HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: bengtl@maths.lth.se (Bengt Larsson)
Newsgroups: news.admin,news.sysadmin,news.groups,alt.config
Subject: was :Re: Advertising on Net: how can we stop it?
Date: 22 Dec 92 09:03:57 GMT
Organization: Lund Institute of Technology, Sweden

OK, one last point. 

>No group addresses the middle ground -- what people want to see -- which is
>interesting and useful information from *all* quarters.  What I care about
>is if a posting is interesting and on topic, not the motives of the poster.

If one compares with other media (newspapers for example) there is
much more advertising there than what people want to see, all else
being equal. That's why advertising space has to be paid for. 

It's this "pay for play" that there won't be with advertising in a
Usenet-type group, and that's why I suggested linking advertising with
editorial material (financing the other material). 

>In fact, it [biz] didn't get really get off the ground until a strange 
>political battle caused the SCO oriented newsgroups to go there. 

>For unfathomable
>reasons (looking back), even though there are many unix-vendor-dedicated groups
>on the net, people got in a fuss about SCO, and a regular net group appeared.

Because there was a large number of people from the company itself voting
for it, as I recall.

-- 
Bengt Larsson - bengtl@maths.lth.se
Newsgroups: news.admin.misc
From: junikka@schaefer.math.wisc.edu (Jari Junikka)
Subject: Public access site needed in Wellesley, near Boston
Organization: Univ. of Wisconsin Dept. of Mathematics
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 92 11:22:09 GMT

A friend of mine, who lives in Wellesley, MA,
would like to get access to USENET. Anyone know
any public access sites within reasonable distance.

thanks,

jari
(junikka@math.wisc.edu)


Newsgroups: news.admin.misc
From: scs@iti.org (Steve Simmons)
Subject: Re: Articles rejected at news.uu.net during the past week
Organization: Industrial Technology Institute
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 20:14:07 GMT

rsalz@rodan.UU.NET (Rich Salz) writes:

>The articles listed below were rejected by InterNetNews at news.uu.net during
>the past week because they do not conform to standard interpretation of
>Internet RFCs 822 and 1036.  They are probably being rejected by other
>standards-conforming sites as well.  A total of 90399 articles were
>accepted during this time.

>If a Message-ID from your site appears below, you probably have broken news
>or mail software which you should investigate and fix.

And now, because there's nothing more dangerous than a newsadmin
with some spare time between Xmas and New Years....

Dear friends:

Are you one of those whose eyes glaze over trying to find yourself or
your friends in that list?  If so, via a simple use of grep, sed, sort
and uniq we have The Guilty Parties!  :-)  Yes, these are the folks whose
sites appear in the list.  The number in the first column indicates
how many times a particular site appears.

The magic command to create this list -- pipe the original article thru:

   grep '<.*>' | sed 's/[><]//g;s/^.*@//;s/ .*$//;/^[ 	]*$/d' | sort | uniq -c | grep -v ' 1 ' | sort -n -r

The sed command should contain carat-openbracket-space-tab-closebracket
in its last section.

And now, the list:

  33 3.10.7.22
  24 byu.edu
  15 drktowr.chi.il.us
   8 wvnvms.wvnet.edu
   7 nlbbs.UUCP
   6 semprini.tdkcs.waterloo.on.ca
   6 rwsys.wimsey.bc.ca
   6 csparc12.scs.leeds.ac.uk
   5 hal.physics.wayne.edu
   5 SAUPM00.BITNET
   4 walter.bellcore.com
   4 uci.edu
   4 network.ucsd.edu
   3 vaxser.grumed.fu-berlin.de
   3 ufpa.br
   3 staff.tc.umn.edu
   3 sprint.com
   3 porthos.cc.bellcore.com
   3 nwnexus.WA.COM
   3 isgood.
   3 hal-too.
   3 fwrdc.rtsg.mot.com
   3 edmahood.infoserv.com
   3 bnr.ca
   3 aplcen.apl.jhu.edu
   2 underly.cc.nd.edu.
   2 sara.cc.utu.fi
   2 psilink.com
   2 novell.uakom.cs
   2 netnews.upenn.edu
   2 momad.li.ny.us
   2 lclark.edu
   2 gator.use.com
   2 arnold.decio.nd.edu.
   2 arkusinski.si.com.
   2 Xerox.com
   2 LMSC.LOCKHEED.COM

And for the terminally offended, this list *is* provided as a service.
You don't have to feel guilty just because you're on it.

