HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
Newsgroups: rec.games.netrek
Date: Tue,  8 Sep 1992 17:22:46 -0400 
From: Kevin Michael Bernatz <kb32+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: Re: attack of the killer newbies
	<1992Sep8.085754.27416@cs.nott.ac.uk>

Excerpts from netnews.rec.games.netrek: 8-Sep-92 RE: attack of the
killer ne.. Neil Cook@vulcan.xtel.co (1064)

> Use the english language correctly.

Give me a fucking break!  The beauty of the english language are the
various connotations that you can apply.  If everyone went around
talking AND taking everything literally you'd end up with a pretty
boring and half-assed place to be.  Get off your high horse.

-KB
 Rear Admiral "Shut up and Play" Akira
Newsgroups: rec.games.netrek
From: rjones@itchy.dsd.es.com (Ray Jones - Perp)
Subject: Re: New (RSA) reserved.c
Organization: Design Systems Division, Evans & Sutherland, SLC, UT
Date: Sat, 12 Sep 92 18:16:46 GMT

In article <18t44cINN4ek@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> mcn@b62103.student.cwru.edu writes:
>  Can we implement this new reserved.c asap? As Scott Drellishak said a few  
>posts ago, "I keep having fantasies about posting reserved.c and getting it  
>over with."  This new system seems pretty darned good, and to prevent someone  
>posting it resulting in a COMPLETE destruction of the system... Let's do it!
>
>  What do we need to do to make it happen?

Me to post it... It's done, I have a working version...  It's slow, though.
But I guess that's no big deal.  I'll post it sometime this week.  It
includes a pretty portable math library of my own devising...

Ray
--
                                          rjones@dsd.es.com
Newsgroups: rec.games.netrek
From: isae@IASTATE.EDU (isae@vincent.iastate.edu)
Subject: Doorstop running INL server 2.0 
Reply-To: isae@IASTATE.EDU (isae@vincent.iastate.edu)
Organization: Iowa State University
Date: Wed, 16 Sep 1992 04:25:27 GMT

----
I am not sure why my previous post wouldn't show up. Sorry for the 
double post. (not space :)

Starting today, Tuesday 09/15/92 at 6:00PM (EST), Doorstop is
running a public INL server ver. 2.0

Description:
-----------
- 1st port : 2592  
  2nd port : 3592
- Chars/ratings saved as a regular server. (Final bronco database is used)

Please notify any weirdness/bugs/whatever and send any suggestions
to isae@iastate.edu; Read the MOTD for more info.

Thank you,
-Rony aka Gajah Mada
 isae@IASTATE.EDU
From: fadden@uts.amdahl.com (Andy McFadden)
Newsgroups: rec.games.netrek
Subject: Re: different sized fonts and the MOTD
Date: 8 Sep 92 21:50:19 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Amdahl Corporation, Sunnyvale CA

In article <Sep.8.13.52.43.1992.6032@math.rutgers.edu> janowsky@math.rutgers.edu (Steven Janowsky) writes:
>are a little different in size from the defaults.  When I page through
>the MOTD I can miss the last line or so.  I suppose I could resize the
>window, but can't the paging commands move you one `real' page instead
>of a `virtual' page?

Pages are 28 lines.  Period.  If you page by a different size, then any
page breaks added by the server admin will be lost (for example, I have
footers at the end of many pages, saying "next screen: garbage").

I don't think this is important enough to be worth changing.

>SJ

-- 
fadden@uts.amdahl.com (Andy McFadden)
[ Above opinions are mine, Amdahl has nothing to do with them, etc, etc. ]
From: hill@norman.VI.RI.CMU.EDU (Robert Hill)
Newsgroups: rec.games.netrek
Subject: Re: Clued games?
Date: 11 Sep 92 15:21:56 GMT
Organization: School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon

> Has anyone noticed that all the people that want to go back to high clue  
at 
> Bronco are from CMU?  Not that I am high clue, but I don't play on a  
machine 
> from CMU if I can help it.  I don't mind being trashed by a better  
player 
> than I am, which is just about anyone, but I do hate being trashed by 
> someone with no lag when I am lagged.
> 
> discovery has better ping times anyway.
> 
> 
> 		Roger
> 		books@fsunuc.physics.fsu.edu

