HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: bhushan@fmiapd.com (Bhushan Kerur)
Subject: TEST
Organization: Fujitsu Microelectroics Inc
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 92 20:36:45 GMT

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From: 8809787l@levels.unisa.edu.au
Newsgroups: soc.culture.iranian
Subject: Help RE: PostScript files & DotMatrix printers
Date: 14 Aug 92 14:20:17 GMT
Organization: University of South Australia

Dear readers

I would like to know if it is possible to convert PostScript files in such a
way that one may be able to print such files on standard Epson compatible
DotMatrix printers in the MS-DOS environment.

Also I was woundering if it is possible to uncompress .Z files within MS-DOS.

I would be greatfull if you could assist me. Please contact be via e-mail at:

		8809787L@LV.LEVELS.UNISA.EDU.AU

Yours faithfully
Peyam Pourbeik
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University of South Australia
School of Electronic Engineering ( LEVELS campus )
Adelaide, South Australia
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From: sepehr@acsu.buffalo.edu (Ramin S.)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.iranian
Subject: Mo'afi , another way of making money
Date: 13 Aug 92 19:48:05 GMT
Organization: UB

Everyday I read something about the regime of Iran ( or should I say the
regime that has been forced to Iranians ) and their policies and I see they
do anything to drain people blood into jars and drink them. 

What the hell is this business of Mo'afi?? A person is supposed to serve
military no matter what. Only exception is illness and things related to
that. So why the hell can we buy our military service. 

They do anything to make money. They send people who are serving home for
longest time just because they want to make money by not spending it on
food and military bases. My friind's brother goes to the base 8:00 am and
he is home by 10:30-11:00 am , what kindda sevice is that ??

Is it Islamic Republic or Islamic Capitalsm ??

Here is another first class news from Iran. People get arrested on the
streets for wearing colorfull and happy clothes specially women. and they
take them in and people have to pay fine according to their fanciness , and
if they have nail polish and eyelines and makeups they have to pay more
accordingly. 

Hey Down with unstable regime of Iran and it's supporters.

Ramin
 
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* "We hate it when our friends become successfull. And if we could destroy  *
*  them , you bet your life we would ....   "   The Mozzerman               *
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From: bavafa@netcom.com (Hooshyar Naraghi)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.iranian
Subject: Re: When Was Your First Time?
Date: 22 Aug 92 00:42:17 GMT
Organization: sci

In article <1992Aug21.193509.22913@EE.Stanford.EDU> mack@isl.Stanford.EDU (mack) writes:
>bavafa@netcom.com (Hooshyar Naraghi) writes:
>>
>>And here comes the classic question I have always wanted to ask the netters
>>at sci.  When was the first time you [...] and how did you learn about it?
>
>Sir,
>
>I believe you are in the wrong newsgroup. You need to take this to
>alt.sex or any other relevant newsgroup.
>
>>PS. Oh, yes, my first time was around October or November of last year (90).

Hi Mack!  If I didn't know about your educational background, I would have 
said bravo to your editorial skills.  But, you don't study journalism.

>Please spare us in this newsgroup with stories of your private life,
>and please refrain from posting such offensive material to
>soc.culture.IRANIAN in the future.

set GMA on

Wait a minute, moment, moment.  sex is iranian as much as the concept of the
United States is iranian.  As a matter of fact we invented it and we were the
first ones to do it.  I don't have the sources now, but I have heard so from
some people.  Also, all of our literature is full of sexy topics anyways.

All these shopping malls are like our bazarcheh as has previously been stated
in this newsgroup, and we used donkeys for transportation, and during shaw we
even had 'teransport-e shamsol-amAreh.'  West took the idea from us and now 
uses high speed vehicles.

So I proved to you that sex has origins in soc.culture.IRANIAN.  Sorry, but you
are not at my level so this much penetrating and solid logic should suffice
your limited knowledge about sex and Iranian.  I have to say this to defend our
beloved iran although I might be killed.

set GMA off

>    Sincerely,
>    --mack

Regards,
Hooshyar F. Naraghi
bavafa@netcom.com
(415) 324-1055


PS.  BTW, see you Sunday for the football game. :-)


=====================  For GMA-questioning ones only  =========================
GMA stands for gorbe morteza ali.  It's a library function [(c) HFN 92] that
takes as an input any text, question, argument, discussion, opinion, comments,
and whatever else, and returns a for-sure winning conclusion rendering the user
of such function call to the ultimate level of undisputedly victorious points.
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Newsgroups: soc.culture.iranian
From: mack@isl.Stanford.EDU (mack)
Subject: Re: More Iranian sports trivia (By Kamran Iranpour)
Organization: Stanford University
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 92 17:11:06 GMT


It has been a couple of days since these questios were posted, so I
will make an attempt to answer some of them. Thanks to Kambiz for
providing these questions and bringing back memories. Sorry for
posting this. I couldn't send e-mail since this was not posted
directly by you and your e-mail address wasn't provided. Granted, I
could have figured it out, but I was too lazy!  :-)

>1-in the opening match for Iran in 1978 WC in football against
>Netherland , a match that Iran lost 0-3 what was the name of the
>Dutch forward who scored all the 3 goals (hat trick) ?

