HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: claebaur@shell.portal.com (Tony S Annese)
Subject: Re: PRODIGY GATEWAY
Organization: Portal Communications Company -- 408/973-9111 (voice) 408/973-8091 (data)
Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1992 17:49:51 GMT

In article <rccarm00.722389430@mik.uky.edu> rccarm00@nx19.mik.uky.edu (ron c carman) writes:
>steve.leu@odybbs.gvl.oh.us (Steve Leu)  writes:
>
>>Is there anyway to send mail on a user on Prodigy via Internet?
>>If not, are there any future plans to?
>
>   No.
>   No.

Only part of your answer is correct. The correct answers are:

   No.
   Yes.

Prodigy is supposed to start beta testing their internet / prodigy mail gateway the beginning of the year (1993).

>   Prodigy reserves the right to violate yor privacy whenever
>they feel like it, by reading (and censoring) your mail, both
>incoming and outgoing...

Is it a violation of your privacy if you give them permission to do so? When you sign up with Prodigy there is a 10-15 screen thing that they make you (or whoever the primary account holder is) read and then agree to. If you cant agree to any of the stipulations then you dont have to stay subscribed. I sat on Prodigy for 5 months and listened to people bitch and complain about how Prodigy censors the posts in the conferences and in e-mail yet they still kept on posting and mailing messages that contained l

anguage or themes which they knew would get bounced back. 
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Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
From: eacj@theory.TC.Cornell.EDU (Julian Vrieslander)
Subject: Re: "restriction rn still in effect"  What does this mean?
Organization: Cornell Theory Center
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 22:35:22 GMT

In article <1992Nov20.164559.7160@ennews.eas.asu.edu> sridhar@asuvax.eas.asu.edu (Sridhar Venkataraman) writes:
>eacj@theory.TC.Cornell.EDU (Julian Vrieslander) writes:
>
>)Sometimes after I have started up rn and added a few new newsgroups, a
>)strange thing happens.  The program does not let me advance past the newly
>)added newsgroups - it cycles through them as if the other, previously
>)existing groups did not exist.  And it presents me with the message 
>)"restriction rn still in effect".
>
>Looks like you have added groups using the 'a' command or using the
>'o' command to select groups. What the 'a' and 'o' do is to restrict the
>selection to the pattern you specify with them and until there are '0
>unread articles' in them rn just cycles through them. By just
>specifying 'a' or 'o' without a pattern you will get out of the
>restricted set of groups. More info on 'a' and 'o' should be in the
>manual.

The only time that I have added new groups is when rn tells me (at program
startup time) that there are new groups available.  I only add groups in
response the y/n prompts that appear then.

I read the man pages on the 'a' and 'o' commands and I still do not
understand what is going on.  For one thing, the behavior of rn is not
even consistent across sessions.  Sometimes it starts up on a set 
of recently added newsgroups, and does not want to advance past this
set to the other groups in my newsrc.  Other times, it starts up as I
would expect, at the first subscribed group in the newsrc.
-- 
Julian Vrieslander 
Neurobiology & Behavior, Mudd Hall, Cornell University, Ithaca NY 14853    
INTERNET: eacj@theory.tc.cornell.edu     BITNET: eacj@crnlthry
UUCP: ..cornell!batcomputer!eacj
From: bz696@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Robert Thomin)
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
Subject: telenet
Date: 21 Nov 1992 22:59:32 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio (USA)
NNTP-Posting-Host: hela.ins.cwru.edu


hello!!
i am new and would like to know how to telenet to   access.usask.ca
and login hytelent???
durango@tso.uc.edu
-- 
memories-good or bad -last forever
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
From: news@geovision.gvc.com (News Administrator)
Subject: Re: Help: Where can I find cube-lovers?
Reply-To: pt@geovision.gvc.com
Organization: Not officially GeoVision Systems Inc., Ottawa, Ontario
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 18:26:13 GMT

tusk@daimi.aau.dk (Martin M|ller Pedersen) writes:

>I heard about the group cube-lovers and that they got a site that
>has old posting to cube-lovers.

I dunno.  Sounds a bit square minded to me - I'm an icosahedron lover,
myself.

