HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: ellis@nova.gmi.edu (Stew Ellis)
Subject: Re: nn6.4.16 on SPARC2 4.1.2
Organization: GMI Engineering&Management Institute, Flint, MI
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 17:54:57 GMT

delphys@cc.mcgill.ca (David Holmes) writes:

>In article <1992Dec16.234239.28269@sifon.cc.mcgill.ca>  
>delphys@cc.mcgill.ca (David Holmes) writes:
>> I have a problem with nn6.4.16 running under sunOS 4.1.2 and I'm not  
>> sure where to look for solutions.  Our server is used only to get  
>> articles; the database is local to the other department (with the  
>> problem nn).  In the log files nnadmin reports things like the  
>> following:
>etc etc

>We're also getting times like:

>Notice: nnmaster has not updated database in 201263 hours    ??

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Some helpful soul told me when I had this problem that it was usually caused
by a header with a control character.  He said to edit the header.  Not
possible when you are using a remote NNTPSERVER.  Another helpful person
(Mike O'Connor I believe) suggested that I restart the nnmaster with the bad
newsgroup excluded.  I had trouble figuring out how to isolate the bad
group, but Mike O. also reminded me of the -D switch.  Now whenever I get
the dreaded "nnmaster not updated" error and look in the Log file and find
the error you show,  I kill nnmaster -9, restart it as such:
  nnmaster -r -D > DEBUG.out&
  tail -f DEBUG.out
You can ^C the last (tail) job and wait for nnmaster to bailout and go back
and look at the DEBUG.out to see what the last group was.  You can actually
tell which article it bailed out on.

I kill nnmaster and restart it with the group in question excluded.  There
may be additional ones which you will have to repeat the whole process for.
The syntax for excluding a group in *csh syntax is:
  nnmaster -r \!bad.news.group ""
In *sh you do not need the \ before the !.  It is a pain, but I have not
figured a way around it.  Obviously this has to be done by someone with
execute access on the nnmaster and read on the lib dir.  Since these should
be set to news.news, you might get the maintainer on the other machine to
add you to group news in exchange for offering to fix it.

Let me know if this works.

--
R. Stewart(Stew) Ellis, Assoc. Prof. of Socl. Sci., GMI Eng.&Mgt.Inst.,Flint,MI
email: ellis@nova.gmi.edu
From: henrich@crh.cl.msu.edu (Charles Henrich)
Newsgroups: news.software.nn
Subject: Save consolidated menu selections
Date: 23 Dec 92 00:40:56 GMT
Organization: Michigan State University
NNTP-Posting-Host: crh.cl.msu.edu

Howdy, Im having a problem in that when I select a subject that has been folded
into itself by using consolidated-menu mode.  When I go to save said subject,
it only save's the first article in the bunch, and I want it to save them all,
Ive played a bit with save-closed-mode but with no luck.  Has anyone else out
there gotten this to work?

-Crh
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    Charles Henrich     Michigan State University     henrich@crs.cl.msu.edu
From: kleber@husc11.harvard.edu (Gwydden)
Newsgroups: news.software.nn
Subject: mail aliases
Date: 21 Dec 92 07:17:33 GMT
Article-I.D.: husc3.1992Dec21.021734.18747
Distribution: world
Organization: Harvard University Science Center

Our sysadmin seems to have just upgraded to PL18 from PL16 (I assume
17 and 18 are still unofficial?), and now all of a sudden my init's
setting mail-alias-explander gives me an "unknown variable" error.
Help?

--Michael Kleber                 I don't have an overactive imagination...
  kleber@husc.harvard.edu        I have an underactive reality...   --EG
From: peter@zeus.DIALix.oz.au (Peter Wemm)
Newsgroups: news.software.nn
Subject: Re: Is nov (news overview) support planned for NN?
Date: 21 Dec 1992 17:23:28 +0800
Organization: Karam Pty. Ltd., Perth, Western Australia.
NNTP-Posting-Host: zeus.dialix.oz.au
X-Newsreader: NN version 6.4.19 #74

caadams@polaris.unm.edu (Clifford A Adams) writes:

