HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: ts@uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi)
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
Subject: Re: Anyone know of any general management newsgroups?
Date: 23 Dec 92 22:31:48 GMT
Organization: University of Vaasa, Finland

In article <1992Dec23.163530.20444@ryn.mro4.dec.com> johnson@speshr.enet.dec.com (Pete Johnson) writes:
>I *thought* that the internet supported newsgroups on any imaginable subject,
>but a long search for newsgroups concerned with management or accounting
>(specifically activity-based costing and activity-level benchmarking) proved
>fruitless.
>
>Am I missing something, or are there some newsgroups out there that I'm unaware
>of?

No it is not only you who is missing something, but we all are.  At
least I am not aware of any accounting, business finance or similar
newsgroup.  I'd very much like to have one in the sci hierarchy, but
so far there has not been sufficient interest.  A pity.  Back to the
grindmill of the journals, with their extremely looooog lags, then :-(.

In fact having some modest experience with mailing lists I even have
been considering setting up a local mailing list for such a purpose. 

   All the best, Timo

..................................................................
Prof. Timo Salmi      Co-moderator of comp.archives.msdos.announce
Moderating at garbo.uwasa.fi anonymous FTP archives 128.214.87.1
Faculty of Accounting & Industrial Management; University of Vaasa
Internet: ts@uwasa.fi Bitnet: salmi@finfun   ; SF-65101, Finland
From: guimona@JSP.UMontreal.CA (Guimond Alexandre)
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
Subject: Re: Individual Directory Permissions
Date: 30 Dec 92 08:59:42 GMT
Organization: Universite de Montreal

In article <1992Dec28.214356.28364@netcom.com> data1@netcom.com (Adam Shiffman) writes:
>Hi,
>
>I would like to be able to use the CHMOD command to allow a specific individual to access my home directory - can this be done easily?   I did have some troublewith the CHMOD command, even after reading the manual pages - any info on how to
>do this would be greatly appreciated!
>
>Thanks in advance....
>
I dont think you can change the access rights for a specific individual using 
chmod. This command is for setting access rights for groups(or for the owner). I
think you should use the chacl command. Using this command you could do

  chacl <LOGIN_NAME>+<RIGHTS> ~

to grant the <RIGHTS> access modes to <LOGIN_NAME> in your home directory. 
But this only sets rights for your HOME directory. If you want this user to 
have accec rights to specific files, you have to use the same command and 
replace '~' with '~/FILE_NAME'. 

Read the chacl manual pages for creating files with specific rights for 
specific users (or contact me via e-mail for more information). 

-- 
Alexandre Guimond
guimona@JSP.UMontreal.CA
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
From: gtapolow@nyx.cs.du.edu (Greg Tapolow)
Subject: Mail Slowdown
X-Disclaimer: Nyx is a public access Unix system run by the University
	of Denver for the Denver community.  The University has neither
	control over nor responsibility for the opinions of users.
Organization: Nyx, Public Access Unix at U. of Denver Math/CS dept.
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 92 16:10:47 GMT


My site has noticed a sever drop in incoming news. It seems to be the
belief at our site that the cause is from outside the site. Has anyone
else noticed a severe drop-off and if so does any one know what happened
and/or is going on? The funny thing is that I am getting news out, just
not back in.

Please feel free to e-mail me directly with responses as I am not sure
whether I will receive this group.

Th'nks
	Greg
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From: 20541@brahms.udel.edu (Maverick)
Subject: Happy New Year
Organization: University of Delaware
Distribution: na
Date: Sat, 26 Dec 1992 03:16:49 GMT

Happy New Year to all, including Mr. Lizard.



Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
From: dupin@carson.u.washington.edu (dupin)
Subject: email limits
Organization: University of Washington, Seattle
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 03:57:59 GMT



Hello, I was just curious what is the limit of the size of email
one can send?
specifically, would it be technically ok if I send somebody
an email with a file that is about 1.5 megs attached to it?
anyhelp appreciated.
thanks

dupin@carson.u.washington.edu

oh yeah, it's a compressed file (*.arj))
Xref: sparky news.newusers.questions:5555 news.software.readers:2530 news.answers:4686
From: dsutch@helix.nih.gov (Dennis Sutch)
Subject: adding self to whois database
Organization: National Institutes of Health, Bethesda
Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1993 01:57:29 GMT

Thanks

C

dsutch@helix.nih.gov
From: ts@uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi)
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
Subject: Re: Usenet Ettiquette
Date: 27 Dec 92 07:42:04 GMT
Organization: University of Vaasa, Finland

In article <lmy297g@rpi.edu> younge@nova0.rdrc.rpi.edu (Irwin M. Fargo) writes:
>Could someone please point me to an FTP site containing "Emily Post's
>Guide to Network Ettiquette"?
>
>I understand that this document is posted on a regular basis, but I
>need to get a copy as soon as possible.

