a new user (obviously) using a Sun Sparcstation 2 for access.

many thanx,

-Hutch-
From: porten@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (Jeffrey  Porten)
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
Subject: Crossposting question
Date: 7 Apr 92 04:25:37 GMT
Organization: University of Pennsylvania

I am about to post a CFD for a USENET group.  (Before you ask, yes, I have
read all of the USENET how-to lists and I will be following all required
rules.)  The question is, how do I set up a cross-post?  

Thanks for your help.

--
Jeff Porten, Annenberg School for Communication, UPenn
             Graduate Group in American Civilization, UPenn

As per usual, my opinions are my own, not Penn's, Pugwash's, or anyone else's.
From: rao@moose.cccs.umn.edu (Rao V. Akella)
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
Subject: Re: Crossposting question
Date: 8 Apr 92 23:52:00 GMT
Article-I.D.: moose.8APR199218523445
Reply-To: rao@moose.cccs.umn.edu
Organization: Colon Cancer Control Study, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41
X-Lunar-Date: 1 day, 15 hrs, 0 mins until the first quarter of the moon (U.T.)

In article <JIK.92Apr7120334@pit-manager.mit.edu>, jik@athena.mit.edu (Jonathan I. Kamens) writes:
> You list the newsgroups to which you want to post in the Newsgroups
> line of your posting, separated by commas but NOT by spaces...

And make sure the last character on the line is NOT a space, otherwise it's
assumed that the next line is a continuation line, and your post will die.

I know because it happened to me once :-(  Wonderful thing, experience.  It
makes you paranoid about the strangest things.

-- Rao Akella    <rao@moose.cccs.umn.edu, RAO%MOOSE@UMNACVX.BITNET>
From: leisner@johnker.henr801@xerox.com (Marty Leisner x76704 siena)
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
Subject: How do I post to multiple newsgroups?
Date: 9 Apr 92 01:44:35 GMT
Article-I.D.: spectrum.1992Apr9.014435.12245
Reply-To: leisner.henr801c@xerox.com
Organization: Xerox

How do I post to multiple newsgroups?  Pnews (in using rrn-4.4) doesn't seem to
want to...

I'm going to bring up and try out other newsreaders, but until then...

marty
leisner.henr801c@xerox.com
Member of the League for Programming Freedom
(You get what you pay for -- except in software)
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From: Jay.Ashworth@f160.n3603.z1.FIDONET.ORG (Jay Ashworth)
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
Subject: Re: How do I uncompress an .ARJ file?
Date: Sat, 11 Apr 92 23:49:00 EDT
Organization: FidoNet node 1:3603/160 - Hacker's Haven, Clearwater FL

In a msg of <Thursday April 09 1992>, John D. Zitterkopf wrote to All:

 JDZ> Hi,
 JDZ>         The subject just about tells all. What program do I get to
 JDZ> uncompress these type files. I know .ZIP is pkunzip, .ARC is
 JDZ> unARChiver, ect. But I haven't see a program to convert the .ARJ
 JDZ> files... Am I missing something?

The .ARJ extension signifies that the commpression archiver used to create the file was Robert Jung's ARJ program.  It's currently up to release 2.30, and is usually available from at least one PC bulletin board in any given location.

To date, there has not been a port to Unix,  nor a reverse-engineered verion, ala Info-ZIP.  Much to my dismay, as it packs a fair amount more tightly than anything else I've seen, including tar.Z.

Cheers,
-- jra

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From: jwzimm01@ulkyvx.louisville.edu
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
Subject: Aliases
Date: 14 Apr 92 21:08:15 GMT
Organization: University of Louisville

How can I make an alias for my username@node?
For example, I have seen aliases such as:

           Thinker@Think.I.am.com
           theBlonde@BlondeComputer.Cntrl.com
           Pervyu@Babes.O.Plenty.com

Is this something I can change?

JZ
From: ts@uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi)
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
Subject: Re: Crossposting question
Date: 8 Apr 92 04:00:27 GMT
Organization: University of Vaasa, Finland

In article <72992@netnews.upenn.edu> porten@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (Jeffrey  Porten) writes:
>I am about to post a CFD for a USENET group.  (Before you ask, yes, I have
>read all of the USENET how-to lists and I will be following all required
>rules.)  The question is, how do I set up a cross-post?  

