HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: king@rtsg.mot.com (Steven King, Software Archaeologist)
Subject: Jones Intercable and the SF Channel
Reply-To: king@rtsg.mot.com
Organization: Motorola Inc., Cellular Infrastructure Group
Distribution: chi
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 20:32:21 GMT

A friend just talked with the person in charge of programming at the
Northwest divisions of Jones Intercable.  (Elgin, Wauconda,
Libertyville, Lake Zurich)  She says in order to consider the SF Channel
they need to see that there's an audience for it.

That's where YOU come in!

Now's the time to write to Jones and let them know you'd like to see
the SF Channel.  The contact is:

	Mary Beth Ingram
	% Jones Intercable
	452 Oakwood Rd.
	Lake Zurich, IL 60047
	FAX: 708-438-0311

The written word carries more weight than phone calls do.  Apparently
a stack of paper is better than a stack of tick marks in their phone
log.  Ms. Ingram said either fax or snail mail is just fine.

Either way, when you write be sure to indicate your home phone number
and/or your address so they can verify that these letters are coming
from within their service area and from their subscribers.  A gob of
letters from places they don't serve isn't going to sway them a lot.

If you're outside the Chicago area and you see this, don't blame me.
I did my part and set the distribution to "chi"...

-- 
-------------------------------------------------------+-----------------------
Never hold down the 'k' key.  It tends to put a        |      Steven King
lot of k's on the screen.                              |   Motorola Cellular
                                                       |   king@rtsg.mot.com
Newsgroups: chi.general
From: ailawadi@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Sameer Ailawadi)
Subject: Ride-Share: From Northwestern to Skokie
Keywords: Ride-share
Organization: Northwestern University, Evanston Illinois.
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 15:25:50 GMT

>Hi Netters,
>
>I am a new graduate student at Northwestern, and am going through the torture
>of having to ride my bike from campus to Skokie everyday. I will probably
>continue to live in Skokie (on Monroe and Lockwood) for another few weeks, and
>am therefore looking for some kind soul with a car who may be willing to give
>me a ride to campus and back. My hours are flexible, so as long as you can
>drive me there sometime, I would appreciate it extremely. And who knows, you
>might get a chance to meet someone interesting and make a new friend this way.
>My phone nos:
>		491-2680	(days)
>		933-9249	(eve)
>
>Sameer Ailawadi
>
>
From: msc@ssigate.ssinc.com (Michael S. Cross)
Newsgroups: chi.general
Subject: Re: Looking for /usr/group/chicago
Date: 27 Aug 92 15:02:29 GMT
Distribution: chi
Organization: Systems and Synchronous Inc., Naperville, IL

bobhays@spss.com (Bob Hays) writes:

>In article <1992Aug20.162212.188@ssigate.ssinc.com>, I write:
>> 
>> The subject just about says it all.  I was expecting some announcement as
>> to where the Tuesday (?) meeting was being held, but I haven't seen anything
>> since the RAID/SLED announcement.  Does anyone have the phone number/address
>> so that I can send in my dues and the comment sheet?
>> 
...
>> -- 
>> Michael S. Cross         Work: msc@ssihub.ssinc.com               708-505-4508
>>       Home: 73750.1363@CompuServe.com  (but not exactly *proud* of it)
>> Systems and Synchronous Inc., 900 E. Diehl Rd, Suite 110, Naperville, IL 60563

> I tried emailing to your work address but both the reply address and
> the work address in your signature bounced on me.

Yeah, I know.  I wish they would send out some updated UUMAPS already.  We
were incorporated 4/1/92 and my Illinois maps are still dated 2/19.  Bummer.
I did send our new map to usa-il@rutgers.UUCP and did get a reply ...

> You can contact Kathy Koszewski about membership and all that stuff at
> (708) 652-3888.  The meetings are normally on the third Tuesday of
> each month, and the location rotates around the Chicagoland area.

Thanks for the information.  I got 2 phone calls which supplied enough
information to (I hope) get me on the mailing list again.

Take care.

