HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: pflynn@ccvax.ucd.ie (Peter Flynn)
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
Subject: Help needed to get nntpd running
Date: 15 Dec 92 14:35:19 GMT
Organization: University College Dublin

I am trying to bring up news on my SparcStation IPX. I'm using nntp.1.5.11
and have made only trivial changes to conf.h (define CNEWS and BATCHED_INPUT,
define LOG, domain="ucc.ie" and undef AUTH). Make client and server, then
install_client and install_server went fine, got an active file, a sys file
with the gunk commented out (only a ME line), and an nntp_access file. All
software and directories (/usr/local/lib/news/..., /var/spool/news/..., the
nntpd executable and /info/nntpd-1.5.11/...) all owned by 'usenet' and with
ug+rw set. Used vipw to change userid 'news' to 'usenet'. Checked /tmp has
g+s and o+t. Inserted nntp stream tcp nowait root /etc/nntpd nntpd into
/etc/inetd.conf and -HUP'd inetd. Test by using telnet curia 119, says 
posting OK, try 'post' and it gives me 'Cannot create temporary file' and
then spews out a portion of the line from /etc/passwd referring to 'usenet'.

Help :-)

///Peter
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
From: cslee@pds.nchu.edu.tw (Lee Chee Siong)
Subject: Wanted: List of description of all news group
Organization: NCHU Computer Center
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 11:16:12 GMT

Hi,
   I have a project to make a classification of all newsgroup. Is there any
comment or description of all the newsgroup that I can Anonymous ftp?
   Any reply is appreciate.


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From: prs9k@brain.med.virginia.edu (Phil Scarr)
Subject: Killing by From line rather than Subject
Followup-To: poster
Organization: Neuroclinical Trials Center, University of Virginia
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 23:29:46 GMT

The subject line says it all.  I am using trn and would like to be able
to kill everything from a particular person.  Please reply by email.
Thanks!

	-Phil
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From: ericadib@wam.umd.edu (Erica M. Dibietz)
Subject: how to get headers in rn?
Keywords: headers, newsgroups,rn
Organization: University of Maryland, College Park
Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1992 15:04:28 GMT

How can I get a listing of headers in rn (like using h in mail)
so I do not have to go thru article by article?
Thank you.
Erica
ericadib@wam.umd.edu
From: foxy@ac.dal.ca
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
Subject: HELP! Tell me about the Sierra Network
Date: 12 Dec 92 11:54:48 -0400
Organization: Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

I just received the Sierra Network software in the recent
issue of Online Access but their number 1-800-Sierra1
isn't available to me cause I live in Canada.  How can
I reach them to get a trail membership number??
Can anyone give me some reviews of it?
What about Canadian access, all I see are U.S. numbers to dial.
Any help/advice via email or post would be greatly appreciated!!
Thanx in advance.

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From: probreak@matt.ksu.ksu.edu (James Michael Chacon)
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
Subject: Re: Anonymous Posts?
Date: 16 Dec 1992 05:34:54 -0600
Organization: Kansas State University
NNTP-Posting-Host: matt.ksu.ksu.edu

ksdavis@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Karleen S. Davis) writes:

>In response to those asking how to post anonymously; while it may be
>possible to post anonymously by fiddling with your headers, it's
>generally considered unethical.  There are many anonymous posting
>services out there, if you really need to post something you're
>ashamed to sign your name to.

>Send mail to help@anon.penet.fi to find out more about one of them.

>-sz

If you need to just post anonymously doing it through sites like that should
be no problem. If what you are looking for is a way to make it so no one
can trace where it came from, then you need to do just a little reading like
most of us did.

James
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
From: erodrigu@dcc.uchile.cl (Eduardo Rodriguez)
Subject: Re: how to change the editor of rn
Originator: erodrigu@tolten
Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1992 14:36:14 GMT
Organization: Universidad de Chile, Depto. de Ciencias de la Computacion


In article <1gc93cINNstn@gaia.ucs.orst.edu>, wenz@ucs.orst.edu (Wen Zongyao) writes:
> Is there a way I can change rn editor from vi to pico?
> 

Yes, change any of the following environment variable, as the man pages says:

     EDITOR (~)
             The name of your editor, if VISUAL is undefined.

