HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: ricardo@colombo.puug.pt (Ricardo Nuno Silva)
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions,bionet.molbio.ageing
Subject: BIONET.MOLBIO.AGEING: Is it dead ?
Date: 19 Aug 92 11:12:11 GMT
Organization: PUUG - Grupo Portugues de Utilizadores de Sistemas UNIX(tm)
Originator: ricardo@colombo

Last week I subscribed to bionet.molbio.ageing newsgroup but
I haven't received any articles since then.
Can anybody tell me if this group is still active or if it
was renamed to something else ?...

Thanks in advance.

Ricardo.

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Fac. Ciencias da Univ. Lisboa          |
Portugal                               | May the Net be with you ;-)
From: zebee@ucs.adelaide.edu.au (Zebee Johnstone)
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
Subject: uncompress and ununecode?
Date: 21 Aug 92 21:52:36 GMT
Organization: Information Technology Division, The University of Adelaide, AUSTRALIA

I've seen a file I want that has been posted to a newsgroup
in what is advertised as "compressed and uuencoded".
  
How do I reconstitute it?
  
If this is a FAQ somewhere, please point me to the file.

Thanks

-- 
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     Zebee Johnstone  DoD #605   | You don't own an Italian motorcycle 
     Adelaide City Council       |  - you merely have the privilege 
    zebee@itd.adelaide.edu.au    |    of paying its bills.... 
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
From: sridhar@enuxhb.eas.asu.edu (Sridhar Venkataraman)
Subject: Re: Articles I Post are Being Deleted Too Quickly!
Organization: Arizona State University, Tempe AZ
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1992 06:40:21 GMT

lindae@netcom.com writes on news.newusers.questions:

)  Sorry to be so ignorant but how do I add an expiration line?  When I
)type "Pnews" to post my articles, the only questions it asks me are:
)Subject line and "are you sure you want to do this?"  It never offers me
)a place to put an expiration date.  Am I missing something here?

Some of the posting programs (on some news servers) can handle the
Expires line in the following format:

Expires: +7 days

(or similarly, +2 months etc.)

I use the following on a SGI Iris and a Motorola SysV machine and
this may well be a SysV specific format (RTFM for date command)
The setenv below gives a 7 day expires. (a - day, d - date, b - Month
(in short), Y - year). Look for such an expire format in many of the postings
in news.answers. Unfortunately, BSD lacks this feature.

setenv TZ GMT-168
date '+Expires: %a, %d %b %Y %H:%M:%S GMT' 
setenv TZ GMT

I am sure someone can offer a one-liner in perl. 

Here is the relevant portion from RFC 1036 (ftp.uu.net /inet/rfc/rfc1036.txt
is one possible place to find it)

------
2.2.4.  Expires

    This line, if present, is in a legal USENET date format.  It
    specifies a suggested expiration date for the message.  If not
    present, the local default expiration date is used.  This field is
    intended to be used to clean up messages with a limited usefulness,
    or to keep important messages around for longer than usual.  For
    example, a message announcing an upcoming seminar could have an
    expiration date the day after the seminar, since the message is not
    useful after the seminar is over.  Since local hosts have local
    policies for expiration of news (depending on available disk space,
    for instance), users are discouraged from providing expiration dates
    for messages unless there is a natural expiration date associated
    with the topic.  System software should almost never provide a
    default "Expires" line.  Leave it out and allow local policies to be
    used unless there is a good reason not to.
------

Please test whatever you wish to locally...

)Linda
)lindae@netcom.com

Sridhar.
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
From: jengagne@wam.umd.edu (Jenny Lynne Gagne)
Subject: .sig files 
Summary: signature help 
Keywords: .sig 
Organization: University of Maryland, College Park
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 04:21:27 GMT

This is probably an FAQ, but being the inept newbie at usenetting I am,
I'm going to post it.

How do you implement a signature?  I've heard of using a .sig file,
and i created a text file with my signature called .sig, but nothing
happens.  What do I do?

If it helps, I'm using VI as my editor.
From: anurag@bnr.ca (Anurag Mehta)
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
Subject: Please 'ack' if you see this...
Date: 20 Aug 92 13:11:58 GMT
Organization: Bell-Northern Research, BNR-RTP

I'm not sure if my postings are visible to external world!
Can somebody in the netland please ack this posting?