Of course most people from CMU want bronco to be (once again) the clue  
capital of the universe.  I think it is a logical choice...most CMU  
players will play on bronco, which represents a fair portion of the clue  
that is left out there.  I'd like to see people play on 3 servers  
regularly:

1) bronco
2) bigdog
3) discovery

Recently, there has been alot of play at calvin.usc.  Calvin is a poor  
choice of servers, because it has the worst lag in the country, IMHO.   
Discovery is good, but people from the east probably don't get better ping  
times to discovery than bronco.  Also, west coasters MAY not...i'm not  
sure.  By the way, the uwashington servers are great as far as lag goes.   
Is there a vanilla one up there for public use?

Rob
aka Spaceace! aka Baconbits Boy
From: hill@norman.VI.RI.CMU.EDU (Robert Hill)
Newsgroups: rec.games.netrek
Subject: Challenge IASTATE! accept, or bow before your masters
Date: 15 Sep 92 17:55:48 GMT
Organization: School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon


I would like to challenge the IAState team to a match this thursday night,  
10 PM EST.  We will play on any INL server of your choosing.  Email me by  
wednesday if you accept.

We want to introduce you to the INL, CMU style.

Rob
aka Baconbits Boy co-captain SIDE SALAD!!!
Newsgroups: rec.games.netrek
From: nlc@vulcan.xtel.co.uk (Neil Cook)
Subject: Re: Changes for Netrek...
Organization: X-Tel Services Ltd.
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 92 11:31:37 GMT

In article <DPASSAGE.92Sep15014144@eden.CS.Berkeley.EDU>, dpassage@eden.CS.Berkeley.EDU (David Paschich) writes:
|> Path: nott-cs!uknet!mcsun!uunet!spool.mu.edu!agate!agate!dpassage
|> From: dpassage@eden.CS.Berkeley.EDU (David Paschich)
|> Newsgroups: rec.games.netrek
|> Subject: Re: Changes for Netrek...
|> Message-ID: <DPASSAGE.92Sep15014144@eden.CS.Berkeley.EDU>
|> Date: Tue, 15 Sep 92 01:41:44 BST
|> References: <79565@ut-emx.uucp> <e3cN03jS82II00@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com>
|> 	<1992Sep14.232348.15029@colorado.edu>
|> Organization: Organization?  Who cares?  You just gotta say "Go Bears!"
|> Lines: 18
|> NNTP-Posting-Host: eden.cs.berkeley.edu
|> In-reply-to: sherod@news.Colorado.EDU's message of Mon, 14 Sep 1992 23:23:48 GMT
|> 
|> In article <1992Sep14.232348.15029@colorado.edu> sherod@news.Colorado.EDU (Scott Herod) writes:
|> 
|>    Andy McFadden writes
|>    |> The main problem I see is that you can do the Netrek version of The Play.
|>    |> (For those who aren't from Cal or Stanfurd, The Play was a field-long kickoff
|>    |> return in which the ball was handled by about half the Cal team.  They kept
|>    |> passing it backward whenever they were about to be tackled.  The cool part
|>    |> was when they nailed the Satanfurd band guy... :-) ).
|> 
|>    Starting to show your age Andy.  Wasn't that back in '82 or something?
|>    Actually I watched that game.  It was the greatest end I have ever seen.
|>    I wonder how long it took to unrap the trombone from around that guy?
|> 
|> Well actually, around Big Game time that play gets replayed
|> continuously around here.  I was in the 6th grade when it happened and
|> hadn't even heard of Cal, but boy can I tell you about The Play.
|> 
|> David Paschich

This "Play" sounds very like rugby! Rugby players have been passing the ball back
whenever they were about to be tackled for a good 100 years or so.

Neil Cook.
From: sjsmith@cs.umd.edu (Stephen Joseph Smith)
Newsgroups: rec.games.netrek
Subject: INL: IMPORTANT!  *READ THIS*! (was Fall INL Application Instructions)
Summary: Know thyself, and whence thou com'st
Date: 15 Sep 92 17:47:53 GMT
Organization: Dept. of Computer Science, University of Maryland at College Park

tom@soda.berkeley.edu (Tom Holub) writes:
>If you are interested in joining the Fall International Netrek 
>League, please read this message in its entirety.