             Default: whatever your news  administrator  compiled
             in, usually vi.

     VISUAL (~)
             The name of your editor.

             Default: $EDITOR

edo...

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From: y41@aix320a.urz.uni-heidelberg.de (Jeffrey Hazelwood)
Subject: Anonymous Posts?
Organization: University of Heidelberg, Germany
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 92 13:09:51 GMT

I would like the capability to post anonymously.  I know it's done.  I'm
using XRN version 6.17 (no manual).  Can I just change the FROM environment
variable? or does it envolve a more complex approach?  Please respond to 
me directly. Thanx.

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From: mikey@calmasd.Prime.COM (Mike Martinez)
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
Subject: How do I uuencode a .GIF file ?
Keywords: syntax
Date: 11 Dec 92 00:06:15 GMT
Organization: Computervision, San Diego, CA


	Hi..

How do I uuencode a .GIF file...

I tried uuendode infile outfile

but I never get an out file ??

thanks in advance for any help!!!!

Mike

Mikey@calmasd.prime.com
or mikey@calma1.prime.com

Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
From: prs9k@brain.med.virginia.edu (Phil Scarr)
Subject: Re: Reasons for Anonymous posts
Organization: Neuroclinical Trials Center, University of Virginia
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 17:26:04 GMT

In article <1992Dec16.143251.18785@sun0.urz.uni-heidelberg.de> y41@aix320d.urz.uni-heidelberg.de (Jeffrey Hazelwood) writes:
>1) After posting a controversial post in the past, I received (somehow) a
>huge 8 megabyte "shit" file from some annoyed person. It screwed up my mail
>box.

You were mail-bombed by some childish hacker.  It happens.  NBD (No Big
Deal).

>
>2) Allows another person access to your account without using your name.
>I know you can write "posted for friend" but....mostly not believed. Don't 
>need unwanted flames.

If you can't handle the flames, then stay out of Usenet.

>
>3) Allows discussion of controversial subjects without turning them into
>a personal flame war.

See 2 above.

>
>4) Personal posts, etc.

What ABOUT personal posts?  Why do you need anonymity?

>
>5) privacy.

These are public forums.  If you want privacy, disconnect yourself from
the net.

> 
>
> 
>
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>Jeffrey T. Hazelwood                    Universitt Heidelberg
>EMAIL: y41@ix.urz.uni-heidelberg.de       Heidelberg, Germany 

	-Phil
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Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
From: Nico Tranquilli <ntranqu@caticsuf.cati.csufresno.edu>
Subject: Re: How do I get direct access to Internet?
X-Xxmessage-Id: <A754E60A23010B1C@mac3.di.unipi.it>
X-Xxdate: Wed, 16 Dec 92 12: 56:26 GMT
Organization: Computer Science Department, Pisa University
X-Useragent: Nuntius v1.1.1d9
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 12:55:50 GMT

In article <1992Dec14.030133.25978@samba.oit.unc.edu> Mike Oniffrey,
Mike.Oniffrey@launchpad.unc.edu writes:
>In your post, you mentioned that at your former school, only COMPUTER
>SCIENCE majors were allowed Internet access - that's a rather stupid
>policy on the surface...maybe there existed conditions with which I am
not
>familiar which force your school to ration InterNet access.  If that was
>or is the case, it is very unfortunate.  The InterNet and the UseNet are
>what they are by virture of the great variety of people that plug in and
>contribute.  Now, I have no quarrel with comp.sci majors, but if only
>comp.sci majors the world over were allowed access to these
aforementioned
>networks, that wouldn't make for a very interesting exchange of ideas,
>would it?
>
>Hey, don't get me wrong; I'm not ragging on you.  Your school's
>administration needs to wake up, however.  Good luck on on finding a
>InterNet hookup.
>
>Onif

Alot school's administrations needs to wake up. I'm a student in
Computer Science at the Pisa University and like 90 % of students 
I don't "deserve" access to Internet. Only researchers are allowed
Internet Access HERE, even if many machines are connected. 
Futhermore, to have an account on a Unix workstation is something
forbidden for students at the first years (two years I hope).
Lotta resources would be available, but the target of a such foolish
policy is to waste all of them.