  63197 Oct 19 10:01 garbo.uwasa.fi:/pc/doc-net/usenews.zip

"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 29Kb).  North American users are referred to the Garbo
mirror on wuarchive.wustl.edu.  Australian users are referred to the
archie.au mirror.  For the Asian users there is the NCTUCCCA.edu.tw
mirror.  The mirrors may lag occasionally, or might not have all the
files.  If you do not receive my reply within five days, please ask
your own site's system manager to construct a returnable mail path
for you". 

..................................................................
Prof. Timo Salmi      Co-moderator of comp.archives.msdos.announce
Moderating at garbo.uwasa.fi anonymous FTP archives 128.214.87.1
Faculty of Accounting & Industrial Management; University of Vaasa
Internet: ts@uwasa.fi Bitnet: salmi@finfun   ; SF-65101, Finland
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
From: mahesh@amnese.eng.uab.edu (B.G. Mahesh)
Subject: Any FreeNet Hub in Frederick, MD?
Originator: mahesh@amnese.eng.uab.edu
Reply-To: mahesh@evb.com
Organization: SETT, Inc.
Distribution: usa
Date: Sat, 26 Dec 1992 15:55:27 GMT

Is there a freenet hub in Frederick, Maryland? 
Please respond by email only as I don't have direct access to 
this group.

thanks

-- 
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Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions,comp.mail.misc,comp.misc
From: kbibb@maui.qualcomm.com (Ken Bibb)
Subject: Re: listserv/mailing list
Organization: Qualcomm, Inc., San Diego, CA
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 06:17:02 GMT

In <Bzz7ny.Ft8@polaris.async.vt.edu> jfurr@polaris.async.vt.edu (J. Furr) writes:

>I'm interested in running a mailing list for a small group of people.  I am
>on a BSD 4.3 UNIX system and don't know one whole hell of a lot about UNIX,
>but have friends who can be persuaded to do things for me if I do the
>legwork first.  

You can set up a mailing list directly in /etc/aliases, or use a package.

>Where can I get software to run a listserv or mailing list?

Ask archie about individual packages.

>What's the difference between a listserv and a mailing list?

listserv is a specific mailing list package.  For an annotated list,
see the list that is regularly posted to news.answers

-- 
Ken Bibb                "he heard the snow falling faintly through the
kbibb@qualcomm.com	 universe and faintly falling, like the descent of
jester@crash.cts.com     their last end, upon all the living and the dead."
				--"The Dead", James Joyce
From: bogart@bpb.it (Max Lanfranconi - R and D)
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
Subject: How can have newsgroup fwd by e-mail ?
Date: 23 Dec 1992 04:36:17 -0600
Organization: UTexas Mail-to-News Gateway
NNTP-Posting-Host: cs.utexas.edu

Hello,

	I'm a new cnews site. I have a couple of questions to ask:



1) What shall I put into my sys file in order to get all the groups I am
    presently getting *AND* having just one peculiar newsgroup automatically 	    forwarded as e-mail messages to a specific user. 

2) May someone send me his "sys" file underlining an uucp news feed host (I 
   just want to check if I did thing in the right way)

Pointers to RTFM will be very welcomed as long as  you specify where to get 
the FM :-).

Thank you in advance and HAPPY CHRISTMAS!

