HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: etxmesa@eos.ericsson.se (Michael Salmon)
Newsgroups: news.software.readers
Subject: Re: xrn 'printCommand' assistance needed
Date: 8 Sep 92 15:07:27 GMT
Reply-To: etxmesa@eos.ericsson.se (Michael Salmon)
Organization: Ericsson Telecom AB

In article <1992Sep8.134313.21564@trentu.ca>, 
ccksb@blaze.trentu.ca (Ken Brown) writes:
|> Problem:
|> 
|> How to get xrn to print to a site-specific printer?
|> 
|> Generalities;
|> 
|> I'm having difficulty getting xrn 6.17 to print.  The command line switch
|> '-printCommand' doesn't seem to work (or I'm not using it correctly).
|> 
|> What I want to do is direct printing to a specific printer, for example
|> 'csd_draft'.  Wouldn't this mean that the command line should be passed the
|> folowing;
|> 
|> -printCommand lpr -Pcsd_draft

The problem is that xrn expects the command to be in the next
parameter, not the next 2, try this:

-printCommand "lpr -Pcsd_draft"

I personally use an application default of :

XRn.printCommand: mp -a | lpr

You should even be able to put a call to xprompt in there to ask you
which printer you wanted.

-- 

Michael Salmon

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#include	<witty.saying>
#include	<fancy.pseudo.graphics>

Ericsson Telecom AB
Stockholm
Newsgroups: news.software.readers
From: seant@sunfish.ratsys.com (Sean D. True)
Subject: Looking for a couple of alpha sites for DVX Trumpet wrapper ...
Organization: Rational Systems, Inc.
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 00:22:56 GMT

A Trumpet wrapper for the DVX network layer is ready for alpha testing.
It crashes during posting and mailing on my system, but reads news properly.
I am testing under FTP software, and would like to find sites to test under
other DVX supported networks.

If you have DVX and network support working at your site, and are feeling
adventurous, please contact me.
================================================================
Sean D. True
Rational Systems, Inc.
seant@ratsys.com -- uunet!rational!seant
From: neal@neal.ctd.comsat.com (Neal Becker)
Newsgroups: news.software.readers
Subject: How to Install Tin with INN?
Date: 14 Sep 92 12:58:10 GMT
Organization: COMSAT Labs
NNTP-Posting-Host: neal.ctd.comsat.com

Tin 1.1 PL6 includes instructions for patching NNTP.  What about INN?
Anyone tried it?

Thanks.
Newsgroups: news.software.readers
From: iain%anl433.uucp@Germany.EU.net (Iain Lea)
Subject: Re: TIN-Daemon hogs CPU
Organization: ANL A433, Siemens AG., Germany.
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5
Date: Mon, 7 Sep 1992 13:59:39 GMT

Martin Rex (mrex@aix01.rz.fht-mannheim.de) wrote:
:
: I've compiled and installed the tind on my machine here.
: It's only an i386/16 running AIX 1.2.0, but it works quite well.
: My News-Partition is about 500 MBytes on an External SCSI-drive,
: about 77000 inodes used.  Everytime tind is run, it consumes about
: 13 Minutes of REAL PROCESS TIME, even when there has no new news
: arrived.
: Has any one else noticed tind hogging his CPU ?

In the upcoming v1.1 PL6 I have added a more intelligent (?) method to
update the global index files that drastically reduces the amount of 
time required to run and also reduces the index filesize by 5 percent.

The following times (averaged over 3 runs) were run on our news server 
which is a i486-33 with a 200MB news partition holding 475 groups:

Old TIND    22.42u  9.54s  2:14  23.7%
New TIND     2.33u  4.42s  0:55  13.0%

Hope you enjoy it.