Pardon the spelling, but his name was Ruby Rensenbrink or something
close to this. He scored two of the three goals on penalty shots.

>4- In the qualifying match of the WC footbal in 74 Germany, Iran
>again met Australia (we had lost the first game in Melbourne 0-3),
>What was the final score and who scored the goals?

Iran won 2-0. Don't know who scored the goals.

>5- What were the name of the two Kuwaiti forward who met Iran
>in all the games (and I say there was many of them)?

If I remember correctly, one was Fathi Kamil. I don't remember the
other.

>6- In 1972 Olympics in Munchen an Iranian weight lifter won the silver
>medal in 72kg, He was from Khouzestan , what was his name?

I don't know. If you hadn't mentioned his weight class (72kg), I would
have guessed Nasiri, since he was our most famous lifter with world
class ability during those years.

>7- Who was the Mordeh-Khor of Taj ?

You mean they ever scored?  :-)

>8- In which Olympics did Mohammad Nassiri break the record and by
>how many Kilos ?

It was in Mexico City games in 1968. I don't know what the record was
and/or what it became.

>9- What was the name of the Iranians heavy weight wrestler between the
>time of Takhti and Soukhteh-Saraii. He met Alexander Medvid in his
>first game in 72-Olympics .

Could it be Filabi? His first name escapes me at the moment.

========================================================================

Thanks for the questions.

    --mack

--
When I kiss your lips, I feel the rolling thunder to my fingertips.
And all the while my head is in a spin. Deep within, I'm in love.
You're my everything...                       --Santa Esmeralda
Newsgroups: soc.culture.iranian
From: habibi@tasman.cc.utas.edu.au (Daryoush Habibi)
Subject: Looking for ``Bijan Jabbari'' ...
Organization: University of Tasmania, Australia.
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 02:07:48 GMT

Does anyone have an email address for ``Bijan Jabbari'' at George
Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia?

Bijan, if you are reading this message please reply to me. I have
a query about your paper in INFOCOM 92.

Best regards,

--
Daryoush Habibi
Electrical & Electronic Engineering, University of Tasmania
GPO Box 252C, Hobart                    Voice: +61 02 202137 
Tasmania 7001, Australia                Fax. : +61 02 202136
Newsgroups: soc.culture.iranian
From: mack@isl.Stanford.EDU (mack)
Subject: Re: Women's track and field in Iran
Organization: Stanford University
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 92 19:40:40 GMT

marand@eagle.wpd.sgi.com (Najmeh Marand) writes:
>mack@isl.Stanford.EDU (mack) writes:
>> 
>> I should add that this meet was held in anstadium, and over
>> 100 atheletes competed.
>
>Indeed interesting!  Do you (or someone) know what kind of outfits
>the women athletes (or specifically those in track & field) wear?  

No clue!

>i.e.   do they run / jump in "MAnto and roosari" :-)

Highly impractical.

>(or whatever kind 
>of islamic outfits)??  or (hopefully) wear whatever is comfortable 
>and disallow men spectators?

This is perhaps what they do.

>Najmeh
>
>hmmm...  I just noticed that you mentioned "*outdoor*".  That makes
>it harder to have the women away from any nAmahram's (men's) eyes!!

Yes, the event tool place in "estadium e shahid keshvari" formerly
"dAvoodieh". There are no walls surrounding the stadium as far as I
know, just see through fences. Can anyone shed more light on this
matter. I am totally clueless on the nature of women's competition in
Iran, that's why I initially posted the original article to open up
some discussion.

