HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: kent@sparky.imd.sterling.com (Kent Landfield)
Subject: Re: rkive
Organization: Sterling Software
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1992 16:31:44 GMT
X-Md4-Signature: 890f375c2e24209097f3c7b4b27cbfa7

In article <1992Sep27.135956.5819@vlsi.polymtl.ca> hans@vlsi.polymtl.ca (Hans Deragon (Hiv91)) writes:
>Hello everyone.
>
>I have installed rkive in my account.  I am no root and therefor, do not
>know much about our system configuration here at school.  From my machine,
>I do not have access to the directories where the nntp files are stored.
>Rkive must then work with the nntp server.  My problem is that by default,
>rkive ask for the directories of nntp files.  In the man pages of rkive
>only the following information is given on how to instruct rkive to work
>with the server.
>
>NNTP =         The location of the  NNTP  server  where  the
>               articles are to be archived from. This can be
>               specified globally if all or most  newsgroups
>               are archived from a single NNTP server.
>
>Now, I have configured NNTP like so
>
> NNTP=132.207.8.48
> and
> NNTP=froh.vlsi.polymtl.ca
>
>What I got is the following message:
>
>NNTP=froh.vlsi.polymtl.ca invalid global assignment, ignoring.
>
>If someone has some experience with rkive and knows the answer, please
>respond.

It appears that you have not defined NNTP in the makefile. You will need to
assure that you bind with clientlib sources from the NNTP server source tree.
Without the NNTP define the Global NNTP variable is an invalid global
assignment.  If you need the sources for clientlib, they are available via
ftp from bcm.tmc.edu [128.249.2.1] 

			-Kent+
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From: am158fat@sdcc15.ucsd.edu (Stephen Gaudio)
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
Subject: Re: mail between Internet and Prodigy
Date: 26 Sep 92 23:40:21 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: University of California, San Diego

In article <1992Sep26.225853.3376@cis.ohio-state.edu> fullerto@mostaccioli.cis.ohio-state.edu (timothy dwight fullerton) writes:
>
>	The topic is pretty self explanatory. Is it possible to mail from
>Internet to Prodigy and vice versa. If so, how?
>
>		Tim.

apparently, prodigy, being pretty much a commercial bulletin board,
is independent of the Internet, so I hear from my postmaster :(
i've written to prodigy (from prodigy) and have yet to receive any
response. double :(
does anyone know otherwise? (pleeeeease!)


-Steve.
From: markb@spock.dis.cccd.edu (Mark Bixby)
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
Subject: Re: Where are the far east subscribers?
Date: 28 Sep 92 23:26:35 GMT
Organization: Coast Community College District, Costa Mesa, CA

Asian netters both read and post.  Just last week I was helping someone in
Hong Kong with an X-windows performance problem.
-- 
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Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions,news.software.readers
From: sridhar@enuxhb.eas.asu.edu (Sridhar Venkataraman)
Subject: Re: How to kill an article?
Followup-To: news.software.readers
Organization: Arizona State University, Tempe AZ
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1992 18:18:22 GMT

[Crossposted to news.software.readers]
[Followups to news.software.readers]

jeffs@almaden.ibm.com (Jeff Schneiter)
writes on news.newusers.questions:

)I need to cancel an article that I posted yesterday.
)I found the article number, then tried to use 'C', but
)it said that I can not cancel someone else's article.
)
)Could it be because I am on an X-station, while it posts
)from the server? Or that my mail address is jeffs@almaden...
)while the server is jeffs@psycho.almaden... and my X-station
)is jeffs@ministry.almaden...???

Is there a general solution to the above problem? With the advent of 
email forwarding service more and more people are configuring
the From line to reflect it. And as a result the cancel command barfs.

Thanks.

