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From: armagan@sassafras (Armagan Ozdinc)
Newsgroups: alt.president.clinton,ba.politics,ca.politics
Subject: Re: Supreme Court
Date: 9 Nov 92 18:31:58 GMT
Reply-To: armagan@prc.unisys.com
Distribution: na
Organization: Paramax Systems

In article <1992Nov6.233515.4710@BofA.com>, ross@BofA.COM (Ross Lefstin) writes:
|> I have seen a lot of talk about the supreme court.  The current justices and
|> (IMHO) their stand RELATIVE TO THE CURRENT COURT is as follows:
|> 
|> Blackmun - Liberal		(?)
                                (appointed by Nixon)
|> White - Liberal		(Nixon?)
                                (appointed by Ford)
|> O'Connor - Moderate		(Reagan)
|> Souter - Moderate		(Bush)
|> Kennedy - Moderate		(Reagan?)
                                (appointed by Reagan - you are correct)
|> Thomas - Conservative        (Bush)
|> Scalia - Conservative	(Bush?)
                                (appointed by Reagan)
|> Rehnquist - Conservative	(Reagan)
                                (appointed by Nixon. He was appointed as
                                 chief justice by Reagan)
|> Stevens - Conservative	(?)
                                (appointed by Kennedy. I would not call
                                 Stevens as conservative. He is somewhere
                                 between moderate and liberal.)
|> 
|> Of the nine, Blackmun for certain, and probably White as well, have been
|> holding on waiting for a Demo president, and will announce retirement soon.
|> I understand that Rehnquist and Stevens may retire soon (i.e. in Bill
|> Clinton's term) due to health reasons.  I saw a post about O'Connor
|> possibly retiring as well on ba.politics.  Is this right?

Both Stevens and O'Connor have cancer. They are likely to step down,
especially Stevens. I doubt that Rehnquist will step down even though
we hear that he is depressed since his wife's death. 
 
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Newsgroups: alt.president.clinton,misc.test,talk.bizarre
From: cah@pavonis.JPL.NASA.gov (Allen Halsell)
Subject: Everything so far
Organization: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, NASA/Caltech
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 16:55:45 GMT

No disrespect intended, but what the hell do we need this newsgroup
for?  It's impossible to create a group that is ONLY constructive
or even only destructive (see alt.fan.d-q).  So why don't we take
this back over with the rest of the ranting on alt.pol.clinton?

Same for the alt.democrat groups.

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               the spoken word is a jacket too tight
Xref: sparky alt.president.clinton:86 misc.test:12779 talk.bizarre:37062
From: 126580828@ucis.vill.edu (Matador of M83)
Newsgroups: alt.president.clinton,misc.test,talk.bizarre
Subject: Re: Gloat
Date: 6 Nov 92 17:12:00 GMT
Organization: Villanova University
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.4-b1

In article <1992Nov5.163050.1496@news2.cis.umn.edu>, bunt0003@student.tc.umn.edu () writes...
>In article <5NOV199209244194@cats.ucis.vill.edu> 126580828@cats.ucis.vill.edu (Matador of M83) writes:
>>In article <1992Nov5.134313.25017@oz.plymouth.edu>, m_lehoul@oz.plymouth.edu (Michael L. Le Houllier) writes...
>>>In article <1992Nov5.060913.10011@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> mbur@nyx.cs.du.edu (MAC) writes:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>Like I said over there to those wankers in alt.politics.bush and alt.fan.rush-
>>>>limbaugh, 'tain't nothin' like a little gloating.   HAHAHAHAHHAHAHHAHAHHAHA
>>>>Bush lost!!!  HAHAHAHAHHAHAHHAHAHA!!
>>>>
>>>And when the economy sees unheard of lows as a result of Clinton's
>>>policies, Republicans will take the Congress for the first time in 40
>>>years and Jack Kemp will take the White House to begin another long
>>>period of Republican administration, this time without that bothersome
>>>Democrat Congress.
>>> 
>>>>
>>>>Ta-ta for now,
>>>>M
>>> 
>>>God bless,
>>> 
>>>Michael
>>> 
>>>(Oh thats right, you Commie-libs think God is unconstitutional - forgot)
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>>-- 
>>> Michael Le Houllier           *  John 3:16  * Nov 12, 1991 - Dili      
>>> (m_lehoul@oz.plymouth.edu.us) *  Remember: June 4, 1989 - Beijing
>>> GO BLUE JAYS!!!   BEAT THE BRAVES!!!!
>>> ANNOY THE MEDIA.  RE-ELECT BUSH!!
>>Michael,
>>
>>It is men like yourself that give this country hope, and make me proud to 
>>be an American......
>>
>>The Matador of M83
>>
>> 
> 
>As a foreigner myself, the republican seems to compete for the fall of
>their opponents, not for the sake of the country.  It sounds like they
>really embrace the politics of hatred, not compassion.
>