    --mack

--
When I kiss your lips, I feel the rolling thunder to my fingertips.
And all the while my head is in a spin. Deep within, I'm in love.
You're my everything...                       --Santa Esmeralda
Newsgroups: soc.culture.iranian
From: hernlem@chess.ncsu.EDU (Brad Hernlem)
Subject: Re: Iran to pay oil firms for expropriation losses
Reply-To: hernlem@chess.ncsu.EDU (Brad Hernlem)
Organization: North Carolina State University
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 14:38:09 GMT

In article <gev.dkj2i@lab.ntt.jp>, farzin@apollo3d.apollo3.ntt.JP
(Farzin Mokhtarian) writes:
> 
> From Japan Times, Aug. 20, 1992
> -----------------------------------------------------------------
>     
> THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) Iran has agreed to pay two U.S. oil
> companies $130.45 million each for losses suffered following the
> 1979 Islamic Revolution.
>     
> It was described as the last major oil-related claim at the
> 11-year-old Iran-U.S. Claims Tribunal here in The Hague.

Hooray! Let's get this over with. It's been long enough.
  
>  .
>  .
>  .   
>    
> Earlier reports indicated that the total value of oil claims
> submitted by U.S. companies, including Arco and Sun, reached
> several billion dollars.
> ------------------------------------------------------------------
>    
>   - Farzin Mokhtarian
>     farzin@apollo3.ntt.jp

Is it just a coincidence or does the fact that Iran is to pay both
companies the exact same amount of money (to within 5 significant
figures of accuracy :-)) sound just a little suspicious? How is it that
both companies suffered the same amount of losses? Was this a joint
contract with both companies?

Brad Hernlem (hernlem@chess.ncsu.EDU)
From: B.Kumar@cs.ucl.ac.uk
Newsgroups: soc.culture.iranian
Subject: Re: Bosnia: Another Spain? (The need for urgent Muslim Action )
Date: 22 Aug 92 16:53:26 GMT


One Mr Zfar Minhas sent the above request to following newsgroups:

    soc.culture.pakistan, soc.culture.afghanistan,
    soc.culture.bangladesh, soc.culture.india, soc.culture.asean,
    soc.culture.yugoslavia, soc.culture.iranian, soc.culture.african


>>In the name of Allah, the Merciful, the Benificent
>>
>>Assalamu'alaikum:
>>The war in Bosnia rages on. Tens of thousands of Muslims have been
  ( long winding message deleted ...)
>>we live in to do more for the Muslims in Bosnia. 
>>A few suggestions for possible actions are:
>>
>>   1)   Send donations for Bonsia to any major Islamic Organization in 
>>        the U.S.  ICNA and ISNA are among the many organizations who are
>>        trying to gather funds for Bosnia.
>>   AND MOST IMPORTANTLY
>>
>>   6)   Remember your Brothers and Sisters in Bosnia (and in other parts of 
>>        the world like Kashmir , Algeria, Somalia and Burma ) in your prayers

( The situation in Bosnia is really very very bad and unimaginable
brutality has been done by both sides on innocents citizens belonging 
to other side of ethnic devide.) 

Though above steps may help, but, I think, muslim "brothers" in Bosnia will 
be better served by sending 200,000 soldiers from country like Pakistan- a 
great islamic power that maintains over 800,000 muslim soldiers and reserves.
I am sure that 200,000 muslim soldiers should be sufficient to defeat an 
army of just about 40,000 to 50,000 serbian army of christian "brothers".
Condemining serbian agression is not sufficeint.

What is the use of maintaining such a big muslim army, if muslim "brothers" 
are sufferring terrible brutality in the hands of non-muslims "brothers".
Please write to  prime minister and presidents of Pakistan to send
army to fight in Bosnia and save the life of muslim "brothers".

No flame please. 

regards,

bkumar alias b. khan
From: daijavd@watson.ibm.com (Shahrokh Daijavad)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.iranian
Subject: Re: Golden moments in Iranian sports history
Date: 16 Aug 92 16:00:52 GMT
Reply-To: daijavd@watson.ibm.com (Shahrokh Daijavad)
Organization: IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
Disclaimer: This posting represents the poster's views, not necessarily those of IBM

Since almost all of my trivia questions have been answered correctly, let me
post my answers in order to confirm things.

I have seen answers by "Desert Man", Keivan Esfarjani and a remarkable degree
of self-control by Hooshyar Naraghi in NOT posting the answers. However,
my friend Hooshyar has made some correct comments about Keivan's answers.
Also, I received private e-mail from Kamran Iranpour who got almost all
answers right.

Here are the answers (for the sake of brevity, I don't repeat the questions)

1) South Korea. Everyone got this one right. Remarkably, Kamran even
remembered that both Iran's goals in the home game were scored by
Hassan Roshan and South Korea's goals were scored in the 29th and 89th
minute!!