--Max
From: bhs@neuro.duke.edu (Brennan Stephens)
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
Subject: old messages
Date: 27 Dec 92 03:14:29 GMT

Anyone out there no a way to mark all old articles in a newsgroup as read and
start from scratch?  I'm about 3000 articles behind in some and I will never
have time to catch up.  Any suggestions?  Please e-mail (for obvious reasons.)
From: jdsiegel@ocf.berkeley.edu (Joel Siegel)
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
Subject: Re: How to save all available article to a file?
Date: 21 Dec 1992 22:41:32 GMT
Organization: U.C. Berkeley Open Computing Facility
NNTP-Posting-Host: sandstorm.berkeley.edu

In article <19892@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu> putzolu@toadflax.cs.ucdavis.edu (David Putzolu) writes:
>Here is a question for the news "pro's" out there:
>
>Is there any way to pull off all of the articles stored at the local
>NNTP server for a particular newsgroup & save them to a file?
>
>To be more specific: I want to collect _all_ the postings in, say,
>rec.aquaria, that are currently stored at my local NNTP server. I
>don't have an accound on the server, so I cannot just copy the
>spoolfile. Is there some command I can give rn to dump all the
>messages? 

Do you have trn?  If so, try using that (it uses the same .newsrc
and stuff as rn), and in Thread Selection Mode (invoked with the +
key) you should be able to select all threads (or at least all the
ones on your screen; I'm sure there's a way to select *all* threads
but I haven't had occasion to use it), then type "s <filename>" to
save all the threads to that file.  Typing a filename is optional,
if you don't supply one, the default is the newsgroup name (like,
Rec.aquaria).,

You have the option of using mailbox format so you can read it
using your mail reader.  I don't know what home machine you use,
but if you use a Mac, there's a program called EasyView which also
allows you mail-type reading of text files formatted as Internet
mail or news.

Hope this helps.  There may be a way to do this in rn too, but I
don't know what it is.


-- 
Joel Siegel <jdsiegel@ocf.berkeley.edu | jdsiegel@garnet.berkeley.edu>
"Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in
affairs which properly concern them."   - Paul Valery
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
From: ts@uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi)
Subject: Re: Harrassment
Organization: University of Vaasa, Finland
Date: Fri, 25 Dec 1992 20:06:53 GMT

In article <Bztq7J.7I5@news.udel.edu> 20541@brahms.udel.edu (Maverick) writes:
>In article <qVa0VB1w164w@tweekco.uucp> alizard@tweekco.uucp (A.Lizard) writes:

>>If you can't handle the risk of being flamed in E-Mail or via public

>Gee, Mr. Lizard, I think this message is stupid and thoughless. Why don't

This discussion was originally about how to avoid being harassed by
email messages.  Might you two gentlemen consider taking this
escallating exchange to alt.flame or alternatively return to the
original question. 

   All the best, Timo

..................................................................
Prof. Timo Salmi      Co-moderator of comp.archives.msdos.announce
Moderating at garbo.uwasa.fi anonymous FTP archives 128.214.87.1
Faculty of Accounting & Industrial Management; University of Vaasa
Internet: ts@uwasa.fi Bitnet: salmi@finfun   ; SF-65101, Finland
From: rtoptan@lucpum.it.luc.edu (Richard Z Toptani)
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
Subject: Re: Internet Access?
Date: 21 Dec 92 15:35:08 GMT
Organization: Loyola University Chicago
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL3

todd@valinor.mythical.com (Todd Lawrence) writes:
: 
: MCImail offers a student program that allows send/rec mail that is 
: rater inexpensive, I believe $5.00 a month w/a 10.00 setup fee will allow 
: him 100 msg per month.. other options abound, get a copy of NIXPUB which 
: is available from anon FTP from many places and you should be able to 
: find something to his liking..
: 

Thanks! Will pass along that info as well as a copy of NiXPUB.

Sorry to anyone who tried to email me. My previous .signature had
an incorrect address!

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From: ianst@qdpii.comp.qdpi.oz.au (Ian Staples)
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
Subject: Re: Questions about rn and access to newsgroups (Re: Reasons for Anonymous posts)
Date: 21 Dec 92 08:00:47 GMT
Organization: Qld Dept Primary Industries

In article <1gsuvfINN2ka@hrd769.brooks.af.mil> news@hrd769.brooks.af.mil (InterNet News) writes:
>In article <1992Dec17.173208.2936@imagen.com> xyzzy@imagen.com (David McIntyre) writes:
>>I believe he is asking the same question I have been trying to figure out 
>>for a week or so, myself.  How does one start up a new topic of discussion?
>>F will follow-up, but how did the person who posed the original question 
>>enter it?
>
>  Using rn/trn, the 'f' command asks if you are following up or starting a
>new thread.  That is the difference between 'f' and 'F'

I think you can use 'f' OR 'F' if you are at the end of a newsgroup and that
will effectively start a new thread too.  For example, clear the group if
you don't want to read it all, then go back to it (use '-' from the next
group, or 'g group.name' from the end of any group) then say 'y' to read it,
then 'f' or 'F' to start the new thread.  [Well... I've used that approach,
but I guess I've got no real evidence that my message went anywhere :)]

Cheers,  Ian S.