Mike

-- 
Michael S. Cross         Work: msc@ssihub.ssinc.com               708-505-4508
      Home: 73750.1363@CompuServe.com  (but not exactly *proud* of it)
Systems and Synchronous Inc., 900 E. Diehl Rd, Suite 110, Naperville, IL 60563
__________________________To Live is to risk Dying____________________________
From: kls@ditka.Chicago.COM (Karl Swartz)
Newsgroups: chi.general
Subject: Re: proposal for chi.news.stats newsgroup
Date: 1 Sep 92 10:41:24 GMT
Organization: Chicago Software Works, Menlo Park, California

In article <7864@obdient.chi.il.us> blair@obdient.chi.il.us (Doug Blair) writes:
>Just skipped over to my news login and noted that log files for the
>past few days of news on obdient range in size from about 2.5 megs to
>more than 4 megabytes per day.  For each site to maintain the data
>necessary for each of us to run the b-news supplied awk script on a
>weekly basis means that we would each need to hang onto between 18
>and 28 megabytes of logs.

I just checked on ditka and the average for the past seven days is 548
KB per log.  These are compressed, and they are C news logs, which are
substantially smaller than B news.  Are you still running B?  If so,
run, don't walk, to your nearest software faucett and switch ASAP.  I
held off for a long time and some of the earlier release were a pain
in the hindquarters to install, but I've very happy that I switched.

BTW, a typical week here sees over 80,000 articles accepted with 20% -
30% rejected and redistribution of about 2.5:1.

>Does someone have a script (please don't say PERL!) that will combine
>the reports generated daily (perhaps discarding the "bad newsgroups"
>list) into a weekly summary that could be posted to the net?

Perl!  (Sorry, I couldn't resist!)

I don't suppose it would be too hard to write a script that would take
a collection of daily reports and coalesce them into a weekly report.
I'm not aware that it exists, however, so it may be left as an
exercise for the reader.

>Could the same script be used to generate the weekly summary of all
>sites?

The weekly summary is much more of a digest, just a single line per
site.  It's really just looking at one line from each site (the totals
near the top) and doesn't share that much with the script you're
talking about.  I'll try to post an example from the Bay Area but I'm
busy finishing a paper before going away -- to Chicago! -- for the
long weekend.  (At $180 a pop it's pretty easy to get home from San
Francisco.  Alas, it won't last forever.)

-- 
Karl Swartz	|INet	kls@ditka.chicago.com
1-415/854-3409	|UUCP	uunet!decwrl!ditka!kls
		|Snail	2144 Sand Hill Rd., Menlo Park CA 94025, USA
"Unix is a fractal thicket." (Mark Barnett)
Newsgroups: chi.general
From: fml@cbnewsb.cb.att.com (flora.m.lathen)
Subject: Babysitter
Keywords: Openings
Organization: AT&T
Distribution: chi
Date: Tue, 25 Aug 1992 17:03:47 GMT

My mother, will babysit your child in her home, located east side of
Aurora, Il. She has no age limits, if interested, please call her at
(708) 898-5112 anytime for details.


Newsgroups: chi.general
From: vleppert@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Valerie Leppert)
Subject: Help plan a wedding!
Organization: Northwestern University, Evanston Illinois.
Distribution: chi
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 00:14:40 GMT

Help a non-native plan a great wedding in Chicago.  It's hard for us to get
personal recommendations when we aren't from the area and most of our
friends aren't either (fellow grad students). We are in the pin down
the food, band and place stage and could use a hand.  Any info about prices
would help, too.

Place:  We're looking for somewhere to combine the ceremony and reception.
Ideally we'd want a nice location with outdoor gardens so that we can have
the wedding outside and then move indoors for the reception.  We'd like to
reduce navigation hassles for out of towners and figure this would leave us
with an indoor option in case of rain.  Time of year will be next Memorial
Day weekend.  Some ideas we had follow:  

1.  Some old Victorian homes or Mansions rent out for a weekend.  This
might also help out of town guests.

2.  There are some reception halls that advertise outdoor facilities.  The
bad side is that sometimes you're stuck with their caterers, etc.