Iain

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Newsgroups: news.software.readers
From: rkrouse@netcom.com (Robert K. Rouse)
Subject: Bug in "tass"
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 92 17:16:37 GMT
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 
Keywords: tass



  When reading alt.alien.visitors "tass" dumps core.
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Newsgroups: news.software.readers
From: ccechk@nuscc.nus.sg (Heng Kek)
Subject: Problem cancelling in tin 1.0 pl4
Organization: National University of Singapore
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 03:14:56 GMT

Does anyone else have problems with cancelling articles in tin?  I
get the following reply after attempting to cancel.  I'm using tin
v1.0 PL4.    Thanks.                       Heng Kek

---------------------------------------------------------
From MAILER-DAEMON@uunet.uu.net Tue Sep  8 11:04:22 1992
Received: from relay2.UU.NET by nuscc.nus.sg (5.65/1.34)
	id AA21170; Tue, 8 Sep 92 11:04:16 +0800
Received: from nuscc.nus.sg by relay2.UU.NET with SMTP 
	(5.61/UUNET-internet-primary) id AA27027; Mon, 7 Sep 92 23:04:15 -0400
Date: Mon, 7 Sep 92 23:04:15 -0400
From: MAILER-DAEMON@uunet.uu.net (Mail Delivery Subsystem)
Subject: Returned mail: User unknown
Message-Id: <9209080304.AA27027@relay2.UU.NET>
To: <ccechk@nuscc.nus.sg>
Status: O

   ----- Transcript of session follows -----
>>> RCPT To:<control@uunet.uu.net>
<<< 550 <control@uunet.uu.net>... User unknown
550 <uunet!control>... User unknown

   ----- Recipients of this delivery -----
   <uunet!control>

   ----- Unsent message follows -----
Received: from nuscc.nus.sg by relay2.UU.NET with SMTP 
	(5.61/UUNET-internet-primary) id AA27024; Mon, 7 Sep 92 23:04:15 -0400
Received: by nuscc.nus.sg (5.65/1.34)
	id AA21046; Tue, 8 Sep 92 11:03:55 +0800
Control: cancel <1992Sep8.030235.20645@nuscc.nus.sg>
Newsgroups: rec.food.historic
From: ccechk@nuscc.nus.sg (Heng Kek)
Subject: cancel <1992Sep8.030235.20645@nuscc.nus.sg>
Message-Id: <1992Sep8.030348.20978@nuscc.nus.sg>
Organization: National University of Singapore
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 03:03:48 GMT
Apparently-To: uunet!control

Article cancelled from within tin
----------------------------------------------------------------
Newsgroups: news.software.readers,alt.sources.d,comp.sources.d,alt.sys.amiga.uucp,de.comp.sys.amiga
From: Iain.Lea%anl433.uucp@Germany.EU.net (Iain Lea)
Subject: Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: Tin v1.1 PL6 newsreader posted to alt.sources
Reply-To: Iain.Lea%anl433.uucp@Germany.EU.net
Organization: ANL A433, Siemens AG., Germany.
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 06:58:22 GMT

Dave Pascoe (pascoe@rocky.gte.com) wrote:
:
: Mail to you seems to be bouncing:
: 
:   ----- Transcript of session follows -----
: 550 <iain.lea%anl433.uucp@germany.eu.net>... User unknown
       ^    ^

Hah! your mailer has changed the address Iain.Lea to iain.lea
I will add the alias iain.lea to our sendmail. Try again in a
couple of days.

Iain

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PHONE  +49-911-3089-407 (work) +49-911-331963 (home) +49-911-3089-290 (FAX)
Newsgroups: news.software.readers
Subject: Re: NFS vs NNTP for news reading
From: cctr127@cantsc.canterbury.ac.nz (Jason Haar)
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 04:21:04 GMT
Reply-To: j.haar@csc.canterbury.ac.nz
Organization: University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand.
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL3

SEB1525@MVS.draper.com (Steve Bacher) writes:
> 
> Also, NNTP allows the server to have some intelligence about caching
> articles or tracking message ID's.  Otherwise the cleverness and
> optimizations need to be in the reader, which should be concentrating
> on warm and fuzzy user interfaces and kill file maintenance.  ;-)
> 

As far as I know, all the indexing software available for NNTP servers
output into files which can be used directly off-disk by local disk
readers anyway. 