>In article <BzAvy9.6rB@sci.kun.nl> lwj@cs.kun.nl (Luc Rooijakkers) writes:
>>In <s1#r-j-@lynx.unm.edu> caadams@polaris.unm.edu (Clifford A Adams) writes:
>>
>>>Is someone willing to add the nov support to NN?
>>
>>This has been discussed by the nn maintainers, and there is interest in
>>it. The problem is that it takes some work, and is a big backwards
>>compatibility headache. What basically needs to be done is to scrap the
>>old database alltogether and start work on nn 6.5. However, nov doesn't
>>work over NNTP yet, and there is no precise equivalent of nnmaster yet
>>(or so I think). Also, nov does not currently provide all of the functionality
>>nn wants (in particular, it doesn't always count the lines).
>>
>>One approach that has been suggested is to put big #ifdefs around the
>>old/new code, but this will make a mess. A different approach would
>>be to make a pseudo-nov accessing the old database. Nobody has
>>volunteered yet to do it.

>	I looked at NN a bit more recently and can see some of the
>problems with integrating NOV support.  One modification still seems
>possible, however: using the NOV database for subjects and authors of
>non-digest articles.  (I ran a small test and it seems that subject and
>author text takes up most of the space in the "*.data" files.)

>	Specifically, nn could have a configure #ifdef which says
>that the site has the NOV database.  If this is defined, the
>authors/subjects for (non-digest) articles will not be written to the
>database, and will be read from the NOV db.

>	Any comments?  I may attempt to write such a patch in a few
>weeks (if someone else doesn't beat me to it :-).

Geoff has already done a sample port of NN to use his libnov code. nnmaster
is dead.

I'm looking at it at this very moment...

As a short term solution, NN is probably going to inherit Geoff's code
and a big mess of #ifdef's.

In the long term, NN will most likely *only* use libnov.  By then, libnov
will be either transparent to things like NNTP, or will be hacked to be
transparent. [Rich Salz has already provided me with a neat 'hack'].

NNMASTER will be gone for those who can get the .overview files maintained 
by their news system.  For those who cannot, there will be an equivalent
of NNmaster, but writing files in .overview format rather than nn's private
way.  Other newsreaders will be able to share the new-nnmaster's database.

However, I'm going on holidays for 2 weeks as of tomorrow....

>				--Cliff

>P.S.  Several people are working on NNTP extensions to use NOV.

-- 
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From: lcrew@andromeda.rutgers.edu (Louie Crew)
Newsgroups: news.software.nn
Subject: Help w/ one short macro, please
Date: 30 Dec 92 18:56:28 GMT
Reply-To: <lcrew@andromeda.rutgers.edu>
Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.


I am trying to set up a macro that will remail to me any message I am 
currently reading.

When I try to execute the macro, I get the following error message:  

                  Command 260 not supported

1) Which of the lines in my macro is causing the problem?
2) Is there anything that I can do about it?
3) Is there a list of the Command nos.?

Here is my macro:

	define 4
	echo "You are remailing this current message to yourself"
	'm'
	'y'
	" "
	'n'
	"n"
	end


Please send a copy by private mail, given the strange holiday access.
Thank you.

Louie Crew

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From: wohler@hw1175.sap-ag.de (Bill Wohler)
Newsgroups: news.software.nn
Subject: IMPORTANT!  need your configuration
Date: 28 Dec 92 18:14:48 GMT
Reply-To: Bill Wohler <wohler@sap-ag.de>
Organization: SAP AG  Walldorf, Germany
Phone: +49 6227-341658  Home: +49 6221-163255
X-Mailer: MH [Version 6.7.2]


  please send me the equivalent of the following:

	grep ^#include /usr/src/local/nn/config.h | 
	mail -s "nn config" wohler@sap-ag.de

  for the next release of nn, i'm building an equivalent of the
  MACHINES file (like emacs) to help people decide which include files
  they need to add to config.h and to guide them around any possible
  problems.  since i don't have pcs and convexs and pyramids and suns
  stacked on my desk, this is a daunting problem (i guess even if i
  did, it would still be a big problem).  please help.  if you can
  manage a minute more than the above, please also include any
  porting/problem notes that i can add to the MACHINES file.  gracie,
  gracias, danke, thanks, merci, arigato, ...

  another desired side-effect is that we'll know who is running what
  so we'll know who gets messed up by machine-dependent "fixes". ;-)

  happy new year folks!