I DO NOT follow the politics of Hatred! I follow the politics of low taxes!
Stop labeling me as a "hatred seed"

The Matador of M83
Xref: sparky alt.president.clinton:157 alt.politics.perot:5312 talk.politics.misc:58957
From: tom@ssd.csd.harris.com (Tom Horsley)
Newsgroups: alt.president.clinton,alt.politics.perot,talk.politics.misc
Subject: Deficit Reduction Priority for Clinton
Date: 8 Nov 92 18:44:55 GMT
Organization: Harris Computer Systems Division

Anyone with any interest in how high a priority deficit reduction will be
for the Clinton administration should have been watching "Capitol Gang" on
Nov. 7th. They had the Clinton communications director George Stephanopolus
(I know, I know, I spelled his name wrong) as the guest, and he
categorically denied that any Perot supporters were interested in deficit
reduction. He says what Perot supporters were really saying was that they
want change and government reform, but deficit reduction was nowhere on
their list of priorities.

On the off chance there are any Perot supporters out there who actually were
(and are) interested in deficit reduction, you might want to write the
Clinton campaign and explain to them that they have gotten a mistaken
impression somewhere...
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Newsgroups: alt.president.clinton,talk.bizarre,alt.rush-limbaugh
From: aburt@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu (Andrew Burt)
Subject: Re: i say kill bush
Organization: University of Denver, Dept. of Math & Comp. Sci.
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 92 15:48:51 GMT

Just a quick note since I'm sure you're all dying of curiosity.

I'm the sys.admin. of Nyx, from where the original posting emanated.
(For those who don't know, Nyx is a free public access system I run
at the U. of Denver, where I'm a prof in the math/cs dept.  Anyone
can gain access, but we highly discourage aliases.  See for yourself,
log in as 'new' to nyx.cs.du.edu/303-871-3324.  I think of Nyx as a
sort of social experiment, to provide network access to those who
can't otherwise obtain it.)  (Oh, and to avoid any "you fascist sys
admin comments", if you read the docs on-line on Nyx about it's history
and philosophy, I hope you'll feel I'm about as far from a fascist as
you'll find.)

Anyway -- without compromising anyone's privacy, I will say that I did
receive a call from a special agent of the Secret Service regarding the
posting.  I provided him with the information the user gave publicly (our
enhanced "finger" type information), and he said they would be paying
him a visit.  I did explain to him how people often lose inhibitions
when posting, that the net was often a pretty loose place, no guarantee it
was really him, etc.  He seemed to agree with this, but said that they
needed to investigate all such threats, etc.

(For my part, I don't know they guy, I think what he said was really
stupid; and I grudgingly acknowledge that there are limits to free speech, and
that this type of language seems more in the "yelling fire in a crowded theater"
category than not.  However (luckily for me I guess) I didn't have anything
but public information to reveal about the poster.)

As for how they found out, I have no idea, but my hunch is someone
on the net sent them a copy (rather than them monitoring everything).

I guess the moral is -- remember that postings are public and subject to
the same laws as what you might shout on a street corner.
-- 

Andrew Burt 		   					  aburt@du.edu

      "And that, my liege, is how we know the Earth to be banana-shaped"
Xref: sparky alt.president.clinton:395 alt.politics.perot:5477 talk.politics.misc:59992
From: wft@soda.berkeley.edu (William F. Tell)
Newsgroups: alt.president.clinton,alt.politics.perot,talk.politics.misc
Subject: Re: A Means To Help Keep Change In Check
Date: 13 Nov 92 21:47:00 GMT
Organization: U.C. Berkeley, CS Undergraduate Association
NNTP-Posting-Host: soda.berkeley.edu