Sridhar.
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
From: dougnews@access.digex.com (Doug Humphrey)
Subject: Re: thanks...my next question is...
Organization: Express Access Online Communications, Greenbelt, Maryland USA
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1992 22:09:57 GMT

In article <332@ulogic.UUCP> hartman@ulogic.UUCP (Richard M. Hartman) writes:
>If your company provides anonymous accounts then I presume that
>the client's name is not part of the account name nor included
>in the part of the /etc/passwd file that is usually filled in
>with the real name (and why my name appears in the header for
>this article). 

This is correct.

>If you don't make the person's real name available to the OS
>then nobody will know it unless they actually sign their article
>w/ their real name.

This is the intent.

>There should NOT be, however, any reason for us to not know
>their account name (thx1138@access.digex.com) in order to
>properly respond to what they say

I agree.  You can always see the From: username - the point is
that it does not (unless the customer wants it to) have anything
to do with their real name.

>-- anonymous posting as
>you have outlined is essentially a one-way wall behind which
>people can take potshots at whatever strikes their fancy
>w/o having to listen to any responses.

Obviously my original explaination was unclear.  I will
attempt to clarify.  We set up the account on a standard
Sun Microsystems server, running SunOS with all of the usual 
mail and news goodies.  You chose your username, and whatever
the contents of the "real name" field are.  You control the
horizontal and the vertical.  

>If you are truly worried you could establish an anonymous
>posting service on your own machine -- people would mail
>you the article they want posted and the newsgroup they
>want to post it to and YOU would post it for them.  Similar
>services are already offered for specific groups.  HOWEVER
>a "responsible" implementation of such a service would provide
>a mechanism by which responses would be redirected back to
>the original article submitter.  As I mentioned in the
>previous paragraph this can be accomplished much more simply
>and w/ less work to you if you simply select non-significant
>account names & leave personal information out of the account
>entry.
 
Again, on our system, you chose the username and the realname.
Simplicity, in this case, is the most reliable way to safeguard
your identity.

Doug Humphrey
doug@digex.com


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Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
From: Yong.Kim%bbs@unixland.natick.ma.us (Yong Kim)
Date: Tue, 06 Oct 92 11:32:08 EDT
Organization: Unixland Public Access Unix  (508) 655-3848
Subject: File Descriptions
Distribution: world
Reply-To: Yong.Kim%bbs@unixland.natick.ma.us (Yong Kim)
X-Posting-Software: UnixBBS 1.03 S/N 011921

Do you have a text file with descriptions of the files in the system ?

Yong
Organization: University of Illinois at Chicago
Date: Monday, 28 Sep 1992 15:40:51 CDT
From: <U58855@uicvm.uic.edu>
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
Subject:    thanks...my next question is...

I'd like to thank everyone who responded to my question, "what does it mean?",
both posted and private, regarding articles that "cannot be displayed."

Now I have another question that I haven't seen addressed in this group (or in
fact, any other) - is there a way to post anonymously, without your user id
number appearing in the post?

Again, thanks all!
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
From: sousa_dab@ccsua.ctstateu.edu
Subject: choosing topics in news...
Organization: Yale University, Department of Computer Science, New Haven, CT
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1992 23:59:47 GMT

To whom it may concern (or alternately, to whomever can help me...)


	I am a relatively new (read clueless) user, and I cannot for the life
of me figure out what I'm doing wrong.

	I have edited my topic file the way my co-worker showed me, but the
news reader seems to ignore it, and makes me look at EVERY topic.

	HELP!!!

	David B. Sousa
	SOUSA_DAB@CCSU.CTSTATEU.EDU

Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
From: eva@puhep1.princeton.edu (Eva Zeisky)
Subject: How do I uncompress a .zip file?
Organization: Physics Dept., Princeton University
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1992 14:07:25 GMT


I ftp'd a couple of files from somewhere but they're .zip files. 
 How do I uncompress them on my Unix machine?

Thanks.

