HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: king@rtsg.mot.com (Steven King, Software Archaeologist)
Subject: Re: Test Message
Reply-To: king@rtsg.mot.com
Organization: Motorola Inc., Cellular Infrastructure Group
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1992 17:54:47 GMT

gannr@newton.hartwick.edu (Robert Gann) publicly declared:
>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.

-- 
-------------------------------------------------------+-----------------------
A CPU cycle is a terrible thing to waste.              |      Steven King
                                                       |   Motorola Cellular
                                                       |   king@rtsg.mot.com
From: sridhar@enuxhb.eas.asu.edu (Sridhar Venkataraman)
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
Subject: Re: specifying Canada or USA distribution
Date: 19 Aug 92 18:13:57 GMT
Article-I.D.: ennews.1992Aug19.181357.20506
Distribution: usa
Organization: Arizona State University, Tempe AZ

bwilliam@oyster.smcm.edu (Bill Williams)
writes on news.newusers.questions:

)May I generalize this thread?  
)
)What are valid values for "distribution," and/or where would I find out?  

Ask your news/system administrator. If you are the system/news administrator
ask your feed site.

)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)?

Use local news groups as much as possible. It is a never ending battle
of hierarchy vs distribution and I hope it is decided atleast in the
next Usenet Olympics. :)

Sridhar.
From: naffara@crc.ac.uk (Dr. N.A. Affara)
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
Subject: Problem Solved
Date: 12 Aug 92 14:15:46 GMT
Organization: MRC Human Genome Resource Centre

You will all be glad to know that I have finally solved my problem of including
a file into a posting.
After _lots_ of help from other people I tried Ctrl-x Ctrl-i when using Emacs
to edit the posting. To my suprise, (no offence :-) ) it actually worked!!
This has made me very happy. (and my computer, I was about to kick the sh*t
out of it!)

Thanks to everyone who mailed me with suggestions,
What would I do without you!
Phil
(E-mail naffara@uk.ac.crc)

-- 
Kryten (When Cat says why don't we raise the defensive shields?) "A superlative
suggestion sir,with only two drawbacks: one,we don't have any defensive shields
and two,we don't have any defensive shields.I know that,technically,that's only
one drawback,but it was such a big one I thought I'd mention it twice".
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions,comp.protocols.tcp-ip.domains,comp.unix.questions
From: jaapjl@tab00.larc.nasa.gov (J Lee Jaap)
Subject: Re: domain name servers and resolvers questions
Organization: AS&M Inc
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1992 22:11:31 GMT

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

   Hi there, I want to find out more about the way domain name servers
   maintain information about other domain name servers.

If your site carries comp.protocols.tcp-ip.domains, that's a good group
for this type of query/info.
--
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
From: lindae@netcom.com ()
Subject: Articles I Post are Being Deleted Too Quickly!
Date: Sun, 16 Aug 92 16:11:16 GMT
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 



As a volunteer for a non-profit organization, I have been posting frequent
information to the newsgroup alt.missing-kids    I post descriptions of
missing children as well as safety/prevention information.  It seems that
after a week or two, the postings gradually start to disappear.  When I
enter the article number to read one of them, I get the message, "article
123 is not available".  

Why are they being deleted?  And what can I do about it?

Thanks.  Please reply by e-mail to lindae@netcom.com

Linda


Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
From: gck@hector.uucp (24641-kemmerling)
Subject: Re: Test Message
Organization: Bellcore, Livingston, NJ
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 92 13:57:28 GMT

> >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.
> 
> -- 
> -------------------------------------------------------+-----------------------
> A CPU cycle is a terrible thing to waste.              |      Steven King
>                                                        |   Motorola Cellular
>                                                        |   king@rtsg.mot.com

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!



Gayle 'wish I was back in Illinois' Kemmerling
Bellcore
Morristown, N.J.
(201) 829-3950
Xref: sparky news.newusers.questions:3741 alt.religion.kibology:3579
From: csquared@coos.dartmouth.edu (C Squared)
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions,alt.religion.kibology
Subject: Re: HELP: Signatures
Date: 22 Aug 92 10:22:31 GMT
Followup-To: alt.religion.kibology
Organization: Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
Originator: csquared@coos.dartmouth.edu

In article <199609@fritz.filenet.com> unnecessary (Kibo is aware of your thoughts) writes:
>
> 
>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

Keep this cr*p out of news.newusers.questions.

C Squared
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
From: abutler@ariel.demon.co.uk (Tony Butler)
Subject: Test Message 
Distribution: world
Organization: Megadodo, Inc.
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 20:10:57 +0000


In article <1992Aug19.125742.283@mis.mcw.edu> jmoulder@mis.mcw.edu 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.
> > 
> 
> What if your system does not subscribe to these groups?  Can you post to a
> group that is not registered on your system?  We subscribe to neither of>  these,
> although we do have vmsnet.test.
> 

What about uk.test then? *Everyone* and his dog surely has access to
uk.test. :-)
> 

Tony.
~~~~~

 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
| Tony Butler                           Internet: abutler@ariel.demon.co.uk  |
| Surrey,                                 TCP/IP: 158.152.8.125              |
| England.                               Fidonet: Anthony Butler @ 2:250/408 |
 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
From: lindae@netcom.com
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
Subject: Re: Articles I Post are Being Deleted Too Quickly!
Date: 17 Aug 92 17:40:34 GMT
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest)

In article <1992Aug17.152447.189@nwnexus.WA.COM> ralphs@halcyon.com (Ralph Sims) writes:
>Christophe.Wolfhugel@univ-lyon1.fr (Christophe Wolfhugel) writes:
>
>>>This [expires header] is the BEST way.  
>
>>Disagreed.   Site admins are [supposedely] the one defining how long
>>articles should remain in their spool.  There are some special
>>cases where Expires (generally coupled with a Supersedes of the previous
>>article) may have sense: stuff such as the FAQ postings, or conference
>>announcements.
>
>The postings in question are bulletins, messages, etc., that contain
>information about missing children.  The newsgroup in which they are
>posted is subject to weekly purging via expire.  While it is possible
>for the admin of netcom to extend the expiration period of this group
>to, say, 30 days, that does not prevent sites downstream from nuking


I appreciate all of your help, but I am still having a problem with this.
Many of you have suggested that I use an "Expires" header and I just
tried to do that.  It didn't work.  I am using Vi and here's what I've
tried:

I type, "Pnews alt.missing-kids".  Then, it asks for a subject and I 
type "xyz", it asks for distribution, and I type "world", and it says
"are you sure you want to do this" and I say yes.  That's all it asks.
There is never a place where it asks for keywords, expiration, etc.

Once I am in the body of the article, I've tried moving my cursor up
to the header area and editing it to include an expires line, but it
doesn't seem to work.  

Please help (in easy, step-by-step English please!! I'm just a novice
at this!)

Thanks,
Linda
lindae@netcom.com
From: young@ursa.UUCP (Eric Youngblood)
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
Subject: test
Date: 17 Aug 92 20:33:41 GMT
Organization: wouldn't you like to know...
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4

Just a test...

Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
From: mesm@netcom.com (Mary E. S. Morris)
Subject: Re: unsolicited junk email - what do I do ?
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 92 13:34:30 GMT
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 

As far as I was given to understand, this is illegal.
There is some mumbo jumbo about Internet use is for
research/education. Commercial use is prohibited...
You could probably check with the NSFNET authorities
for acceptable uses. My info says that these policies
should be found on ftp.nics.sri.com.

Mary

Mary E. S. Morris    |  The future exists first in imagination, then
mesm@netcom.COM      |  in will, then in reality. -- Galivan Burwell
=====================================================================
Netcom - Online Communication Services San Jose, CA
Xref: sparky news.newusers.questions:3748 news.admin:7230 alt.bbs:5330 news.misc:1587 alt.config:5284 news.answers:2589
From: alex@crystal.ipac.caltech.edu (Alex Werner)
Subject: binaries
Organization: California Institute of Technology
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 22:41:05 GMT

I have a question. How can I download to a local file and reassemble
the binary files (for instance, alt.binaries.sounds)?
I'm on Sun Sparcstation running SunOS
thanks!
From: fsars@acad3.alaska.edu (Allen R Sparks)
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
Subject: Re: STARTREK NEWSGROUP
Date: 22 Aug 92 04:36:01 GMT
Organization: University of Alaska Fairbanks

In article <BtCBH3.1Mz@spock.dis.cccd.edu>, markb@spock.dis.cccd.edu (Mark Bixby) writes:
> Try the following:
> 
> rec.arts.startrek.current
> 		 .info
> 		 .misc
> 		 .tech
> -- 
> Mark Bixby                         Internet: markb@spock.dis.cccd.edu
> Coast Community College District   1370 Adams Avenue
> District Information Services      Costa Mesa, CA, USA  92626
> Technical Support                  (714) 432-5064
> "You can tune a file system, but you can't tune a fish." - tunefs(1M)

And don't forget the now defunct, but ever popular rec.arts.startrek,
which is STILL being posted to.  Actually you missed one of the
official ones, so here they are again:
        rec.arts.startrek.current 
        rec.arts.startrek.fandom
        rec.arts.startrek.info
        rec.arts.startrek.misc
        rec.arts.startrek.tech

Unofficial one's are:
        alt.startrek.creative
        rec.arts.startrek


                        === Al Sparks
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
From: twpierce@amhux1.amherst.edu (Tim Pierce)
Subject: Re: Host address needed!
Organization: Amherst College, Amherst MA
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 00:28:10 GMT

In article <1992Aug12.121353.19251@phcomgw.seri.philips.nl> grimaldo@tokyo.seri.philips.nl (Emilio Grimaldo) writes:

>   Is there
>   any way to override the host specified in /etc/nntpserver?

Perhaps the manual page for your newsreader would have some relevant
information.

-- 
____ Tim Pierce                / "Bisexual just means you pay for it."
\  / twpierce@amherst.edu      /  
 \/ (BITnet: TWPIERCE@AMHERST) /   -- Rock Hudson
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
From: dedek@meaddata.com (Mike Dedek)
Subject: Re: Lexis/Nexis please...
Organization: Mead Data Central, Dayton OH
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 12:25:59 GMT

In article <1992Aug20.184806.1537@crd.ge.com>, ivory@e7sa.epi.syr.ge.com (John Ivory) writes:
|> Apology: I had no place else to turn.
|> 
|> Question: How do I get in contact with the Lexis/Nexis service?
|> Who do I write to?  Who do I call?
|> 
|> Thanks: As always.
|> 
|> John Ivory

First, look in the phone book of the nearest large city.  We should be listed
in there under Lexis.
If that doesn't work, try (513) 865-6800 and ask for a sales rep.
If that doesn't work, email me and I'll contact a sales rep for you.

Hope this helps,

Mike Dedek
dedek@meaddata.com

Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
From: d_jackson@fennel.cc.uwa.oz.au
Subject: .zip files
Organization: University of Western Australia
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 14:29:01 GMT

G-day people

I am having trouble with zip files.I can;t seem to get any of them to expand.I
have PKZIP & Pkunzip but all the files I download it always say file is probably
not a ZIP file ;I have tried at least 10 or so from the MSdos ftp site.I don't
know what I am doing wrong .I have ver 1.0 of Pkzip.Maybe I don't have all the
necessary file to unzip? Any help w'd be appreciated.PLEASe e-mail me with any
advise 
^ DJ-CHICAGOAN DOWN UNDER                      BULLS 91-92 CHAMPS !!!!!           ^
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Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
From: jaapjl@tab00.larc.nasa.gov (J Lee Jaap)
Subject: Re: unsolicited junk email - what do I do ?
Organization: AS&M Inc
	<1992Aug19.150940.24660@Princeton.EDU>
Date: Sun, 23 Aug 1992 01:53:46 GMT

In article <1992Aug19.150940.24660@Princeton.EDU> mgflax@ernie.Princeton.EDU (Marshall G. Flax) writes:
   In article <1992Aug17.052529.28138@newshost.anu.edu.au> jdb@arp.anu.edu.au (John D. Barlow) writes:
   >I received some unsolicited junk email from a reseller of Sun equipment.
   >What do I do to stop such "commercial" use of the net ?  Junk snail
   >mail is bad enough, please - not junk email !

   My own suggestion is to take ten minutes and write a form letter
   indicating that you do not desire or appreciate unsolicited e-mail.
   The first time you get junk mail from X, send X the letter.  The second
   time, send X and X's postmaster the letter.  The third time, file
   harassment charges.

A few days ago I heard on NPR (USA's National Public Radio), perhaps
on Fresh Air, about a couple who hit upon the scheme of including in
such a form letter (about junk snailmail) a paragraph that by future
sending of unwanted mail, they would charge the perpetrator $10 per
piece.  Most junk mailers got the idea really quickly.  But there was
one company, Columbia House, that was very dense (stupid computer :-).
After over two years (as I remember the story, could have been 5
years) and at least 5 letters and keeping records, the couple filed
in small claims court for over $400, which was awarded!  Columbia
House finally stopped sending stuff to that family when it hit the
pocketbook.
--
J Lee Jaap <J.L.Jaap@LaRC.NASA.Gov> +1 804/864-2148
employed by, not speaking for, AS&M Inc, at NASA LaRC, Hampton VA 23681-0001
From: jmoulder@mis.mcw.edu
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
Subject: Re: Test Message
Date: 19 Aug 92 12:57:42 CDT
Organization: Medical College of Wisconsin

>>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.
> 

What if your system does not subscribe to these groups?  Can you post to a
group that is not registered on your system?  We subscribe to neither of these,
although we do have vmsnet.test.
From: mccolm@darwin.math.usf.edu. (Gregory McColm)
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
Subject: Re: Test Message
Date: 14 Aug 92 17:41:29 GMT
Organization: Univ. of South Florida, Math Department

>
>   > >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.

-----Greg McColm
From: news@geovision.gvc.com (News Administrator)
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
Subject: Re: specifying Canada or USA distribution
Keywords: Canada/USA/distribution/selection
Date: 12 Aug 92 12:53:52 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: Not officially GeoVision Systems Inc., Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

In <1992Aug9.033229.19351@cuug.ab.ca> ggford@cuug.ab.ca (Gary Ford 286-9693) writes:

>Canada only: is it "can" or is it "ca"?
It's 'can'

>USA only: is it "usa" or is it "us"?
I believe it's 'usa', but most Canadian sites have conceeded to the
inevitable, and carry 'usa' distribution too.

>Does "na" include Mexico and/or Central America?
I don't think there are any sites in either of these places.

>From Canada, can one post to the USA only without also posting to Canada?
Practically speaking, you can't.  There was a big uproar here in the East
when some major news choke points (like cunews here in Ottawa) decided _not_
to carry 'usa' distribution.  It was decided that we care enough about what
goes on in the US, so now cunews carrys the 'usa' distribution, and so does
just about everybody down stream.


-- 
Paul Tomblin, News Administrator Extraordinaire.  (pt@geovision.gvc.com)
You all know that this stuff is my opinion, don't you?  Nothing to do with
GeoVision at all.  Honest!  "I fed the news today, oh boy"
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
From: ralphs@halcyon.com (Ralph Sims)
Subject: Re: Articles I Post are Being Deleted Too Quickly!
Organization: Northwest Nexus Inc. (206) 455-3505
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1992 15:24:47 GMT

Christophe.Wolfhugel@univ-lyon1.fr (Christophe Wolfhugel) writes:

>>This [expires header] is the BEST way.  

>Disagreed.   Site admins are [supposedely] the one defining how long
