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From: Martin.Ehrenstein@comp.vuw.ac.nz (Martin Ehrenstein)
Subject: Re: getting off mailing lists
Organization: Dept. of Comp. Sci., Victoria Uni. of Wellington, New Zealand.
Date: Wed, 8 Apr 1992 05:47:05 GMT



The NZ Direct Marketing Association has a phone number in Auckland:
09-4899329 which I got form Telecom's directory assistance. BTW maybe
Peter as you're up there could you ring them and find out their snail-
mail address, and maybe their 0800 number ;-)

I actually got the name from some junk mail from Time-Life (NZ) Pty Ltd,
Incorporated in Australia [why would that be?!], PO Box 30445, Lower Hutt 6300,
New Zealand, [heard that one before?!] which reminds me that
Time-Life (Germany) kept sending their books to my mum's address
quite a while after she left the country.

Martin E
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Newsgroups: nz.general
Subject: Environmental Test - from KIDSNET
From: rich@tosh.wcc.govt.nz (Richard Naylor )
Date: Sat, 11 Apr 92 22:04:54 GMT
Organization: City Net -  Wellington City Council's Community Computer Network

Date: Thu, 9 Apr 1992 16:56:30 GMT
From: ssc@tenet.EDU (Sandy Cangelosi)
Subject: environment/issues for elem. students

ENVIRONMENTAL LITERACY TEST

Check your knowledge to see how much you know about recycling and
conservation of our environment.  Cedar Creek Elementary in Eanes School
District in Austin has produced an environmental newsletter called Eco
News.  Please answer the following questions and send us your results.
If you get
	8-10 	questions correct, rate yourself as environmentally aware.
	5-7	You need more practice methods of recycling and conservation.
	0-4	Contact your local environmental agency to see what you can
		do to learn facts and methods of conservation and recycling.

1.	Which uses more energy?
	A.	House lights
	B.	Kitchen refrigerator
2.	The typical American home uses ____  gallons of water daily?
	A.	500
        B.	300
3.	One-third of the water used in homes is?
	A.	Flushed down the toilet
	B.	Spun out of the washing machine
4.	____  percent of the pesticides introduced since 1945 have been tested
	for their effects on people.
	A.	10 percent
	B.	30 percent
5.	Each year ____ million acres of tropical rain forests are destroyed
	through burning or logging?
	A.	 10
	B.	 20
6.	Each year ____ million sea birds are killed as a result of eating
	or being strangled by plastic.
	A.	1 million
	B.	59,000
7.	If all the cars on U.S. roads had properly inflated tires it would
	save ____ gallons of gasoline a year?
	A.	2 billion
	B.	4 billion
8.	____ percent of what we throw away at home can be recycled.
	A.	75 percent
	B.	84 percent
9.	Which is a bigger pollution problem?
	A.	paper
	B.	plastic
10.	Every minute of every day Americans dump ____ tons of
	sewage in their water.
	A.	16 tons
	B.	12 tons








Answers:
1.  B		3.  A		5.  A		7.  A		9.  B
2.  B		4.  A		6.  A		8.  B		10. B

Sandy Cangelosi
ssc@tenet.edu
Cedar Creek Elementary   Eanes ISD.
3301 Pinnacle Road
Austin, Texas   78746
Work:  (512)  327-5510

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Newsgroups: nz.general
From: ray@am.dsir.govt.nz (Ray Brownrigg)
Subject: Re: getting off mailing lists
Summary: Here is the (an) address
Keywords: DMA
Organization: DSIR Applied Mathematics, Wellington, NZ
Date: Sat, 11 Apr 92 09:51:14 GMT

In article <1992Mar31.183812.1735@gaya.gp.co.nz> mdh@gaya.gp.co.nz (Martin D. Hunt) writes:
>Does anyone know how to contact the NZ Direct Marketing Association? Or 

Since nobody else seems to have this vital bit of information, here is an
address for DMA. I copied this out a 'Consumer' magazine (I think) many
years ago, but never needed to use it (yet).

		DMA
		PO Box 937
		Auckland

The article essentially said that you could contact DMA and ask to be
removed from all DMA Member mailing lists (and hopefully not be considered
for new ones).

Ray
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Newsgroups: nz.general,wgtn.chat,nz.comp,vuw.general
From: lundman@kauri.vuw.ac.nz (L Lundman)
Subject: Re: modem and software for an Amiga 500
Organization: Disorganised.
Date: Tue, 7 Apr 1992 04:35:56 GMT

Also there are good PD software on the ftphost.vuw.ac.nz archive. The 
most popular of these is JRComm but you have to be a registered user
(some small amount of money) to use it fully(downloads larger then
64kb etc)  Otherwise you have 'ncomm20.lzh' or 'niftyterm1.3.zoo'.  Both
I believe PD.