						--bw
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From: mholtz@sactoh0.sac.ca.us (Mark A. Holtz)
Newsgroups: news.misc,news.groups
Subject: Wanted: inews/mail docs
Date: 23 Dec 92 04:51:40 GMT
Organization: Sacramento Public Access Unix

Does anyone have the documentation for inews and mail? I want to
write up some software, and need to know how inews works, and how
one handles mail under Unix.

FTP is NOT available to me......
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     Quantum Leaps new theme song     <:>  Fidonet: Mark Holtz@1:203/90.1701
From: ck259@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (William J De Salazar)
Newsgroups: news.misc
Subject: 1 year treasury interest rate
Date: 21 Dec 1992 22:09:04 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio (USA)
NNTP-Posting-Host: hela.ins.cwru.edu


I'm trying to verify the 1 year treasury interest rate on November 9, 1992
after the Presidential election. If anyone has access to news archives,
I would appreciate if they could e-mail the 1 yr. treasury interest rate
for that date.I hope that no one is offended by this post. I thought it
would be o.k. on this news group(misc.) Thank you!
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From: michelle@solomon.technet.sg (Michelle Chiang)
Subject: Development in Internet
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL8]
Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1993 05:57:16 GMT



Dear Netters,

With the start of 1993, I am now compiling a list of all the
developments that have happened in Internet for the past 1 year.  
Eg : K12 is one of the latest development under 'Education' in Internet.  
Or you may have some interesting sites that you wish to share with the 
netters, eg : alt.prose is good place to find descriptions of books reviews.

I am targetting on the flwg topics :

Education (eg : K12)
Science - Microelectronics
	 Biology
	 others ...
Manufacturing
Network (eg : fuzzy logic email-server, Texas Metronet)
Medicine
Electronic Publications/newsletters (eg : Project Gutenberg, though not a new 
development)
Environment
Legal issues
Finance (eg : Dow Jones news go on-line)
Games
New sites
Weather services
Others

I'll appreciate any pointers, directions or comments/suggestions that you may 
have.  After collating the results, I'll post a summarised report to the world. Please e-mail me at :

michelle@solomon.technet.sg

Thank you and best regards.

NOTE : Actually, the developments need not be restricted to just last year.  
If you feel that a certain development is worth commenting, I would appreciate 
it if you could mention it to me too.

****************************************************************************
Michelle Chiang
Administrative Contact 

Technet Unit
National University of Singapore

E-mail: michelle@solomon.technet.sg
*****************************************************************************
From: rmartine@harper.UUCP (Rick Martinez)
Newsgroups: news.misc
Subject: Re: Packard Bell Reliability
Keywords: packard,bell,reliability,fault
Date: 16 Dec 92 17:31:13 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: William Rainey Harper College - Palatine, Il


Purchasing a Packard Bell computer is purchasing the "lazy man's" computer.
Their all-in-one type of system (all ports on motherboard) is a complete hassle.
If any of the ports fail, you have to replace the whole motherboard.

You purchased the Chrysler of computers.  Cheap.

Rich
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| They'll commit you.    -Ken Nordine    |        rmartine@harper.UUCP         |
Newsgroups: news.misc
From: rsalz@osf.org (Rich Salz)
Subject: Re: inn faq
Organization: Open Software Foundation
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 21:34:48 GMT

In <DLA.92Dec28151416@se05.wg2.waii.com> dla@se05.wg2.waii.com (Doug Acker) writes:
>Does one exist?
The best place to ask INN questions is
news.software.nntp,news.software.b.

Tom Limoncelli <tal@warren.mentorg.com> has an excellent faq/tutorial on
configuring an INN system.  Someone else (name withheld) is starting a
news.software.b faq, which includes various INN Q&A.

I have a handful of INN Q&A that I've posted once or twice.  I will email
it to you.  I have sent it to both Tom and "the other person" requesting
that one of them take over my list.
	/r$
From: mcg2@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (Marc Gabriel)
Newsgroups: news.misc
Subject: Lyme Disease e-mail Net...
Summary: Lyme Disease e-mail Network...
Keywords: Lyme Disease mailing list
Date: 21 Dec 92 20:21:27 GMT
Organization: Lehigh University
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL7]

Introducing...