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Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
From: rana@rintintin.Colorado.EDU (Nabeel Ahmad Rana)
Subject: Re: Mailing List Creation Tips, Protocols?
Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 00:01:12 GMT

forb0004@student.tc.umn.edu (Eric Forbis ) writes:

>I'm interested in beginning or suggesting the starting a mailing list, but 
>am not familiar with the mechanics of setting one up, nor the services that 
>might be expected by the server. In the simplist case, I could have posts 
>sent to my e-mail address and simply remail them using either Popmail's 
>group function or a large cc: list (I assume). I forsee this option quickly 
>becoming very time- consuming. Do system administrators of University 
>hosts usually object to their systems being used in this manner? I'll ask, 
>of course, but don't want to take advantage of our helpful U staff.

>I've subscribed on several lists that use a listserver, and am very 
>impressed with thier speed and efficiency. Does anyone understand how these 
>work, what is required to set one up?

>I've looked on news.answers and new.lists for a FAQ on this topic, but 
>didn't find anything. Bad timing? Something actually floating around out 
>there in cyberspace?

>Thanks much,
>---------

>Eric Forbis      forb0004@student.tc.umn.edu


I have a similar type of situation. Anybody who knows any answer to 
the above, please send it to me too.

Sincerely,


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From: jshuman@koko.csustan.edu (Jeremy Shuman)
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
Subject: Thanks for the help
Date: 15 Dec 92 17:28:22 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: CSU Stanislaus

Thanks for all the good suggestions about appending a .sig to my posts. It
seems to be working!

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Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
Subject: Re: How do I get direct access to Internet?
From: rharwood@east.pima.edu
Date: 15 Dec 92 18:37:59 MST

In article <1992Dec14.030133.25978@samba.oit.unc.edu>,
Mike.Oniffrey@launchpad.unc.edu (Mike Oniffrey) writes:

> In your post, you mentioned that at your former school, only COMPUTER
> SCIENCE majors were allowed Internet access - that's a rather stupid
> policy on the surface...maybe there existed conditions with which I am not
> familiar which force your school to ration InterNet access.  If that was
> or is the case, it is very unfortunate.  The InterNet and the UseNet are
> what they are by virture of the great variety of people that plug in and
> contribute.  Now, I have no quarrel with comp.sci majors, but if only
> comp.sci majors the world over were allowed access to these aforementioned
> networks, that wouldn't make for a very interesting exchange of ideas,
> would it?

Here at Pima Community College, Internet access is really a by-product of
receiving an account, and accounts are only generated for students whose course
requires access to existing computer resources.  But we have a rather liberal
policy allowing access on a semester-by-semester basis to ANY student who
requests it.  Naturally, if this got to be a LARGE number of students, I'd have
to "make some rules" or something...  Basically, though, the first thing is:
You have to ASK!

Ray
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Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
From: bgitv@termo.unit.no (Bard Grimsmo)
Subject: Re: FAQ sites
Organization: SINTEF, The Norwegian Institute of Technology
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 92 08:12:56 GMT

In article <85215@ut-emx.uucp> kingshu@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (King Cheung SHU) writes:
>#############################################################################
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>
>
I can not see any question, but I will try an answer
"pit-manager.mit.edu" (18.172.1.27) in directory /pub/usenet

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Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
From: spp@buoy.cis.ufl.edu (Stephen P. Potter)
Subject: Re: Questions about rn and access to newsgroups (Re: Reasons for Anonymous posts)
Organization: Univ. of Florida CIS Dept.
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 92 03:53:35 GMT

At least some versions of rn will ask you if you want to start a new topic.
That is one way.  Another way is to simply edit the Subject line, remove all
the References, and away you go.  If I remember correctly from older versions
of rn, after you have read all the posts in the group and it gives the
No more articles message, you can hit f or F and it starts a new chain.