2) 2.21 m. Everyone except Hooshyar, underestimated Ghiasi's achievement
by giving answers in 2.11 to 2.13 range. Ghiasi had his PR of 2.21 in
those games and I suspect that his record has not been broken yet.
The world record in 1974 was 2.31 (afarin, Keivan khan) by Dwight Stones
of U.S. and is 2.44 now (afarin, Hooshyar khan) by Javier "Sotomayor"
of Cuba. Sotomayor won the high-jump gold in Barcelona a couple of weeks
ago but only jumped around 2.35.

3) I have not seen a correct answer to the Asian Youth Soccer question.
The answer is Japan and Iran won 2-0. Hooshyar probably had the answer.

4) Ibrahim Javadi was correctly identified.

5) In the waterpolo question, China was identified easily. The other
country was Japan.

6) Everyone got Iraj Danaii-Fard right.

Thanks for the encouragement and nice comments this trivia received.

Regards, Shahrokh Daijavad
daijavd@waston.ibm.com
From: farzin@apollo3d.apollo3.ntt.JP (Farzin Mokhtarian)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.iranian
Subject: Re: News of Iran
Date: 19 Aug 92 03:32:28 GMT
	<hk5.de9g7@lab.ntt.jp> <jamshid.714156271@cgl.ucsf.edu>
Organization: none

In article <jamshid.714156271@cgl.ucsf.edu> jamshid@socrates.ucsf.edu (J. Naghizadeh) writes:

 @farzin@apollo3d.apollo3.ntt.JP (Farzin Mokhtarian) writes:
 @
 @>News briefs from Kayhaan Havaii # 993:
 @>------------------------------------------------------------------------
 @
 @>  Starting in Mehr (next
 @>  month), Peykaan model 1600 will be sold at one million toman
 @>  which will reduce the price by 40% (so the cost is around 1.6
 @>  million toman now). 80 industrial units are now working with
 @>  Iran-khodro to build parts of Paykaan. Presently, 90% of Paykaan's
 @>  parts are made in Iran.
 @>                             
 @Sometime ago Farzin suggested that because of the high price of
 @Peykan, those returning to Iran should avoid going to Teheran and 
 @try to go to provinces. His solution for high automobile prices
 @was to substitute "KHAR" or donkey for car as used to be the case in Iran. 
 @This reminds me of the recent article by Kambiz on "Hezbe Kharan".
 @
 @Well it seems Peykan is getting cheaper and cheaper, and we need not
 @take his advice on riding "KHAR".
 @
 @--jamshid

a. I said that RENTS were lower outside Tehran.
b. I never suggested the use of donkeys. In fact, here I use a bicycle
   like countless other Japanese.
c. Move to Tehran if that is what you like. I have no problem with that.
d. What do you think you accomplished with this?!
                
 - Farzin
From: farzin@apollo3d.apollo3.ntt.JP (Farzin Mokhtarian)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.iranian
Subject: Poetry of Hafez (was: Re: Request)
Date: 13 Aug 92 23:59:12 GMT
Organization: none

In article <1992Aug13.141439.4655@sei.cmu.edu> psc@sei.cmu.edu (Peter Capell) writes:

 @Okay so, if any of you "Eye rainians" happen to know it, would anyone be
 @willing to attempt a translation of this part of Hafez?  I know it is
 @difficult, and yet I maintain it is possible.  My wife says it's too hard, but
   
You certainly make plenty of advertisement about your wife being Iranian  :-)
      
I am a Hafez fan myself so if you post the poem you want translated and if
I can understand your transliteration, I can attempt to translate it. It
will be very rough ofcourse. The problem is that in classical Iranian
poetry, form (fairly rigid) is at least as important as content (in fact, for some poets,
form is probably *more* important than content). In case of Hafez, the importance
of form and content is probably equal. I think what makes the poetry of Hafez so
beautiful is that he always manages to satisfy requirements of form elegantly
while conveying his profound thoughts and feelings elegantly! So both the packaging
and what is inside the package is very beautiful!
                           
So when reading a translation of Hafez, you should be warned that:
                                                          
a. Form (at least original form) is completely lost.
b. Content is very difficult to convey (this illustrated by the fact that
   many authors have written different interpretations of Hafez).
                                                          
Finally, you should be able to find translations of Hafez in a major library.
     
 - Farzin
              
Newsgroups: soc.culture.iranian
From: farhang@sail.UWaterloo.CA (Farhang Honarvar)
Subject: TO A FRIEND(Majid Nili Ahmadaabaady) 
Organization: University of Waterloo
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 20:10:18 GMT

SALAAM,
I got your message from one of my friends in Waterloo who had seen your message
on the network. I tried to reach you at the address given on top of your message
, but it didn't work.

I think that it would be better if you try to send me an E-mail at the address g
iven on top of this meesage. I hope it would work.

