HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: nick@kralizec.zeta.org.au (Nick Andrew)
Newsgroups: news.software.nn
Subject: Re: NN Customization
Date: 6 Oct 92 13:42:11 GMT
Organization: Kralizec Dialup Unix Sydney: +61-2-837-1183 V.32

wohler@sapwdf.UUCP (Bill Wohler) writes:

>  determine which
>  groups you're interested in (i don't have any easy way to do that),
>  or conversely, which groups you're not interested in, and have your
>  newsfeed modify their news sys file based on that.

I have several shell and awk scripts to do it for my site (Kralizec).
I'm happy to share them with anybody who is interested enough to send
me E-mail on the subject.

Essentially what they do is this: For each user (I have 75), their .newsrc
is checked and if they subscribe to a group and if their last article
pointer is current within the group, then that's marked as one subscription.

The system then tallies all the subscriptions and picks the top 250. This
list is merged with several others - including lists of "must have" groups
as well as lists of groups fed to my downstream sites, and also "banned"
groups are removed. That final subscription list is sent to my upstream
site once a week.

The approach is probably sub-optimal, and I'm open to suggestions. It does
however save me the chore of picking our subscription list myself when I
don't really know what my members like to read. I team it with Nn options
set to ignore new groups, as well as a default subscription list for new
Nn users. We are also running an application which lets users tailor their
subscription list while reading the newsgroup descriptions. One known
requirement is to notify all users of new groups once a week or so. The
users do NOT want Nn to subscribe them automatically!

Nick.
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From: pete@winesap. (Pete Schmitt)
Newsgroups: news.software.nn
Subject: NN on A/UX 3.0 - problem with From: path
Date: 29 Sep 92 13:25:30 GMT
Organization: Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH

If you look at the From: line of this message, the domain is missing.
It should be dartmouth.edu.  I'm currently using nn version 6.4.18.

I have am using a modified s-sysv.h file that says GETHOSTNAME is
available, but the software still seems to be using uname.  If you
have it working correctly, what modifications did you need to make.

-pete
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From: tnnrtg@tnb.phys.tue.nl (Tonnie Geraets)
Newsgroups: news.software.nn
Subject: Re: Bug in nn with handling Re: ?
Date: 28 Sep 92 16:03:49 GMT
Reply-To: tnnrtg@ctrl.phys.tue.nl
Organization: Eindhoven University of Technology - NL

A question to start with:
Did this article show up in article selection mode with the subject
"Bug in nn with handling Re: ?"? I.e. without "Re: " or ">"?

If so (which I expect, because it's the behaviour of the nn I am using) then
please look at the subject line on top of your page now, it starts with
"Re:".

Somehow nn discards the "Re:" in the subject (during article selection mode)
if there are now References: in the header, i.e. if it is not a "real" reply.

I think this can be very misleading: you think somebody asks a question, but
in fact he answers the question (not using the reply facility of the
newsreader).

Is this a bug or a feature. If it's the former, has anyone a fix?

-Tonnie

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From: bill@unixland.natick.ma.us (Bill Heiser)
Newsgroups: news.software.nn
Subject: Dead NN
Date: 4 Oct 92 14:26:36 GMT
Organization: Unixland Public Access Unix  (508) 655-3848

Starting this morning, 'nn' won't run on my system.  The Log shows
the following:

E: Oct  4 09:02 (root): MASTER/GROUPS conflict: 2008/alt.waves 699812339

E: Oct  4 10:19 (bill): MASTER/GROUPS conflict: 2008/alt.waves 699812339

E: Oct  4 10:19 (bill): MASTER/GROUPS conflict: 2008/alt.waves 699812339

E: Oct  4 10:22 (bill): MASTER/GROUPS conflict: 2008/alt.waves 699812339

E: Oct  4 10:25 (bill): MASTER/GROUPS conflict: 2008/alt.waves 699812339


What does this mean?

Thanks,
Bill

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Newsgroups: news.software.nn
From: btaber@netcom.com (Brian Taber)
Subject: How can the article viewer/pager be changed?
Keywords: nn viewer
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1992 09:16:39 GMT


Does nn allow substitution for the default article viewer/pager?
I would like to use a viewer which would allow me to remove all
quoted article lines (beginning with > ), as many people like to 
quote page after page of previous postings.