Other comments:

  o  Bellcore should actually be tied for 5th, having two sites on the
     list.
  o  Nd.edu has two sites as well.
  o  Sites with only one listing are not included.
  o  Site number 1 is not found in reverse lookups either in the present
     order nor reversed (22.7.10.3), nor any of it's rotations.
-- 
	"You can't get here from here."
From: walter@optimla.aimla.com (Walter Hunt)
Newsgroups: news.admin.misc
Subject: Re: C news seems to be creating dups
Date: 22 Dec 92 21:29:56 GMT
Organization: OptImage Interactive Services Co., L.P.


In article <Bzo4xL.6FI@world.std.com>, geoff@world.std.com (Geoff Collyer) writes:
|> Tom Limoncelli:
|> >This is a low-priority problem and someday code will be added to C news
|> >to fix it... but don't hold your breath.
|> 
|> It's now fixed; I finally got a chance to rewrite the article filing code
|> and was able to fix the outstanding problems and make a few other
|> improvements (such as support for systems lacking links, symlinks, or
|> both).  The result will be in the Cleanup Release.
|> -- 
|> Geoff Collyer				world!geoff, world.std.com!geoff
|> 
|> ``People don't need to read the standards'' - head of the ISO computer group


	Well, that's all fine and good, but it is NOT the problem I'm having.
This is multiple copies of the same article with the same Message-ID, not
crossposted, and all having in common the fact that they are in the heirarchies
I currently get from both newsfeeds.

	For example, on my system articles 958 and 987 of news.admin.misc both
contain:

From: lowen@lorc.eskimo.com (Lamar Owen)
Newsgroups: news.admin.misc
Subject: Re: Is Usenet growing really fast?
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 92 10:39:54 -0500
Organization: LORC Enterprises

	The only difference in the headers being the order of some of the
fields, and the Path line, which shows that one came from each feed.

	Once again, I can't seem to duplicate the problem manually by feeding
relaynews, but most EVERYTHING coming through both feeds gets created twice.

	If there is no answer for this, can anyone recommend a package (with
it's location) that will handle this situation better? I've seen praise of INN
on the net, but that unfortunately seems only for internet feeds. I need
something to intelligently handle uucp feeds.

-- 
Walter Hunt					walter@optimla.optimage.com
OptImage Interactive Services Company, L.P.	walter@optimla.aimla.com
11040 Santa Monica Blvd., Suite #300		netcom!optimla!walter
Los Angeles, Ca. 90025				(310) 445-5718
Newsgroups: news.admin.misc
From: geoff@world.std.com (Geoff Collyer)
Subject: Re: C news seems to be creating dups
Organization: The World @ Software Tool & Die
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 16:10:32 GMT

Tom Limoncelli:
>This is a low-priority problem and someday code will be added to C news
>to fix it... but don't hold your breath.

It's now fixed; I finally got a chance to rewrite the article filing code
and was able to fix the outstanding problems and make a few other
improvements (such as support for systems lacking links, symlinks, or
both).  The result will be in the Cleanup Release.
-- 
Geoff Collyer				world!geoff, world.std.com!geoff

``People don't need to read the standards'' - head of the ISO computer group
Newsgroups: news.admin.misc
From: dennett@acadia.Kodak.COM (Charles R. Dennett)
Subject: Looking for C-News report for total k-bytes
Organization: Eastman Kodak Co., Rochester, NY
Date: Fri, 1 Jan 93 15:22:25 GMT

I am looking for a report for C-news that will tell me the total
kbytes received per day (or other time period) per hierarchy.
I already have 3 reports that tell me number of articles.
These reports collect data from either the syslog messages
from nntp or the C-News log file in /usr/lib/news.

We are tight on disk space for News and anything that can help
tune the expire parameters to keep as much as possible for as long
as possible will be appreciated.