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From: schludermann@sscvx1.ssc.gov
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
Subject: RFI:Deregistering newsgroup blocks
Date: 30 Dec 92 19:01:33 GMT
Organization: Superconducting Super Collider Laboratory

How do I go about deregistering blocks of newsgroups? I'm getting my newsfeeds
on a VAX. I've tried the deregister command and nothing happens, even after
exiting and rentering news.

kris
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
From: jtbell@hubcap.clemson.edu (Jon Bell)
Subject: Re: Harrassment
Organization: Presbyterian College, Clinton SC
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 03:47:20 GMT

In article <Dec.21.16.18.22.1992.6801@gandalf.rutgers.edu> shagan@gandalf.rutgers.edu (Susan R. Hagan) writes:
>
>How does one find out the Sysadmin's address.
>
All Internet sites are supposed to have an address "postmaster@host.domain"
which is monitored by the system administrator or other responsible person.
Mail may or may not be checked there very often, but it's worth a try.

Jon Bell / Dept. of Physics & C.S. / Presbyterian College / Clinton SC

Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
From: tjg01@thdhub.HomeDepot.COM (Terry Gardner)
Subject: sendsys messages
Organization: Home Depot USA, Inc.
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 18:14:27 GMT
Distribution: news




How do the `sendsys' messages get sent? Are they automatic,
are the specific to C news, are they `control' messages? How
could I send one?


--
terry@HomeDepot.COM                      (404) 433-8211x5124 or (404) 941-8304

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Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
From: 20541@brahms.udel.edu (Maverick)
Subject: Re: Harrassment
Organization: University of Delaware
Date: Fri, 25 Dec 1992 16:38:07 GMT

In article <qVa0VB1w164w@tweekco.uucp> alizard@tweekco.uucp (A.Lizard) writes:

>If you can't handle the risk of being flamed in E-Mail or via public
>posts for posting stupid and off-topic posts to a newsgroup whose topic
>shifted to complaints about your stupidity and thoughtlessness in posting
>subsequent to your posts, you have no business participating in Usenet.

Gee, Mr. Lizard, I think this message is stupid and thoughless. Why don't
you take a look at what you just posted. THere is no reason for you to use
"stupid" and "thoughtless" 

>If you don't like this, stay off Usenet. If you don't like accountability
>for posting on a public network, don't post. 

Wow, Mr. Lizard, you are a TOUGH GUY, aren't you? By the way, I don't think
I like you. Why don't you stay off the Net?

> Unrestricted freedom of speech is not something that goes with Usenet access. > And if you don't like it, tough shit. 


Opps, wrong again Lizzt Boy, Or are you too "stupid" to know how to read
the U.S. Constitution. And if you don't like it, chew harder.



Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
From: claebaur@shell.portal.com (Tony S Annese)
Subject: Re: Using the text editor
Organization: Portal Communications Company -- 408/973-9111 (voice) 408/973-8091 (data)
Distribution: usa
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 08:32:59 GMT

In article <1992Dec28.013706.3030@mixcom.com> Michael.Malloy <Michael.Malloy@mixcom.mixcom.com> writes:
>I am using tin newsgroup reader and am having a problem posting a reply or new
>article. I can write the article but cannot seem to escape from the text
>editor to send the article. When I have used the command ZZ nothing happens.
>When I have used the command :q! I escape but it does not save the text. I am

Use w instead of q! then quit. That may work. I dont know what editor you are
using so it may not.(thats my disclaimer)
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Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
From: sridhar@asuvax.eas.asu.edu (Sridhar Venkataraman )
Subject: Re: How do I set the RNINIT variable in rn?
Organization: ASU, Valley of the Sun(s), AZ
Distribution: na
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 17:15:37 GMT

J Lee Jaap <J.L.Jaap@larc.nasa.gov> writes:
)rodrigc@ecf.toronto.edu (RODRIGUES CRAIG J) writes:

)>I am using the rn newsreader.
)>How do I set the default RNINIT variable so that whenever I use rn,
)>it will use the -q flag and NOT check for new newsgroups.  The man
)>page is very vague on how to do this. I would like to set the RNINIT variable
)>in a default file, like my .login file.
)
)The rn man page is vague because setting a variable is shell-dependent.
)Try "setenv RNINIT -q" in csh.