You'll find also this question covered in
garbo.uwasa.fi:/pc/ts/tsfaq27.zip frequently asked questions.

"If you do not know how to go about getting this material users are
welcome to email me for the prerecorded garbo.uwasa.fi instructions
(long, circa 35Kb)".

...................................................................
Prof. Timo Salmi
Moderating at garbo.uwasa.fi anonymous ftp archives 128.214.87.1
School of Business Studies, University of Vaasa, SF-65101, Finland
Internet: ts@chyde.uwasa.fi Funet: gado::salmi Bitnet: salmi@finfun
From: rao@moose.cccs.umn.edu (Rao V. Akella)
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
Subject: Re: Looking for VNEWS 1.41 Documentation (revised)
Date: 15 Apr 92 22:55:00 GMT
Article-I.D.: moose.15APR199217553522
Reply-To: rao@moose.cccs.umn.edu
Organization: Colon Cancer Control Study, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41
X-Lunar-Date: 1 day, 10 hrs, 56 mins until the full moon (U.T.)

In article <1992Apr12.002447.4438@acsu.buffalo.edu>, wernercg@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu (Craig Werner) writes:
> I'd greatly appreciate it if someone could tell me how to get an
> electronic copy of the documentation for VNEWS V1.41.  Our system uses
> this software, but the latest documentation I can find is for V1.4.

Anonymous ftp to arizona.edu and look in the directory
[.SOFTWARE.VMS.VNEWS.DOCS].
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From: rallan@helical.com (Robb Aley Allan)
Subject: LOCKexpire
Reply-To: rallan@helical.com
Organization: Helical Systems, Ltd.
Date: Tue, 7 Apr 92 22:15:34 GMT

I received the following in my mailbox for the past several days:

-rw-rw-r--  2 news           5 Apr  6 04:30 LOCKexpire


What does this mean?

-- 
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220 Sunrise Avenue, Palm Beach, FL 33480
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From: sjsobol@wariat.org (Steven J. Sobol)
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
Subject: Re: How do I find these mess. Bases
Date: 15 Apr 92 04:17:18 GMT
Article-I.D.: wariat.1992Apr15.041718.5157
Organization: The Tiny Software Co., via APK Public Access Unix, Cleveland

In article <1992Apr15.021154.705@pavnet.pcn.org> pep@pavnet.pcn.org (Phil Pavarini Jr.) writes:

>> I want to find the message bases for several usenet SIGs .
>> For example how do I get to comp.sys.handhelds? or comp.sys.palmtops??

>In trn or rn, or some of the other newsreaders, you just type 
>
>	g comp.sys.handhelds
>or
>	g comp.sys.palmtops
>

Right. It's similar on mgnr, Free-net's news reader (In fact I think
it's exactly the same). Or you could go up to the top level, choose
'comp', then choose 'sys', etc, etc......
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From: barnhart@gagme.chi.il.us (Aaron Barnhart)
Subject: Permanently saving settings changes
Organization: Gagme Public Access UNIX, Chicago, Illinois.
Distribution: usa
Date: Sat, 11 Apr 1992 23:31:41 GMT


Twice now I have made changes to my & switches (and seen them register) during
a current session.  As soon as I leave Trn, the switch settings all revert to
their original places.

So I know how to make changes to RNINIT during a session ... but how do I
make those changes permanent?  (And is this mentioned somewhere in the vast
MAN RN?)

Aaron Barnhart
barnhart@gagme.chi.il.us
From: ckd@eff.org (Christopher Davis)
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
Subject: Re: ftp in the background
Date: 15 Apr 92 23:26:10 GMT
	<1992Apr15.175631.17663@ruc.dk>
Organization: Electronic Frontier Foundation Tech Central


 Jan> == Jan Bruun Andersen <jba@ruc.dk> 

 Jan> [...] Now, if you don't use a Mac could you please tell us what
 Jan> you use, then we might be able to help you. [...]