To get software to your Amiga I usually put the files onto 720kb IBM disks
and read the files with a program on the amiga which read the IBM disk
formats. However it might be easier if you either send the disk to T.Farmer
or simply just give me one the next time you see me.

Kef
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From: andy.linton@comp.vuw.ac.nz (Andy Linton)
Subject: Warning - Mailnames
Organization: Dept of Comp Science, Victoria Uni, Wellington, NEW ZEALAND
Date: Sun, 12 Apr 1992 23:26:30 GMT


I note the following in Network News - the newsletter of the UK Joint Networking
Team who run the UK network, JANET.

> Due to problems with the translation of underscores used in electronic
> mail names at the X.400 gateways, users are strongly advised to stop using
> underscores in their electronic mail names.
>
> James Hutton <J.Hutton@jnt.ac.uk>
> Joint Networking Team

This may explain problems you have had in the past going to UK and other X.400
sites. This is a problem that will increase as (if?) X.400 gains in popularity.
Newsgroups: nz.general
Subject: Re: Fwd'd Re: Job Opportunity
From: geoff@satori.equinox.gen.nz (Geoff McCaughan)
Date: Wed, 08 Apr 92 18:05:36   M
Organization: The Equinox Network CHCH NZ (Node SATORI)

jonhunt@olympus.equinox.gen.nz (Jon Hunt) writes:

> In article <u14NiB3w164w@satori.equinox.gen.nz> geoff@satori.equinox.gen.nz (
> >
> >Try this on for size:
> >
> >White males are strongly encouraged to apply.
> >
> >Doesn't sound so good when you say it like that does it?
> 
> It sounds _bizarre_, given the context and environment in the average
> workplace.

No, what's bizzare is that a company would openly profess a preference
for a worker on the grounds of race/gender. As far as the company and
the workplace are concerned these should be utterly irrelevant.

> Note that encouragement as expressed above does not necessarily entail
> discrimination, 'positive' or otherwise.

Uh-huh. So if I posted a vacancy with the "white males" rider above, you
wouldn't think it was discriminatory either?

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Newsgroups: nz.general,wgtn.chat,nz.comp,vuw.general
Subject: Re: modem and software for an Amiga 500
From: rich@tosh.wcc.govt.nz (Richard Naylor )
Date: Tue, 07 Apr 92 17:11:24 GMT
Organization: City Net -  Wellington City Council's Community Computer Network

17:09:32
 7-Apr-1992
 
andy@comp.vuw.ac.nz (Andy Bond) writes:

> I am trying to find out about using terminal software on an Amiga 500.
> Is there (free?) software available to provide terminal emulation over
> a serial line to some generic 2400 baud modem?  
> 
Andy, If you find a Public Domain version, can you let me know.
I've been thinking we should make available disks with a terminal
emulator set up already for people. I currently have a Kermit
setup that goes just great on MS-Dos, but haven't gone any
further.

rich



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Newsgroups: nz.general
Subject: Access to PeaceNet, Pegasus etc
From: english@lincoln.ac.nz
Date: 9 Apr 92 13:08:31 +1200

hi,
	can anyone tell me how to get access to GEONET, PEACENET, 
GreenNet or Pegasus.

thanx
grant english
english@ono.lincoln.ac.nz
From: henry@waikato.ac.nz
Newsgroups: nz.general
Subject: Re: Fwd'd Re: Job Opportunity
Date: 7 Apr 92 11:53:05 +1200
Organization: University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand

> 
>     What cracked me up about the original post was the phrase "people of
>     color". 

(remember that the person who wrote the ad did it from a north 
american perspective).  the usage "people of color" is pretty common; 
the statement "people of color are encouraged to apply" actively states
what the employer is looking for, whereas "we are an equal opportunity 
employer" (while it satisfies the letter of the law) does not really
convey the same message ... 
  
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From: shedevil@vix.com (Anne P. Mitchell)
Newsgroups: nz.general,nz.wanted,soc.net-people
Subject: Can Someone Help Get A Message to a NZ'er for Me?
Date: 9 Apr 92 23:42:25 GMT
Article-I.D.: decwrl.1992Apr9.234225.27932
Organization: Fathers' Rights & Equality Exchange

Hi...