3.  Okay, this is just a wild fantasy but I'm going to look it up anyway.
We'd love to rent a boat (for about a 100 people) and cruise around on the
lake. Is there any service for this?  Is it available in late May?


Food:  We're looking for a good caterer for about 100 people.  We are
looking for kosher style, not kosher.  No seafood, pork, or overtly mixed
meat and dairy dishes.  It doesn't have to be a kosher caterer.  Just
someone that can come up with an interesting meal following the above
restrictions.  

Band:  We don't need one.  We found an excellent Jazz band.  That's one
thing we have settled.

Other stuff:  I have this vague notion that weddings require photographers
and flowers and stuff like that.  Does anyone have any recommendations for
this kind of stuff?

Any recommendations greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Valerie (vleppert@casbah.acns.nwu.edu)
Newsgroups: chi.general
From: aieta@ils.nwu.edu (Michael Aieta)
Subject: SCHWA - Cabaret Metro Wed. Sep. 9 10:15PM
Organization: The Institute for the Learning Sciences
Distribution: chi
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 20:13:16 GMT



Free tickets are available for the Schwa gig on Wednesday September 9
at the Cabaret Metro - 3730 N. Clark.  Showtime is 10:15 - 11:00 PM.

Call Chamberlin Mgmt. Group at 528-7178 for pass info, or email me
and I'll see if arrangements can be made to pickup the passes on the
night of the show.

It's Metro's Rock Against Depression - 4 bands (don't know anything about 
other 3).  Metro also contains the Smart Bar Dance Club directly below
the upstairs live room.


Be there!  It's our most important show to date, with the best stage in the 
city for local bands.  

Money back guarantee for good time with every free pass turned in to door :-)

Thank you for your support.
From: bzandrew@bbs1984.chi.il.us (Bill Zandrew)
Newsgroups: chi.general
Subject: Danley garage, Pierce Garage
Date: 2 Sep 92 06:05:04 GMT
Organization: Not an Organization

Hi!  I posted a message a month ago inquiring if anyone ever had a problem with
Danly Garage.  I am still inviting responses to that question.
        I am also thinking of having my garage built by Pierce Garage.
Could you please relate your experiences with Pierce either good or bad?
Organization: University of Illinois at Chicago
Date: Tuesday, 1 Sep 1992 06:36:37 CDT
From: <U16028@uicvm.uic.edu>
Newsgroups: chi.general
Subject: S & H green stamps

While cleaning out some drawers, I found quite a lot of S & H Green Stamps
and Plaid Stamps.

Do these have any value and does anyone want them?

Terry
U16028@uicvm.uic.edu
Organization: University of Illinois at Chicago
Date: Monday, 31 Aug 1992 15:43:10 CDT
From: Darius Vaskelis <U39648@uicvm.uic.edu>
Newsgroups: chi.general
Subject: OS/2 Date Change (was Re: OS/2 Users Group?)
Distribution: usa

>>I was wondering if anyone had information on a Chicago area(312 or 708)
>>user's group for OS/2.  I have been unable to get this information
>>from other sources so I decided to give this a try.
>
>Here's some information on the Chicago OS/2 User Group from its BBS,
>GREATER CHICAGO Online!! at (708) 895-4042, two lines up to 9600 bps
>(v.32) and v.42bis:
>-------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>            Chicago OS/2 User Group Meeting Dates - 1992
[...]
>   o   September 18
                  ^^ changed to September 25

                     SEPTEMBER MEETING DATE CHANGED

The September meeting date for the Chicago OS/2 User Group has been
changed.  The new date is Friday, September 25.  The reason this date was
changed was to prevent so much out-of-pocket time for participants and
vendors during the previous week due to the CAMP show (September 17) and
its preparation.

The Agenda for this meeting should be posted soon.

[...]
>   All meetings are held at One IBM Plaza, Room 2716, 330 North Wabash Avenue,
>   Chicago, unless otherwise announced in advance.  We may schedule additional
>   meetings if there appears to be a good opportunity to provide information.
[...]