I've tried changing the pager variable; no luck.

Brian Taber
btaber@netcom.com
Newsgroups: news.software.nn
From: kimc@w8hd.org (Kim Culhan)
Subject: Why do articles appear which are canceled/expired?
Summary: NN sometimes displays articles which are canceled/expired
Keywords: expired canceled
Organization: w8hd.org
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1992 17:45:28 GMT

Sometimes when I try to read an article NN will, for a moment, display
a message at the bottom of the screen which reads something like
article [xxx] canceled or expired.

If I kill the nnmaster and re-index, then restart the master (nnmaster -l -r -C)
it seems to be fixed.

Any suggestions?

regards,
kim culhan
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Newsgroups: news.software.nn
From: tom@uts.cc.wayne.edu (Thomas Richard Stevenson)
Subject: .signature: How to only get one copy?
Keywords: .signature
Organization: Wayne State Univ.
Date: Sun, 27 Sep 1992 00:18:21 GMT

I'm sorry if this is a FAQ, but how do I get one copy of my ~/.signature
file in nn? In the ~/.nn/init file, I have the following:

set append-signature-mail
set append-signature-post
unset query-signature

When I did a test post, I had two copies of my !/.signature file include
at the bottom. What am I doing wrong? Thanks!
Newsgroups: news.software.nn
From: htanabe@ponder.csci.unt.edu (Hisaharu Tanabe)
Subject: Change the editor
Organization: University of North Texas
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1992 05:19:31 GMT

Please reply by E-Mail.

Could anybody tell me how to change the editor for nn or Pnews?

Hisaharu

Newsgroups: news.software.nn
From: larry@gator.rn.com (Larry Snyder)
Subject: Re: Problems with cnews+nn6.4.16 on SCO3.2.2
Keywords: problem cnews nn 6.4.16 sco 3.2 v2 news
Organization: The Gator Conferencing System 219-289-3745 
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1992 18:12:12 GMT

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

>After NN's expire, those articles just posted to the newsgroup do not
>show up in NN's database, but are clearly readable with another
>newsreader such as RN.

You could switch compilers, operating systems, newsreaders (tin),
or fix the problem and produce a patch.

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Newsgroups: news.software.nn
From: jpc@avdms8.msfc.nasa.gov (J. Porter Clark)
Subject: Cancellations go to "world" always?
Organization: NASA/MSFC
Date: 29 Sep 92 17:42:46 GMT

I tried posting a test article to misc.test with "local" distribution.
Around here, this keeps it from propagating past our primary news
server.

But I tried cancelling the article.  After a week or so, I've got maybe
a dozen messages from sites which echo misc.test traffic back to the
sender.  These messages are all echoes of the cancellation message.

It appears that cancelling an article goes to "world" distribution, or
perhaps to wherever an appropriate nn default distribution variable
says that it should go--I haven't tested this.  It does not go to the
distribution of the original message, except perhaps coincidentally.

This doesn't look like a big problem, but it doesn't seem right.  Or am
I doing something wrong?

I'm using nn 6.4.18 with mini-inews 1.6.
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Newsgroups: news.software.nn
From: rchrd@netcom.com (Richard Friedman)
Subject: using elm as a mailer
Organization: Applied Parallel Rsrch (Berkeley)
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1992 20:59:34 GMT

I have been trying to get nn to use elm as a 
mailer so I can use the elm aliases I have created.
I found the recommended stript in the FAQ file,
and installed it.  But every mail message goes
to the dead.letter box.

Anyone willing to look this over?:

My .nn/init file:

#  rchrd init file for nn
set record ~/News/sent
set repeat
set header-lines =S=NFODLRW
define 1
'%''%'
end
map menu \ macro 1
set consolidated-menu
set new-group-action 4
set query-signature
set repeat-group-query
set mailer ~/bin/nn_elm
unset mailer-pipe-input


Here is bin/nn_elm:



#!/bin/sh
#
# nn_elm
#
# 07 Aug 91             V1.0
#
# Massage a mail message from nn into a form that elm can use
# (c) 1991 Phil Kernick  Wizard Software
#

eval `awk '
BEGIN {
  FS = ":";
  dq = sprintf("%c", 34);

  headers = 0;
  to = "";
  subject = "";
}

/^.*: / {
  headers++;
  if($1 == "To")
    to = dq substr($0, 5) dq;
  if($1 == "Subject")
    subject = dq substr($0, 10) dq;
}

/^$/ {
   printf("tail +%d %s | elm -s %s %s > /dev/null\n", headers+2, mail, subject, to);
    exit;
}' mail=$1 $1`

exit $?