Mucho THX!
-- 
//
//Anurag Mehta
//ESN 294-4055
//Internet: anurag@bnr.ca
//
//To err is human. 
//To really louse things up takes a computer.
//
From: lindae@netcom.com
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
Subject: I Give Up!!
Date: 17 Aug 92 20:45:33 GMT
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest)



Well, for several days now I've been trying to get help in placing
an expires header line in my postings to alt.missing-kids.  These
are postings that have to do with locating missing kids and posting of
safety tips, education information, etc.  

Thanks to many of you who tried to help, but it just doesn't seem to
work.  I've tried all of your suggestions, but I just can't seem to
get that darned expiration line in there.  So, I give up.  The
postings will disappear when they must and we'll just leave it at that.

Linda
From: walker@Ingres.COM (Lynn Walker)
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
Subject: Re: posting to more than one newsgroup
Keywords: posting startrek tv
Date: 14 Aug 92 19:51:41 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: ASK Computer Systems, Ingres Product Division
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.4-b1

In article <1992Aug14.182312.27759@pony.Ingres.COM>, walker@Ingres.COM (Lynn W writes...
>POSTING TO MORE THAN ONE NEWSGROUP--
	
	System Used: VAX VMS
	----------
> 
>	Example
>	------
>	I want to post something related to STAR TREK. I would like to post
>	it to both "rec.arts.tv", and "rec.arts.startrek". When I use the "p"
>	command it lists in square brackets the group I'm in, but that's it.
>	I'm not sure where I should be inserting the other groups. Perhaps
>	there is a default command.
> 
>	Any feedback would be helpful,
> 
>		Lynn Walker
>		walker@ingres.com
From: asylvain@felix.filenet.com (The Chipmunk)
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
Subject: Re: Articles I Post are Being Deleted Too Quickly!
Date: 17 Aug 92 20:01:02 GMT
            <1992Aug16.205203.7641@anomaly.sbs.risc.net>
            <1992Aug16.221345.15734@nwnexus.WA.COM>
            <h!9mlvh.lindae@netcom.com>
Reply-To: asylvain@fritz.filenet.com (The Chipmunk)
Organization: Foundation for the Increased Wealth of Chipmunks

Written in article <h!9mlvh.lindae@netcom.com>
 by lindae@netcom.com:

: In article <1992Aug16.221345.15734@nwnexus.WA.COM> ralphs@halcyon.com 
:    (Ralph Sims) writes:
:> kd1hz@anomaly.sbs.risc.net (Michael P. Deignan (KD1HZ)) writes:
:>
:>>> Why are they being deleted?  And what can I do about it?
:>
:>> Add an Expires: header.

: Sorry to be so ignorant but how do I add an expiration line?  When I
: type "Pnews" to post my articles, the only questions it asks me are:
: Subject line and "are you sure you want to do this?"  It never offers me
: a place to put an expiration date.  Am I missing something here?

Doesn't it put you into your favorite editor to edit your article?  You
should have the complete header right at the top of your article, such as:

    Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
    Subject: Re: Articles I Post are Being Deleted Too Quickly!
    Summary: 
    References: 
    Reply-To: asylvain@fritz.filenet.com (The Chipmunk)
    Followup-To: 
    Distribution: 
    Organization: Foundation for the Increased Wealth of Chipmunks
    Keywords: 

So, somewhere between the "Newsgroup:" line and the "Keywords:" line,
insert an "Expires:" line.  If I'm not mistaken, the format should be
similar to that in the "date" Unix command.  Eg:

    Aug 17 12:57:26 PDT 1992
    
    (Using "GMT" instead of "PDT" is probably preferable)

Of course, if you've been providing a complete file to "Pnews" without
editting it, then you aren't entering your editor.  In this case, try 
entering "none" (or carriage return) when it asks you for the name of 
the file to include.  THEN you'll get into the editor.  At that time, 
edit the header (as above), and include the article you wish to post
using an editor command.  Make sure there's at least one completely 
empty line between the header and the body of the article.

I love how "Pnews" reminds me to "be sure I know what I'm doing."  
Hell, I never let THAT stop me!

-- 
The Chipmunk.
Opinions are mine, void where prohibited, taxed, licensed or regulated.
According to the latest official figures, 43% of all statistics are
totally worthless.
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
From: ralphs@halcyon.com (Ralph Sims)
Subject: Re: Articles I Post are Being Deleted Too Quickly!
Organization: Northwest Nexus Inc. (206) 455-3505
Date: Sun, 16 Aug 1992 22:13:45 GMT

kd1hz@anomaly.sbs.risc.net (Michael P. Deignan (KD1HZ)) writes:

>lindae@netcom.com () writes:

>>Why are they being deleted?  And what can I do about it?