-- 
Paul Tomblin, News Administrator Extraordinaire.  (pt@geovision.gvc.com)
I just administer the news, I don't make or state policy.
From: jxv3790@hertz.njit.edu (Jake Vogelaar)
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
Subject: testing sig
Date: 19 Nov 92 20:41:01 GMT
Distribution: nj
Organization: New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, N.J.

sig:

-- 
Jake Vogelaar
jxv3790@hertz.njit.edu, jake@maple.njit.edu
Computer Vision R&D, Warner-Lambert Manufacturing Development Laboratory
New Jersey Institute of Technology
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
Subject: .arc files?
From: morgan@arc.ab.ca (Sean Morgan)
Date: 20 Nov 92 15:48:18 MDT
Distribution: world
Organization: Alberta Research Council

That about covers it!
-----------------+-------------------------------
Sean Morgan      |  ALBERTA  6815 - 8 Street N.E.
                 | RESEARCH  Calgary, AB, Canada
morgan@arc.ab.ca |  COUNCIL  T2E 7H7

Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
From: sjsobol@wariat.org (Steven J. Sobol)
Subject: Re: Physics of the Internet
Organization: APK Public Access UNIX/Internet, Cleveland, OH, USA
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL7]
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 00:25:06 GMT

J Lee Jaap (jaapjl@tab00.larc.nasa.gov) wrote:

:    I'd probably start out with a book called Zen and the Art of the
:    Internet.  Typically speaking, you don't send email to
:    user@124.445.220.32.  (I know it was a hypothetical address snarfed
:    from the heavens somewhere -- IP quads aren't typically outside of
:    0-255.)
: 
: It's kind of hard to get higher than 255 with an octet (8 bits).
: IP addresses are 32-bit quantities, which can be written in different
: ways, but the most common is a.b.c.d, where each a,b,c,d is decimal
: or hexadecimal for an octet.

It should be mentioned that generally you do not send mail to an IP address,
you usually send it to an address such as 'wariat.org' which is a name.
I have never sent mail to an IP address or heard of it being done, although
I guess it could be done.

For example, you could not send e-mail to an IP address for tiny.com
because tiny.com is not on the Internet. There are three name servers
which know where tiny.com is, and when you send mail to tiny.com your
computer (or one that is on the Internet) checks with one of the servers
to find out how to send the mail to tiny.com.

-- 
Steve Sobol, Prez. The Tiny Software Co * sjsobol@tiny.com * sjsobol@wariat.org
CALL APK in Cleveland, Ohio: Telnet/FTP/BBS/Shell/More!   Info: info@wariat.org
All for a Reasonable Monthly Rate. Telnet to wariat.org or pick up the phone...
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Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
From: pshyvers@pyrnova.mis.pyramid.com (Peter Shyvers)
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
Subject: Suggestions on getting a group
Date: 22 Nov 92 03:38:07 GMT
Reply-To: pshyvers@pyrnova.pyramid.com (Peter Shyvers)
Organization: Pyramid Technology Corp., Mountain View, CA

Any suggestions on how to *get* a new group's feed?  rec.models.scale was
announced as a new group a couple of months ago, but I can't seem to get
thru to our "feed" site to make sure that that site's not screening the
inbound to us, nor if *it's* inbound is being filtered...
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
From: king@rtsg.mot.com (Steven King, Software Archaeologist)
Subject: Re: Order of Newsgroups in trn
Reply-To: king@rtsg.mot.com
Organization: Motorola Inc., Cellular Infrastructure Group
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 20:34:54 GMT

gordy@nic.cerf.net (Gordon T. Thompson) publicly declared:
>Is there an _easy_ way to arrange the order in which trn displays
>the newsgroups to which I've subscribed? I've found two awful ways
>-- unsubscribe and then resubscribe to each newsgroup (whereupon
>I'm offered the choice of where to position the "new" group in the
>list), and manually editing my .newsrc file.

Manually editting your .newsrc file *IS* the easy way!  Can you imagine
a way easier than using your favorite editor and applying tools like
'grep' and 'sort' to the process?

If you want to do it from within TRN itself, look at the "m" command at
the newsgroup selection prompt.  Here's a bit from the help screen:

  m name  Move named newsgroup elsewhere (no name moves current newsgroup).

This lets you place the group just as if it were brand new and not in
your .newsrc.  Read the man page for more information.

Personally, I find editting .newsrc a lot easier since I usually want
to move blocks of groups at the same time.

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-------------------------------------------------------+-----------------------
It's time once again to Ask Dr. Computer Science.      |      Steven King
Remember, he knows more than you do!                   |   Motorola Cellular
                                                       |   king@rtsg.mot.com
From: alusa@sfsuvax1.sfsu.edu (Alfredo Lusa)
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
Subject: Read Articles (Gone?)
Date: 19 Nov 92 00:09:49 GMT
Article-I.D.: csus.1992Nov19.000949.18807
Organization: California State University, Sacramento

Thank for your attention


I would like to know how long do read articles stay in a group?