THIS ONE TOO!

>...
>HOW TO JOIN:

Along with all the things Tom said (complete roster, name, INL Council
Application in the title, most-recognizable-names if different, all
tied up in a bundle and sent to inlcouncil@cs.montana.edu), *PLEASE*:

Include a geographic location for your team.  If you're all from the
same place (e.g. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA; Berkeley, California,
USA; Toronto, Ontario, Canada), just pick that: it's easiest.  If you're
an at-large team, pick a location where you have a lot of people, or just
kind of average your geographic locations out.

The INL council is still deciding whether to divide teams by geographic
location, or not.  But *please* send in a geographic location, so we can
decide what to do with it.

Thanks!

- Gamera 
for the INL council
From: c60b-3fe@e260-4e.berkeley.edu (Mikel Bancroft)
Newsgroups: rec.games.netrek
Subject: Help getting started...
Date: 8 Sep 1992 19:01:25 GMT
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
Distribution: usa
NNTP-Posting-Host: e260-4e.berkeley.edu

What I need to know is what do you do with the client to play netrek once
you pick it up from the ftp site.  I believe you uncompress it, but after
that, is there anything else you need to do?  Haven't seen anything
regarding this info in all the docs i've read on netrek so far.
Thanks in advance.

Mikel B., like I said, I need a new addiction.
"Its not the mileage, its the make." - Cain
Newsgroups: rec.games.netrek
From: jhereg@IASTATE.EDU (Alex M Goepel)
Subject: Tbird
Reply-To: jhereg@IASTATE.EDU (Alex M Goepel)
Organization: Iowa State University
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 06:46:55 GMT

Hey you buttheads.  I'm the one who put GA's on Tbird.. and made them too
strong.  Well.... I goofed. :)  It was only a test anyway.  Since Tbird is a
test server... we were testing. (gee, golly)  Anyway.  They didn't last long
and may be re-introduced as a much less powerful ship.

I'm willing to hear suggestions from anyone.
You can send any gloats, complaints, etc to alt.dev.null

				Alex
				jhereg@iastate.edu
					Up the Universe
From: tundra@sportster.ksu.ksu.edu (Daniel Gene McDaniel)
Newsgroups: rec.games.netrek
Subject: Re: FOGHORN IS BACK!!
Date: 15 Sep 1992 16:39:48 -0500
Organization: Kansas State University
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: sportster.ksu.ksu.edu


I remember Foghorn...  "Ack Not that SB weenie again..."
Yes I'm guest feed me your life.... hehehe
Oh and the great full game cloak wars around earth...
Yes, and how much DI can you scum in an hour....

===============================================================================
--Tundra/Dan | "Scum rises to the Top.... Slime sinks to the bottom..."
             |            -- Camel 1992 
===============================================================================
Newsgroups: rec.games.netrek
From: bdhall@lucky.ecn.purdue.edu (Brian D Hall)
Subject: Re: iastate
Keywords: the reality
Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 16:40:15 GMT

In article <1992Sep10.191542.9751@wixer.cactus.org> rhodesia@wixer.cactus.org (Felix S. Gallo) writes:
>
>
>Your foolish words are as but the whinnyings of a crippled mare.
>You will be ground in the mills of God, and your family and those
>who know you will be cast down, steeped in a pit of vile degradation
>and abject humiliation.  Your children will be hooted at by monkeys
>and pelted with offal.  The land you call your own will be parched,
>stricken by a blight and a plague of cicadas; the sun will turn blood
>red in your sky, and the rain shall destroy that which it falls upon.
>Your cleft-palated effeminate reedy pulings of would-be greatness
>will echo in your mind as devils pile stones upon your stomach.
>Even the tree you used to climb as a child will be gutted by termites,
>etched into by worms, overcome by rotting ivy and blasted into char
>by great sheets of lightning.
>
>And so I say this to you, and those who you call your own, and
>those who they call their own: you are accursed, a mongrel loping
>in the sunless lands, a stunted animal with rheumy eyes and the
>face of a jackal.
>
>
>rear ensign sunscreamer
>minister of truth
>-- 
>----------------------------------------------------------------------------
>Felix Sebastian Gallo                              rhodesia@wixer.cactus.org
>----------------------------------------------------------------------------



It's great to see him back in true form.  Keep up the posts.