I inherited a book from my father when he passed away which has a
lovely inscription on the flyleaf...it is inscribed to my father from
someone who apparently knew him and had a friendship with him. 

I would like to get in contact with this fellow...the bottom of the
inscription says:

Hugh Municki (Mernicki?)
40a Walpole
Something I can't make out
Auckland, N.Z.


Can any of you help me?

Thanks!

Annie
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From: jbickers@templar.actrix.gen.nz (John Bickers)
Newsgroups: nz.general
Subject: Re: Fwd'd Re: Job Opportunity
Date: 7 Apr 92 22:45:00 PST
Organization: TAP, NZAmigaUG

Quoted from <1992Apr7.115305.7284@waikato.ac.nz> by henry@waikato.ac.nz:

> >     What cracked me up about the original post was the phrase "people of
> >     color". 
> 
> (remember that the person who wrote the ad did it from a north 
> american perspective).  the usage "people of color" is pretty common; 

    Could be. I thought it was the sort of thing folks said when they were
    talking about natives of someplace, particularly with respect to
    interracial products. Sort of a quaint thing to say in these times.
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Newsgroups: nz.general
From: ange-ftp-lovers-request@comp.vuw.ac.nz
Subject: New mailing list - ange-ftp-lovers
Organization: Dept. of Comp. Sci., Victoria Uni. of Wellington, New Zealand.
X-Mailer: mail-news 3.5
Date: Mon, 6 Apr 1992 23:34:25 GMT

A new mailing list has been created on comp.vuw.ac.nz

This list is about:

Mailing list for discussing Ange-FTP (transparent remote file access by FTP for Emacs)


You can subscribe to this and other comp.vuw.ac.nz lists by sending
the appropriate message to:

	listserv@comp.vuw.ac.nz

An empty message will return a 'help' message.
Newsgroups: fido.nz.all.sysop,demi-monde.all.sysop,nz.general
Subject: NZ BBS List!
From: richard@nacjack.gen.nz (Richard Vowles)
Date: 7 Apr 92 22:12:00 GMT
Organization: Malleus Maleficarum - Nil Mortifi Sine Lucre


I will be uploading to Terry the April issue of the NZ BBS list on Thursday,
as I am waiting to see if any updates come through Usenet. I will
also make sure that I have covered all of the Wellington ones (I have
some updates from Clarion and from Murray.

Nothing from Chch yet. Anyone log into Planet Melmac?

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Newsgroups: nz.general
From: Gavin.Flower@comp.vuw.ac.nz (Gavin Flower)
Subject: The "BOSS" game
Organization: Dept. of Comp. Sci., Victoria Uni. of Wellington, New Zealand.
Keywords: boss vms
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1992 22:41:06 GMT


A while ago I got an email from someone who was interested in tracking who was
using this game.  If you can help, please email: CLOISTER@U.WASHINGTON.EDU

> on a completely unrelated note; i notice that you're from ac.nz.  someone a
> long time ago got from me and a friend of mine a game we wrote called
> "boss".  it's for vms.  i never heard from him again, and i was wondering
> if it ever got installed on your site.  any clues?
>
> jason.  :)


Gavin
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Newsgroups: nz.general
From: clear@cavebbs.gen.nz (Charlie Lear)
Subject: Re: getting off mailing lists
Organization: The Cave MegaBBS, Public Access Usenet, Wellington, NZ
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 92 19:35:30 GMT

In article <1992Apr11.103604.1746@gaya.gp.co.nz> mdh@gaya.gp.co.nz (Martin D. Hunt) writes:
>I also notice that World Record Club is setting up another record club 
>called Music Express. This is one of these outfits where they send you a CD 
>unless you say you don't want it. The postal address and phone number are 
>different, but the street address and fax number are the same. The 
>... Why set up two CD outfits operating from the same place?

Hm... Marketing reasons, mainly.

They have many thousands of people in the WRC and want to introduce a new
service.  By introducing the CD-of-the-month-club they run the risk of 
confusing existing members, and having people stop buying WRC CD's because
they are in the CDOTM club.
 
Solution: Keep the product range simple, avoid a lot of administrative
hassle, and spin off a new name to market the new product.

It also means that if the service bombs, it won't be associated with WRC.

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Newsgroups: nz.general,wgtn.chat,nz.comp,vuw.general
From: andy@comp.vuw.ac.nz (Andy Bond)
Subject: modem and software for an Amiga 500
Organization: Dept. of Comp. Sci., Victoria Uni. of Wellington, New Zealand.
X-Mailer: mail-news 3.5
Date: Tue, 7 Apr 1992 01:43:54 GMT

I am trying to find out about using terminal software on an Amiga 500.
Is there (free?) software available to provide terminal emulation over
a serial line to some generic 2400 baud modem?  