How are they taken off line and who does it?

Is there any way to retrieve an article that has been taken off the
line?

Thank you in advance for your time and consideration in responding this
message.


Alfredo Lusa (alusa@sfsuvax1.sfsu.edu)
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
Subject: What is a .lst file?
From: t9114145@phillip.edu.au
Date: 24 Nov 92 13:27:13 EST
Organization: RMIT (Bundoora Campus)

I have a file in a format that I don't know how to uncompress/decode -
it's a .LST extension. Does anyone have any idea? Please e-mail.

-- 

Adam Eberbach    Computer Science student, RMIT.   t9114145@phillip.edu.au
               "We don' need no stinkin' signatures!"
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
From: werner@world.std.com (Craig Werner)
Subject: Looking for Review of UNIX Mail Software
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
Distribution: na
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 14:22:27 GMT

Hello, everyone.
 
I am a great fan of the standard UNIX mail program called "mail." 
However, lately I have become curious about other e-mail software
that UNIX systems often carry, such as elm, pine, and mush.  Does
anyone have any documentation comparing and contrasting the
features of various e-mail packages?  Thanks for all help.
 
Craig Werner <werner@world.std.com>

Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
From: sridhar@enuxhb.eas.asu.edu (Sridhar Venkataraman)
Subject: Re: How to Determine IP Address From Domain Name
Reply-To: sridhar@enuxhb.eas.asu.edu (Sridhar Venkataraman)
Organization: Arizona State University, Tempe AZ
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 03:13:42 GMT

sjsobol@wariat.org (Steven J. Sobol) writes:

)Lenny Goodman (lenny@hobbs.hunt.inmet.com) wrote:
): When I try to do a telnet or ftp, my system does not understand 
): domain names (foo.bar.com), only IP addresses (13.45.67.89).
): Is there a way for me to find the IP address corresponding to a 
): domain name?? (I know there is software to do this automatically,
): but we don't have it.)
): 
):   Len Goodman
)
)The 'whois' command (whois host.domain.name) should do this. Does anyone
)have the IP address of a system where whois is available?

Not quite the right solution. The original poster was looking for a
solution like 'nslookup' or 'dig' or 'host'. dig has a built-in
resolver I guess and might compile on most systems (not really
surewhether it works on all systems). Anyway, any Internet user can
telnet to netinfo.berkeley.edu on port 117 to use the facility there.
Just type '?' once you ge on to that system.

The IP addrs. for netinfo.berkeley.edu are:

netinfo.berkeley.edu.	CNAME	nettlesome.Berkeley.EDU.
nettlesome.Berkeley.EDU.	A	128.32.136.12
nettlesome.Berkeley.EDU.	A	128.32.206.12

Sridhar.
--
Sridhar Venkataraman			sridhar@asuvax.eas.asu.edu
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
From: sarrenhe@leland.Stanford.EDU (mo Saarenheimo)
Subject: How to change "Full Name"?
Organization: DSG, Stanford University, CA 94305, USA
Distribution: usa
Date: Tue, 24 Nov 92 01:58:35 GMT

Every time I either 1) send e-mail, or 2) post to the news,
a strange version of my name appears in the header - in
e-mail message at the line "Full Name", and in the news
behind my e-mail address. (If it, for some reason, does
not appear in this posting, I'm embarrassed). I'm sure
I did something myself to create it, but I'm damned if I
know what, and now I can't get rid of it.

So how can I correct the header?

Thanks,

-- 
Tuomas Saarenheimo
National Bureau of Econ. Research
Stanford				sarrenhe@leland.stanford.edu
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
From: kvermill@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Karl E Vermillion)
Subject: Re: long signatures, how?
Organization: The Ohio State University
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 04:49:02 GMT

You can ask the friendly folks in alt.fan.warlord for the latest techniques.
Just post your sig there, and make sure you include multiple e-mail
addresses so they can be sure to reach you.  If possible, stick in an ascii
picture of Bart Simpson, an Amiga check, and a quote by Rush.