   DarkHorse
From: ahabig@bigbang.astro.indiana.edu (Alec Habig)
Subject: Re: TBird
Organization: Indiana University Astrophysics, Bloomington, IN
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 17:22:48 GMT

In article <1992Sep14.002433@IASTATE.EDU> brimroar@IASTATE.EDU writes:
>
>
> Sunscreamer was the one making nasty comments.......pay attention
>
>
>otherwise, why don't you set sail for alt.games.netrek you moron?

I've a suggestion for all you people (mostly iastaters, it seems) who have
complained about Sunscreamer's posts.

1)  Log into Sturgeon
2)  Get 5-6 kills
3)  Go to home planet, refit, and select option "h" ("Upgrade Sense of Humor")
4)  Goto 2)

Entropy

Newsgroups: rec.games.netrek
From: bathurst@noaapmel.gov (Bill Bathurst)
Subject: Re: HELP! what's wrong w/ my binaries
Organization: NOAA/PMEL, Sand Point Way, Seattle, WA
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 23:29:05 GMT


> Tried to start my binaries and recieved the
> following messages:

>   X Error: BadValue
>   Request Major code 89 ()
>   Request Minor code 0
>   ResourceID 0x59bd4
>   Error Serial #48
>   Current Serial #53


> HELP!!!!! anybody have any idea why this is happening???

The answer is easy.  It is a sinister worldwide plot to break the x-clients
of potential netrek foes.  The Illuminati members are at work.  The INL league 
is next.

TheDisCOrdians


--
Bill Bathurst				Internet:	bathurst@noaapmel.gov 
NOAA/PMEL				Phone:		(206) 526-6765
From: jive@spanky.ssc.gov (Jim Ivey)
Subject: Re: clue imbalance
Organization: SSC Laboratory, Dallas, TX
	<JIVE.92Sep14120301@spanky.ssc.gov>
	<1992Sep14.193456.19819@ucsu.Colorado.EDU>
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 22:03:06 GMT


In article <1992Sep14.193456.19819@ucsu.Colorado.EDU>  hoswell@rintintin.Colorado.EDU (Old Nick) pontificates: 

>   Geez, Jim - you really are turning into 'Son of Mucus', aren't you?

     I'd never stoop that low...  (*cough*)

>   Heck, we've all done this *once*, though haven't we?  ...the days of
>   foghorn...  I remember having 86.81 kills once - what a bore.

     Heh... when someone asks my highest rank, I usually neglect to mention
the Foghorn days:)  Someone actually mentioned bringing back that
scum-haven.  I'll have to reset Fill and Underdog back to ensign, just to
match bronco:)

>   Ships are cheap: Blow them Up.

     Oggers - The bane of the empire's budget

>   Mike / Old Nick

     Jim / Fill
From: fadden@uts.amdahl.com (Andy McFadden)
Newsgroups: rec.games.netrek
Subject: Re: attack of the killer newbies
Date: 7 Sep 92 20:39:13 GMT
Organization: Amdahl Corporation, Sunnyvale CA

In article <18eiloINN6d@agate.berkeley.edu> jreza@ocf.berkeley.edu (Jaime Garcia Reza) writes:
>                                          I think a lot of CMU 
>superstars put more time playing good xtrek than those you've
>listed.
[...]
>Sure .. berkeley started playing xtrek first but when you keep on
>making stupid comments like CMU not having vets your obviously being
>close minded.

I take it the "honorary CMU membership" finally went through.  :-)

>Duck Dodgers

-- 
fadden@uts.amdahl.com (Andy McFadden)
[ Above opinions are mine, Amdahl has nothing to do with them, etc, etc. ]
From: leonard@mimsy.umd.edu (Leonard Dickens)
Newsgroups: rec.games.netrek
Subject: Re: INL proposals
Date: 8 Sep 92 18:41:24 GMT
Organization: Universal Export Ltd, Regent's Park, London

William Thang Katz writes:
> ... a new statistics tool which does a retrospective analysis of the
>message log generated during a game.