As I say, everything, including mail sent to
legit unaliased usernames, goes to dead.letter.

The message is properly formed.  I suspect something
may be going wrong with the $to variable.. but what?
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From: wohler@sapwdf.UUCP (Bill Wohler)
Newsgroups: news.software.nn
Subject: Re: Three little bugs for the to-do-list
Date: 28 Sep 92 10:39:39 GMT
Reply-To: Bill Wohler <wohler@sap-ag.de>
Organization: SAP AG, Walldorf, Germany

cos@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu (Ofer Inbar) writes:
>when an article is
>auto-selected, I can deselect it by typing the article's letter.
>However, in consolidated menu mode, when a thread is auto-selected, I
>cannot deselect it.

  i second that.  if you type the letter of a thread in consolidated
  mode, and any of the articles in that thread are selected, it should
  unselect all articles in the thread.  only if all articles are not
  selected, should typing the letter select all the articles in the
  thread.

>Now, the question:  Has any official decision been made on what to
>send nn bug reports?

  not yet.  until then, we should respect peter's initial request and
  post them here on news.software.nn.  when peter gets something set
  up, i'm sure he'll post it (probably by changing the bug address in
  patch 19).  i'll add the answer to the faq as well.

>And has anything been done with all that mail
>that's been sent to the nn-bugs address over the last two years?

  i think peter is trying to dig them up.

Bill Wohler <wohler@sap-ag.de> <sapwdf!wohler>
Heidelberg Red Barons Ultimate Frisbee Team
Newsgroups: news.software.nn
From: jeff@cjsa (nnmaster\.8\.Z)
Subject: perpetual NEW newsgroup
Organization: C. Jeffery Small and Associates
Date: Sat, 26 Sep 1992 18:52:25 GMT

The group "comp.admin.policy" is continually reported as a NEW group
every time I read it.  This is annoying since there is a short delay as
nn looks up the groups description in the newsgroups file.  Other new
newsgroups display the description the first time I access them and
are silent afterwards.  Only this particular group exhibits this behavior.

The group is in my init-sequence and .newsrc file and the article numbers
in .newsrc are incrementing properly.  The group appears in the GROUPS file
and the spool directory has the appropriate .nnd and .nnx files.  I have
tried Recollecting the group and re-initializing nn using nnadmin.

I have not been able to discover anything unusual about this group and
none of the actions described above has fixed the problem.  Can anyone
offer a suggestion as to what could be causing this?

Thanks.
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Newsgroups: news.software.nn
From: umcarls9@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Charles Carlson)
Subject: Re: Why do articles appear which are canceled/expired?
Keywords: expired canceled
Organization: University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1992 15:21:35 GMT

In <1992Sep29.174528.1046@w8hd.org> kimc@w8hd.org (Kim Culhan) writes:

>Sometimes when I try to read an article NN will, for a moment, display
>a message at the bottom of the screen which reads something like
>article [xxx] canceled or expired.

>If I kill the nnmaster and re-index, then restart the master (nnmaster -l -r -C)
>it seems to be fixed.

>Any suggestions?

This is normal and easily fixed.  NN keeps information about every news
article in its own database, you simply need to update your database on a
regular basis to remove the cancelled articles.  In my crontab for news
I have the line:

59 3	1-31 *	0-6	/usr3/lib/newsbin/expire/doexpire -v; /usr3/lib/newsbin/expire/upact; /usr/local/bin/nnadmin =EYW; /usr3/lib/nn/back_act

The /usr/local/bin/nnadmin =EYW is what expires the nn database.  The
back_act is what allows nn's nngoback feature to work.  The other two are
for Cnews expirey.

Charles

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Newsgroups: news.software.nn
From: vince@halcyon.com (Vince Skahan)
Subject: read GROUPS failed
Organization: Northwest Nexus Inc. (206) 455-3505
Date: Sat, 26 Sep 1992 21:47:35 GMT

after a couple years of happy nn'ing I've run into some database problems
in the last 3 weeks that are new to me...

basically, I got a couple nnmaster failures with 'read GROUPS failed'
and I can't get the nnmaster to run.  The fix the first time was to
re-init things, which took one day on this here wimpy apollo.

