HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: jengagne@wam.umd.edu (Jenny Lynne Gagne)
Subject: transferring files to local systems 
Keywords: kermit, local 
Organization: University of Maryland, College Park
Date: Sat, 22 Aug 1992 21:14:55 GMT

Hello.  I'm a fairly new internet/usenetter who's having some problems
transferring files.

FTP I can handle.  The problem is getting .ZIPs and whatnot over to
the IBM 386 I'm calling in on over a cheap 2400 baud modem.  The
only program I can seem to find that will xmit files over the modem
to my local computer is Kermit, but it's very, very slow and tends
to get confused and abort the transfer (Then I can't resume it... argh)

What I need to know is : is there a faster transfer program on
the net I can use?  I think wam.umd.edu uses ultrix v4.2 (rev. 96),
or so it says when I log in.  What would be miraculous would be
if I could find a unix version of ZModem (230 bps, resume aborted
files... YEAH!).  Is there a better way to do this, or do I just
have to wait for school to start and try to dump them onto floppy
from the real terminals?

Thanks in advance...

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Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
From: jaapjl@tab00.larc.nasa.gov (J Lee Jaap)
Subject: Re: Test Message
Organization: AS&M Inc
	<1992Aug13.135728.20745@porthos.cc.bellcore.com>
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 20:35:04 GMT

In article <1992Aug13.135728.20745@porthos.cc.bellcore.com> gck@hector.uucp (24641-kemmerling) writes:

   > >This is a test message.
   > 
   > Yes, it is.  Too bad this isn't a test newsgroup.  Please post test
   > messages someplace they're welcome, like misc.test or alt.test.

   Gee whiz, maybe this poster, like me, didn't know there was a test
   newsgroup.  I *do* know I can type n if I don't want to read the 
   subject!

But this is such a common error, especially in n.n.q, so why not let
everybody in on the deep dark secret of the existence of the test groups?
--
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: zhang@dset.UUCP (Ju Zhang)
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
Subject: How To Get News Service From an Internet Node
Date: 16 Aug 92 00:58:56 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: DSET Corporation, Lebanon, NJ


This is an awfully naive question.

The news service we get here is from UUNET. A friend of mine just
got Internet service in his company and he needs to know how to
get the news service there.

Please kindly e-mail to me or zdavid@dlbsys.com.

					Ju Zhang
From: fsars@acad3.alaska.edu (Allen R Sparks)
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
Subject: Re: Test Message
Date: 18 Aug 92 19:51:16 GMT
Organization: University of Alaska Fairbanks

In article <1992Aug14.174129.9135@ariel.ec.usf.edu>, mccolm@darwin.math.usf.edu. (Gregory McColm) writes:
>>
>>   > >This is a test message.
>>   > 
>>   > Yes, it is.  Too bad this isn't a test newsgroup.  Please post test
>>   > messages someplace they're welcome, like misc.test or alt.test.
>>
>>   Gee whiz, maybe this poster, like me, didn't know there was a test
>>   newsgroup.  I *do* know I can type n if I don't want to read the 
>>   subject!
>>
>>But this is such a common error, especially in n.n.q, so why not let
>>everybody in on the deep dark secret of the existence of the test groups?
>>
> 
> I hope that you realize that the successful posting 
> of a test message to your own computer means little.
> Our machine cheerfully posts our messages (so we can 
> see them posted) and then fails to transmit them to 
> the outside world.  I wonder how common this problem 
> is.

I'm not sure what you mean by that.  Our server has a local group for
sending tests, and those test messages, don't get transmitted to other
machines.  On the other hand, sending to alt.test will certainly get a
response.  I did that one time, and got responses for over a week from
lots of server machines set up to automatically send responses back. 
I don't know if misc.test is the same.  === Al Sparks
From: kibo@felix.filenet.com (The Chipmunk EATER)
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
Subject: Re: HELP: Signatures
Date: 21 Aug 92 00:00:01 GMT
            <AFA5CEU@math.fu-berlin.de>
            <1992Jul22.112736.202070@uctvax.uct.ac.za>
            <B33539K@math.fu-berlin.de>
            <19609@fritz.filenet.com>
Reply-To: unnecessary (Kibo is aware of your thoughts)
Organization: quasi-religious
Nntp-posting-host: kibo.com
X-non_disclaimer: kibo speaks for all


 
In <19609@fritz.filenet.com> fritz writes: 

>Written in article <B33539K@math.fu-berlin.de>
> by guckes@math.fu-berlin.de (Sven Guckes):

>>: DNFTTPOE := "Do Not Follow-Up To This Posting - Or Else ..."