Thanks,

Charles Dennett          | Rochester Distributed Computer Services
Mail Stop 01925          |   Customer Technical Support Services
Eastman Kodak Company    | ---------------------------------------
Rochester, NY 14650-1925 |       Internet: dennett@Kodak.COM
Xref: sparky news.admin.misc:930 news.misc:2080 news.software.nntp:1724 news.admin.technical:96
From: pgrine@nic.cerf.net (Robert Young)
Newsgroups: news.admin.misc,news.misc,news.software.nntp,news.admin.technical
Subject: Re: NNTP Installation
Date: 28 Dec 1992 12:56:58 -0500
Organization: CERFnet Dial n' CERF Customer Group
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: ftp.uu.net

In article <Bz1x12.2Ivp@austin.ibm.com> jerry@austin.ibm.com writes:
>O'Reilly and Associates book "Managing UUCP and USENET" has an entire chapter
>on how to install/configure NNTP.  I've used it and it was A LOT of help in
>getting the last couple of quirks out of our installation.
>
>Hope this helps
>
>jerry

Is there any section that explains how to configure cnews using internet 
mailing instead of uucp?
I have a SUN running 4.1.2 connected to an Internet HUB via leased line 
with Ethernet.

Robert Young
(Peregrine Systems, Inc.)
pgrine@nic.cerf.net 
or
robert@peregrine.com
From: weave@apache.dtcc.edu (Ken Weaverling)
Newsgroups: news.admin.misc
Subject: Re: Newjunk, automatically create newsgroups from junk V2.0 (Part 1/1)
Date: 30 Dec 1992 06:50:28 -0500
Organization: Delaware Technical & Community College
NNTP-Posting-Host: apache.dtcc.edu

In article <C02B3s.B5C@mamunx.garmhausen.de> mam@mamunx.garmhausen.de (Michael A Meiszl) writes:
>
>How can I take a look on my neighbors active file (when they are not running
>changesys) ?

One way is to run script, then telnet to the NNTP port of your neighbour and
issue a LIST command. (Don't do this at 2400 bps!)

Another way is to point a remote rn to a site that allows you to poke at
their NNTP server and after it starts up, suspend it and scarf the active
file copy out of /tmp (Of course, rename your .newsrc file before doing
this since article #s at the other site will be different)

-- 
Weave's 10/90 recipe for insanity: Take one programmer, divide into portions: 
10% programming consisting of equal parts in systems and applications plus
admin duties broken down into 20% for Unix, 5% PRIMOS, 10% hardware & network, 
35% DOS/Windows, 10% news, 5% postmaster, and 5% babysitting IRC kiddies.
Newsgroups: news.admin.misc
From: geoff@world.std.com (Geoff Collyer)
Subject: Re: C news seems to be creating dups
Organization: The World @ Software Tool & Die
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 23:14:02 GMT

Walter Hunt:
>	Well, that's all fine and good, but it is NOT the problem I'm having.

I didn't say it was.

>This is multiple copies of the same article with the same Message-ID, not
>crossposted, and all having in common the fact that they are in the heirarchies
>I currently get from both newsfeeds.

Something is broken, probably your history file or its indices.  (Have
you looked in errlog and the usenet mail box?)  The brute force approach
to fixing history and its indices is to run mkhistory; you might first
want to try just rebuilding the dbz files by running locknews as the
"news" userid and then running "cd /usr/lib/news; dbz history".

(If you're on a 386, make absolutely certain that dbz.c got compiled
*without* -O.)
-- 
Geoff Collyer				world!geoff, world.std.com!geoff

``People don't need to read the standards'' - head of the ISO computer group
Newsgroups: news.admin.misc
From: kherron@ms.uky.edu (Kenneth Herron)
Subject: Non-compliant articles, week ending 3 January 93
Organization: Fascist Net Police, precinct 20549
Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1993 12:44:13 GMT

                Invalid Headers, week ending 3 January 93

    The following is a list of articles which were dropped by the news 
    software here for a non-compliant header.  If a message ID from your 
    site is on this list then your news software may be out of compliance 
    with the RFCs on netnews articles and should be fixed.

Header contains non-header line:
	<PCW.92Dec29144811@flutter.tv.tek.com> `misc.forsale,rec.audio'
	<1992Dec29.191947.7031@eng.ufl.edu> `Followup'
	<1993Jan1.191546.355@eng.ufl.edu> `Keywords:listservers'
	<1992Dec29.184203.27932@pica.army.mil> `Subject:SBM iso SF '

Unapproved article in moderated group:
	<u7egvpo@zola.esd.sgi.com> `alt.hindu'
	<1992Dec27.192039.8071@news.columbia.edu> `info.ietf,alt.amateur-comp'
	<C01t8H.6tI@utdallas.edu>
		`alt.hindu,soc.culture.tamil,soc.culture.indian'
	<C06KFD.BnH@utdallas.edu>
		`alt.hindu,soc.culture.tamil,soc.culture.indian'
	<1hrgt5INNlot@CS.UTK.EDU> `comp.fonts,gnu.ghostscript.bug'