I can't see anything wrong with the file at a glance.  Is there a known
way to cause (or fix) such a failure ?


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Newsgroups: news.software.nn
From: kimc@w8hd.org (Kim Culhan)
Subject: NN not producing line count
Summary: My Nn installation does not produce Line: in header
Keywords: lines
Organization: w8hd.org
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1992 18:10:49 GMT

How can I configure NN to produce the Lines: count in the header?

regards
kim culhan
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From: wohler@sapwdf.UUCP (Bill Wohler)
Newsgroups: news.software.nn
Subject: Re: How to kill *all* follow-ups?
Keywords: kill follow-ups
Date: 29 Sep 92 10:53:49 GMT
Reply-To: Bill Wohler <wohler@sap-ag.de>
Organization: SAP AG, Walldorf, Germany

jacek@edstar.ucsb.edu (Jacek Smits) writes:
>In the group rec.sport.soccer I am really not interested in
>20 follow-ups

jacek,

  i realize it was easier for me to look up the answer on the other
  side of the world, but you would have gotten the answer sooner if you
  had (where 'u' is the chapter on "The format of the kill file"):

	:man RET u Z /follow-up RET

  you would have seen:

> (optional)
     When used with a subject (flag s), the kill entry only matches follow-ups
     to that subject (i.e. where the Subject: line starts with Re:). For
     example, to kill all "Re:"'s in rec.humor use the following kill entry:
     rec.humor:!>s/:.

  thus, in your example, you would need to add 

	rec.sport.soccer:!s>/:.

  to accomplish what you want.

  yes, the man page is huge, but there is a lot of good stuff in it, and it
  is easily to access from within nn.  joe bob says, "Check it out."  
  check out the faq that is posted to this newsgroup as well.
Newsgroups: news.software.nn
From: mike@marvin.pcs.com (Mike Schroeder)
Subject: Re: Bug in nn with handling Re: ?
Organization: PCS Computer Systeme GmbH
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1992 09:45:46 GMT
X-Newsreader: nn

In <rhoward.717701797@matd> rhoward@matd.gatech.edu (Robert L. Howard) writes:

->tnnrtg@tnb.phys.tue.nl (Tonnie Geraets) writes:

->>A question to start with:
->>Did this article show up in article selection mode with the subject
->>"Bug in nn with handling Re: ?"? I.e. without "Re: " or ">"?

->Without the "Re: " or the "#>"

sorry to disappoint you, but it showed up with a leading ">" here.

->>If so (which I expect, because it's the behaviour of the nn I am using) then
->>please look at the subject line on top of your page now, it starts with
->>"Re:".

->Sure enough....

same here.

so why does your NN behave differently from mine? BTW, I'm running the
latest official patch, ie. PL18
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Newsgroups: news.software.nn
From: jim@jagubox.gsfc.nasa.gov (Jim Jagielski)
Subject: Re: NN on A/UX 3.0 - problem with From: path
Reply-To: jim@jagubox.gsfc.nasa.gov (Jim Jagielski)
Organization: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1992 15:59:46 GMT

pete@winesap. (Pete Schmitt) writes:

>If you look at the From: line of this message, the domain is missing.
>It should be dartmouth.edu.  I'm currently using nn version 6.4.18.

>I have am using a modified s-sysv.h file that says GETHOSTNAME is
>available, but the software still seems to be using uname.  If you
>have it working correctly, what modifications did you need to make.

I've sent to Powers That Be the A/UX 3.0 conf file... I can e-mail
it to you if required... In the meantime, make sure that HAVE_UNAME
is undef'ed.
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From: peter@zeus.DIALix.oz.au (Peter Wemm)
Newsgroups: news.software.nn
Subject: Re: Three little bugs for the to-do-list
Date: 30 Sep 1992 14:00:18 +0800
Organization: Karam Pty. Ltd., Perth, Western Australia.
NNTP-Posting-Host: zeus.dialix.oz.au

cos@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu (Ofer Inbar) writes:

>sdpage@andersen.co.uk (Stephen Page) writes:
>>Now that nn maintenance is on the road again (bravo!), let me put forward some 
>>irritating little nasties which someone may be able to patch...