-- 

========================       
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esz@pupgg.princeton.edu    
========================     

Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
From: J024330@LMSC5.IS.LMSC.LOCKHEED.COM
Subject: Cancelling a post
Organization: Lockheed Missiles & Space Company, Inc.
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 92 01:34:27 GMT

I need to cancel a post that's already gotten onto usenet.  I'm running from
a CMS terminal which is very cumbersome at best.  Any suggestions.  Is there
a way to find out which machine is host for the discussion group and contact
the root to erase it?

Chris

Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
From: thobgoo@opie.bgsu.edu
Subject: De-BINHEXing on Mac/the .cpt extension
Organization: Bowling Green State University
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1992 23:19:54 GMT

Many apologies for what is probably a dumb question.
Perhaps this isn't even the correct place for this...

I am trying to de-BINHEX something for the first
time. I downloaded a Mac file, and when I run it through
BinHex v.5, I get an output file with a .cpt extension.

What is this .cpt extension, and how can I translate it
into an executable program?

If it helps at all, I am running a Mac IIsi under sys7.

Thanks,
     thobgoo@opie.bgsu.edu

Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
From: news@geovision.gvc.com (News Administrator)
Subject: Re: Posting on USENET may take a few days...
Reply-To: pt@geovision.gvc.com
Organization: Not officially GeoVision Systems Inc., Ottawa, Ontario
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1992 02:08:09 GMT

c.CRepin@ic.ac.UK (Olivier M.J. Crepin-Leblond, Olivier M.J. Crepin-Leblond) writes:

>In a recent post, you enquire about the time an article takes to get posted.
Well, not really - more like "somebody, whose post I didn't do a proper
``followup-to'', enquired about..."

>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

Most of this explanation is wrong.  Our site is about five or ten hops away
from a well connected site like uunet or the internet.  However, I see
postings from people in Australia and Europe the same day they are posted.
Where you are in the hierarchy makes little difference.  What does make a
difference is:
	how often you exchange news with your upstream sites
	how often they exchange news with their upstream sites
	how often you run various programs (typically uupoll to talk to your
	feeds, uuxqt to get batches from your /usr/spool/uucp to
	/usr/spool/news/in.coming, newsrun to get them from there into the news
	directories, and nnmaster so that the nn newsreader knows about them.)

Our site polls our feed about 6 times a day, and runs the other
programs hourly or more often.  Because of this, I've seen responses to
my postings from across the globe in the same day.  (Mind you, I'm a
news junky who reads news over the course of 14 hours in a typical day)

So in summary, if you're not seeing news for days, don't blame where you
are, blame how your site is run.

-- 
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 wish the Meach would make me do it"
From: ricky@mindvox.phantom.com (Richard Velez)
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
Subject: InterNet Information (Books)
Date: 30 Sep 92 21:33:23 GMT
Organization: [Phantom Access] / the MindVox system

Hello, I'm pretty new to the InterNet and UseNet Newsgroup, anyway I will
like to know if there are any Books, basic on the InterNet, and if any a
magazine thats all about Internet, also a or a few mailing list that
carrys info on Internet, Thanks...



===============================================================
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 South Bronx, Homeboy!               Richard Velez - 1:278/712
 Born and Raise in New York City     Ricky@MindVox.Phantom.Com
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Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
From: bryan@uhura1.uucp (Bryan Curnutt)
Subject: Re: ftpmail@decwrl.dec.com
Reply-To: bryan%uhura1@uunet.uu.net
Organization: Stoner Associates, Inc./DREM Incorporated, Houston Texas
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1992 06:26:51 GMT

In article <1992Sep29.191902.6698@rtsg.mot.com> king@rtsg.mot.com writes:
>
>I'd suggest ignoring btoa/atob altogether.  Just re-request the file
>you want in uuencode format.

If you pay for connection time, and you're going to be using ftpmail
regularly, I'd suggest using btoa.  Files encoded using btoa are
significantly smaller than uuencoded files.

