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Date:         Mon, 31 Aug 1992 21:23:16 -0500
From:         "VALENTINE M. SMITH" <CDELL@UMKCVAX1.BITNET>
Subject:      Hopefully, my last comment on this ....

Date: 31 Aug 1992 18:43:00 -0500 (EST)
From: ZIMMERJ@WABASH.BITNET
Subject: RE: Rape and Violation

>From: "VALENTINE M. SMITH" <CDELL@UMKCVAX1.BITNET>

>>(I
>>do not accept that a first trimester fetus is any more than fetus, period.
>>After that, I would generally oppose abortion save of emergencies, threats
>>to mother or fetus' health, or severe trauma to one or the other. After that
>>time, you might make a case for fetus as "victim," even then I'm not sure).

>At exactly what time does the non-human fetus suddenly become worthy of
>protection?  Is it on the first second of the first day of the second
>trimester?  Why not a second earlier?  Your standard appears awfully arbitrary
>as a system that you admit might mean the death of a human "victim."

>Jason

My point was two-fold. A first trimester abortion law, plus or minus
a week or so, is no less arbitrary than a "ban abortion" law,
especially of the nature of a restrictive law on the order of
Pennsylvania. I feel like, as I've said before, that the issue
remains betweenn a woman and her doctor, that "first trimester" is a
somewhat flexible term, and that permitting abortion is sounder
public policy than trying to ban it. I feel the same way about
gambling, drug use and divorce - banning these activities only leads
to crime interaction with them, violation of law (cohabitation, or
fleeing to more friendly jurisdictions) to separate or create a new
life from an from an intolerable situation, or the funding of crime
by the illegal revenues.

Four other thoughts. One, NO first trimester fetus in medical
history has ever been "born," and lived. Two, "prohibition" of
behaviors of WHATEVER kind has only produced more of that behavior -
whether we're talking about the Roman law prohibiting marrying for
profit, or the unlamented Volstead act, or a prior generation's more
restrictive divorce laws. Third, the "criminalization" of abortion,
dovorce, gambling or drug use, for examples, only removes otherwise
basically decent people who work and pay taxes as a general rule, and
makes them public charges or prisoners, at considerable outlay to the
taxpayer. Lastly, I think any MAN who suggests that a woman stay
married to a brute who beats her regularly ought to be horse-whipped
on city TV to bring up his sensitivity to the agony those women go
through, often having no idea going into the relationship what they
have gotten into. VMS
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Date:         Tue, 1 Sep 1992 11:46:35 CDT
From:         Rick Troth <TROTH@RICEVM1.RICE.EDU>
Subject:      RAUX

Hi,

        Did RAUX processing change between v2 and v3 of the LPS OS?

Rick Troth <TROTH@RICEVM1.RICE.EDU>, Rice University, I/S VM Systems Support
Organization: Penn State University
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 07:35:13 EDT
From: Peter M. Weiss <PMW1@psuvm.psu.edu>
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Subject: Re: XEROX 4075 Printers - Can someone help me find someone who uses
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In article <1992Sep1.200532.7676@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>, mgoodman@nyx.cs.du.edu
(mack goodman) says:

> I am still trying to find anyone who uses these printers.

>If someone can refer me to someone else it would be most appreciated.
>These are high speed laser(type) printers.... ( not tabletop).

Mack:

I have searched the xerox-l notebook archives for /4075/ -- there were
12 "hits" (NOT including yours).  I haven't analyzed them, but you might be
able to find a "contact" who has posted to xerox-l.  (I'm forwarding
the results to you under separate cover.)

/Pete
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Date:         Tue, 1 Sep 1992 21:30:17 EDT
From:         Leonard Boyle <LENBOYLE@CCVM.SUNYSB.EDU>
Subject:      Re: RAUX
              1 Sep 1992 11:46:35 CDT from <TROTH@RICEVM1.RICE.EDU>

On Tue, 1 Sep 1992 11:46:35 CDT Rick Troth said:
>Hi,
>
>        Did RAUX processing change between v2 and v3 of the LPS OS?
>
>Rick Troth <TROTH@RICEVM1.RICE.EDU>, Rice University, I/S VM Systems Support

Not that I know of. But they did add the feed=stock option as a way of
picking a different stock.
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From: mgoodman@nyx.cs.du.edu (mack goodman)
Subject: XEROX 4075 Printers - Can someone help me find someone who uses 
X-Disclaimer: Nyx is a public access Unix system run by the University
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 I am still trying to find anyone who uses these printers.