Alternately, you can ask Kibo how he does it.
;-)  (for the humor impaired)
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
From: danco@titan.ucc.umass.edu (DANIEL F COHEN)
Subject: Re: PRODIGY GATEWAY
Organization: University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 20:14:41 GMT

In article <rccarm00.722389430@mik.uky.edu> rccarm00@nx19.mik.uky.edu (ron c carman) writes:
>steve.leu@odybbs.gvl.oh.us (Steve Leu)  writes:
>
>>Is there anyway to send mail on a user on Prodigy via Internet?
>>If not, are there any future plans to?
>
>   No.
>   No.
>
>   Prodigy reserves the right to violate yor privacy whenever
>they feel like it, by reading (and censoring) your mail, both
>incoming and outgoing...  They have no plans to offer an
>Internet gateway, because such practices would have to stop...
>
>RC Carman

Er...let's try that again.  I don't know where Friend Carman gets his ideas,
but I don't think they have to do with Prodigy.  They've got lots of problems,
including censoring public postings, and a demonstrated tolerance for really
offensively anti-Semitic postings, but they DON'T censor private email in any
way I've ever encountered.  I'm not a big fan of the service or it's policies,
especially it's selective censorship of PUBLIC postings, but let's not accuse
them of things they aren't guilty of.

As far as an Internet gateway is concerned, they've announced their intention
of having one operating by the end of the calendar year, and have set up a
domain (prodigy.com, to no one's surprise), but I haven't heard anything
to suggest it was actually operating yet.  Try a message to
postmaster@prodigy.com, just to see what happens.




--Dan




Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
From: ariz@sulo.otol.fi (A Salmela)
Subject: CompuServe
Organization: Oulu Institute of Technology, Finland
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 14:42:18 GMT


Hi You folks!

I was just wondering a bit if it is possible to use CS via Internet? I have 
heard somewhere that it IS possible, but how do you actually do it?

Xref: sparky news.newusers.questions:5088 news.software.readers:2230 news.answers:4113
From: tdunn@ecst.csuchico.edu (I Need a Life)
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
Subject: Re: long signatures, how?
Date: 20 Nov 92 21:56:05 GMT
Organization: California State University, Chico
NNTP-Posting-Host: hairball.ecst.csuchico.edu

Peter Castinewrites:
>Along the same line, how do I get trn to let me include a signature longer than 4 lines. My trn complains and truncates mine, so I've started reading it into
>my news postings before leaving vi, then News adds the first four lines,

Two points:

1) You shouldn't have a long sig, at least according the Emily Postnews. 
   You *have* read that article, haven't you?  A long sig is over 4 lines.

2) Can you put a linefeed after each 70 or so characters?  Thanks.

-- 
Pretend to spank me -- I'm a pseudo-masochist!
From: Jon Freivald <jaf@jaflrn.UUCP>
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
Subject: Re: PRODIGY GATEWAY
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 92 12:13:25 EST
Organization: The Wizzard's Cave, East Meadow, NY

rccarm00@nx19.mik.uky.edu (ron c carman) writes:

> steve.leu@odybbs.gvl.oh.us (Steve Leu)  writes:
> 
> >Is there anyway to send mail on a user on Prodigy via Internet?
> >If not, are there any future plans to?
> 
>    No.
>    No.
> 
>    Prodigy reserves the right to violate yor privacy whenever
> they feel like it, by reading (and censoring) your mail, both
> incoming and outgoing...  They have no plans to offer an
> Internet gateway, because such practices would have to stop...

I beg to differ -- I recently got something in the mail from them that
spoke directly about an InterNet gateway -- in fact, it strongly
insinuated that it would be on-line before the new year...

=============================================================================
		   Jon Freivald ( jaflrn!jaf@uunet.UU.NET )
	 Nothing is impossible for the man who doesn't have to do it.
=============================================================================
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
From: rmorss@dante.nmsu.edu (Raymond Scott Morss)
Subject: Re: using archie
Organization: New Mexico State University
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
Distribution: news
Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 03:02:34 GMT

telnet archie.ans.net

login as archie

R. Scott Morss rmorss@nmsu.edu
From: bell@cs.tamu.edu (Will Bell)
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
Subject: Re: long signatures, how?
Date: 22 Nov 1992 06:51:56 GMT
Organization: Texas A&M University, College Station, TX
NNTP-Posting-Host: solar.tamu.edu

In article <4246@elwood.prz.tu-berlin.de> pcastine@tubkom.prz.tu-berlin.de (Peter Castine) writes:
>
>Along the same line, how do I get trn to let me include a signature longer 
>than 4 lines. My trn complains and truncates mine, so I've started reading 
>it into
>my news postings before leaving vi, then News adds the first four lines,
>producing the following effect:

[9-line sig, and its 4-line bastard child, mercifully deleted]

How about: Don't do it!