Newsgroup list contains white space:
	<168CEB3AC.CCGREG@mizzou1.missouri.edu>
		`comp.sys.next.sysadmin, comp.unix.admin'

No Subject or empty Subject:
	<1992Dec29.181234.27614@pica.army.mil> 

No From: header:
	<1fhmt2INNgli@coral.bucknell.edu> 
	<1992Dec29.045846.25583@rbc.uucp> 

No Date or unparsable Date:
	<paul.0466@dragons.DIALix.oz.au> `2 Jan 93 09:11:26 +0800 GMT'
	<paul.046e@dragons.DIALix.oz.au> `2 Jan 93 10:01:18 +0800 GMT'
	<01GSW7T145YO8WW9AD@VzdmzA.ZDV.Uni-Mainz.DE>
		`Tue, 29 Dec 1992 16:32 GMT +0100'
	<01.01.93.2@eecs.nwu.edu> `January 1, 1993 (Fri) 01:20:00 CST'
	<93.01.01.1@eecs.nwu.edu> `January 1, 1993 (Fri) 01:10:00 CST'
	<93.01.01.3@eecs.nwu.edu> `January 1, 1993 (Fri) 01:40:00 CST'
	<93.01.02.1@eecs.nwu.edu> `January 2, 1993 (Sat) 15:55:00 CST'
	<93.01.02.2@eecs.nwu.edu> `January 2, 1993 (Sat) 16:50:00 CST'
	<93.01.02.3@eecs.nwu.edu> `January 2, 1993 (Sat) 17:15:00 CST'
	<mah.154@eng.ufl.edu> `<mah.154@eng.ufl.edu>'
	<mah.155@eng.ufl.edu> `<mah.155@eng.ufl.edu>'
Xref: sparky news.admin.misc:880 alt.config:8099 alt.fan.bruce-becker:25
From: news@wolves.Durham.NC.US (The Wolfe of the Den)
Newsgroups: news.admin.misc,alt.config,alt.fan.bruce-becker
Subject: Becker Scats
Date: 22 Dec 92 06:20:57 GMT
Followup-To: alt.fan.bruce-becker
Organization: Wolves Den UNIX
X-Md4-Signature: d77dcd442f3a041c2a30abcef5b2a84c

| Path: wolves!duke!concert!uvaarpa!caen!uunet!utcsri!geac!
|	censor!becker!feline!halt!tragic!results!darwin.sura.net!udel!genie!tom
| From: tom@genie.slhs.udel.edu (tom)
| Newsgroups: alt.politics.bush.ctl
| Subject: newgroup alt.politics.bush
| Message-ID: <1992Dec14.202450.22902@genie.slhs.udel.edu>
| Date: 14 Dec 92 20:24:50 GMT
| Control: newgroup alt.politics.bush
| Organization: The Lab Rats
| Lines: 8
| Approved: tom@genie.slhs.udel.edu
| 
| this group was created to discuss candidates in the election, which is
| now over.
| 
| -- 
| tom@udel.edu                                        ...!{gateway}!udel!tom
| tom@genie.slhs.udel.edu           UDel: School of Life and Health Sciences
| 
| "Themes were useless; Destiny was here, and the foot pedals were bleeding."
-- 
Usenet Net News Administrator @ The Wolves Den  (G. Wolfe Woodbury)
news@wolves.durham.nc.us  news%wolves@cs.duke.edu  ...duke!wolves!news
"The flame war is a specific Usenet art form." --me
[This site is not affiliated with Duke University. (Idiots!) ]
From: dave@frackit.UUCP (Dave Ratcliffe)
Newsgroups: news.admin.misc
Subject: Re: yes, I can post to a group not in my active file
Date: 2 Jan 93 22:43:56 GMT
Organization: Data Factory Services, Harrisburg, Pa.