Cheers

Jason Haar, Network Consultant.
Newsgroups: news.software.readers
From: lwv26@cas.org (Larry W. Virden)
Subject: Re: trn question
Followup-To: news.software.readers
Reply-To: lvirden@cas.org (Larry W. Virden)
Organization: Nedriv Software and Shoe Shiners, Uninc.
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 15:07:58 GMT

Currently, what you have to do is put a \ before the character:

tcp\/ip
tcp\\ip

for instance.

or you could just say:

tcp.*ip and get any character, include white space, etc.

There is a problem in some versions of rn, and perhaps trn as well, where
the kill processing gets into a strange state when encountering things like
/ and maybe a few other things, in the pattern if they are not quoted.  I
believe that you end up with a msg about the regular expressing aborting or
some such thing .
-- 
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Xref: sparky news.software.readers:1826 alt.sources.d:1141 comp.sources.d:1279 alt.sys.amiga.uucp:2165 de.comp.sys.amiga:673
From: pjh@mccc.edu (P. J. Holsberg)
Newsgroups: news.software.readers,alt.sources.d,comp.sources.d,alt.sys.amiga.uucp,de.comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: Tin v1.1 PL6 newsreader posted to alt.sources
Date: 15 Sep 92 22:59:44 GMT
Organization: The College on the Other Side of U. S. 1
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5

Dave Pascoe (pascoe@rocky.gte.com) wrote:
: Iain-  Mail to you seems to be bouncing:
: 
:   ----- Transcript of session follows -----
: While talking to [139.4.2.33]:
: >>> RCPT To:<iain.lea@anl433.uucp>
: <<< 550 <iain.lea@anl433.uucp>... User unknown
: 550 <iain.lea%anl433.uucp@germany.eu.net>... User unknown
: 
: Has anyone else had luck in getting mail to Iain?

I've been successful with just iain%anl433.uucp.
Newsgroups: news.software.readers,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.programmer
From: anderson@macc.wisc.edu (Jess Anderson)
Subject: Re: mthreads (trn) KILLS NeXTStep big time
Organization: Madison Academic Computing Center, UW-Madison
Date: Sat, 12 Sep 92 23:07:56 GMT


In article <1992Sep10.180708.13581@cs.mcgill.ca> storm@uriel
(Marc WANDSCHNEIDER) writes:

]For some reason, when I run the Mthreads program to set up the thread files
]for all my newsgroups, my next generates an Exception 15 (Uninitialized
]Interrupt says the 020 manual) and causes a complete panic and system
]reboot.

]It works for quite a while, but dies after a pile of groups no matter
]what I tell it to thread.

]Compiling with the -g flag and running it through gdb produces, of course,
]the same.

]Any ideas on what's going down here?

This is more and encouraging data point than help, but I've
been running trn a long time (including, of course, mthreads
-- three times an hour from crontab) with no sign of this
problem.  Good luck.
-- 
Jess Anderson <> Madison Academic Computing Center <> University of Wisconsin
Internet: anderson@macc.wisc.edu <-best, UUCP:{}!uwvax!macc.wisc.edu!anderson
NeXTmail w/attachments: anderson@yak.macc.wisc.edu  Bitnet: anderson@wiscmacc
Room 3130 <> 1210 West Dayton Street / Madison WI 53706 <> Phone 608/262-5888
Xref: sparky news.software.readers:1776 comp.sys.next.misc:19480 comp.sys.next.software:1510 comp.sys.next.programmer:6095
From: storm@uriel (Marc WANDSCHNEIDER)
Newsgroups: news.software.readers,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.programmer
Subject: mthreads (trn) KILLS NeXTStep big time
Date: 10 Sep 92 18:07:08 GMT
Organization: SOCS, McGill University, Montreal, Canada



For some reason, when I run the Mthreads program to set up the thread files
for all my newsgroups, my next generates an Exception 15 (Uninitialized
Interrupt says the 020 manual) and causes a complete panic and system
reboot.