>Add an Expires: header.

This is the BEST way.  The 'criticalness' (subjective, of course)
of this sort of group demands that the messages stay around for
an 'extended' length of time.  If netcom nukes the messages after
a week, that's their business, of course, but ensuring that the
posts stay around with the EXPIRES: header is preferable to having
their admin extend the expiration flag for the newsgroup.  At least
the EXPIRES: header sort of controls the length of time it remains
on ALL systems flag.
From: jaapjl@tab00.larc.nasa.gov (J Lee Jaap)
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
Subject: Re: subscription to a newsgroup
Date: 23 Aug 92 02:20:43 GMT
Organization: AS&M Inc

In article <1992Aug20.011144.28446@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> cma@cory.Berkeley.EDU (Henry Chi-To Ma) writes:
	   Is there a way to subscribe to a newsgroup that is not originally
   distributed to the States?

Assuming no license restrictions (as with ClariNet) or export
controls or similar restrictions, you can get any group you
want, provided you pay whatever communications (long-distance
phone, e.g.) charges you may incur in using any feed you find,
as well as any use fees the feed may charge.  If several people
in a local area are interested in the group, divide the costs
appropriately.  So the problem is finding a suitable feed.

An alternative is to find someone who subscribes who would
email articles to you.  Of course, you should expect to pay/
reimburse any communication charges.

Good luck.
--
J Lee Jaap <J.L.Jaap@LaRC.NASA.Gov> +1 804/864-2148
employed by, not speaking for, AS&M Inc, at NASA LaRC, Hampton VA 23681-0001
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
From: art@wvus.org (Art Nicolaysen)
Subject: Re: How do I decode rec.humor.funny jokes?
Reply-To: art@wvus.org (Art Nicolaysen)
Organization: World Vision U.S.
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 92 06:31:34 GMT
Summary: describing how USENET newsreader s/w encodes text

Yesterday, I wrote:
>In general , rot13 only encodes the letters A to Z, and a to z.
>Each letter is replaced by the one 13 letters further along, and wraps
>around at the end.  Example encoding below:
>    a -->n  b -->o  c -->p   r -->e  s -->f
>This can be reduced down to a few lines of C code, if you don't have 
>a newsreader with builtin rot13 decoding.

Also, Eric S. Raymond mentions: 
    "A major advantage of rot13 over rot(N) for other N is that 
    it is self-inverse, so the same code can be used for encoding 
    and decoding."
     _The New Hacker's Dictionary_ p.306

--
                                         ...Art Nicolaysen    art@wvus.org...
   ____      "Is that a fish?"  "No,     ..(somewhere in los angeles county)..
  /@   \/~{   Dagwood, that's bait for     
  \____/\{    the .sig line eater!!"      



-- 
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
From: jaapjl@tab00.larc.nasa.gov (J Lee Jaap)
Subject: Re: .zip files
Organization: AS&M Inc
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 20:38:43 GMT

In article <1992Aug13.222901.1@fennel.cc.uwa.oz.au> d_jackson@fennel.cc.uwa.oz.au writes:

   I am having trouble with zip files.I can;t seem to get any of them to expand.

Did you transfer them in binary mode?  Many transfer programs
incorrectly transfer binary files in the default mode.
--
J Lee Jaap <jaapjl@tab00.larc.nasa.gov> +1 804/864-2148
employed by, not speaking for, AS&M Inc, at NASA LaRC, Hampton VA 23681
From: markb@spock.dis.cccd.edu (Mark Bixby)
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
Subject: Re: posting to more than one newsgroup
Keywords: posting startrek tv
Date: 14 Aug 92 20:38:06 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: Coast Community College District, Costa Mesa, CA

I don't know about Vnews, but using trn/pnews you can specify multiple
newsgroups delimited by commas:

	rec.arts.tv,rec.arts.startrek.misc

Try doing this wherever your news software asks for a group name, or maybe
edit the header lines when you're composing your article.
-- 
Mark Bixby                         Internet: markb@spock.dis.cccd.edu
Coast Community College District   1370 Adams Avenue
District Information Services      Costa Mesa, CA, USA  92626
Technical Support                  (714) 432-5064
"You can tune a file system, but you can't tune a fish." - tunefs(1M)
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
From: twpierce@amhux1.amherst.edu (Tim Pierce)
Subject: Re: private reply.
Organization: Amherst College, Amherst MA
Distribution: usa
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 21:43:17 GMT

In article <1992Aug13.000922.18003@uceng.UC.EDU> fpaterek@uceng.UC.EDU (Franz Paterek) writes:

>If I see a message on the net I want to reply to but I feel that a private 
>reply is the best solution, how can I without leaving trn (the program I am
>using) reply to the message privately.  As editor I am using Gnome.