- Darius
--
   BITNET: U39648@UICVM             | "I'd rather laugh with the sinners
 Internet: u39648@uicvm.uic.edu               than cry with the saints,
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - |  the sinners are much more fun,
  "Don't set fire to strangers."       and only the good die young."
  - Mr. Zarniwoop                   |  - Billy Joel
Newsgroups: chi.general
From: greg@gagme.chi.il.us (Gregory Gulik)
Subject: GAGME has moved!!!
Originator: greg@gagme
Organization: Gagme Public Access UNIX, Chicago, Illinois.
Distribution: chi
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 18:49:05 GMT


GAGME has moved to a new and better place!

The new numbers are:

	312-282-8606	1200/2400
	312-282-8608	1200/2400/PEP
	312-282-8609	1200/2400/V.32/V.42/V.42bis/PEP

These numbers are the first in the hunt group for that type of
modem, and will hunt to other available numbers of the same type.

-greg

-- 
Gregory A. Gulik                                 Call Gagme, a public access
       greg@serveme.chi.il.us                    UNIX system at 312-282-8606
   ||  gulik@rtsg.mot.com                        For information, drop a note
						 to info@gagme.chi.il.us
Organization: University of Illinois at Chicago
Date: Tuesday, 1 Sep 1992 14:45:54 CDT
From: Michael Lanski <U20139@uicvm.uic.edu>
Newsgroups: chi.general,uic.general,uiuc.general,uic.deadbeats
Subject:  Fall '92 Schedule



Recently up from the depths of the midwest:

=================
Deadbeats Schedule Upcoming

Check the HOTLINE for changes and additions: (708) 864-3775

Fri Aug 28  SCHUBA'S  3159 N. Southport, Chicago IL  (312) 525-2508
Sat Aug 29  CORN FEST  Main Stage, Downtown DeKalb, IL  4 PM or so
    = Live Broadcast on WDEK 92.5 FM in DeKalb =
Sun Aug 30  FOOD FEST for the Homeless, Nelson IL  (312) 989-4069
    Be there Early for a good cause, and for a 3 PM Acoustic Show!!!
    Call about vending, camping, directions, and a good scene!
Sat Sep 5  The WRIGLEYSIDE! 3527 N. Clark, Chicago  (312) 525-5909
Mon Sep 7   LAST FLING  Naperville IL, Main Stage - Be There - High Noon!
    Deadbeats dredge the depths of suburbia with a rock'n'roll scoop.
Fri Sep 18  CZAR'S  St. Joseph, MI  more info on hotline soon
Sat Sep 19  CZAR'S again!
Sat Oct 3   CABOOZE  Minneapolis, MN  *** unconfirmed, call hotline ***
Fri Oct 9   CLUB DE WASH  Madison, WI   (608) 256-3302  a labor of love
Fri Oct 16  ANDY'S  Lincoln Hwy, Downtown DeKalb IL  (815) 758-4250
Sat Oct 17  HEARTLAND CAFE  7001 N. Glenwood, Chicago  (312) 465-8005
    outstanding food, and music begins at 11 PM
    & none other than MR. BLOTTO in the on-deck circle - Costumes a MUST!

* * * Give a call and leave a message for the Deadbeats * * *
    Hotline  (708) 864-3775   UNI-ERSK
Newsgroups: chi.general
From: varney@cbnewsd.cb.att.com (Al Varney)
Subject: Re: "The Panama Deception"--A really neat movie.
Organization: AT&T
Distribution: chi
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 04:16:53 GMT

In article <30AUG92210522@adcalc.fnal.gov> glass@adcalc.fnal.gov writes:
>     I saw a really neat documentary movie last night.  It's called "The 
>Panama Deception," and it's about the invasion of Panama.
>
>     "The Panama Deception" runs through Sept. 10 at Chicago Filmmakers,
>1229 W. Belmont, tel. 312-281-8788.  Showtimes at 7:00 and 9:00.  
>
>     Barbara Trent, the director, talked to the audience after the show.
>I got the impression she is going to be in town doing this for a while.
>She also said she is subbing for Sondra Gair on WBEZ this Monday.