As you may have guessed, I have no clue about Amiga's (and might even
have a hard time recognizing one :-).  I've read a couple of amiga
newsgroups but don't know how I would get ftpable software down onto
the Amiga.  The Amiga is to be used by a local primary school to hook
into CityNet.

Any help you could provide would be greatly appreciated.

andy
Newsgroups: nz.general
From: Gavin.Flower@comp.vuw.ac.nz (Gavin Flower)
Subject: Re:  machine phone calls
Organization: Dept. of Comp. Sci., Victoria Uni. of Wellington, New Zealand.
Date: Sun, 12 Apr 1992 22:24:10 GMT


In article <J6T5iB1w165w@sideways.welly.gen.nz>, Pat Cain <patrick@sideways.welly.gen.nz> writes:
         [...]
|> BTW, More FM have a telephone line for "suggestions", I wonder if
|> they have had many complaints about their dialler.  I reckon that
|> telemarketing by machine will become widespread in NZ within a year.

******What is the number?

Gavin
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Newsgroups: nz.general
Subject: Re: NZ BBS List!
From: daniel@cosc.canterbury.ac.nz (cantva)
Date: 9 Apr 92 20:28:07 +1200
Reply-To: daniel@cosc.canterbury.ac.nz

From an article by richard@nacjack.gen.nz (Richard Vowles):

> Nothing from Chch yet.

Have you heard about 3:770/175, a new SLBBS system run by David Robb?
Can't remember the phone number, but it'll be in the noelist.

I will advise him to pass more complete details on to you if he has not
already done so.

Also, Enterprise has "changed hands".

> Anyone log into Planet Melmac?

No, not if I can help it.

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Newsgroups: nz.general
Subject: Re: Fwd'd Re: Job Opportunity
From: geoff@satori.equinox.gen.nz (Geoff McCaughan)
Date: Tue, 07 Apr 92 18:23:46   M
Organization: The Equinox Network CHCH NZ (Node SATORI)

jbickers@templar.actrix.gen.nz (John Bickers) writes:

>     What cracked me up about the original post was the phrase "people of
>     color". Isn't there a normal phrase for prospective employers to use?
>     Like: "We are an equal opportunity employer".

Now _that_ is what they should have said.

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From: srwmcln@windy.dsir.govt.nz
Newsgroups: nz.general,nz.comp
Subject: Re: modem and software for an Amiga 500
Date: 7 Apr 92 15:58:32 +1200
Organization: DSIR, Wellington, New Zealand

In article <199204070143.AA27864@kaukau.comp.vuw.ac.nz>, andy@comp.vuw.ac.nz (Andy Bond) writes:
> I am trying to find out about using terminal software on an Amiga 500.
> Is there (free?) software available to provide terminal emulation over
> a serial line to some generic 2400 baud modem?  
> 

I use a thing called VLT from SLAC, its quite popular, but like editors,
terminal emulation software is a very personal area.

Clive.
Newsgroups: nz.general
From: tfarmer@datamark.co.nz (Thomas Farmer)
Subject: Re: getting off mailing lists
Date: Tue, 07 Apr 1992 20:19:15 GMT
Organization: Datamark International Ltd.

In article <1992Apr07.112100.12860@cavebbs.gen.nz> lesley@cavebbs.gen.nz (Lesley Walker) writes:
>colin@cavebbs.gen.nz (Colin Osmond) writes:
>>
>>You could try marking the envelopes "gone no address" or "return to sender" and
>>then drop them in the NZ Post.  They might just get the message after a while.
>
>I gather "deceased" works well, although I haven't tried it personally.

For a while I was receiving letters for someone else at my box number.

I kept writing 'Gone - No Address' on them but I kept getting new
ones.

On the last one I got, I ended up writing quite a lot about how this
person had vanished off the face of the earth and was probably dead by
now.

Haven't had any more mail for them....