Steve

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From: kingshu@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (King Cheung SHU)
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
Subject: FAQ sites
Date: 12 Dec 92 23:22:56 GMT
Reply-To: kingshu@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (King Cheung SHU)
Organization: The University of Texas at Austin, Austin TX
Originator: kingshu@happy.cc.utexas.edu

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From: scottb@sun1x.actc.res.utc.com (TheLrdLovsAHngn)
Subject: Re: Clinton/Gore Usenet??
Organization: United Technologies Research Center
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 12:04:21 GMT

In answer to your question: Is Clinton/Gore on the Internet?
The answer is yes.  I believe that this address is Bill Clinton's
on Compuserve.  At the very least, it is someone who can make sure
that he gets the mail messages.

75300.3115@compuserve.com

I wonder if we can overflow his mailbox? :)
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From: jaapjl@tab00.larc.nasa.gov (J Lee Jaap)
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
Subject: Re: Reasons for Anonymous posts
Date: 16 Dec 1992 23:21:02 GMT
Organization: AS&M Inc
Reply-To: J Lee Jaap <J.L.Jaap@larc.nasa.gov>
NNTP-Posting-Host: cmb00.larc.nasa.gov
In-reply-to: y41@aix320d.urz.uni-heidelberg.de's message of Wed, 16 Dec 92 14:32:51 GMT

In article <1992Dec16.143251.18785@sun0.urz.uni-heidelberg.de> y41@aix320d.urz.uni-heidelberg.de (Jeffrey Hazelwood) writes:

   4) Personal posts, etc.

I think this ranks up there with military intelligence, et.al.
(I.e., it's an oxymoron. :-)



Posts are not for personal communications.  Use email.  Much cheaper.
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Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
From: gheeong@rhea.trl.OZ.AU (Ghee Ong)
Subject: RE: managing saved articles
Keywords: save,articles,manage
Organization: Telecom Research Labs, Melbourne, Australia
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 22:40:18 GMT

In article 10199@trl.oz.au, gheeong@rhea.trl.OZ.AU (Ghee Ong) writes:
> Hi there,
> 
> I like to hear from anybody how they manage keeping articles they saved.
> I usually save the articles but over time, the files get BIG ! And also, I
> lose track of what's in those files !
> 
> Please email me if possible. I'll summarise if there is interest.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> --
> Ghee Ong (g.ong@trl.oz.au)
I have monitored the net since I posted and have not received/seen any 
'response' (which is ok). Since I am going away for leave, I consider the
matter closed.  Others may feel free to take this up(and email me a summary!).

Regards,
Ghee Ong
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
From: sbpress@engws4 (The Stony Brook Press)
Subject: Is there a bbs on internet that has fidonet or rime ?
Reply-To: sbpress@ic.sunysb.edu
Organization: The State University of New York at Stony Brook
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 19:34:41 GMT

Is there a bbs that's connected to internet via telnet, that offers
fidonet, RIME or any other network confrences?

Thanks
Daniel Glasner

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From: hibrown@sarah.albany.edu (Herb Brown)
Subject: Re: Need help with editing!!!!
Organization: State University of New York at Albany
Date: Sat, 19 Dec 92 19:44:51 GMT

In article <BzIs68.KM1@ulowell.ulowell.edu> gvahe@cs.ulowell.edu (Gerry Vahe) writes:
>Can someone out there help me with a few basic ediing keys in the unix
>VI editor?  I can seem to find all of the editing functions anywhere in this school.  I was hoping they had a packet on unix, but they are out of them.
>
>I want to know more commands in the editor like"esc shift zz" to exit and save
>
>And I always have trouble with deleting after I use escape and then Type i angain.  If anyone could send me a list of important commands, it would be muchly appreciated.  Thanks
>-gerry
>


Type

  man vi    <RETURN>


If there is no manual for vi, speak to your system administrator and
ask that one be added. There are toooooo many vi commands to begin to
list here.

Herb


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