Subject: Re: yes, I can post to a group not in my active file
Newsgroups: news.admin.misc

In article <1993Jan1.003019.20762@bagend.uucp>, jan@bagend.uucp (Jan Isley) writes:
> In article <1917@frackit.UUCP> dave@frackit.UUCP (Dave Ratcliffe) writes:
> >Jan, Jan, Jan. On the 2 sites I adminster you can't post to a group
> >unless it appears in the /usr/lib/news/active file. If you try it winds
> >up junked with nothing posted to ANY group. 
> >
> >Free hint: not all news posting software acts the same. 
> 
> My post had three points to make to *Jay*
 
Well pardon me all-to-hell-and-back. If you don't wish comments from
others then perhaps you should take your exchange to Email. I realized
you were speaking to *Jay* but this is far from a private little
discussion. 

> 1) there ARE solutions to his newsreading desires

No arguments there. 

> 2) same old arguments after the vote failed == sour grapes

You call it sour grapes, others call it being disgruntled. It makes no
difference except to those who argue semantics. Let Jay be disgruntled,
PO'd, disagreeable, upset or whatever else it may be called. Now Dave
Hayes is filled with sour grapes ;-)

> 3) sour grapes are NOT solutions

They (whatever you call them) are expressions of opinion. You don't have
to agree with Jay any more than he has to agree with you. And, an
opinion is not meant to be a solution. 

> Jay got my points, without being too offended, I think.

I leave that to Jay to determine.

> Now, to the subject line...  and all of you fascist net police
> boys out there (and you know who you are) who filled my mailbox
> with flames the last time I said this, just hit that "n" key now
> because I am going to say it again...

Knowing the reaction it brings I'm surprised you are saying it again. Ah
well... 

> Yes, Virginia, I can post to a group that is not in my active file.

Sorry, you must be speaking to someone else here, my name is Dave :)

> There is no alt.foo newsgroup in my active file.  I just posted an
> article to alt.foo.  The article was spooled to junk, and is listed
> in the togo files, waiting for sendbatches to run.  This is on single
> system site using C news, 22-Dec-1991.  Your mileage may vary.

It is a mistake to use your posting capabilities as a basis for an
argument revolving AROUND posting capabilities. Mileage does INDEED vary
and too many times people either forget or ignore that fact. Of such
mistrakes are born flame-fests. 

-- 
 vogon1!compnect!frackit!dave@psuvax1.psu.edu            |  Dave Ratcliffe  |
 - or - ..uunet!wa3wbu!frackit!dave                      |  Sys. <*> Admin. |
                                                         | Harrisburg,  Pa. |
From: walter@optimla.aimla.com (Walter Hunt)
Newsgroups: news.admin.misc
Subject: Cnews seems to be creating dups
Date: 22 Dec 92 01:36:24 GMT
Organization: OptImage Interactive Services Co., L.P.


	I seem to have a problem with Cnews handling multiple feeds. We are in
the process of transitioning to a new news server, and are currently getting fed
from two different sources. Cnews has code in it to drop duplicate articles, but
it apparently doesn't work most of the time for us. The vast majority of
articles we get from both feeds are created twice, with the exact same
Message-ID. Does anyone have any suggestions on how I could track this down and
fix it?

	(BTW: Cnews performance release, Sparc II w/SunOS 4.1.2, all uucp
connections. Creating an article file manually and feeding it to relaynews
several times results in all dups being caught and dropped.)

	Thanks.

-- 
Walter Hunt					walter@optimla.optimage.com
OptImage Interactive Services Company, L.P.	walter@optimla.aimla.com
11040 Santa Monica Blvd., Suite #300		netcom!optimla!walter
Los Angeles, Ca. 90025				(310) 445-5718
From: shibumi@net.bio.net
Newsgroups: news.admin.misc
Subject: BIONET/BIOSCI Checkgroups message
Date: 1 Jan 93 08:00:03 GMT
Reply-To: shibumi@NET.BIO.NET
Distribution: bionet
Organization: BIOSCI International Newsgroups for Biology

What follows is input for a checkgroups message for the BIOSCI/BIONET
heirarchy.  If you are running netnews 2.11, you should receive mail
notification of a checkgroups message.  To issue a checkgroups message
on your system, follow the guidelines stated in Gene Spafford's
monthly message on this subject.

If you have any questions, or are having problems with your
BIONET/BIOSCI feed (or would like a BIONET/BIOSCI feed via UUCP 
or NNTP), please contact me at the above address or at (415) 962-7300.

Kenton A. Hoover
BIOSCI Network Administration
BIOSCI/IntelliGenetics Inc.