******************************************************************************
*                           ----- LDEMN ----                                 *
*                The Lyme Disease Electronic Mail Network                    *
******************************************************************************

Lyme Disease is now the fastest growing infectious disease in the United
States.  In 10 short years, this little known bacterial infection has claimed
half a million victims and the number of new patients continues to spiral
upward with no relief in sight.  It is estimated that in 1991, 100,000
Americans contracted this dangerous disease.  If left untreated, LD can cause
permanent nerve, musculoskeletal and cardiac damage.

Unfortunately, many in the medical and political arenas have not given this
epidemic much thought.  Self appointed experts in the academic community have
declared that LD can always be cured with short courses of simple antibiotics.
However, as the number of cases rise, doctors on the front lines are
discovering that LD is more serious that previously suspected, requiring longer
treatment therapies and more complex combinations of medicines.  The battle
lines have been drawn.

And the battles continue at LD conferences, and in the various State
legislatures where insurance companies, terrified at the high cost of LD, are
attempting to short change patients.  Estimates show that the average cost of
treatment for chronic LD patients ranges from $60,000 to $100,000 per patient.

MAILING LIST:
To keep up with the latest developments, including new treatment protocols,
research news and political events, we introduce the Lyme Disease Electronic
Mail Network.  The LDEMN, in association with the Lyme Disease Network of New
Jersey, Inc., with provide you with a periodic newsletter with the latest
information.  All you need is an Internet- accessible e-mail address.

INTERESTED INDIVIDUALS INCLUDE:
      * LD patients
      * Friends or family of LD patients, who may wish to forward the
        newsletter to an LD patient
      * Interested members of the medical community
      * Interested members of the press

The subscription is completely FREE of charge, and we will NOT DISCLOSE your
address without your prior written permission.

To subscribe, send a memo to Internet address  mcg2@Lehigh.EDU
In the subject, type:  ADD LDEMN
In the body indicate your preferred e-mail address.
Optionally you may include your name, snail-mail address, and synopsis of your
situation.


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               (215) 882-0138        Lehigh University
              mcg2@Lehigh.EDU       Bethlehem, PA 18015
From: wmperg1@rw7.urc.tue.nl (Rudy Gobits)
Newsgroups: news.misc
Subject: 10 Questions about internet and usenet
Date: 1 Jan 93 20:05:54 GMT
Reply-To: wmperg1@urc.tue.nl


I am a student of the Technical University of Eindhoven (Netherlands).
I am doing some research into the use of the facilities of the internet.

Who are the users? What do they use? What do they think of the quality
of the facilities?

It takes only a few minutes to answear the following questions. Please
use the following form.
I quarantee the confidential use of your answers. Some results of this
questionaire will I publish on usenet news.

Please mail your answear to:  wmperg1@urc.tue.nl
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
1 In wich country do you live:......................................

2 What is your age:...................    M/W (delete)

3 What is your profession:................................

4 From what location do you have acces to the internet:
  (use 'X' e.x. X_university)	__university
				__company
				__school
				__other:........................

5 Since when do you have access:.....................(year)
 
6 What were your 'first time' experiences and problems?
  .................................................................
  ................................................................. 

7 How frequently do you use internetfacilities:
  (average hours per week, use X)	__ 0->1
					__ 1->5
					__ 5->10
					__ >10

  Which services do you use: 		__ E-mail
					__ Anonymous FTP
					__ FTP
					__ Usenet
					__ Telnet
					__ Gopher
					__ other:...................

8 What do you think of the quality (in general) of services accessible
by the internet? (Give 1 to 10, 1=bad and 10=good):........

9 What do you think of the quality of Usenet News?
(Give 1 to 10, 1=bad and 10=good):........

10 What services or facilities need to be improved and why?
...............................................................
...............................................................

Be free to give comments and suggestions.

Thanks!

Frank de Caluwe

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TU Eindhoven			Netherlands     
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From: gwp@dithots.Gwinnett.COM (George W. Pogue)
Newsgroups: news.misc
Subject: Mail Servers...
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 92 17:29:35 EST
Reply-To: gwp@dithots.Gwinnett.COM (George W. Pogue)
Organization: Deep In The Heart Of The South!