>In article <1992Nov13.032850.28606@adobe.com>
>yost@adobe.com (David Yost) writes:
>
>> It would be a sad state of affairs if many people believed that belonging
>> to an organization whose primary purpose is "preserving the 2nd Amendment
>> of the US Constitution -- the right of citizens to bear arms" is viewed as
>> a form of political protest, especially non-violent protest, no matter how
>> valid that right may be in the Constitution.  There are so many other
>> issues and principles one could found an organization around.
>> 
>>  --dave yost

What???  I can't believe I'm reading such idiocy.  There are "other" issues,
of course, but who are you to say that this is an unimportant one?  The
Constitution clearly states what rights cannot be infringed on by the
government, and this right happens to be one of them.  What organizations
like the NRA fight for is to preserve the rights of law abiding citizens,
and why is that a sad state of affairs?   As the old saying goes, "When
guns are outlawed, only outlaws will have guns."  Do we really want this?

William F. Tell
UC Berkeley
Newsgroups: alt.wais
From: ann@euclid.JPL.NASA.GOV (Ann Farny)
Subject: Trouble with WAISSERVER on Sun Sparc
Reply-To: ann@euclid.jpl.nasa.gov
Organization: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, NASA/Caltech
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 17:35:47 GMT

Does anyone have any experience with waisservers that commit suicide
when contacted by remote clients?  I am running wais-8-b5 on a SUN
Sparc.  Local clients have no problem.  Remote clients kill the server.
Is this some kind of internet security type problem?  Or the waisserver
software?

I would appreciate hearing from anyone who has had similar problems.

-- 
ann
From: taylorf@sweetpea.jsc.nasa.gov (Frank S. Taylor IV 283-4278)
Newsgroups: alt.wais
Subject: Growth of WAIS Servers
Date: 11 Nov 92 13:51:07 GMT
Organization: MDSSC

Given the growth rate and current size of WAIS servers, it's becoming
difficult to figure out which servers to select for a search.  Has
anyone thought (or already created) a server which helps a user select
which servers to search?  For example, if I want to know something
about politics, it would be nice if a server would tell me all the
resources which have advertised information on that area.

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Xref: sparky alt.wais:743 comp.infosystems.wais:622
From: trier@slc6.ins.cwru.edu (Stephen C. Trier)
Newsgroups: alt.wais,comp.infosystems.wais
Subject: Re: Growth of WAIS Servers
Followup-To: comp.infosystems.wais
Date: 11 Nov 1992 15:05:15 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
NNTP-Posting-Host: slc6.ins.cwru.edu

In article <1992Nov11.135107.22293@aio.jsc.nasa.gov> taylorf@sweetpea.jsc.nasa.gov (Frank S. Taylor IV 283-4278) writes:
>Has anyone thought (or already created) a server which helps a user select
>which servers to search?

I think that what you are looking for is the "directory of servers" at
Thinking Machines.  It is a source that publishes all known public WAIS
sources, so that you can search it easily to find sources that you need.
For example, I recently searched it for "Request for comments" to see
if any indices, or better yet, full-text archives of the Internet RFC
series were online.

Here's a copy of the directory of servers source.  A copy should have come
with your WAIS client.

Followups to comp.infosystems.wais, please.

(:source 
   :version  3 
   :ip-name "quake.think.com"
   :tcp-port 210
   :database-name "directory-of-servers"
   :cost 0.00 
   :cost-unit :free 
   :maintainer "brewster@think.com"
   :description 
"Server created with WAIS-8 on Fri Mar  8 14:30:57 1991 by
 brewster@think.com
This is a White Pages listing of WAIS servers.  For more information on
WAIS, use the WAIS system on the wais-docs server, or add yourself to the
wais-interest@think.com mailing list, or get the newest software from
think.com:/public/wais.

To server makers: Please make new servers of text, pictures, music
whatever.  We will try to list all servers in the directory that get sent
in to: wais-directory-of-servers@think.com (use the -register option on
the command waisindex), but I reserve the right to take servers out if they
are not consistently available.  I will send notice to the maintainer
before doing so.