--- BIONET groups follow ---
bionet.agroforestry		Discussion of Agroforestry.
bionet.announce			Announcements of widespread interest to biologists. (Moderated)
bionet.biology.computational	Computer and mathematical applications. (Moderated)
bionet.biology.tropical		Discussions about tropical biology.
bionet.general			General BIOSCI discussion.
bionet.genome.arabidopsis	Information about the Arabidopsis project. 
bionet.genome.chrom22		Discussion of Chromosome 22.
bionet.immunology		Discussions about research in immunology.
bionet.info-theory		Discussions about biological information theory.
bionet.jobs			Scientific Job opportunities.
bionet.journals.contents	Contents of biology journal publications.
bionet.journals.note		Advice on dealing with journals in biology.
bionet.molbio.ageing		Discussions of cellular and organismal ageing.
bionet.molbio.bio-matrix	Computer applications to biological databases.
bionet.molbio.gdb		Messages to and from the GDB database staff.
bionet.molbio.embldatabank	Info about the EMBL Nucleic acid database.
bionet.molbio.evolution		How genes and proteins have evolved.
bionet.molbio.genbank		Info about the GenBank Nucleic acid database.
bionet.molbio.genbank.updates	Hot off the presses! (Moderated)
bionet.molbio.gene-linkage	Discussions about genetic linkage analysis.
bionet.molbio.genome-program	Discussion of Human Genome Project issues.
bionet.molbio.hiv		Discussions about the molecular biology of HIV.
bionet.molbio.methds-reagnts	Requests for information and lab reagents.
bionet.molbio.proteins		Research on proteins and protein databases.
bionet.neuroscience		Research issues in the neurosciences.
bionet.plants			Discussion about all aspects of plant biology.
bionet.population-bio		Technical discussions about population biology.
bionet.sci-resources		Information about funding agencies, etc.
bionet.software			Information about software for biology.
bionet.software.sources		Software Source relating to biology. (Moderated)
bionet.users.addresses		Who's who in Biology.
bionet.virology			Discussions about research in virology.
bionet.xtallography		Discussions about protein crystallography.
bionet.women-in-bio		Discussions about women in biology.
From: dave@frackit.UUCP (Dave Ratcliffe)
Newsgroups: news.admin.misc
Subject: Re: newgroup comp.society.folklore
Date: 22 Dec 92 23:46:19 GMT
Organization: Data Factory Services, Harrisburg, Pa.

In article <1992Dec17.193308.16619@bagend.uucp>, jan@bagend.uucp (Jan Isley) writes:
> In article <8166@lib.tmc.edu> jmaynard@oac.hsc.uth.tmc.edu (Jay Maynard) writes:
> >In article <rdippold.724562390@cancun> rdippold@cancun.qualcomm.com (Ron Dippold) writes:
> >>(Psst, I've set followups...)
> >(Psst, I reset them slightly to groups I can post to)
> 
> Bogus sour grapes, Jay.  Do not recieve != cannot post, but you knew that.
> 
> newsgroups line reset.


Jan, Jan, Jan. On the 2 sites I adminster you can't post to a group
unless it appears in the /usr/lib/news/active file. If you try it winds
up junked with nothing posted to ANY group. 

Free hint: not all news posting software acts the same. 

-- 
 vogon1!compnect!frackit!dave@psuvax1.psu.edu            |  Dave Ratcliffe  |
 - or - ..uunet!wa3wbu!frackit!dave                      |  Sys. <*> Admin. |
                                                         | Harrisburg,  Pa. |
From: ry66@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de (Andreas Ley)
Newsgroups: news.admin.misc
Subject: Re: News as non-superuser?
Date: 21 Dec 1992 10:49:53 GMT
Organization: University of Karlsruhe, Germany
Distribution: world
Reply-To: ley@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de
NNTP-Posting-Host: tp72.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de

In article <92Dec17.224422.15512@acs.ucalgary.ca>, kozlowsk@acs.ucalgary.ca (Don M. Kozlowski) writes:
> >Unless you're using NNTP. Its port (119) is reserved for root. That's
> >just for the daemon. You can send news without being special.
> news. Root access was required only to modify /etc/inetd.conf to
> run /usr/local/etc/nntpd (as user news) when a call came in on

Well, I guess your inetd was started and runs as root - and he is the one
to listen on the socket, and he needs priv to do so.

Bye, Andy

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