>Or Else ... What?

You cannot duck the grep.  Kibo is everywhere.  Your article has been
deleted.  Kibo is not pleased.  >|(.

>Sorry, couldn't resist.  I know, I shoulda resisted ... B-{)

Repentance is only the beginning.  A sacrifice must be offered.

--

Kibo
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions,comp.protocols.tcp-ip.domains,comp.unix.questions
From: phil@eecs.nwu.edu (William LeFebvre)
Subject: Re: domain name servers and resolvers questions
Organization: EECS Department, Northwestern University
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1992 15:52:52 GMT

In article <1992Aug12.092635.17842@actrix.gen.nz>, ajit@actrix.gen.nz (Ajit Rasiah) writes:

|> I can think of many other questions I want to ask, so would anyone who has 
|> experience with nameservers please e-mail me or post some information about
|> how nameservers and resolvers work.

I would recommend Doug Comer's book "Internetworking with TCP/IP".
It has an entire chapter on DNS.  I would also recommend looking
at these RFCs:

``Domain Administrators Guide,'' M. Stahl, RFC 1032, November 1987

``Domain Administrators Operations Guide,'' M. Lottor, RFC 1033,
November 1987

``Domain Names -- Concepts and Facilities,'' P. Mockapetris, RFC 1034,
November 1987

``Domain Names -- Implementation and Specification,'' P. Mockapetris,
RFC 1035, November 1987


I would also also recommend waiting until some time at the end of
this year when O'Reilly releases its DNS book.  I'm reviewing it now
and it looks very good (at least, so far).

(Yes, O'Reilly gave me permission to say that.)

		William LeFebvre
		Computing Facilities Manager and Analyst
		Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
		Northwestern University
		<phil@eecs.nwu.edu>
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
From: bx451@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Dean C. Wagner)
Subject: Looking for internet access in the Canton, OH area
Reply-To: bx451@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Dean C. Wagner)
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 92 21:56:19 GMT


If this is the wrong group, sorry.

Does anyone know where I can find out if there is a place to gain
internet access in the Canton, OH area?  If I could only get a phone
dialup with telnet, that would be fine also.  I just can't afford to
dial in long distance whenever I want to connect.

Thanks in advance.

Dean Wagner
From: hyattr@acf3.NYU.EDU (Rich Hyatt)
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
Subject: help me understand the Internet Please!!
Date: 13 Aug 92 19:39:00 GMT
Organization: New York University

Looking for material explaining the internet...I have already seen Zen
and the art of the internet...want a broader coverage.  Please respond
via E-mail..

rich hyatt
hyattr@acf3.nyu.edu
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
From: gsroka@leland.Stanford.EDU (Gregory Sroka)
Subject: Re: how far away?
Keywords: fazbat
Organization: The Planet Zorbon
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 92 06:33:58 GMT

We of the planet Zorbon monitor your primitive computer networks.
Just monitoring for signs of intelligence ...
When we find some you will be contacted.

Set the controls for the heart of the sun (the heart of the sun...)

[;+|] 


Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
From: twpierce@amhux1.amherst.edu (Tim Pierce)
Subject: Re: Internet access from home
Organization: Amherst College, Amherst MA
Date: Sat, 15 Aug 1992 16:33:33 GMT

Information on public-access Unix machines can be found in Phil
Eschallier's Nixpub list, which is posted frequently to alt.bbs and
comp.misc under the titles "Nixpub Posting (Long)" and "Nixpub Posting
(Short)".  These files are also available via anonymous ftp from
pit-manager.mit.edu under the paths:

/pub/usenet/alt.bbs/Nixpub_Posting_(Long)
/pub/usenet/alt.bbs/Nixpub_Posting_(Short)
/pub/usenet/comp.misc/Nixpub_Posting_(Long)
/pub/usenet/comp.misc/Nixpub_Posting_(Short)

Note that very few public access systems have full Internet connections.

-- 
____ Tim Pierce                / "Bisexual just means you pay for it."
\  / twpierce@amherst.edu      /  
 \/ (BITnet: TWPIERCE@AMHERST) /   -- Rock Hudson
From: asylvain@felix.filenet.com (The Chipmunk)
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
Subject: Re: How to Post on a Newsgroup Anonymously?
Date: 15 Aug 92 00:15:25 GMT
Reply-To: asylvain@fritz.filenet.com (The Chipmunk)
Organization: Foundation for the Increased Wealth of Chipmunks

Written in article <1992Aug10.201931.7764@uwm.edu>
 by rooholam@point.cs.uwm.edu (Mo Rooholamini):

: Does anyone know how to post something on a newsgroup anonymously , so
: your identity doesn't appear in the posting?
: g
: Any E-mail response or posting would be greatly appreciated.