It's possible that one of the following might have an effect.

* the trn man page
* the "h" key in trn
* user support at UC

But it's just a guess.

-- 
____ Tim Pierce                / "Bisexual just means you pay for it."
\  / twpierce@amherst.edu      /  
 \/ (BITnet: TWPIERCE@AMHERST) /   -- Rock Hudson
From: roseberry@taney.uscghq.uscg.mil
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
Subject: Mail to Western Union's Easylink
Date: 13 Aug 92 08:56:25 EST
Organization: United States Coast Guard


	How does one send mail from the Internet to Western Union's Easylink ?

	Easylink is usually some number like:  6543210

Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
From: jaorans@pbhyg.PacBell.COM (Jeff Oransky)
Subject: Question about USENET
Reply-To: jaorans@PacBell.COM (Jeff Oransky)
Organization: Pacific * Bell, San Ramon, CA
Distribution: usa
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 15:04:53 GMT

   Can anyone tell me where I can get some an introductory description of
USENET which would describe the network and how to go about posting and
replying to messages?

Jeff Oransky
Pacific Bell
From: shrum@eos.arc.nasa.gov (Rick Shrum)
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
Subject: Talk
Date: 12 Aug 92 21:00:35 GMT
Organization: NASA Ames Res. Ctr, Calif.



What is the difference between the "talk" and "write" commands.
I've read the "man" deffinitions, and they sound basically the same.

Thanks in advance!


Rick
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
From: ts@uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi)
Subject: Re: Viewing .GIF files
Organization: University of Vaasa, Finland
Distribution: news
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 21:43:55 GMT

In article <1992Aug13.215924.14463@vax5.cit.cornell.edu> nzr@vax5.cit.cornell.edu writes:
>	I keep seeing .gif files in several of the newsgroups.  Some of them i
>have put in my own directory, but I have no idea what i should do to view these
>files.  Does anyone out there know?

If you are using a PC, get a GIF viewer eg from the
garbo.uwasa.fi:/pc/gifutil directory.  There are several of them in
there, with CompuShow probably the most popular. 

(If you are into PCs and MsDos, the group to read, if you look for
PD or shareware material, is comp.binaries.ibm.pc.wanted). 

"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.  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
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: dangold1@iastate.edu (Daniel M Goldman)
Subject: Re: Linking up to Compuserve from Internet is it possible
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames IA
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1992 13:06:53 GMT

In <u867278.713573285@bruny> u867278@bruny.cc.utas.edu.au (Dov Berns) writes:

>I have a compuserve account as well as an Internet account and I was wondering
>if it is at all possible to link up   through to Compuserve from Internet/
>AARNET into compuserve or must I continue to really on my old unreliable
>modem.  Any information at all would be greatly appreciated.  If you have a
>solution to my query could you please email me on the address below.

>u867278@bruny.cc.utas.edu.au

>Regards and Thanks in advance Dov E. Berns

>It's four in the morning the end of December
>New York is Cold as I write you this Letter   (L.Cohen)

Dov- try contacting Bob Simons at (Internet)  71161.564@compuserve.com,
     as I think he interfaces with Internet through his compuserve
     account.  He also sells some pretty terrific software. -DmG
From: markb@spock.dis.cccd.edu (Mark Bixby)
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
Subject: Re: Talk
Date: 12 Aug 92 23:32:30 GMT
Organization: Coast Community College District, Costa Mesa, CA

"Write" sends a message one way.  "Talk" establishes a two-way dialog.
-- 
Mark Bixby                         Internet: markb@spock.dis.cccd.edu
Coast Community College District   1370 Adams Avenue
District Information Services      Costa Mesa, CA, USA  92626
Technical Support                  (714) 432-5064
"You can tune a file system, but you can't tune a fish." - tunefs(1M)
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
From: colx0023@ucselx.sdsu.edu ()
Subject: PEACENET / IPS newsfeeds access....
Originator: colx0023@steer
Keywords: PEACENET , IPS newsfeeds
Organization: San Diego State University
Distribution: na
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1992 15:43:53 GMT

Hi Netters,
           This is with reference to an article in Soc.Culture.Africa where
a fellow netter had mentioned something about getting IPS newsfeeds from 
peacenet. Could anyone tell me if there are public domain telnet access to
Peacenet or if there was some way to get to Peacenet ??? I would also appreciateit if someone could tell me how to get access to IPS newsfeeds in the USENET
community....
Thanx in Advance....
Flames to /dev/null
Please e-mail responses to the address givn below as my news reading access
is pretty restricted....