>NOTE to server makers:  It would be helpful if bases designations
>have some unique character in addition to the usual code, e.g.
>"the Baseman (R9!)" instead of "the Baseman (R9)".  Right now
>I can't distinguish base from non-base using solely the Message log.

How about changing the server to send a message every time someone
enters, takes out or turns in the base?  i.e.:

 GOD->FED Wreck (F9) has the starbase!
 ...
 GOD->FED Wreck (F9) has turned in the starbase.

All you really need for stats are the entry and exit notifications.

-Leonard
Newsgroups: rec.games.netrek
From: flan@starling.wustl.edu (Ian Flanigan)
Subject: Hockey Night!  (Re: Hockey Game-time)
Keywords: hockey, freaks, grunkizzaloozer, puck
Organization: Washington University, School of Engineering, St. Louis MO
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 19:19:30 GMT

In article <18kugpINNo7e@sam.ksu.ksu.edu> yohan@sam.ksu.ksu.edu (Jonathan W  
Newton) writes:
>
>  For those of you who don't know:
>  
>  Hockey game at:  hockey.ksu.edu -p 2592
>  
>  Thursday (tomorrow) 9:00 pm Central time.
>  
>  If it's full, then I recomend checking out the hockey server at:
>  geo1s.mps.ohio-state.edu -p 2592

THAT'S RIGHT!  Tomorrow is HOCKEY NIGHT!  Be there or forever be shamed!

(Hmm, has anyone thought of making a hockey league?  We could use the INL as a  
farm system :-)

--
Ian Flanigan		"Spam is for decoration, not for eating."
(Spam Flinger)

Project Zeus
Washington University in St. Louis
flan@starling.wustl.edu
From: clm9q@uvacs.cs.Virginia.EDU (Curt L. moffitt)
Subject: Having problems with setting up a server... (help please!)
Organization: University of Virginia Computer Science Department
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 21:28:21 GMT

Hi all, it's Mighty Scout.  I've been trying to set up a server here at UVA
and have been having some problems... I am trying to set it up locally on
a Sparc IPC running SunOS.  I ftp'd the stuff from gs69 (or whaterver the
name is) and it compiled and eveything.  BUT, when I tried to start up the 
server using Terence's Newstartd nothing would work... ( the server wouldn't
start up).  So, in the file that has server-patches i took the listen
program by Chui, compiled it ok.  Eveything seemed ok but with some 
testing I noticed some problems.  It won't make (and I don't have) a 
.global file.  It also has other problems with the .files like players
and planets too.  Some of the side effects are that the server doesnt save
player set ups (like you only have to do BBVV once and it the server keeps
that info and key map stuff).  So, anyone want to take a crack at this?  Ive
been pulling my hair out messing with this stuff.

Thanks in advance for any help!  Later, Mighty Scout

-- 
+---------------------------------------------+----------------------------+
|Curt Moffitt (clm9q@virginia.Edu)            | "This space intentionally  |
|Graduate Student and Teaching Assistant      |  left blank."              |
|Computer Science Department, Thornton Hall,  |                            |
|University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA. |                            |
+---------------------------------------------+----------------------------+

Newsgroups: rec.games.netrek
From: von@cory.Berkeley.EDU (Steve Von Worley)
Subject: Robot Server
Keywords: robots, borgs, tmode, beat-the-lame-human
Organization: University of California, at Berzerkly
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 19:31:51 GMT

It seems lately that there has been no server which has constistent 
tmode and allows robots.  This needs to change, which is why I encourage
robot and borg authors to play their creations on

b62150.student.cwru.edu

whenever possible.  I always run my robot on the server when
I log in during the evening, and if others do so, it will be a great
testing environment!

Also, anyone else who is interested in fighting the newest technology
should give it a whirl!  Beat on those automatic pieces of slime (or more
likely, watch them beat on you)!