Hey, I have no problems doing ftp in the background on the HAL-9000
(running HALOS, of course).  I just say "Hal, please go get gcc 2.1,"
and the machine does archie lookups, ftp, uncompression, and untarring,
compiles it for me, then writes my program.

Now, if I could only find that bug in the device drivers...

...I can't get it to open(2) /dev/pbd*.  Anyone gotten the pod bay doors
driver working?
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From: mauser@intercon.com (Richard Chandler)
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
Subject: Using ucbvax
Date: 7 Apr 92 20:41:08 GMT
Article-I.D.: intercon.29E208E5.3E83
Reply-To: mauser@intercon.com (Richard Chandler)
Organization: InterCon Systems Corporation

The site I used to be able to get an NNTP feed from that also accepted 
postings has dried up, so now I get my news from another site that does not 
allow me to post.  I've learned how to post via the mail to news gateway at 
ucbvax.berkeley.edu, but apparently they don't have the full complement of 
newsgroups, because it has bounced messages I tried to mail/post to groups 
like alt.stagecraft.
Is there another mail/news gateway?  Or something similar?

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From: jaapjl@tab00.larc.nasa.gov (J Lee Jaap)
Subject: Re: Bogus newsgroups
Organization: AS&M Inc
Distribution: na
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1992 21:06:53 GMT

In article <21214@hacgate.UUCP> bickle@mitchell.hac.com (Vanessa Bickle) writes:

   I am using "xrn". There has been an increasing frequency of
   fake newsgroups, ones with names like "alt.puke.pukeSender:"
   and "xxxx.eats.xxx". I am getting annoyed with these newsgroups
   showing up every time up start up xrn and being queried about 
   whether to subscribe to them or not. Some of them (like
   the first one I mentioned) cause an error to my .newsrc file
   and require me to edit my .newsrc file before I start up xrn.
   Is there anything that I can do about this?

About the only thing you can do is bug your newsadmin to make the
newgroup script smarter, then delgroup ...Sender:.  Yes, it's a
pain, but mostly only on the systems with inattentive newsadmins.

(You _did_ ask your newsadmin before you posted, didn't you?
`Welcome to news.newusers.questions!' in this group heartily
recommends that.)
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From: jik@athena.mit.edu (Jonathan I. Kamens)
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
Subject: Re: .pnewsexpert
Date: 9 Apr 92 22:25:35 GMT
Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology

In article <3548@caslon.cs.arizona.edu> kwh@cs.arizona.edu (Kirby Hughes) writes:

   The .pnewsexpert file reappeared.  So, everything should
   have been back to normal, right?  Well, it isn't.  Rn used to stop after the
   header info before displaying a post.  Now it doesn't anymore.  I don't know
   if these things are related; all I want is for rn to work the same again.
   To repeat the problem:  When I used to read news, the header for a post was
   displayed, and then it waited for me to hit the spacebar before displaying
   the whole post.  Now it just fills the entire screen at each post.
   Anyone have an idea as to what happened?

It is virtually impossible for the deletion and recreation of the
.pnewsexpert file to have anything at all with the behavior you are
observing in rn.  I just checked the entire rn source tree, and the
ONLY places the string "pnewsexpert" appears is inside the Pnews
script, when it checks to see if the file exists and when it creates
it.

If you don't tell rn specifically whether or not to pause at the end
of the header, then it decides whether or not to do so based on what
it thinks the baud rate of the terminal you're using is.  Perhaps you
used a terminal with a different baud rate today, or perhaps your
sysadmin changed the default configuration of rn?

See the man page for rn to learn how to control this behavior so you
can get the behavior you want.  I believe that using the option "-i=1"
to rn will give you the behavior you want.

-- 
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From: david@cats.ucsc.edu (David Wright)
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
Subject: VNEWS, vms
Date: 9 Apr 92 03:29:09 GMT
Article-I.D.: darkstar.32432
Organization: University of California, Santa Cruz



Is anyone familiar with how to save, put the >>>'s, and then
respond with VNEWS on VMS?  

The prompt is:

net.announce.newusers [Action:]

for net.announce.newusers, for example. 

thanks.

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