I am looking forward to hearing from you very soon.

Farhang Honarvar.


Xref: sparky soc.culture.iranian:7281 soc.culture.afghanistan:870 soc.culture.arabic:3365 soc.culture.turkish:9125
From: cosar@ulysses.cs.umn.edu (Ahmet Cosar)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.iranian,soc.culture.afghanistan,soc.culture.arabic,soc.culture.turkish
Subject: Re: Baghdad is an Iranian city !!!
Date: 19 Aug 92 21:48:00 GMT
Organization: University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, CSci dept.

In article <1992Aug19.190105.24396@ncsu.edu> hernlem@chess.ncsu.EDU (Brad Hernlem) writes:
>
>Are you sure about this? Baghdad is pronounced "Bagh-dAd" and not
>"BAgh-dAd", is it not?

The "*"s should be where I put the "o"s:

>         |    o *
>      \  |  \   _
>     __| | __| |__|_|
>              /    * o
>             |
>              \_

Now it's correct!

>Brad Hernlem (hernlem@chess.ncsu.EDU)


--
   A.Cosar                                                                      ________________________________________________________________________                
Disc space -- the final frontier!                                               ________________________________________________________________________

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Disclaimer: I speak for myself<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
Newsgroups: soc.culture.iranian
From: farhad@CS.Stanford.EDU (Farhad Shakeri)
Subject: Re: Survey on summaries of Kayhan highlights
Organization: Computer Science Department, Stanford University.
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 16:42:19 GMT

In article farzin@apollo3d.apollo3.ntt.JP (Farzin Mokhtarian) writes:
|> 
|> 
|> So far I have posted a couple of articles in which I summarized
|> the highlights of Kayhan Havaii. This should have given people
|> a taste of the kind of news it has. I like to continue ONLY IF
|> there is sufficient interest out there to justify the effort.
|> That is why I am asking people to let me know whether they are
|> interested in reading those summaries (that is all, you are
|> NOT required to believe all of it  :-) ) So if you are
|> interested, please post a short message to SCI (so that others
|> can see it too) clearly indicating your interest. If you are
|> not interested, please do not post a reply at all (negative
|> replies will be ignored anyway since those people can simply
|> skip to the next article). 
|>       
|> So, here we go ...
|>     
|>  - Farzin
|>    


Oh Farzin,  Please do not stop,  you know very well that

        "  Keyhan  Havaii is my Bible.  "


-- 
         +----------------------------------------------------+
        /   Farhad  Shakeri         E-Mail:                  /
       /  Stanford   University     farhad@CS.Stanford.EDU  /
      / Computer Science Department (415) 723-0009         /
     +----------------------------------------------------+
Newsgroups: soc.culture.iranian
From: ghbr@fmg.bt.co.uk (Hossein Bagherzadeh Rafsanjani)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.iranian
Subject: CLC CONDEMNS EXECUTIONS IN IRAN
Date: 13 Aug 92 13:04:16 GMT
Organization: British Telecom

[copied from soc.rights.human]
From: hernlem@chess.ncsu.EDU (Brad Hernlem)
Subject: Re: men/women, etc.
Reply-To: hernlem@chess.ncsu.EDU (Brad Hernlem)
Organization: North Carolina State University
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 15:30:05 GMT

Peter writes:
****
Here is an interesting intercultural note.  It is something that in the early
part of our marriage caused endless strife: both my wife and sister-in-law
came to the U.S. with the definite prejudice that "all American women are
prostitutes..."  Now I'm no flagwaver, but let me tell you, if you want to
piss an American off, just say stuff like this.  It is in essense to say,
"modar jendeh."  Indeed, it was to imply that my mother and sister were both
whores.  I don't think this was the intention behind my wife's and
sister-in-law's remarks, but I found it rather insensitive that they didn't
seem to care whether I understood their sentiments or not.  Further, I would
guess that many of you share the same sentiment.  Of course I understand that
by Iranian standards, that you have a right to your opinion.  There is less
premarital sex in Iran no doubt.  In fact, referring to American women as 
whores is probably in some sense a cultural imperative in order to protect
the Iranian value against premarital sex. 
****

As another American, this doesn't really bother me. It really isn't any
different than Dan Quayle's statements on the cultural elite and the
decline of American family values. There clearly is no perfection in our
"culture" and I don't care who criticizes it whether it be me, another
American, an Iranian, or anyone else. While Dan Quayle may make his
remarks for partisan political purposes, we are all to blame for our
little part in the failure or success of our society.

Brad (hernlem@chess.ncsu.EDU)



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