If someone can refer me to someone else it would be most appreciated.
These are high speed laser(type) printers.... ( not tabletop).

Any information would be most welcome and I may even be able to
make it worth your while monetarily.

Thanks

Mack
mdgoodma@crdec8.apgea.army.mil

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Date:         Tue, 25 Aug 1992 14:09:00 EDT
From:         Bob Fowles 814-865-4774 <RBF@PSUVM.BITNET>
Subject:      How do you attach XEROX 3700s to VM/ESA?

I would like to know if anyone has done this, and basically, how you did it
(e.g, added code to CP to support as a CP system printer, as a printer
attached to a server (dvm) running code that supports the printer, as a
bisync printer attached to RSCS, or as a bisync printer attached to a
BARR/HASP station which is in turn attached to RSCS).

Our situation: we run MVS/XA under VM/ESA and we drive 3 Xerox 3700 printers
from JES2 modified to do that.  Since JES2 speaks bisync, it wasn't too
difficult for us (many years ago) to add some exit code to send out Xerox
control sequences to reset the printer after each print job, and select a
stacker for inserting a separator page.  We now want to move all printing
services from MVS to VM, including the Xerox's.

I hope to find a solution that involves attaching the printers to rscs, but
I don't yet know if I can send the required control sequences (separately or
imbedded in the print or punch file) to reset the printer and control the
stacker to insert a separator page.

Bob Fowles, Center for Academic Computing, Penn State
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Date:         Wed, 2 Sep 1992 10:16:35 EDT
From:         Kent Fiala <SNOKLF@VM.SAS.COM>
Subject:      tab expansion in reply text
X-To:         MAIL/MAILBOOK subscription list <MAILBOOK@RICEVM1.rice.edu>

I just noticed that even if tabs are expanded automatically in READ mode,
they remain unexpanded in the text included by REPLY TEXT.  I suppose it's
arguable which is the correct behavior, but I think I'd come down on the
side of expanding them.
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Date:         Fri, 4 Sep 1992 11:46:09 +0300
From:         "Lawrence S. Kalman" <VSLAWR@WEIZMANN.WEIZMANN.AC.IL>
Subject:      Re: Un-Refresh

On Thu, 3 Sep 92 18:46:25 PST John Wical said:
>On Thu, 3 Sep 1992 15:35:16 PDT Ian Tuller said:
>>On Thu, 3 Sep 1992 10:24:39 PST John Wical said:
>>>   Is there a way to reverse the REFRESH command (in MENU mode), so that
>>>all mail items would be displayed, both deleted and undeleted?
>>
>>Try ALL /
>>
>>I would think just ALL would work, but it does not seem to do it.
>
>I tried both, neither work for me.

RECOVER * works.  The deleted items were removed using the XEDIT DELETE
subcommand.

- Lawrence
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Date:         Thu, 3 Sep 1992 09:17:25 EDT
From:         "Steven P. Roder" <TKSSTEVE@UBVM.CC.BUFFALO.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Memory not Released?
              2 Sep 1992 16:24:21 CDT from <LGINDLER@TRINITY.EDU>

On Wed, 2 Sep 1992 16:24:21 CDT Lawrence H Gindler said:
>After execution of Mail 92 here on VM/HPO Release 5, CMS Release 5,
>at PUT 9005, some virtual storage appears to be missing.  A 2048K
>machine has 1712K free before running Mail 92, and 936K afterwards.
>All of Mail 92 has been placed in the installation shared segment.
>According to NUCXMAP, there are two nucleus extensions that get loaded,
>but their size appears to be small.  I have tried loading these
>nucleus extensions manually before running Mail to prevent
>fragmentation, but that does not help either.  Any suggestions?

I seem to be having similiar problem on ESA 1.1, CMS 8.  I can post more
information once I gather it.