Bugs and comments to bug-wais@think.com.
 -brewster@think.com

The files of type server used in the index were:
   /proj/wais/wais-sources/directory-of-server.src
   /proj/wais/wais-sources/jargon.src
   /proj/wais/wais-sources/tmc-library.src
"
)

-- 
Stephen Trier                                     
Network Services Engineering, IRIS/INS/Telecom    
Case Western Reserve University                   
trier@ins.cwru.edu
Newsgroups: alt.wais
From: whenry@leland.Stanford.EDU (homo obsolescensis)
Subject: Need help building WAIS on an RS6000
Organization: Stanford University Libraries
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 92 00:49:07 GMT


I am trying to build wais-8-b5 on an IBM Risc System/6000 running AIX
Version 3 and am obviously doing something wrong as I'm getting
several pages of errors from the compiler.  If someone who has already
done this could give me some hints as to what I need to do, I'd be
endlessly grateful.  Im not a C programmer but had no trouble building
the program on a Sun; I'm probably doing something painfully stupid
here.

In the Makefile I set the variable TOP to point to the directory that
the Makefile is in, and, as indicated in the comments, changed CC=cc to
CC=c89, than ran make. (for a sample of the errors, please see below)

Are there some other changes I need to make?
Many thanks,
Walter Henry
Conservation Lab
Stanford Univ Libraries


ps.: Just to give the flavor of the thing, here are the first few errors:

    c89 -o config config.c
      ./config >config.h
      cd lib; make -k  CC=c89 "CFLAGS=-g -I/ir -DSECURE_SERVER
-DRELEVANCE
_FEEDBACK -DUSG" TOP=
      c89 -g -I/ir -DSECURE_SERVER -DRELEVANCE_FEEDBACK -DUSG -c
alphasort
.c
       18 |     return strcmp(d1[0]->d_name, d2[0]->d_name);
            ..................a..............b..............
a - 1506-122: (S) Expecting pointer to struct/union.
b - 1506-122: (S) Expecting pointer to struct/union.
make: 1254-004 The error code from the last command is 1.
      c89 -g -I/ir -DSECURE_SERVER -DRELEVANCE_FEEDBACK -DUSG -c
freedir.c
      c89 -g -I/ir -DSECURE_SERVER -DRELEVANCE_FEEDBACK -DUSG -c ftw.c
      28 |     register DIR         *dirp;
            .........................a.....
a - 1506-046: (S) Syntax error.
       30 |     struct stat           stats;
            ...........a....................
a - 1506-007: (S) Struct/union is undefined.
       41 |     if ((stats.st_mode & S_IFMT) != S_IFDIR)
            .........................a..........b.......
a - 1506-045: (S) Undeclared variable.
b - 1506-045: (S) Undeclared variable.
       46 |     dirp = opendir(directory);
            ....a.........................
a - 1506-045: (S) Undeclared variable.
       70 |     while (entp = readdir(dirp))
            ................a...............
a - 1506-068: (S) Illegal operation between types  POINTER  and PLAIN
INTEGE
From: sed@oclc.org (Steve Driscoll)
Subject: Help with PCWAIS
Organization: OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc.
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL3
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 13:48:51 GMT

I've installed PCWAIS on my machine and I can get it to connect with a server
and start a search, but nothing happens (I've waited 15 minutes for a response).
My setup is a 486 Wyse with DOS 5.0 and Windows 3.1.  I'm hoping that I've 
just overlooked something obvious.  I have edited the configuration file, and
I've tried the IP address of several of our routers for the Gateway ( one at
a time of course :-).  Any ideas out there?  Thanks in advance for any help.
 
Newsgroups: alt.wais,comp.infosystems.wais
From: peterson@choctaw.csc.ti.com (Bob Peterson)
Subject: Re: MIME
Followup-To: comp.infosystems.wais
Reply-To: peterson@csc.ti.com
Organization: Texas Instruments Computer Science Lab
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 21:19:17 GMT

In article <1doj1jINN4g4@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu>, ci229@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Andrew Miller) writes:
|> 
|> I have recently set up the WAIS client on my PC.  Is there any MIME software
|> available for the PC?  If not, what systems is it available for?
|> 
|>                               -Andrew

  I have an MS-DOS executable named metamail.exe.  An archie search for
metamail.exe turns up the following archive sites.

Host ftp.uu.net

    Location: /networking/mail/metamail/dos
           FILE -rw-r--r--      40042  May 21 11:25  metamail.exe.uu.Z
           FILE -rw-r--r--      30045  May  4 00:00  metamail.exe.Z
Host world.std.com

    Location: /src/mail/metamail/contrib/dos
           FILE -rw-r--r--      43638  Apr 27 17:51  metamail.exe

  I scanned the file for some indication of its origin, but I didn't
find anything.  The strings seem very similar to those in the Unix
executable.