Peter, there's a reason that rn truncates long signatures...
they are annoying!  Even more annoying is seeing it twice in
the same article as with yours!  Besides, they are often filled
with useless information and/or excess whitespace and could be
easily trimmed down.

Now, I am not familiar with German so I can't make much suggestions.  
Is all 7 lines of the address really necessary?  The bars of '=' across 
the top and bottom are not necessary.  The Gore Vidal quote is not necessary.

Here's an attempt at shortening your sig:

--
Peter Castine / Technische Univ. Berlin / Sekretariet H51 / Fachgebiet 
Kommunikationswissenschaften / Strasse des. 17 Juni 135, W-1000 Berlin 12 
"Errors and anachronisms ought to be few.  If they do occur, I take
full responsibility like Richard Nixon" -- G. Vidal
--

All the information in your .hugesig is preserved except the word "Germany" --
I should hope anyone literate enough to use a computer would know that Berlin 
is in Germany.

And a better one:

--
Peter Castine / pcastine@tubkom.prz.tu-berlin.de / Berlin, Germany
"Errors and anachronisms ought to be few.  If they do occur, I take
full responsibility like Richard Nixon" -- G. Vidal
--

Not many people are going to be sending you postal mail letters in
response to your usenet posts, so having that address in there is
not too necessary either.

WBB

--
Will Bell -- bell@cs.tamu.edu -- Live from the heart of Scenic Central Texas
"Thrall me with your acumen."
From: bj368@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Mike E. Romano)
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
Subject: List of New Newsgroups
Date: 17 Nov 1992 08:01:05 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio (USA)
NNTP-Posting-Host: hela.ins.cwru.edu


   I am not sure if posting here will answer this, but
 is there a place or newsgroup to look to find out
 the latest new newsgroups that have been added?

 This bulletin board is within Cleveland Freenet but
 I see there are postings from people all over the place.

 Anyway, every week when I dial up the Freenet in order
 to get into Usenet there is a total figure of newsgroups
  at the top of the Usenet heading, which is currently
 at 4052 which is about 20 more than last week.

 So is there any easy place to look to just see what those
 20 newsgroups are?

 thanks.


-- 
Capt. Kirk: let's head for that planet, third from the sun, it
            looks promising.... |-)
From: jdsiegel@ocf.berkeley.edu (Joel Siegel)
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
Subject: Re: Help With .SIG
Date: 18 Nov 1992 09:23:02 GMT
Organization: U.C. Berkeley Open Computing Facility
NNTP-Posting-Host: sandstorm.berkeley.edu

In article <528@thunder.LakeheadU.Ca> padecoo@flash.LakeheadU.Ca writes:
>
>  I need help!  How in the world do I make a .SIG that gets added to my posts automatically??? I've looked through the RN help list and can't seem to find anything.  Am I overlooking something really basic or what??
>
>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------This is an incredible simulation of a .SIG <sigh!>
>
>
>
Create a file called ".signature" (no quotes; the dot in front
of the filename makes it invisible under normal conditions on a
unix system, though you can see it with ls -a as well as view it
with a pager and edit it) using your favorite editor.  You may
have to mess with some options in your newsreader, but that
should pretty much do it.  My software (trn, using vi as editor)
asks me if I want to append my .signature file, which of course
I do, as you see below:


-- 
"Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in
affairs which properly concern them."   - Paul Valery
From: ck299@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Linda L. Baum)
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
Subject: I '# > .-$' but cant find the file!
Date: 17 Nov 1992 19:47:50 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
Reply-To: ck299@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Linda L. Baum)
NNTP-Posting-Host: hela.ins.cwru.edu

Greetings!

 hope this isn't going all over the net.. I am new to cleveland
freenet.. I would like to collect all of my Usenet Articles
into one file for downloading and reading offline..

I DID figure out how to save articles to a file, with the "# > .-$"
commands.. The problem is, I cant find the file! ::blush::
Could some kind soul point me in the right direction??


-- 
__________________________________________________________________

   Thank you and Peace.. -<-*   Lynlee@cup.portal.com
                                aa1241@freenet.lorain.oberlin.edu
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
From: bbs-firefly@jwt.UUCP (John Dooley)
Subject: Re: Sending mail to Compu-Serve
Reply-To: bbs-firefly@jwt.UUCP
Organization: The Matrix
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 17:37:50 GMT

Thanks to all the kind people who sent me replies to my questions about 
sending mail to CompuServe.  I wasn't able to personally reply to 
everyone (bounced mail, etc.).  Thanks again!  
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions,comp.unix.questions