Peace!!
colx0023@steer.sdsu.edu

Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
From: mesm@netcom.com (Mary E. S. Morris)
Subject: Re: Single Source For FAQ Lists?
Date: Sat, 15 Aug 92 14:37:51 GMT
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 


The news group news.answers holds FAQs for many of the newsgroups.
Or you could probably search archie servers for FAQs.

mesm@netcom.com

Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
From: jaapjl@tab00.larc.nasa.gov (J Lee Jaap)
Subject: Re: USENET POSTING
Organization: AS&M Inc
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 18:00:26 GMT

In article <1992Aug18.042103.3416@usenet.ins.cwru.edu> bx096@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Peter Andrew Stark) writes:

   Does anyone know if it is possible to address certain messages to
   people in the newsgroups or are they all ADDRESSED automatically
   to ALL? I'd like to post in K12, which is carried by FIDONET also.
   But instead of addressing a message to ALL I'd like to address a
   message TO someone. Can this be done in the confrence or newsgroup?

Either you send email to someone or you post to a group, which everyone
who subscribes can read.  Why do you want to post if you just want
to send your message to specific people?

Apologies if I've misread your question.
--
J Lee Jaap <jaapjl@tab00.larc.nasa.gov> +1 804/864-2148
employed by, not speaking for, AS&M Inc, at NASA LaRC, Hampton VA 23681
From: ekman@netcom.com (Crossly the Glad-Eyed Bear)
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
Subject: Re: Articles I Post are Being Deleted Too Quickly!
Date: 17 Aug 92 20:01:23 GMT
Organization: Home for the Terminally Infirm

In article <my9mw9=.lindae@netcom.com> lindae@netcom.com () writes:
>
>I appreciate all of your help, but I am still having a problem with this.
>Many of you have suggested that I use an "Expires" header and I just
>tried to do that.  It didn't work.  I am using Vi and here's what I've
>tried:
>
>I type, "Pnews alt.missing-kids".  Then, it asks for a subject and I 
>type "xyz", it asks for distribution, and I type "world", and it says
>"are you sure you want to do this" and I say yes.  That's all it asks.
>There is never a place where it asks for keywords, expiration, etc.

Yep.  That's exactly what it does.  It's too early at this point to
insert a header line.

>Once I am in the body of the article, I've tried moving my cursor up
>to the header area and editing it to include an expires line, but it
>doesn't seem to work.  

I'm on netcom, and use the same vi and  Pnews that you do.   When I
enter vi, my cursor is on the top line of the header.  I just move the
cursor  down to a likely place  in the header and insert an "Expires:"
line.

What do you mean by "it doesn't seem to work"?  You  can't insert the
"Expires:" line, or you can, but it has no effect?

If your problem is knowing how to insert a line using vi, try the
following:  Put the cursor on the line above where you want the
"Expires:" line to be placed.  Press Shift-A, which puts you in append
mode, at the end of the line you were on.   Now press Enter to get to
the start of a new line.  Type your "Expires:" line.

I don't think it much matters where the line occurs in the header, but I
can't be positive about this.   Anyone know?
-- 
Crossly the Glad-Eyed Bear              ekman@netcom.com
Home for the Terminally Infirm, Redwood City, California
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
From: mesm@netcom.com (Mary E. S. Morris)
Subject: Re: Question about USENET
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 92 16:21:22 GMT
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 
Distribution: usa

jaorans@pbhyg.PacBell.COM (Jeff Oransky) writes:
:    Can anyone tell me where I can get some an introductory description of
: USENET which would describe the network and how to go about posting and
: replying to messages?
: 
: Jeff Oransky
: Pacific Bell
: 

Go to the newsgroup news.answers. This is a group that posts 
FAQ's (Frequently asked questions). There are articles in there
on netiquit (?sp) and some how-to for USENET.




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
From: nzr@vax5.cit.cornell.edu
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
Subject: Viewing .GIF files
Date: 13 Aug 92 21:59:24 EDT
Distribution: news
Organization: Cornell University

	I keep seeing .gif files in several of the newsgroups.  Some of them i
have put in my own directory, but I have no idea what i should do to view these
files.  Does anyone out there know?