Slip a couple of bucks to your system administrator and have him set you
up with a login of "fred" or something, and do all your posting from
there.

If you can't trust your local sysadmin, look in the Nixpub monthly 
posting in comp.misc for a publically accessible Usenet site in your 
area.  Some of these are free, and some have a periodic or per-use fee.  
Send them the fee, but stipulate that you wish to be identified
according to whatever "handle" you decide upon.  Odds are they'll let
you call yourself anything you like.

Now of course, this doesn't actually keep your new identity out of the 
posting, but since it's not your true identity, who cares?  If you post
something mondo offensive, someone may contact the sysadmin where you
post (there do exist some jerks who'll try to censor you).  But the
sysadmin is not likely to do anything about it, so long as your payments 
are on time.

-- 
The Chipmunk.
Opinions are mine, void where prohibited, taxed, licensed or regulated.
Never offend people with style when you can offend them with substance.
    -- Sam Brown, "The Washington Post", January 26, 1977
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
From: xcpslf@decsrv.NoSubdomain.NoDomain (stephen l favor)
Subject: historical stock information
Reply-To: xcpslf@oryx.com
Organization: Oryx Energy Co., Dallas, Texas.
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 14:05:23 GMT

Are there any free sources of historical stock market information out there?
From: bx096@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Peter Andrew Stark)
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
Subject: STARTREK NEWSGROUP
Date: 21 Aug 92 05:01:41 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, (USA)


Does anyone know of any Star Trek related newsgroups here in 
Usenet? I've been looking but I haven't run accross any.

Thanks

Pete

-- 
Peter Andrew Stark
peter.stark@f721.n278.z1.fidonet.org
bx096@cleveland.freenet.edu
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
From: bwilliam@oyster.smcm.edu (Bill Williams)
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
Subject: Re: specifying Canada or USA distribution
Date: 19 Aug 92 14:35:35 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: St. Mary's College of Maryland

May I generalize this thread?  

What are valid values for "distribution," and/or where would I find out?  Is
there any real point in NOT using whatever the wides possible distribution is,
except for decidedly local stuff (for sale:  500-ton piece of concrete)?
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
From: taob@generic.uucp (Brian Tao)
Subject: Re: specifying Canada or USA distribution
Distribution: na
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 05:14:28 GMT
Keywords: Canada/USA/distribution/selection

ggford@cuug.ab.ca (Gary Ford 286-9693) writes:

>Canada only: is it "can" or is it "ca"?
>USA only: is it "usa" or is it "us"?

    Use "can" and "usa" (this, at least in my experience, seems to work;
if this doesn't rigorously follow netnews standards, could someone please
tell me!).  "ca" and "us" are used as qualifiers on your address.

>From Canada, can one post to the USA only without also posting to Canada?

    No, your site must be included in the distribution of your article,
otherwise it's a case of "can't get there from here".
-- 
Brian T. Tao    =*8-) | ::::::::> tcomtaob@chasm.scar.utoronto.ca <::::::::
Dept. of Exobiology   | :::::> generic!terranet!taob@zoo.toronto.edu <:::::
University of Toronto | "Though this be madness, yet there is method in't."
From: udbrooks@mcs.drexel.edu (Drexel Reeks Like Hell!)
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
Subject: Changing PHEAA's Policy to a 5-year Program
Date: 22 Aug 92 19:08:05 GMT
Distribution: pa
Organization: Drexel University


To all college and college-bound students:


  PHEAA has a grant program that only provides funds for 4 years.  Many
schools with 5-year programs are filled with students who are suffering
because of that!   I am trying to start a letter campaign to force
the state legislature to PHEAA to grant the same monetary amount of grants
OVER A FIVE-YEAR PERIOD!  

 I WOULD ADVISE ALL PENNSYLVANIA STUDENTS TO
WRITE THEIR CONGRESSMEN, IN EFFECT TO CHANGE PHEAA'S POLICY!!



   I am a Drexel University student, going into my senior year.  The 
biggest problem I'm facing right now is obtaining the funds to continue
my education.