>A bug and a question.  First, the bug: when an article is
>auto-selected, I can deselect it by typing the article's letter.
>However, in consolidated menu mode, when a thread is auto-selected, I
>cannot deselect it.  I must open the thread with (, then individually
>deselect the articles (or use a range).  I have several newsgroups
>where I auto-select everything, and then deselect the few I don't want
>to read, so this is an annoyance.  One I could probably fix if I had a
>few minutes :-)

It's a mess in there.... :-)  I'm (slowly) sifting through the menu code,
but unfortunatly I dont have as much time as I though I did....

>Now, the question:  Has any official decision been made on what to
>send nn bug reports?  And has anything been done with all that mail
>that's been sent to the nn-bugs address over the last two years?

The "official" decision:  nn-bugs@dkuug.dk will redirect to the current 
maintainers.  Currently it's forwarded to me...

It (unfortunatly) seems that the majority of the bug reports have been "lost"
over the 18 months or so....

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Newsgroups: news.software.nn
From: aem@news.miami.edu (andrew mossberg)
Subject: Re: NN not producing line count
Keywords: lines
Organization: Symbiosis Corporation
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 92 21:50:11 GMT

In article <1992Sep29.181049.1162@w8hd.org> kimc@w8hd.org (Kim Culhan) writes:
>How can I configure NN to produce the Lines: count in the header?
>

On a C news installation, inews is responsible for doing that. As shipped,
the C news inews has that section commented out...

aem


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From: wohler@sapwdf.UUCP (Bill Wohler)
Newsgroups: news.software.nn
Subject: Re: How can the article viewer/pager be changed?
Keywords: nn viewer
Date: 2 Oct 92 10:18:10 GMT
Reply-To: Bill Wohler <wohler@sap-ag.de>
Organization: SAP AG, Walldorf, Germany

btaber@netcom.com (Brian Taber) writes:
>Does nn allow substitution for the default article viewer/pager?

  no.  and for good reason.  there are too many commands in nn's pager
  that less, for example, doesn't know anything about.

  i'm adding this question to the faq--if you can complain about or improve
  my answer, please send me mail.

>I would like to use a viewer which would allow me to remove all
>quoted article lines (beginning with > ), as many people like to 
>quote page after page of previous postings.

  if you feel courageous enough, add a function to nn that hides lines
  that match a regular expression.

Bill Wohler <wohler@sap-ag.de> <sapwdf!wohler>
Heidelberg Red Barons Ultimate Frisbee Team
From: tnnrtg@tnb.phys.tue.nl (Tonnie Geraets)
Newsgroups: news.software.nn
Subject: Re: Bug in nn with handling Re: ? [Solved, isn't a bug]
Date: 30 Sep 92 13:01:53 GMT
Reply-To: tnnrtg@ctrl.phys.tue.nl
Organization: Eindhoven University of Technology - NL

[Problem of 'Re:' in front of subject disapearing]

rhoward@matd.gatech.edu (Robert L. Howard) writes:
[...]
>Same patchlevel.  This is on a SparcStation w/ SunOS 4.1.2.  Here is
>the setting from init

>	# Use a number before the > rather than a lot of >'s
>	set re-layout 2

>Is this what you are using?

Problem solved. My re-layout value was 0. I looked it up in the manual and
set it to 4, which works.

I didn't read the manual carefully enough.

Thank you all for your help.

-Tonnie

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From: wohler@sapwdf.UUCP (Bill Wohler)
Newsgroups: news.software.nn
Subject: selecting subjects in all but a few groups
Date: 29 Sep 92 09:50:59 GMT
Reply-To: Bill Wohler <wohler@sap-ag.de>
Organization: SAP AG, Walldorf, Germany

hey folks,

  here's a good test of your kill file skill.

  select some subject from all but a few select groups.  for example,
  i want to select "FAQ" from all groups, but obviously not
  news.answers.

  if this can't be done, then i would suggest a new kill file syntax
  that would implement the above criteria:

	!news.answers,news.newusers.announce:+s:FAQ

Bill Wohler <wohler@sap-ag.de> <sapwdf!wohler>
Heidelberg Red Barons Ultimate Frisbee Team