[A more appropriate group for rn questions is news.software.readers.]

Yes, that works. But once people begin liking the env options of rn,
there is trouble ahead with quoting etc. which is avoided in the
following way:

From the man page...
-----
     RNINIT  Default values for switches may be passed to rn by
	     ...
             
             If RNINIT begins with a '/' it is assumed to be the
             name of a file containing switches.  If you want to
             set many environment variables but don't want to
             keep them all in your environment, or if the use of
             any of these variables conflicts with other pro-
             grams, you can use this feature along with the -E
             switch to set the environment variables upon
             startup.
-----

Setting RNINIT in your .cshrc/.login using:

setenv RNINIT $HOME/.rninit

[Note: $HOME will be expanded by csh. sh-derivative users check the
 man pages for your shell to set environmental variables.]

and having something similar to the following in the file $HOME/.rninit 
is ideal. RTFM for details.
----Cut here---
-h -S -i10 -t -M -F) 
-EFIRSTLINE="From: %[from] ( %[lines] lines / %u more) 
" 
-EORGANIZATION="ASU, Valley of the Sun(s), AZ"
-EATTRIBUTION="\
%f writes:
" 
----End here---

Sridhar.
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Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
From: gmortens@rodan.acs.syr.edu (Gerald E Mortensen)
Subject: specifying distribution
Organization: Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY
Distribution: usa
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 92 13:50:38 EST

how do i find out what the allowable entries for the Distribution: line
are for posting? i've figured out the easy ones like world, NA, usa, etc.
but there must be a list somewhere and i couldn't find it.      

thanks

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From: jfurr@polaris.async.vt.edu (J. Furr)
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
Subject: Killfiles
Date: 26 Dec 92 03:53:12 GMT
Organization: Virginia Center for Lemur Fandom (subscribe to alt.fan.lemurs TODAY)

I know that if I want to kill the subject of a post I'm reading so I don't
see it again, I mash control-K.  If I want to _edit_ my kill file, I mash
shift-K.  Since often-times I control-K a noisy thread only to see the
thread worm its way back onto my thread list by a movement of a colon or
comma, I'd appreciate being pointed toward any info that would tell me how
to kill posts from specific authors and how to kill threads on, say,
'mnemonics' permanently dead.  (hi, a.f.u.!)
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 92 10:19:48 MST
From: gritton@alaska.et.byu.edu (Jamie Gritton)
Organization: Brigham Young University, Provo UT USA
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions,us.groups
Subject: Re: the us. hierarchy
Reply-To: gritton@byu.edu
Distribution: na

jfurr@polaris.async.vt.edu (Joel K. Furr) writes:

> where *is* the us. hierarchy? 

   Very few places, but it does exist. For a feed close to you (at least
close in my Western way of thinking), you may want to talk to Jurgen
Botz (jbotz@orixa.mtholyoke.edu). (Hope he didn't mind the reference).
There's somewhat over 100 sites carrying it.

> I read the
> listings of alternative and mainstream newsgroups Gene Spafford puts out,
> no listings of any us. groups there.

   No. Evidently Gene is among the crowd that thinks either it
shouldn't exist at all or should only exist after being voted on
(which has never been the case with regional hierarchies). With David
Lawrence supporting the same view, us.* has a hard time being heard of
at all.

> Where do I get info on these groups?  What us.
> groups are out there?

   Ah, there's the rub. Currently, there's almost nothing: admin stuff
(us.groups etc) and some duplicates of main hierarchy groups (i.e.
us.forsale.misc) made in a failed attempt to drum up interest in the
hierarchy. There've been a couple of "almost" groups, but the
proponents decided in the end to go with alt instead (thus passing
they're US-specific stuff all over the world - what we're trying to
avoid). Catch 22: people don't want to carry us.* until it has a
decent number of interesting groups. People don't want to create
groups there unless they'll have a decent number of readers.
   After all my optimism about creating the hierarchy without a formal
vote, I plan to buckle under and go the formal news.announce.newgroups
RFD/CFV way with it. I need to get together with David Lawrence on
this; look for an RFD in perhaps January.
--
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