   Another complaint is this regulation where PHEAA can only grant funds
for the first 4 years.  Drexel University is a 5-year college.  How are
Drexel students going to feel when they reach their senior year?  What
really upsets me is that 4 years ago, I had absolutely no idea that this
was going to come!  Is someone going to tell the incoming freshmen and
unaware upperclassmen--or are they going to get stabbed in the back at 
the last minute!  Of course, maybe if you tell the incoming freshmen and
transfer students that, some of them may decide to go to another school!
What the state legislature should do is to change the policy to ALLOW 
PHEAA to spread its maximum aid--over a 5-year period!  PHEAA should be
aware that by following this procedure, they will be SAVING money per
year.  The whole purpose of PHEAA was to provide funds for students to
help them through college (from freshman year to graduation)--NOT take
students three-quarters of the way and ABANDON them!  If students don't
get their degrees, then they can't get good-paying jobs.  Hence, employers
suffer because of the lack of qualified people for jobs.  Remember, it's
not just Drexel--some other colleges offer 5-year program and most
students (nowadays) are spending 4 1/2 to 5 years in college, instead of
4 years.  I WOULD ADVISE ALL PENNSYLVANIA STUDENTS TO
WRITE THEIR CONGRESSMEN, IN EFFECT TO CHANGE PHEAA'S POLICY!!

   -- David Brooks
      Philadelphia, PA  (Drexel University)
From: tichauer@valpso.hanse.de (Manfredo Tichauer)
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
Subject: Re: .zip files
Date: 15 Aug 92 01:31:59 GMT
Organization: "The Private site of Manfredo Tichauer"

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.
> have PKZIP & Pkunzip but all the files I download it always say file is proba
> not a ZIP file ;I have tried at least 10 or so from the MSdos ftp site.I don'
> know what I am doing wrong .I have ver 1.0 of Pkzip.Maybe I don't have all th

Try PKUNZIP v.1.93 . You should get it at many BBS. Good luck.


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From: kilgore@wuntvor.norman.ok.us (Stan Hall)
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
Subject: Internet History?
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 92 19:09:05 CDT
Distribution: world
Organization: The Eternal Apprentice BBS, Norman, OK



    Can anyone point me a to a reference to the history of Internet?
    I started explaining to one of my users and figured out how much
    I reallt don't know (not to mention that I am throughly confusing).

    Thanks,

    Kilgore



--
kilgore@wuntvor.norman.ok.us (Stan Hall)
The Eternal Apprentice BBS, Norman, OK -- +1 405 325 9607
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
From: jaapjl@tab00.larc.nasa.gov (J Lee Jaap)
Subject: Re: specifying Canada or USA distribution
Organization: AS&M Inc
Distribution: na
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1992 14:25:54 GMT

In article <Q435EJM@math.fu-berlin.de> guckes@math.fu-berlin.de (Sven Guckes) writes:

   ggford@cuug.ab.ca (Gary Ford 286-9693) writes:
   >Summary: How to send to Canada and NOT USA or to USA and not Canada?

   Use a xerox, lots of paper, envelopes and stamps and surface snail mail.

As has been commented before, USENET news is not an effective way to
prevent an interested reader from reading your post.  Many .ca sites
receive Distribution: usa, and many .us,.edu,.com,... USA sites get
Distribution: can, because of interested readers.  The philosophy of
USENET, as I understand it, is to _share_ information, not to _limit_
its flow (except for the receiving site, which can decide not to get it).

So even if you got a news account on a USA site, you can send stuff
with Distribution: usa, but many .ca sites will get it anyway.
--
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
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions,alt.religion.kibology
From: kibo@world.std.com (James "Kibo" Parry)
Subject: Re: HELP: Signatures
Organization: Between a rock and a type specimen sheet, Boston.
Date: Sat, 22 Aug 1992 07:09:46 GMT

[news.newusers.questions]
In article <199609@fritz.filenet.com> "kibo@felix.filenet.com" wrote:
>
>You cannot duck the grep.  Kibo is everywhere.  Your article has been
>deleted.  Kibo is not pleased.  >|(.
>
>--
>
>Kibo

AHEM.  I'm sorry, but I'm not selling franchises of my name just yet.
Give it back, or I'll have your water supply contaminated with deadly
Kool-Aid.
						-- Kibo


       ..................     271 Dartmouth St. #3D, Boston, MA 02116
       James "Kibo" Parry     Freelance designer of logos & typefaces
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
From: wmporter@jetson.uh.edu (William M. Porter)
Subject: Re: Hints on writing style for Usenet
Followup-To: news.newusers.questions
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    
Organization: University of Houston
Distribution: usa
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 21:54:00 GMT

In article <spaf-style_711614929@cs.purdue.edu>, spaf@cs.purdue.EDU (Gene
Spafford) makes a number of excellent suggestions. I wish only to elaborate on
one of them: 

> * References need to be made.  When you answer mail, you have the original
>   message fresh in your mind.  When I receive your answer, I don't.