>
>
>=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+
>Lawrence H. Gindler
>Assistant Director for User Services            telephony: (512)736-7401
>Trinity University Computing Center         after 11/1/92: (210)736-7401
>715 Stadium Drive Box 50
>San Antonio Tx, 78212               E-Mail: LGindler@Trinity.edu


Steve Roder
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Date:         Wed, 2 Sep 1992 13:07:12 EST
From:         Greg Monroe <MONROE@DUKEFSB.BITNET>
Subject:      Re: Looking for PD CMS UUCP package (correction)

<Smack> (sound of hand hitting head to fix stuck gears....8-) )...

I originally posted that I was looking for a way to support UUCP.  The
immediate replies I got back (thank guys) made me realize that I misstated
the original query.  One should alway engage one's brain before sending
off a quick query....

What I meant to ask for was a way to support UUENCODED files under CMS.
(Of course with my recent track record, the answer is that Mail already
has this built in....)

Sorry for the earlier misspost.

Greg Monroe  <Monroe@DukeFSB.BitNet>
Duke's Fuqua School of Business
Durham, NC  27706
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Date:         Wed, 2 Sep 1992 13:55:27 EST
From:         "Scott (nmi) Mattes" <COTRSSM@SEA04VM.NAVSEA.NAVY.MIL>
Subject:      Re: Looking for PD CMS UUCP package (correction)
X-To:         Multiple recipients of list MAILBOOK <MAILBOOK@ricevm1.rice.edu>
              2 Sep 1992 13:07:12 EST from
              <MONROE%DUKEFSB.BITNET@ricevm1.rice.edu>

On Wed, 2 Sep 1992 13:07:12 EST Greg Monroe said:
>What I meant to ask for was a way to support UUENCODED files under CMS.

  Contact the author of ARCUTIL (it does UUE and XXE) at

  "John S.  Fisher" <FISHER@RPIECS>

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Date:         Thu, 3 Sep 1992 18:46:25 PST
From:         John Wical <UNCJWI@LLUVM.BITNET>
Subject:      Re: Un-Refresh
              3 Sep 1992 15:35:16 PDT from <IAN@UCSFVM.UCSF.EDU>

On Thu, 3 Sep 1992 15:35:16 PDT Ian Tuller said:
>On Thu, 3 Sep 1992 10:24:39 PST John Wical said:
>>   Is there a way to reverse the REFRESH command (in MENU mode), so that
>>all mail items would be displayed, both deleted and undeleted?
>
>Try ALL /
>
>I would think just ALL would work, but it does not seem to do it.

I tried both, neither work for me.

John
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Date:         Wed, 26 Aug 1992 17:47:33 EDT
Comments:     Converted from OV/VM to RFC822 format by PUMP V2.2N
From:         "Hobie Audet, Admin A-719, x4071" <AUDET@NBSMICF.BITNET>
Subject:      Re: POP3 DOS Client

On Aug 26, 1992, Gerald Skerbitz said:

>The POPMail distributed by the University of Minnesota has been        <
>modified VERY nicely by Philip Burns at Northwestern University.  The  <
>software is still "beta" until September 1, but I'm very impressed.    <
>If you have Windows, you can set it to collect your mail every so      <
>many minutes, but if you are just running DOS (and don't want your     <
>machine totally tied up) you can't.  What I've done for DOS is write   <
>a telnet script to log into the POP server and log right back out.     <
>As part of its logout it tells you how many messages are waiting, and  <
>I just capture that text and display it on my screen.  It takes about  <
>2 seconds or less.                                                     <
>                                                                       <
>Available via anonymous FTP from ftp.acns.nwu.edu in directory         <
>/pub/nupop as the file nupop???.zip.                                   <

Any clues as to the anonymous ftp password?  Most anonymous ftp
implementations will accept any password, but apparently not
ftp.acns.nwu.edu, because it rejects whatever I put in.  What's the
point of posting something on an anonymous ftp if a secret password
is required?
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Date:         Thu, 3 Sep 1992 09:26:09 CST
From:         "John H. Fuller" <JFULLER@UMINN1.BITNET>
Subject:      Split Header Confusion

We have a case where the header on mail in SEND mode after a
REPLY ALL TEXT command appears as follows:

Date:         Fri, 28 Aug 92 11:39:21 CST
From:         Joe Coolto <JJJJ@UMINN1>
Subject:      Re: Topic of the note
To:           JJTHEMAN at SOSOHOHO <smtplink%JJTHEMAN_at_SOSOHOHO
 @mail.csom.umn.edu>

On Fri, 28 Aug 92 11:27:58 CST you said:
>xxxx...