It works for quite a while, but dies after a pile of groups no matter
what I tell it to thread.

Compiling with the -g flag and running it through gdb produces, of course,
the same.

Any ideas on what's going down here?


Thanks

Toodlepip!

storm@uriel.cs.mcgill.ca

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				"Ow!" -J.F.K.~
Newsgroups: news.software.readers,alt.sources.d,comp.sources.d,alt.sys.amiga.uucp,de.comp.sys.amiga
From: kent@sparky.imd.sterling.com (Kent Landfield)
Subject: Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: Tin v1.1 PL6 newsreader posted to alt.sources
Organization: Sterling Software
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 15:56:01 GMT
X-Md4-Signature: 430a6cc883df641691ef3d1b5bc31683

In article <1992Sep14.211508.12202@europa.asd.contel.com> pascoe@rocky.gte.com (Dave Pascoe) writes:
>Iain-  Mail to you seems to be bouncing:
>
>  ----- Transcript of session follows -----
>While talking to [139.4.2.33]:
>>>> RCPT To:<iain.lea@anl433.uucp>
><<< 550 <iain.lea@anl433.uucp>... User unknown
>550 <iain.lea%anl433.uucp@germany.eu.net>... User unknown
>
>Has anyone else had luck in getting mail to Iain?

Iain told me via landline that they were having some trouble with a
mail gateway in his area.  They hoped to get it fixed soon.  

			-Kent+
--
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Sterling Software, IMD           UUCP:     uunet!sparky!kent
Phone:    (402) 291-8300         FAX:      (402) 291-4362
Please send comp.sources.misc-related mail to kent@uunet.uu.net.

Newsgroups: news.software.readers
From: willdye@helios.unl.edu (Will Dye)
Subject: How can Compuserve folk read comp.multimedia?
Summary: Compuserve guy can't read newsgroups such as comp.multimedia.  Help?
Keywords: nn compuserve newsreader
Organization: University of Nebraska - Lincoln
Date: 14 Sep 92 15:36:40 GMT

I was talking lately to a guy on Compuserve who says he can't read 
newsgroups unless they are mailed to him.  He'd like to read 
comp.multimedia and others.  Any help for him?
Xref: sparky news.software.readers:1801 comp.sys.next.misc:19552 comp.sys.next.software:1567 comp.sys.next.programmer:6134
From: andrew@cubetech.com (Andrew Loewenstern)
Newsgroups: news.software.readers,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.programmer
Subject: Re: mthreads (trn) KILLS NeXTStep big time
Date: 12 Sep 92 03:28:06 GMT
Organization: Cube Technologies, Inc.

In article <1992Sep10.180708.13581@cs.mcgill.ca> storm@uriel (Marc WANDSCHNEIDER) writes:
>
>
>For some reason, when I run the Mthreads program to set up the thread files
>for all my newsgroups, my next generates an Exception 15 (Uninitialized
>Interrupt says the 020 manual) and causes a complete panic and system
>reboot.

mthreads (and the rest of trn) work great on our systems...  2.1 and
3.0...


andrew
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Newsgroups: news.software.readers
From: erik@maui.til.com (Erik Horstkotte)
Subject: Re: How can Compuserve folk read comp.multimedia?
Keywords: nn compuserve newsreader
Organization: Togai InfraLogic, Inc.
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 17:20:09 GMT

I believe that somebody recently (about 4 months ago?) started an
extra-cost service for CompuServe users that gave them access to
usenet
news.  I don't recall the name of the service, however.  He could try
sending email to one of the sysops, or using GO FEEDBACK.
-- 
Erik Horstkotte, Manager, Software Development, Togai InfraLogic,
Inc.
erik@til.til.com, uunet!til!erik - (714) 975-8522
Standard disclaimer: the preceding are my opinions, not TIL's.
From: h198@hosp.med.umich.edu
Newsgroups: news.software.readers
Subject: Re: News Reader for DOS/FTP Software?
Date: 13 Sep 92 01:56:00 GMT
Organization: Univ of Michigan Hospitals