    Bob

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From: majidi@rwja.umdnj.edu (Masoud Majidi)
Newsgroups: alt.wais
Subject: choosing servers, specifying keywords
Date: 9 Nov 92 20:54:33 GMT
Organization: Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Piscataway NJ

dear netters,

I am learning to use wais to get to the wealth of information that is on 
Ineternet. I have 2 basic questions in using wais. Please post to this 
newsgroup or reply to me if you have answer to either of these questions.

1) How do you decide which server to choose for search? There are probably
over 300 servers and more often than not the name of the serve is not of
much help in finding out about the information that is provided by a server.

2) Is there any way to bypass the stage where one has to specify keywords?
In particular there is a wais server called cacm.src which has most/all of
the ACM articles over the recent years and I would very much like to browse
through these articles from time to time. But right now the only way I can
get to those articles is by specifying some keywords. I thought of using
general enough keywords so that I will get lots of answers but this would
be wasting resources and I was wondering if there were a better solution.


Thanks for taking the time to reply,

Masoud Majidi (majidi@umdnj.edu)
From: ci229@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Andrew Miller)
Newsgroups: alt.wais
Subject: MIME
Date: 10 Nov 1992 15:04:19 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio (USA)
NNTP-Posting-Host: hela.ins.cwru.edu


I have recently set up the WAIS client on my PC.  Is there any MIME software
available for the PC?  If not, what systems is it available for?

                              -Andrew
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From: shiao@ans.net (Dennis Shiao)
Subject: Re: Need help building WAIS on an RS6000
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 16:06:10 GMT
	<BREWSTER.92Nov9215522@quake.think.com>
Organization: Advanced Network & Services, Inc. - Elmsford, NY


In article <BREWSTER.92Nov9215522@quake.think.com> brewster@quake.think.com (Brewster Kahle) writes:

>>   I am trying to build wais-8-b5 on an IBM Risc System/6000 running AIX
>>
>ANS has been distributing a port of WAIS.  here is an announcement:
>...
> RS6000 port:	/pub/misc/wais-8-b3-dist.tar.Z@ftp.ans.net

ftp.ans.net has the "b3" distribution ported to AIX 3.1.5, and a set of
diff's for "b4" (taken off alt.wais/comp.infosystems.wais). I'm not sure
if anyone has posted diff's for "b5". We're still behind :-(

-Dennis.
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Xref: sparky alt.wais:735 comp.infosystems.wais:610
From: jik@athena.mit.edu (Jonathan I. Kamens)
Newsgroups: alt.wais,comp.infosystems.wais
Subject: Re: Trouble with WAISSERVER on Sun Sparc
Followup-To: comp.infosystems.wais
Date: 8 Nov 1992 18:36:31 GMT
Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: pit-manager.mit.edu

(Note the cross-post and Followup-To.  Now that comp.infosystems.wais exists,
there is no reason to be using alt.wais.)

You need this patch, or one like it:

*** 1.1	1992/07/28 18:07:51
--- sockets.c	1992/07/28 18:11:11
***************
*** 192,198 ****
  
      waislog(WLOG_MEDIUM, WLOG_CONNECT,
  	    "Accepted connection from: %s [%s]",
! 	    peer->h_name,
  #if defined(sparc) && defined(__GNUC__)
  	    inet_ntoa(&source.sin_addr)
  #else
--- 195,201 ----
  
      waislog(WLOG_MEDIUM, WLOG_CONNECT,
  	    "Accepted connection from: %s [%s]",
! 	    peer ? peer->h_name : "?",
  #if defined(sparc) && defined(__GNUC__)
  	    inet_ntoa(&source.sin_addr)
  #else

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Jonathan Kamens                                         jik@MIT.Edu
MIT Information Systems/Athena              Moderator, news.answers
From: Tarzan
Newsgroups: alt.dreams
Subject: Dream Light
Date: 5 Nov 92 17:58:09 GMT
Organization: Bell-Northern Research

I found in alt. Consciousness  more info. on the Dream Light.  The cost was
listed at around $999.  Has anyone out there used one before?  And if so what
kind of successes have you had?  I know about 2 weeks ago a lot of this came
out but there were supposedly some people on the net who have them who haven't
posted.  Please post.         Thanks,    Tarzan 
Newsgroups: alt.dreams