The destination postmaster  rejects this reply because  it cannot parse
the split  To: line. Testing reveals  that the message IS  delivered if
the  To: line  is split  with the  name part  on the  To: line  and the
<...>  part  on  the  following   line.  Also,  could  the  problem  be
compounded by  the use of  the word 'at' in  the free format  name? The
RCPT TO record was correctly(?) generated as:

RCPT TO: <smtplink%JPEASLEY_at_CSOMPOB1@mail.csom.umn.edu>

Is the "To:" line above RFC822 approved?  How does one resolve cases
where the splitting of the name/address line is unacceptable to the
recipient of the reply?

The following is the postmaster's reason for non-deliverability:
Returned Mail:  Could not find any To: or Cc: recipients.

--------------
John H. Fuller
Computer Information & Services           USPS:  CIS
Phone:    (612)-624-7788                         50 Coffey Hall
Bitnet:   JFULLER@UMINN1                         1420 Eckles Ave.
Internet: JFULLER@VM1.SPCS.UMN.EDU               University of Minnesota
                                                 St. Paul, MN  55108
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Date:         Fri, 4 Sep 1992 11:32:55 CDT
From:         "Richard A. Schafer" <SCHAFER@RICEVM1.RICE.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Un-Refresh
              4 Sep 1992 11:46:09 +0300 from <VSLAWR@WEIZMANN.WEIZMANN.AC.IL>

On Fri, 4 Sep 1992 11:46:09 +0300 Lawrence S. Kalman said:
>RECOVER * works.  The deleted items were removed using the XEDIT DELETE
>subcommand.

Good point, Lawrence.  I tend to forget about the existence of RECOVER.

Richard
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Date:         Thu, 27 Aug 1992 09:14:43 PST
From:         Bill Cohen <BCOHEN@UCDCVDLS.BITNET>
Subject:      Re: POP3 DOS Client

On Wed, 26 Aug 1992 17:47:33 EDT Hobie Audet, Admin A-719, x4071 said:
>>Available via anonymous FTP from ftp.acns.nwu.edu in directory         <
>>/pub/nupop as the file nupop???.zip.                                   <

The file name is nupop99e.zip
>
>Any clues as to the anonymous ftp password?  Most anonymous ftp
>implementations will accept any password, but apparently not
>ftp.acns.nwu.edu, because it rejects whatever I put in.  What's the
>point of posting something on an anonymous ftp if a secret password
>is required?

I had no problem getting in and or getting the file.
I just used anonymous as userid and password was my userid with a '-'
in from of it.


Talk at you Later,                \ /    University of Calif  Davis
Bill Cohen, Systems Integrator   - * -   California Veterinary Diagnostic
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Date:         Thu, 3 Sep 1992 09:37:32 CDT
From:         "Richard A. Schafer" <SCHAFER@RICEVM1.RICE.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Split Header Confusion
X-To:         RiceMail discussion list <MAILBOOK@ricevm1.rice.edu>

John, unless I'm very mistaken in my reading of RFC822, Yes, that address
is indeed valid, and your recipient's mail handler is simply broken.
While I can't find an example *exactly* like that to point to in the
RFC, there is one of the form

To: name <local@
   domain>

which is essentially identical, and shows the concept that linear white
space may occur around the @.  I'd bet the other mailer would break on that,
too.

While I can't swear that the at in the name isn't causing any problems to
the other mailer, that mailer would have to be pretty brain-damaged to
get confused by it, given the structure of the rest of the line.

As for how to get around it (outside of telling your correspondent to
get his or her MTA fixed), about all you can do is hand edit the address
to not be split as best you can.  If this is not a reply, but the address
is coming out of your names file, you should be able to avoid the split
by omitting the name field, which gives no additional information to anyone
in this case.

Good luck!

Richard
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Date:         Fri, 4 Sep 1992 16:09:19 EST
From:         "William J. Forde" <FORDE@POLYVM.BITNET>
Subject:      Printer Exit

How do you make use of the printer exit. I would like it to call a
program call printscr exec instead.