Assuming you're using a UNIX system, a usable form of btoa may be
obtained from wuarchive.wustl.edu as
usenet/comp.sources.unix/volume18/btoa.Z

Be sure to specify "uuencode" in your ftpmail request. :-)
-- 
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Bryan Curnutt
bryan%uhura1@uunet.uu.net
From: christian.laferriere@synapse.isis.org (Christian Laferriere)
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
Subject: SOMEONE IN AUSTRALIA
Date: 18 Sep 92 21:57:00 GMT
Reply-To: christian.laferriere@synapse.isis.org (Christian Laferriere)
Organization: SYNAPSE BBS - GATINEAU, QUEBEC - 819-561-4321

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 would also be interrested in information on regular BBS's
         that carry nets such as Fido, ILink, IntelecNet etc.
         If anyone out there can answer these questions, I would
         appreciate a note.
         Later.


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Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
From: jaapjl@tab00.larc.nasa.gov (J Lee Jaap)
Subject: Re: Help needed with mirrors
Reply-To: J Lee Jaap <J.L.Jaap@larc.nasa.gov>
Organization: AS&M Inc
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1992 19:24:44 GMT

In article <2096.924.uupcb@spacebbs.com> ted.jensen@spacebbs.com (Ted Jensen)  writes:
   I frequently see a message from Timo Salmi in this newsgroup
   describing a file of frequently asked questions named
   TSFAQ30.ZIP.  It usually ends with:

   > "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......"

   I am working with a MS-DOS PC Clone and I do not have direct
   access to the Internet, which I understand is required to FTP
   something. I have successfully had things "sent" to me by
   "requesting" them via E-Mail (some form of automated system I
   don't fully understand yet), but have been unable to do anything
   with the Garbo Mirror on wuarchive.wustl.edu.  In fact, what I
   usually get when attempting to send mail requestiong an archive
   from there is something indicating that the addressee cannot be
   found.  For example, I sent:

Not all FTP sites have mail-servers, and those that do don't always
have the same name.  Send email to postmaster@<site> for info on
a site you can't find info about otherwise (say, by watching
news.answers for a month for a relevant-sounding article).
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    employed by, not speaking for, AS&M Inc, at
         NASA LaRC, Hampton VA 23681-0001
From: slgmj@cc.usu.edu
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
Subject: How do I access a certain newsgroup?
Date: 30 Sep 92 12:17:04 MDT
Organization: Utah State University

Help.   I'm a new user and new to the state. (Utah) When I first entered NEWS,
I recieved a tremendous list of Newsgroups. When it finished scrolling, my list
of newsgroups to choose from had narrowed to about 10.  I was wondering how I
go about accessing a newsgroup?  (Specifically "Alt.bbs.lists")
 
						Rick Mowery
						slgmj@cc.usu.edu
From: harris@currituck.cs.unc.edu (Trey Harris)
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
Subject: Re: 2 questions
Date: 4 Oct 92 21:04:05 GMT
Organization: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Ask your system administrator how to ftp.  The most common way to ftp
to site.anywhere.edu would be to type this at your prompt:

ftp site.anywhere.edu

then when it asks for your login or userid, type "anonymous".  When it
asks for your password, type your email address.

FAQs can be found in the newsgroup news.answers. In the course of a month or
two, every FAQ should come across this group.

Trey Harris
--Stranger in a Strange Thread!
From: harris@morisot.cs.unc.edu (Trey Harris)
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
Subject: Re: Cancelling a post
Date: 6 Oct 92 03:10:51 GMT
Organization: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

In article <92279.66703.J024330@LMSC5.IS.LMSC.LOCKHEED.COM> J024330@LMSC5.IS.LMSC.LOCKHEED.COM writes:
>I need to cancel a post that's already gotten onto usenet.  I'm running from
>a CMS terminal which is very cumbersome at best.  Any suggestions.  Is there
>a way to find out which machine is host for the discussion group and contact
>the root to erase it?