I totally agree: a respondent must indicate what he is responding to,
preferably with some precision. However I find it extremely annoying and 
confusing to read a message that begins by quoting the entire body of the 
previous message--sometimes with >that< message's target embedded within it
as well. Selective quoting or accurate and respectful paraphrase will make
your response easier to read.

William Porter  * * * Classical Languages: University of Houston
Internet: wmporter@jetson.uh.edu /or/ CompuServe: 75430,1351
From: mystic@netlink.cts.com (Craig Sadler)
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
Subject: Reading "offline"
Date: 13 Aug 92 16:28:31 GMT
Organization: NetLink Online Communications, San Diego CA


 Can anyone tell me if there is a way to grabb an entire group's
postings all at once without having to go through the sometimes
time consuming threading process of nn, rn, tin, trn etc.

 Someone mentioned an application called "newsclipper" but I
haven't been able to find it anywhere.

  _Thanks_In_Advance_ 

 Please reply to: malx@cyber.net  (Craig Sadler)

--                    
INTERNET:  mystic@netlink.cts.com (Craig Sadler)
UUCP:   ...!ryptyde!netlink!mystic
NetLink Online Communications * Public Access in San Diego, CA (619) 453-1115
From: jba@ruc.dk (Jan Bruun Andersen)
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
Subject: Re: Articles I Post are Being Deleted Too Quickly!
Date: 21 Aug 92 10:07:23 GMT
Organization: Roskilde Universitetscenter, Danmark

ralphs@halcyon.com writes:


>In <Bt5sCy.167@xcluud.sccsi.com> paul@xcluud.sccsi.com (Paul Hutmacher) writes:

>>And we (site admins) do decide how long something stays in /spool.  We
>>use the cnews bounds line in /usr/lib/news/explist to control it.  Expires
>>lines do not supercede bounds lines.

>Would you (and other admins) consider extending the limits on
>alt.missing-kids to, say, 60 days?  Mark off the lost spool
>space as a public service, perhaps.

I won't because I don't think alt.m-k is even remotely usefull here in
Denmark.
-- 
Jan B. Andersen <jba@dat.ruc.dk>             ("DENMARK does it with DYNAMITE!")
From: checker@acf5.NYU.EDU (checker)
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
Subject: test
Date: 14 Aug 92 01:52:29 GMT
Distribution: ny
Organization: New York University

test from acf5
From: twpierce@amhux1.amherst.edu (Tim Pierce)
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
Subject: Re: Internet History?
Date: 20 Aug 92 17:13:30 GMT
Organization: Amherst College, Amherst MA

In article <1992Aug19.003210.1@acad3.alaska.edu> fsars@acad3.alaska.edu (Allen R Sparks) writes:

>In article <uX9PPB2w165w@wuntvor.norman.ok.us>, kilgore@wuntvor.norman.ok.us (Stan Hall) writes:
> 
>>     Can anyone point me a to a reference to the history of Internet?
>>     I started explaining to one of my users and figured out how much
>>     I reallt don't know (not to mention that I am throughly confusing).
>
>Look under one of the regular posts under news.announce.newusers.  I
>think a history of usenet is included in the "What is USENET?" post,
>but I'm not sure.

"What is USENET?" is not a history of Usenet, but "USENET: History and
Sources" is.

That is beside the point, though, because the original poster asked
for a history of the Internet, not of Usenet.

-- 
____ Tim Pierce                / "I don't know how much support NAMBLA
\  / twpierce@amherst.edu      /  has in the gay community."
 \/ (BITnet: TWPIERCE@AMHERST) /   -- Clayton Cramer, August 1992
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
From: cma@cory.Berkeley.EDU (Henry Chi-To Ma)
Subject: subscription to a newsgroup
Organization: University of California, at Berkeley
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 01:11:44 GMT


	Is there a way to subscribe to a newsgroup that is not originally
distributed to the States?

	Thanks in advance for anyone who can give me advice on this.

	Henry.

	cma@cory.berkeley.edu

Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions