HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: mgflax@ernie.Princeton.EDU (Marshall G. Flax)
Subject: Re: Newsgroup.names
Organization: Princeton University
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1992 20:23:02 GMT

In article <1992Sep28.024055.3258@eff.org> adamg@eff.org (Adam Gaffin) writes:
>How did the hierarchary convention of naming newsgroups come about.  And
>why periods (OK, dots) and not, say, dashes?  

Probably from the C convention of naming fields within structures.

marshall
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From: erodrigu@dcc.uchile.cl (Eduardo Rodriguez)
Subject: Re: 2 questions
Originator: erodrigu@werken
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 92 15:47:21 CST
Organization: Universidad de Chile, Depto. de Ciencias de la Computacion


In article <4OCT199212240230@sscvx1.ssc.gov>, dlittle@sscvx1.ssc.gov (DENNIS LITTLE) writes:
> I've had Usenet access for quite some time, but until recently haven't had
> Internet access and have a few questions.  Firstly, how do you go about
> starting an anonymous FTP (ie, what id/password combination and correct
> commands when logged in) 

Read the ftpd man pages for that.

edo...

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From: Joshua Cope <jdc1@cornell.edu>
Subject: Re: Where are the far east subscribers?
X-Xxdate: Mon, 28 Sep 92 23: 49:14 GMT
Nntp-Posting-User: jdc1@cornell.edu
Organization: Cornell University
X-Useragent: Nuntius v1.1.1d7
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1992 22:44:18 GMT

In article <1992Sep28.182249.11723@zip.eecs.umich.edu> R. Wade Schuette,
schuette@quip.eecs.umich.edu writes:
>I've noticed surprisingly few messages posted to the news from
>the far east.   Is there access to this from Tokyo and Singapore
>and Seoul, or am I reading the wrong groups, or is my uncalibrated
>sense correct that a disproportionately small number of messages 
>are from , say, Japan.  Or do they read but not post?  Anyone know?

    If you're looking for discussions particular to certain cultures or
areas, try the soc.culture groups, i.e. soc.culture.japan,
soc.culture.hongkong, etc. There are a few alt.culture groups also, but
they're pretty limited.
                   Josh
From: tomazi@smop.fr.mugnet.org (Georges A. Tomazi)
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
Subject: Re: SOMEONE IN AUSTRALIA
Date: 29 Sep 92 11:38:31 GMT
Organization: SMOP Public Access Un*x

denisf@ersys.edmonton.ab.ca (Denis Fafard) writes:

>christian.laferriere@synapse.isis.org (Christian Laferriere) writes:

>- from: christian.laferriere@synapse.isis.org
>- subj: someone from Australia
>- 
>-    Hi all,
>-          I am trying to find information on communicating with people in
>-          Canberra Australia.  I have a friend there and I would like
>-          information on where exactly he could connect into internet.
>  
>    I have been down to Australia and found that all the universities
>  there have access to the Net.  Also, Canberra, being the capital with
>  all the government offices and such, must have other nodes locally
>  that can be accessed through some government department.  If you have
>  a local account under your name you can also send him the IP address
>  with your account and he can signon under you in your own system. 
>
>Denis Fafard              denisf@ersys.edmonton.ab.ca 

Post your article in the newsgroup "soc.culture.australian".

Georges


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From: efs@summa4.mv.com (Ed Sinamark)
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
Subject: Finding a News/Mail Feed?
Date: 2 Oct 92 16:43:01 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Summa Four Inc.

What is the easiest way to find out from whom in any particular area of 
the country you could dial up with a modem and get mail and news.  I do
not mean calling a BBS that lets you get mail and read news.  Several
people I know with PC's in various parts of the country want to run
something like UUPC and be able to get e-mail and news groups.  How do
you go about knowning who to call to buy some access time?  Any infomration
would be appreciated.  Thanks


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From: erodrigu@dcc.uchile.cl (Eduardo Rodriguez)
Subject: Re: ftpmail@decwrl.dec.com
Originator: erodrigu@tolten
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1992 14:00:06 GMT
Organization: Universidad de Chile, Depto. de Ciencias de la Computacion


In article <1009@engcon.marshall.ltv.com>, ropella@engcon.marshall.ltv.com (GEROPELLA) writes:
> 
> Ok.  The finding-sources archive helped me get a program.
> However, now that I have it (i.e. something in ascii that
> I can't decipher), I don't know what to do with it.  
> What I did was ask ftpmail to send me a copy of 
> ImageMaker2.0.tar.Z from export.lcs.mit.edu.  And I now
> have it.  
> 
> I tried %uncompress, tar tvf, and uudecode, but they all 
> fail.  The first line in the file is "xtboa begin"  or
> "xbtoa begin" (I can't remember which).  Can anyone 
> tell me what to do?

Yes, add the line 'uuencode' in your mail to ftpmail@decwrl.dec.com
before the get line. I think that the ftpmail is assuming you are
using the 'btoa' command:

uuencode                binary files will be mailed in uuencode format
btoa                    binary files will be mailed in btoa format

The btoa is a VAX command to convert files:

CONVERT/DOCUMENT infile/FORMAT=informat outfile/FORMAT=outformat

edo...

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From: U62230@uicvm.uic.edu
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
Subject: which group for software for discourse analysis?
Date: 30 Sep 92 16:31:13 GMT
Article-I.D.: uicvm.92274.113113U62230
Organization: University of Illinois at Chicago

Could someone help me identify which newsgroup would
be knowledgeable about software used for discourse
analysis in the area of academic literacy?  Specifically,
I'm trying to find out if any such database analysis
program exists.

Please respond either by mail or to the newsgroup.  Thanks.

Mary Kay Mulvaney
U62230@uicvm.uic.edu
(708) 246-5232.
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From: ts@uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi)
Subject: Re: list of ftp by mail sites...
Organization: University of Vaasa, Finland
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1992 21:05:10 GMT

In article <5um1RB1w164w@tweekco.uucp> alizard@tweekco.uucp (A.Lizard) writes:
>Is there one? Where can I get it?

I am not sure what you mean, but these are the list of MsDos FTP
sites and FTP sites in general, respectively.

   8741 Sep 14 08:25 garbo.uwasa.fi:/pc/pd2/moder15.zip
 108229 Sep 11 14:01 garbo.uwasa.fi:/pc/doc-net/ftpsites.lst

"If you do not know how to go about getting this material, users are
welcome to email me for the prerecorded garbo.uwasa.fi instructions
(long, circa 29Kb).  North American users are referred to the Garbo
mirror on wuarchive.wustl.edu.  Australian users are referred to the
archie.au mirror.  For the Asian users there is the NCTUCCCA.edu.tw
mirror.  The mirrors may lag occasionally, or might not have all the
files.  If you do not receive my reply within five days, please ask
your own site's system manager to construct a returnable mail path
for you". 

..................................................................
Prof. Timo Salmi
Moderating at garbo.uwasa.fi anonymous FTP archives 128.214.87.1
Faculty of Accounting & Industrial Management; University of Vaasa
Internet: ts@uwasa.fi Bitnet: salmi@finfun   ; SF-65101, Finland
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
From: tgh3_ltd@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Timothy Gerald Harrnacker)
Subject: .arc
Organization: University of Rochester - Rochester, New York
Date: Sun, 27 Sep 92 07:12:53 GMT

How do I use a file that has the suffix .arc?
Many thanks.
dead swordsman

Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
From: ywang01@nx20.mik.uky.edu (yan zhao wang)
Subject: How to read news from Chinese Digest
Organization: University Of Kentucky, Dept. of Math Sciences
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1992 03:23:01 GMT

I'm a UK student and from China.  I'd like to know how to read news from  
Chinese Digest.

Thanks for everybody's help.

--
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 453 Anderson Tower, Dept. of Electrical Engineering,                      
 University of Kentucky,  Lexington, KY. 40506                             
 Tele:(606)257-8056 (O) & (606)258-8907 (H)
From: ai118@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Rich Zidonis)
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
Subject: Re: ftpmail@decwrl.dec.com
Date: 29 Sep 1992 13:46:50 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
Reply-To: ai118@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Rich Zidonis)
NNTP-Posting-Host: slc4.ins.cwru.edu


In a previous article, ropella@engcon.marshall.ltv.com (GEROPELLA) says:

>
>
>Ok.  The finding-sources archive helped me get a program.
>However, now that I have it (i.e. something in ascii that
>I can't decipher), I don't know what to do with it.  
>What I did was ask ftpmail to send me a copy of 
>ImageMaker2.0.tar.Z from export.lcs.mit.edu.  And I now
>have it.  
>
>I tried %uncompress, tar tvf, and uudecode, but they all 
>fail.  The first line in the file is "xtboa begin"  or
>"xbtoa begin" (I can't remember which).  Can anyone 
>tell me what to do?
>
>Thanks.
>
>glen e. ropella                                |
>Operations Analyst                             |The Historian always looks
>ropella@engcon.marshall.ltv.com                |backward; eventually, he
>engcon!ropella@uunet.uu.net                    |begins to believe backward.
>engcon!plato!ropella@uunet.uu.net              |       -Friedrich Nietzche
>engcon!gemini!ropella%plato.decnet@uunet.uu.net|
>
>-- 
>ropella@engcon.marshall.ltv.com
>
>

Work from right to left on this one.  The .Z indicates that the file is 
compressed.  Use the UNIX program "uncompress" to uncompress.

The "tar" is a Unix command that means, ...uh, sticky stuff (don't
believe that.  I don't recall what it means.)  Anyway, to extract the
.tar file, use the UNIX tar command with the switch -xf set.

So........

uncompress ImageMaker2.0.tar.Z
tar -xf ImageMaker2.0.tar

Don't be surprised if the tar file is a package.  That is, you may have
a directory full of programs to deal with, and not just a single program.
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From: c.CRepin@ic.ac.UK (Olivier M.J. Crepin-Leblond, Olivier M.J. Crepin-Leblond)
Subject: Posting on USENET may take a few days...
Organization: The Ohio State University Department of Computer and Information Science
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1992 01:46:36 GMT

In a recent post, you enquire about the time an article takes to get posted.
Well, USENET is not exactly like email, where your message is immediately
sent to the person you want to send it to. If you type the letter v on
your newsreader while reading a message you should be able to see the full
path that the message has taken to reach you. Often you'll see that
the message has gone through quite a few computers to reach you. 
USENET is built a bit like a tree. The computers at the centre of
this tree or star are cis.ohio-state.edu, ucbvax.berkeley.edu, new.ans.net,
news.ames.arc.nasa.gov, cs.utexas.edu and uunet.uu.net . The people
close to those sites are pretty lucky because the get their news-feed
pretty quickly, and are always up-to-date. In fact, since these machines
carry such a large load of the usenet traffic, there is never a problem
regarding distribution of messages. Because of the star topology, the
people who are at the end of branches may have up to 3 days delay in
keeping in touch with messages. If a user at the opposite end sends
a USENET article, the article will have to propagate through the whole
network to reach you. The matter is made worse because as the USENET
traffic gets less and less important (ie: a site feeds less sites), the
priority of loading/distributing traffic of a site decreases. As a result,
some more peripheral sites may only endulge in USENET transfer of data
at night, when there are less users using-up CPU time. This is also
followed when telephone charges are to be paid.
So in short, it's possible that some articles may take up to a week to 
reach you.

I hope this helps,


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From: vander@flab.fujitsu.co.jp (Mike van der Velden)
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
Subject: Re: Where are the far east subscribers?
Date: 29 Sep 92 01:10:21 GMT
Organization: Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd., Kawasaki, Japan

In article <1992Sep28.182249.11723@zip.eecs.umich.edu> schuette@quip.eecs.umich.edu (R. Wade Schuette) writes:

> I've noticed surprisingly few messages posted to the news from
> the far east.   Is there access to this from Tokyo and Singapore
> and Seoul, or am I reading the wrong groups, or is my uncalibrated
> sense correct that a disproportionately small number of messages 
> are from , say, Japan.  Or do they read but not post?  Anyone know?


Well, I'm here!  

This is a group I usually read, but don't post to.  In other groups, though,
I'm much more active.  

Most everyone here does read netnews all the time, but due to language
difficulties, most stick with the regional heirarchies, fj.*.  There
are *quite* a few of these groups, and most of them parallel the
english language groups.  Unfortunately, most newsreaders outside of
Japan cannot handle the special text format (JIS as opposed to ASCII)
used to display the Japanese characters.  I'm reading this using the
NGNUS (Nihongo-GNUS) reader.  So, though most of them can read what
you post, you couldn't read what they posted, even if you did know
Japanese.

Try this for an example.  Here's my name in Hiragana (its supposed to
be in Katakana, but I can't remember how to switch it offhand;  I
hardly ever use it).

$@$^$$$/(J $@$P$s$G$k$Y$k$G$s(J

When I read this posting in news.newusers.questions, it'll show up
just fine, but for you it'll probably be a bunch of $ and ! characters.

I think this is similar to many other places with their own language
requirements.
 
--
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Distributed Systems Laboratory, Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd., Kawasaki, Japan
e-mail: vander@flab.fujitsu.co.jp

ps. If you send me a picture postcard      Mike van der Velden
    from your area to the address at       Fujitsu Unoki Dormitory, room 227
    right, I'll send you one from Tokyo.   2-17-18 Unoki, Ota-ku, Tokyo 146
    Postcards must be received by          Japan
    November 15, 1992
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
From: mdw@theory.TC.Cornell.EDU (Matt Welsh)
Subject: Mail from Internet to Prodigy?
Organization: Cornell Theory Center
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1992 23:00:34 GMT

I could have sworn there was a way to send e-mail from the internet
to Prodigy and back, but my copy (Jul 92) Internetwork Mailing
Guide makes no mention of this. Is there a mechanism for this?
Thanks.

mdw

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From: sch@getafix (Simon Hamner)
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
Subject: Internet Guide
Date: 1 Oct 92 09:22:58 GMT
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4

Hi,
 Ive heard of a file called 'ZEN & ...... internet' (can't remember the whole
name, sorry) which is an online guide to internet. Could someone e-mail me
a copy (preferable) or tell me where I could ftp a copy from ?


    Thanks
      Simon

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From: grady@world.std.com (Dick Grady)
Subject: Re: Killfile help with rn
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
Distribution: usa
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1992 05:22:40 GMT

In article <1992Sep30.195732.2831@no1home.nashvil.ingr.com> puter@no1home.nashvil.ingr.com (PuterDude) writes:
>	I am trying to junk articles (using rn) with certain words
>in the subject. For instance...
>
>I'd like to junk articles with the word "Test" anywhere in the
>"Subject:" line. I tried...
>
>/ *test/:j
>
>...but that only junks articles with the word "test" at the beginning
>of the article. I'd like it to junk articles with the word "test", or
>any variation of (like "Test" and "TEST" etc.).

Try:
   /test/:j

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From: jpl@antares.fct.unl.pt (Joao Prospero Luis [ps])
Subject: Re: what does it mean?
Organization: Universidade Nova de Lisboa, PORTUGAL
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1992 18:23:00 GMT

 (U58855@uicvm.uic.edu) wrote:
: 
: Occasionally, when I give the display command on an article line, I get back
: the message, "This article cannot be displayed."  Does this mean the group is
: being censored?

	Usually the site that keeps the news only keep it for about four days.
	What happened is that you tried to look at an article that was more than
four days old.

		JPL

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From: mesm@netcom.com (Mary E. S. Morris)
Subject: Re: FTP-ing from CICA. HELP!
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1992 03:30:38 GMT

paul@gst.kiev.ua (Paul Vedin) writes:
: 
:  Help me, please, in the following problem:
: 
:    I am working on MS_DOS computer, and want to read some file
:    (description of RTF format) from ftp site ftp.cica.indiana.edu.
: 
:    QUESTION:
:    How can I do it without FTP? Does CICA allow e_mail access from
:    Eastern Europe?
: 
:    Thanks for any help information
: 
Send an email message to: rfc-info@isi.edu
Subject: getting rfcs

help:ways_to_get_rfcs


This comes from O'Reilly's new Internet book.
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From: marc@r-node.gts.org (Marc Fournier - Sys Admin)
Subject: Re: Where can I get pkware for unix?
Organization: R-node Public Access UNIX Information System (416-249-5366)
Distribution: usa
Date: Thu, 01 Oct 1992 01:44:52 GMT