Sandia - Ogglomaniac - Stress Puppy - Bloated Cow - SCUM
Author of Target Practice, coming soon to a server near you.
-- 
Steve Von Worley
von@cory.berkeley.edu
Computer Science Gradual Student
University of California at Berzerkly 
Newsgroups: rec.games.netrek
From: exodus@IASTATE.EDU
Subject:  Spacing the posts  HA! 
Reply-To: exodus@IASTATE.EDU
Organization: Iowa State University
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 00:29:27 GMT




  We've finally found something that bugs you, heh? You don't really think

we've continued to space our posts because we're stupid, do you? Well, come to

think of it, you probably do. Anyway, it seems we're on to something here.

So


If


You


Don't


Like


It


,


GOOD!



			E       X      O      D      U     S




flamers and their supporters deserve triple spacing and worse



To the rest of you who are just innocent by-standers, I'm really quite sorry
about the spacing and thus I write this to you as it should be written. Please
try and bear with us until all this ugliness comes to an end. Thanks :)
From: botelle@widget.seas.upenn.edu (Justin Botelle)
Newsgroups: rec.games.netrek
Subject: Re: yet another NBR-type idea
Date: 10 Sep 92 22:36:35 GMT
Organization: University of Pennsylvania

In article <1992Sep10.162500.9626@udel.edu) zog@chocolate.cns.udel.edu (Michael D. Eisenberg [Dan]) writes:
)
)	i had this idea the other day for the NBR and i figured id post it
)and "see what the world thought".
)
)	what about making 2 keys ( probably < and ) ) to increase and
)decrease speed by 1. (the key for each is obvious, no?).  it would make 

Better yet, have up and down arrows for increase and decrease and use left
and right arrow keys for turning.  Maybe map some of the other 5 keys to 
shields, cloak, tractor, pressor, or whatever.  Or not.  But having the
arrow keys steer would be the important part, making it easy to fire torps
in a different direction than you are phasering (simultaneously).

)
)-dan/zog

Justin


Newsgroups: rec.games.netrek
From: jecoleb@eos.ncsu.edu (have clue, will travel)
Subject: Re: NCSU PLAYERS!
Originator: jecoleb@c00505-119rd.eos.ncsu.edu
Keywords: R0->ALL  What is this frog shit?
Reply-To: jecoleb@eos.ncsu.edu
Organization: The Ghost Of Christmas Past Society
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 20:00:27 GMT


>dsaraned@eos.ncsu.edu (DORIAN SERGIO ARANEDA) writes:
>Is anyone from North Carolina State university interested in making a team?

Heh heh... well, I guess you could say so, Dorian.

YES, there are players interested in making a team.

In fact, most of the hard-core NCSU players already HAVE made such
arrangements.

As for the rest, well, I wouldn't mind seeing an all-NCSU team on the
INL lists this year.

Y'see, our teams could use a quick win or two.

INL '92.  Support Your Local Twinks.

   			         --Commodore Video Sex Pope (and countless
                                 -- throwaway oggmeisters), N.C.S.U.
				 --"well, SOMEONE has to pick up the slack
				 --     in arrogance around here..."
-- 
----------jeff the wonder llama, jecoleb@eos.ncsu.edu

------"I am a penis. Worship me."--lead singer of rock band Bicycle Face,
     vainly attempting to gain attention of the crowd at the Cat's Cradle 
     in Chapel Hill, while opening for Mojo Nixon & The Toad Liquors
--
It's not my fault, it wasn't up to you
Christmas Eve comes once a year and that will never do
Your image started fading, I closed my eyes to see
Tell me, do you close your eyes for me?
Newsgroups: rec.games.netrek
From: rmk@baal.unh.edu (Robert M. Kenney)
Subject: New client code
Originator: rmk@baal.unh.edu
Organization: USNH Computer Services, Durham, NH
Distribution: usa
Date: Sat, 12 Sep 1992 00:49:43 GMT



	Does anybody know where the newest, bestest copy of the bronco client
    reside?  Also, any idea when the NBR might be coming out?
-- 
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
Robert M. Kenney				Nearnet: rmk@baal.unh.edu
MIS Service Center				Phone:   (603)-862-4711
Kingsbury Hall, UNH
Newsgroups: rec.games.netrek