   And did a good job of it.  Also got into the perception that
the major function of the CIA is to obtain "research" to back up
whatever the Administration/Congress wants, so that the CIA can
get more funding to do more "research", ....
From: blair@obdient.chi.il.us (Doug Blair)
Newsgroups: chi.general
Subject: Re: proposal for chi.news.stats newsgroup
Summary: enormous log files
Date: 30 Aug 92 13:51:59 GMT
Followup-To: chi.general
Organization: Obedient Software, Naperville IL

In article <1992Aug30.074549.15394@ditka.Chicago.COM> kls@ditka.Chicago.COM (Karl Swartz) writes:
>Brief description:
>    chi.news.stats	Chicago area USENET statistics.
>
>Collectively, these reports will help Chicago-area news administrators
>monitor the flow of news amongst their systems and identify problems

I think this is a good idea and the reports would be a useful tool. Just
skipped over to my news login and noted that log files for the past few
days of news on obdient range in size from about 2.5 megs to more than
4 megabytes per day.  For each site to maintain the data necessary for
each of us to run the b-news supplied awk script on a weekly basis means 
that we would each need to hang onto between 18 and 28 megabytes of logs.
For some leaf sites that's more than the size of the incoming spool
directory.

So....

Does someone have a script (please don't say PERL!) that will combine
the reports generated daily (perhaps discarding the "bad newsgroups"
list) into a weekly summary that could be posted to the net?  Could the
same script be used to generate the weekly summary of all sites?

each need a log file of somewhere between
Newsgroups: chi.general
From: glass@adcalc.fnal.gov (Michael Glass)
Subject: "The Panama Deception"--A really neat movie.
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.4-a4  
Reply-To: glass@adcalc.fnal.gov
Organization: Fermilab, Batavia, IL
Distribution:  chi
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 03:05:22 GMT

     I saw a really neat documentary movie last night.  It's called "The 
Panama Deception," and it's about the invasion of Panama.  You get to
see such goodies as Pentagon flack Pete Williams declaring that 
"collateral damage" was minimized, followed by aerial footage of burned-
out Panamanian neighborhoods.  There are a small number of gross scenes--
such as a body which had been run over by a tank, and Panamanians exhuming
people from mass graves (which the U.S. claims do not exist)--but the
thrills and chills come from straight documentary material.  What the U.S.
did to Panama is _really_ scary.

     Much of the footage, by the way, was obtained via FOIA from the 
Pentagon, because reporters were largely excluded from covering the
invasion.

     "The Panama Deception" runs through Sept. 10 at Chicago Filmmakers,
1229 W. Belmont, tel. 312-281-8788.  Showtimes at 7:00 and 9:00.  

     Barbara Trent, the director, talked to the audience after the show.
I got the impression she is going to be in town doing this for a while.
She also said she is subbing for Sondra Gair on WBEZ this Monday.

     It's playing in only three cities so far (L.A. and Seattle also),
and it has only a two week run here, so if you want to see it you gotta
hustle buns.

-- Michael Glass                |  These opinions are my own, of course.
   glass@adcalc.fnal.gov
Organization: University of Illinois at Chicago
Date: Tuesday, 1 Sep 1992 06:32:35 CDT
From: <U16028@uicvm.uic.edu>
Newsgroups: chi.general
Subject: any "booze" experts out there?

While cleaning out some pantry shelves, I found some unopened bottles of
whiskey and champagne.

Do these things improve, spoil, or remain unchanged with age?