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Newsgroups: cs.general,nz.general
From: gnat@kauri.vuw.ac.nz (Nathan Torkington)
Subject: Re: Fwd'd Re:  [Michelle Rasing: INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SOFTWARE ENGINEERING, 11-15 MAY 1992]
Organization: Contract to CSC, Victoria Uni, Wellington, New Zealand
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 1992 10:48:45 GMT

In article <199204100951.AA03282@kaukau.comp.vuw.ac.nz> John.Hine@comp.vuw.ac.nz (John Hine) writes:

			   SINGLE	  TWIN     DOUBLE	Cost per night

>EDEN ON THE YARRA	[   ]	  [   ]	   [   ]	A$154.00  (Inside View)
>		        [   ] 	  [   ]	   [   ]	A$176.00  (Yarra View)
>SAVOY PARK PLAZA	[   ]	  [   ]	   [   ]	A$143.00
>BANKS HOTEL		[   ]	  [   ]	   [   ]	A$145.00
>HILTON ON THE PARK	[   ]	  [   ]	   [   ]	A$165.00
>JOHN SPENCER HOTEL
> (Business)            [   ] 	  [   ]	   [   ]        A$ 82.00 single
>							A$ 92.00 double/twin
> (Pioneer)		[   ]	  [   ]	   [   ]	A$ 113.00 single
>							A$118.00 double/twin
>THE VICTORIA HOTEL	[   ]	  [   ]	   [   ]	A$ 74.00 single
							A$ 99.00 double/twin

Spot the pit, folks :-) 

This promises to be some blow-out.  I want to take some Software
Engineering courses so I can justify seeing

*  The Phantom Of The Opera
*  VFL League Games
*  The Melbourne Symphony Orchestra
*  and much much more.

COMP 309 Software Engineering and Socialising
Happy Hours: 6 to 7 weekdays.  (2 tutorials and 1 party/week)
BYO bubbly.

Nat.
Newsgroups: nz.wanted
Subject: LCD wanted for panasonic laptop
From: deanaj@elec.canterbury.ac.nz
Date: 10 Apr 92 12:09:14 +1200
Organization: Electrical Engineering, University of Canterbury, New Zealand.

I bought a Panasonic laptop 150(D?) from a recent Dick Smith fire sale here in
CHCH. It goes fine except for one problem... the screen is smashed.
(see comp.sys.laptops)

Panasonic want about $600 for a new LCD panel (driver boards attached to LCD
only), which is a bit rediculous considering the laptops were selling for $900
in Auckand.

I need a new one (unless I want a printer spooler...) and am looking at paying
around $200 new, used, salvaged, etc etc (depending on postage).

Antony.
deanaj@elec.canterbury.ac.nz
From: chem194@csc.canterbury.ac.nz (John Davis)
Newsgroups: nz.comp
Subject: BNC network cable connectors
Date: 7 Apr 92 14:07:42 +1200
Organization: Chem Dept, UoC NZ

I don't know if anyone else has this problem, but I'm forver
having problems with conventional 'T' bnc connectors for thinwire
ethernet blocking other cards in PC's and workstations (especially
on the back of our rs/6000-320s). I've just found out that AC&E
in auckland now have a 'goalpost' type BNC t connector available,
this means your cables run out in line with the machine's socket,
as opposed to at 90deg ... so if anyone wants them drop them a line
( AC&E Sales Ltd, 300 Richmond Rd, Grey Lynn, Auckland, ph 09-787478, fax
09-360-2180)

price is about $10 higher than 'el cheapo' BNC t's - but who cares
if it means you can tame the cabling around your machine

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Newsgroups: nz.comp
Subject: Re: Suggestions for Unix Megaflop Power?
From: russell@ccu1.aukuni.ac.nz (Russell Fulton;ccc032u)
Date: Sun, 12 Apr 1992 08:01:03 GMT
Organization: University of Auckland, New Zealand.
Keywords: linpack mflop benchmark

dvh@ccu1.aukuni.ac.nz (David Hawke) writes:

>Both HP and Silicon Graphics have boxes to us in the 25-50K range with 16-32Mb
>RAM and 400+Mb of disk.

>From memory, MFLOPS are
>    HP9000/710 colour     12  : about 25K
>    HP9000/720 colour     17  : about 40K
>    HP9000/730 colour     22  : about 50K

>    SiGr Indigo Iris      6   : about 30K

>You could also look at the RS6000 range - a bit more expensive for performance
>between the SiGr and HP ranges

>David Hawke, Geography
>dvh@geografx.aukuni.ac.nz
>dvh@aukuni.ac.nz

For single cpu throughtput I believe RS6000 as best value in the midrange --
as apposed to multicpu where SGI are top. If you are not in a hurry then
keep an eye on the new Alpha machines from Dec.The promise very good floating
point performance. Peter Hunter in our Engineering Science Dept has an
order for one as soon as Dec can supply, or so I have been told. 

Russell.
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