  Does there exist a list of mail servers on the net? It would be nice to
  have a list of all available file request servers for access.

  bill

  ps: it might be better to email me since my current host is munging 
  news feeds.

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 Buy American! The Job You Save Could Be Your Own! Sell American Too!
 gwp@dithots.Gwinnett.COM (George W. Pogue)  Deep In The Heart Of The South!
 User Calls: 812      User Posts: 352    Waffle Version: 1.65
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From: gwp@dithots.Gwinnett.COM (George W. Pogue)
Newsgroups: news.misc
Subject: Getting a new feed...
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 92 10:56:54 EST
Reply-To: gwp@dithots.Gwinnett.COM (George W. Pogue)
Organization: Deep In The Heart Of The South!


  Could someone email me the North Carolina portion of the usenet maps?

  I'm looking for a new feed in the Charlotte area... any ideas?

  bill

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 Buy American! The Job You Save Could Be Your Own! Sell American Too!
 gwp@dithots.Gwinnett.COM (George W. Pogue)  Deep In The Heart Of The South!
 User Calls: 806      User Posts: 333    Waffle Version: 1.65
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From: wmperg1@rw7.urc.tue.nl (Rudy Gobits)
Newsgroups: news.misc
Subject: 10 Questions about internet
Summary: questionaire internet and usenet
Keywords: questionaire internet usenet
Date: 1 Jan 93 17:17:52 GMT
Reply-To: wmperg1@urc.tue.nl

I am a student of the Technical University of Eindhoven (Netherlands).
I am doing some research into the use of the facilities of the internet.

Who are the users? What do they use? What do they think of the quality
of the facilities?

It takes only a few minutes to answear the following questions. Please
use the following form.
I quarantee the confidential use of your answers. Some results of this
questionaire will I publish on usenet news.

Please mail your answear to:  wmperg1@urc.tue.nl
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
1 In wich country do you live:......................................

2 What is your age:...................    M/W (delete)

3 What is your profession:................................

4 From what location do you have acces to the internet:
  (use 'X' e.x. X_university)	__university
				__company
				__school
				__other:........................

5 Since when do you have access:.....................(year)
 
6 What were your 'first time' experiences and problems?
  .................................................................
  ................................................................. 

7 How frequently do you use internetfacilities:
  (average hours per week, use X)	__ 0->1
					__ 1->5
					__ 5->10
					__ >10

  Which services do you use: 		__ E-mail
					__ Anonymous FTP
					__ FTP
					__ Usenet
					__ Telnet
					__ Gopher
					__ other:...................

8 What do you think of the quality (in general) of services accessible
by the internet? (Give 1 to 10, 1=bad and 10=good):........

9 What do you think of the quality of Usenet News?
(Give 1 to 10, 1=bad and 10=good):........

10 What services or facilities need to be improved and why?
...............................................................
...............................................................

Be free to give comments and suggestions.

Thanks!

Frank de Caluwe

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internet: wmperg1@urc.tue.nl
Newsgroups: news.misc
From: dla@se05.wg2.waii.com (Doug Acker)
Newsgroups: news.misc
Subject: inn faq
Date: 28 Dec 92 21:14:16 GMT
Organization: western geophysical exploration products
NNTP-Posting-Host: se05.wg2.waii.com

Does one exist?
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From: reid@decwrl.DEC.COM (Brian Reid)
Newsgroups: news.misc,news.admin,misc.misc,news.groups
Subject: USENET Readership summary for Dec 92 posted
Keywords: arbitron, statistics, announcement
Date: 1 Jan 93 20:42:11 GMT
Organization: DEC Network Systems Laboratory
NNTP-Posting-Host: torrey.pa.dec.com
Authorized: reid@decwrl.dec.com
Originator: reid@torrey.pa.dec.com

The monthly USENET Readership summary report for Dec 92 has been
posted to news.groups,news.lists,news.admin. The full set of data, without
commentary, is also in news.lists. If you would like your site
to participate in the survey, you will find the necessary software in
comp.sources.d,news.admin