I think you may be a bit unclear about the mechanics of USENET.  First
off, the terminal you are using should have little to do with how you
go about cancleing an article.  Check the documentation, or ask your
system administrator, for details.  Viewing your article and pressing
the 'c' key (or the 'C' key, it varies) tends to be a common way to do
this.

Secondly, there is no such thing as a "host for the discussion group."
A newsgroup (not a "discussion group") does not reside at any one
machine (even though if it is a moderated newsgroup, all posts may
need to go through one machine) but rather is "distributed," that is,
each site has a copy of each post you can see.  Therefore, to cancel a
post, you must send out a cancellation, which will propogate to the
rest of the machines in the world.  Again, your newsreader should do
this when you press the 'c' or 'C' key.

Realize that when you cancel a post, there is a "window" during which
people may view, save, repost or follow-up your post.  Cancelling your
article will NOT cancel articles which follow-up from it.

Trey Harris
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Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
From: usenet@menudo.uh.edu (USENET News System)
Subject: Re: Computer book advice wanted...
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    
Organization: University of Houston
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1992 18:25:00 GMT

This article was probably generated by a buggy news reader.
From: jwinkelman@vmsa.oac.uci.edu
Subject: Astronomy newsgroup?
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
Organization: University of California, Irvine
Date: 29 Sep 92 18:28:36 GMT

Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
From: sjsobol@wariat.org (Steven J. Sobol)
Subject: Re: 3 questions.
Organization: The Tiny Software Co., via APK Public Access Unix, Cleveland
Distribution: usa
Date: Sun, 27 Sep 1992 20:20:37 GMT

sgaudio@sdcc13.ucsd.edu (Precision Human) writes:

>2) what is Freenet?

Freenet is actually the name of a number of publicly accessible, free-of-
charge community computer systems. They are all based on the original one
in Cleveland, which is also the home of the National Public Telecomputing
Network (NPTN), which was formed for the same reason the Cleveland Freenet
was formed- to make computers more accessible to the general community.



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From: schuette@quip.eecs.umich.edu (R. Wade Schuette)
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
Subject: Where are the far east subscribers?
Date: 28 Sep 92 18:22:49 GMT
Organization: University of Michigan EECS Dept., Ann Arbor, MI

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?

Wade

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From: lwestman@wrdis01.af.mil (Leslie Westman)
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
Subject: Re: uuencode help
Keywords: uuencode mail
Date: 5 Oct 92 16:57:17 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: 1926CCSG Robins AFB

In article <1992Oct1.150940.2775@yenta.alb.nm.us> ben@yenta.alb.nm.us (Ben Klausner) writes:
>I want to send someone a binary file via mail, and I know I need to use
>uuencode to do this. The system I am on has a copy of uuencode, but has a
>very poor description in the man section.
>
>Could some kind soul forward me either a more useful description, or better
>yet an usage example or two? Thanks.
>

I can sympathize.  It took me and my sysadmin and an extra guru about three
tries to get this one right.  Those man pages are the pits.  Here's what
worked for us:

uuencode file1 file2 file3

file1 - what you want to encode
file2 - what you want to show up after you encode it
file3 - name you want to show up after your friend uudecodes it
**
example:  you have "myfile.exe" on disk, and you want your friend to end up
with "myfile.exe" on their machine.

uuencode myfile.exe myfile.uue myfile.exe

now you'll have myfile.exe and myfile.uue on disk.  Send myfile.uue to your
friend and after they   uudecode myfile.uue  they'll have myfile.exe on their
machine.

**
Using three different file names:

You have "myfile.exe" on disk, and you want your friend to end up with
"yourfile.exe" on their machine.

uuencode myfile.exe myfile.uue yourfile.exe

Now you'll gavve myfile.exe and myfile.uue on disk.  Send myfile.uue to your
friend, and after they     uudecode myfile.uue   they'll have yourfile.exe on
their machine.

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