Terry
U16028@uicvm.uic.edu
From: minor@rtsg.mot.com (Kevin Minor)
Newsgroups: chi.general
Subject: Re: BofA and UW can now support discrimination against blacks and Jews
Date: 28 Aug 92 20:10:18 GMT
Distribution: chi
Organization: Motorola Inc., Cellular Infrastructure Group

kenk@sdc.com (Ken Konecki) writes:

|>In article <minor.714773387@coal8> minor@rtsg.mot.com (Kevin Minor) writes:
|>>Not supporting it directly still means you support it indirectly 
|>>through their non-profit tax status.

|>That's a big misconception.  Your tax bill doesn't go up every time a
|>non-profit organization is created.  Perhaps my tax bill would be lower if
|>there were no tax breaks for non-profit organizations (har har), but by
|>the same token, perhaps my grocery bill would be lower if there wasn't any
|>shoplifting.  Saying I support an organization because of its non-profit
|>status is the same as saying I support shoplifting by buying groceries.
|>It just isn't so.

Not true. Non-profit organization have privelages and use resources 
which we as taxpayers definitely cover for.

And as you stated yourself, with no non-profit orgs, your tax bill would
definitely be lower.

The bottom line is that if you want to be left alone and do as you
please then you should get a special status. Because otherwise, I want
those taxbreaks too.

PS Beware I've cut down some of the cross-posts on this one.
-- 
	/~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~\
	|	Kevin Minor	UUCP: ...uunet!mcdchg!motcid!minor	|
	|			Mail: minor@rtsg.mot.com		|
	\~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~/
Newsgroups: chi.general
From: humm@Cookie.secapl.com (John Humm)
Subject: House for rent NW Chicago neighborhood
Date: Tue, 25 Aug 1992 22:31:20 GMT
Distribution: chi
Organization: Security APL, Inc.

Two bedroom home for rent in Ravenswood Maner neighborhood of Chicago. (4600
north 2900 west).  Home will be available on Oct. 1th.  Please send e-mail
to humm@secapl.com or call 708-698-2465 if interested in the details.
Excellent transportation via the Ravenswood el to the loop.
From: kls@ditka.Chicago.COM (Karl Swartz)
Newsgroups: chi.general,chi.news
Subject: proposal for chi.news.stats newsgroup
Summary: chi.news.stats: Chicago area USENET statistics
Date: 30 Aug 92 07:45:49 GMT
Followup-To: chi.general
Organization: Chicago Software Works, Menlo Park, California

Brief description:
    chi.news.stats	Chicago area USENET statistics.

I propose that the newsgroup chi.news.stats be created for the purpose
of posting statistical reports on the distribution of news within the
Chicago area.  Many other regional distributions have similar groups.
Examples, thanks in large part to Gerry Swetsky <lisbon@vpnet.chi.il.us>,
include 

austin.news.stats	??
ba.news.stats		Bay Area USENET statistical and information postings.
bc.news.stats		[British Columbia]
can.canet.stats		USENET statistics from major CA*Net NNTP sites.
dfw.news.stats		??
edm.news.stats		Network news statistics in Edmonton.
houston.news.stats	??
kw.news.stats           USENET Statistics in Kitchener-Waterloo, Canada
la.news.stats		??
tor.news.stats		USENET Statistics in Toronto, Canada.
tx.news.stats		??

While these groups are used in various ways, the most common practice
is for each site to post a report on a weekly basis (typically some-
time after midnight Sunday) as generated by the awk script found in
misc/report_awk in the B news distribution, and this is what I propose
for chi.news.stats.  For C news sites (hopefully everybody!) I have an
updated version of the awk script along with a patch for relaynews.  I
don't know if versions exist for other news implementations.

In addition, ba.news.stats includes a summary report generated from
the posted reports of all sites.  This is handy to have and I will
attempt to obtain a copy of the script for chi.news.stats.

Collectively, these reports will help Chicago-area news administrators
monitor the flow of news amongst their systems and identify problems
when they arise.  The reports are also beneficial to news sites which
wish to obtain a nearby feed.

Discussion of this proposal will take place in chi.general for a
period of two weeks.  If there is no substantial objection during the
discussion period I will issue a newgroup message for chi.news.stats
on September 14th.

-- 
Karl Swartz	|INet	kls@ditka.chicago.com
1-415/854-3409	|UUCP	uunet!decwrl!ditka!kls
		|Snail	2144 Sand Hill Rd., Menlo Park CA 94025, USA
"Unix is a fractal thicket." (Mark Barnett)