    _________________________________________________________________
    William J. Forde                Polytechnic University, NY
    VM Systems Manager              333 Jay St., Brooklyn,NY 11201
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Date:         Fri, 4 Sep 1992 11:29:29 CDT
From:         "Richard A. Schafer" <SCHAFER@RICEVM1.RICE.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Un-Refresh

The design of Refresh does not allow retrieving the removed deleted
entries.  It is similar to the Refresh in rdrlist and filelist in
that regard.

Richard
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Date:         Thu, 3 Sep 1992 10:24:39 PST
From:         John Wical <UNCJWI@LLUVM.BITNET>
Subject:      Un-Refresh

   Is there a way to reverse the REFRESH command (in MENU mode), so that
all mail items would be displayed, both deleted and undeleted?

John
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Date:         Thu, 3 Sep 1992 10:27:42 PST
From:         John Wical <UNCJWI@LLUVM.BITNET>
Subject:      Position cursor

I'm writing some EXECs for use in MAIL.

(1) Is there a command to position the cursor on the FIRST mail message?

(2) Is there a command to position the cursor on the FIRST UNREAD mail msg?

John
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Date:         Fri, 4 Sep 1992 13:13:41 PDT
From:         RIEHL@USCVM.BITNET
Subject:      Re: Printer Exit

On Fri, 4 Sep 1992 16:09:19 EST William J. Forde said:
>How do you make use of the printer exit. I would like it to call a
>program call printscr exec instead.
>

create/use the mailsys xedit file like this:

/* MAIL/MAILBOOK System level profile                                */


arg exittype

exitrc = 0

select
  when exittype = 'PRINT' then
    do
      'EXEC NETPRINT MAIL PRINT '
      exitrc = 8  /* this return code prevents two copies of output */
    end
  when exittype = 'INITIAL' then

........ etc


jr
(john riehl)
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Date:         Wed, 2 Sep 1992 10:43:00 EST
From:         Greg Monroe <MONROE@DUKEFSB.BITNET>
Subject:      Looking for PD CMS UUCP package.

This isn't really a mail question, but someone on this list probably
can answer this....

I'm looking for a way to deal with UUCP files under VM.  What packages are
out there?  And are they available via ListServ, FTP, etc...  Of course,
the budget for this is limited to many thanks....

Greg Monroe  <Monroe@DukeFSB.BitNet>
Duke's Fuqua School of Business
Durham, NC  27706
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Date:         Wed, 26 Aug 1992 20:23:59 EST
From:         "William J. Forde" <FORDE@POLYVM.BITNET>
Subject:      NOTEBOOKS

I would like mail to automatically receive each piece of mail
into separate notebooks.  If i receive notes rom REXXLIST i want
them to go into REXXLIST NOTEBOOK.  I want it to choice the
notebook base on the userid (execluding the node).  I do this now
by using a rexx program to but the mail out of the reader.  The only
problem is that it has to rebuilt the index when i go into
MAILBOOK to read it.  Also new mail doesnt seem to being mark as
unread. I can tell what has been read or not read.

    _________________________________________________________________
    William J. Forde                Polytechnic University, NY
    VM Systems Manager              333 Jay St., Brooklyn,NY 11201
    Data Processing                 BITNET   : FORDE@POLYVM
                                    INTERNET : forde@vm.poly.edu
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Date:         Fri, 4 Sep 1992 16:48:15 MET
From:         Pieter Groen <U001231@HNYKUN11.BITNET>
Subject:      Re: Position cursor

On Thu, 3 Sep 92 10:27:42 PST John Wical said:

>I'm writing some EXECs for use in MAIL.

You should write XEDITs.

>(1) Is there a command to position the cursor on the FIRST mail message?

This REXX-EXEC will do the job:

   /* cursor on first message */
   Address 'XEDIT'
   ':1'
   'CLOCATE -99'
   'CURSOR COLUMN'

>(2) Is there a command to position the cursor on the FIRST UNREAD mail msg?
This works too:

   /* cursor on first unread message */
   Address 'XEDIT'
   'TOP'
   'ZONE 45 45'
   'LOCATE />/'
   'ZONE 1 *'
   'CLOCATE -99'
   'CURSOR COLUMN'

Bye,
Pieter
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