In article <2264@sjfc.UUCP> av5410@sjfc.UUCP (Alex Villamil) writes:
>Is there an ftp site?
>
>Or, can someone please post the code?
>
	pkware for Unix??  Isn't that a commercial product?? You
can get the original zip/unzip/zoo/arj/zipsplit/etc from
ftp.uu.net:/usenet/comp.sources.misc (I think that is the directory)

	And it isn't pkware...it is the original stuff, written
by real people, for real users :))

Marc
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From: hartman@ulogic.UUCP (Richard M. Hartman)
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
Subject: Re: thanks...my next question is...
Date: 1 Oct 92 17:42:24 GMT
Organization: negligable

In article <BvF3w7.Ksp@unix.amherst.edu> twpierce@unix.amherst.edu (Tim Pierce) writes:
>
>The original question appeared to be, how can one get *true*
>anonymity?  How can you post a message without even your e-mail
>address appearing at the top of your post?  

That's what I got out of it too.

>So the whole point is kind of moot.  Let's talk about something
>interesting, like "how do you get a signature?"

When I'm in "vi" I type ctrl-X, which is mapped to run a small
program I wrote which randomly selects a file from my $HOME/mail/sigs
directory.

Some examples:

=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
Lazy day, Sunday afternoon.			|
Like to get your feet up, watch TV.		|	-Richard Hartman	
Sunday roast is something good to eat,		|	hartman@uLogic.COM
must be lamb to day 'cause beef was last week!	|


=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
Oh I give my life so lightly		|
to my gentle lady.			|	-Richard Hartman	
Giving freely, and completely,		|	hartman@uLogic.COM
for my lady.				|

=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
But I am frightened for you, children,		|
that the life that we are living is in vain,	|	-Richard Hartman	
and the sunshine we've been waiting for		|	hartman@uLogic.COM
has turned to rain....				|


Ok ... so I have a lot of Moody Blues stashed in there.......

		-Richard Hartman
		hartman@uLogic.COM

=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
Disco isn't dead...			...it's just in witness protection!
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
Subject: NEWS version
From: fogal_te@cs0.lamar.edu
Date: 26 Sep 92 22:38:29 CST



How do I find out what version of NEWS I'm running?

I'm currently on a DEC VAX under VMS.

Send reply to: fogal_te@cs1.lamar.edu
From: tpa10@ccc.amdahl.com (Thomas P. Anderson)
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
Subject: Re: UUCP
Date: 29 Sep 92 04:19:53 GMT
Reply-To: tpa10@JUTS.ccc.amdahl.com (Thomas P. Anderson)
Organization: Amdahl Corporation, Sunnyvale CA

In article <1992Sep28.232028.8646@socrates.umd.edu> collins@socrates.umd.edu (Jim C) writes:
>I've been doing this for a long time, but still don't know;
>How do you use UUCP? Is it like ftp? Whats a sample
>command line for transferring remote files to my site??
I don't know the proper group to send you to (i'm reading this because
I'M new to this myself) but I DO suggest that you get a copy of
Using UUCP and Usenet by (who else) O'reilly & Associates, Inc.
In the meantime here is a sample commnad:

   uucp -nmertz!fred myfile ethyl!/tmp

this will copy "myfile" from your system to the directory tmp on system
ethyl.  If all goes well, user 'fred' on system 'mertz' will be
notified (-n option) via email when the operation completes.
One more:

   uucp SITENAME!/source/directory/file_name /your/target/directory

will grab file_name from /source/directory on system SITENAME and
place it in /your/target/directory.
To find out if you can connect to SITENAME do a 'uuname' command and
it will list all of the UUCP connections known to your host.
It is (naturally)  FAR MORE COMPLICATED than this, but this may get you
started.  Good Luck, email if you need help.
Tom A.
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