>articles should remain in their spool.  There are some special
>cases where Expires (generally coupled with a Supersedes of the previous
>article) may have sense: stuff such as the FAQ postings, or conference
>announcements.

The postings in question are bulletins, messages, etc., that contain
information about missing children.  The newsgroup in which they are
posted is subject to weekly purging via expire.  While it is possible
for the admin of netcom to extend the expiration period of this group
to, say, 30 days, that does not prevent sites downstream from nuking
the messages as part of regular maintenance.  What lindae@netcom.com
was originally asking is how can she keep messages on netcom longer
than the expiration period.

The discussion went beyond that a bit.  Due to the importance of these
posts (and the group in general), it would seem that including an
Expires: header would at least keep the posts around on more systems
for a longer peiod of time.  What other options exist?  I would imagine
this particular newsgroup would pass must as a 'mainstream' group with
no problems, and probably moderated at that.  Perhaps that is what it
would take.


Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
From: mgfrank@avernus.com (Marc G. Frank)
Subject: Re: Articles I Post are Being Deleted Too Quickly!
Organization: Maryland Appreciation Society
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1992 03:59:07 GMT

In article <992Aug6.2245.574@nwnexus.WA.COM> ralphs@halcyon.com (Ralph Sims) writes:
>an 'extended' length of time.  If netcom nukes the messages after
>a week, that's their business, of course, but ensuring that the
>posts stay around with the EXPIRES: header is preferable to having
>their admin extend the expiration flag for the newsgroup.  At least
>the EXPIRES: header sort of controls the length of time it remains
>on ALL systems flag.

This isn't entirely true.  After the purge period the article will be
deleted irrespective of it's expiry header.  Most newsgroups I pick up
have a purge period of seven days.  I doubt that's a representative
period, though.

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Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
From: mesm@netcom.com (Mary E. S. Morris)
Subject: Re: .sig files 
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 92 05:13:40 GMT
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 

jengagne@wam.umd.edu (Jenny Lynne Gagne) writes:
: This is probably an FAQ, but being the inept newbie at usenetting I am,
: I'm going to post it.
: 
: How do you implement a signature?  I've heard of using a .sig file,
: and i created a text file with my signature called .sig, but nothing
: happens.  What do I do?
: 
: If it helps, I'm using VI as my editor.

I don't know what newsreader you are using. The default if you
have no idea what to do would be to put an ascii text file
in $HOME and call it .signature
FYI - $HOME is usually the directory that you start out from
when you first login. If you are unsure, type

cd '$HOME'

a good way to find out where it should go is to look at 
the man pages for your newsreader.

Example:

man tin
man rn 
...

--
Mary E. S. Morris    |  The future exists first in imagination, then
mesm@netcom.COM      |  in will, then in reality. -- Galivan Burwell
=====================================================================
Netcom - Online Communication Services San Jose, CA
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
From: guckes@math.fu-berlin.de (Sven Guckes)
Subject: Re: specifying Canada or USA distribution
Originator: guckes@medusa
Keywords: Canada/USA/distribution/selection
Organization: Free University of Berlin, Germany
Distribution: na
Date: Sat, 15 Aug 1992 16:01:25 GMT

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.
From: marc@infopls.chi.il.us (Marc Freem)
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
Subject: WIU
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 92 14:50:08 CDT
Organization: INFOPLUS support, Wheeling, IL

Is anyone familiar with the network computer system used at Western 
Illinios University?  Do they have some sort of UNIX setup?  If you know 
anything bout it, please drop me a line (email).  Thanks

--
marc@infopls.chi.il.us (Marc Freem)
Infoplus BBS, +1 708 537 0247, v32bis. Home of Infoplus.