In Article <NEAL.92Sep11161920@neal.ctd.comsat.com> "neal@neal.ctd.comsat.com (Neal Becker)" says:
> Any recommendations for DOS newsreader to use with FTP Software (NNTP
> to unix server)?
> Thanks.
> 
  Gee, what a coincidence!   I'm just finishing up (I hope) a DOS news-
  reader for FTP Software's kernels.   I'm planning to have people at
  work start beta-testing this week.   If you'll EMail me in a week or	
  two, I can let you know how it's going.   I'm thinking of making it
  shareware...

Gene Mangum
Univ of Michigan Hospitals
Newsgroups: news.software.readers
From: Iain.Lea%anl433.uucp@Germany.EU.net (Iain Lea)
Subject: Re: How to Install Tin with INN?
Reply-To: Iain.Lea%anl433.uucp@Germany.EU.net
Organization: ANL A433, Siemens AG., Germany.
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 07:00:06 GMT

Neal Becker (neal@neal.ctd.comsat.com) wrote:
:
: Tin 1.1 PL6 includes instructions for patching NNTP.  What about INN?

I have been sent a XINDEX patch for INN 1.0. I am waiting until INN
begins to settle down before I start posting an INN patch with tin.

Iain
 
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Xref: sparky news.software.readers:1787 news.software.nn:1146 comp.sys.mac.wanted:8326
From: morten@oase.kemi.aau.dk (Morten Kjeldgaard)
Newsgroups: news.software.readers,news.software.nn,comp.sys.mac.wanted
Subject: Re: Are there any good nn-like newsreaders for the mac???
Keywords: news readers, mac, nn
Date: 11 Sep 92 10:16:44 GMT
Organization: Aarhus University, Denmark

In <paul.715984981@scrumpy> yatrou@INRS-Telecom.Uquebec.CA (Paul Yatrou) writes:

>I use nn, which IMHO is an excellent model for what he needs. Is there
>such a thing for the Mac??

There is Nuntius, which is free. In the "about box" it says: "Based on a
story by nn". I don't it myself.

/Morten
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Biostructural Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, Aarhus University
Langelandsgade 140, DK-8000 Aarhus C, Denmark
Phone: +45 86 12 46 33 ~ +45 86 20 27 11 x6518 ~ Fax: +45 86 19 61 99
Xref: sparky news.software.readers:1813 comp.sys.next.misc:19601 comp.sys.next.software:1585 comp.sys.next.programmer:6152
From: storm@uriel (Marc WANDSCHNEIDER)
Newsgroups: news.software.readers,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.programmer
Subject: Re: mthreads (trn) KILLS NeXTStep big time
Date: 14 Sep 92 19:25:14 GMT
Organization: SOCS, McGill University, Montreal, Canada

In article <1992Sep12.230756.27336@macc.wisc.edu> anderson@macc.wisc.edu (Jess Anderson) writes:

>This is more and encouraging data point than help, but I've
>been running trn a long time (including, of course, mthreads
>-- three times an hour from crontab) with no sign of this
>problem.  Good luck.

	In fact, I discovered after a little more fiddling that mthreads works
fine when I run it from TERMINAL, but crashes the system on  the Uninitialized
Interrupt whenever I run from a shell in Stuart.

	I'll have to study some more and see what's up.

	Thanks.

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  Marc Wandschneider           Montreal, CANADA          Program run! PLEASE!
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Newsgroups: news.software.readers
From: Iain.Lea%anl433.uucp@Germany.EU.net (Iain Lea)
Subject: Re: From: line in tin
Reply-To: Iain.Lea%anl433.uucp@Germany.EU.net
Organization: ANL A433, Siemens AG., Germany.
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 Beta PL6]
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 11:09:52 GMT

Murthy yenamandra (yenamand@giga.cs.umn.edu) wrote:
: 
:     When I post from 'tin', it sets up my 'From:' line to user@hostname
: instead of the full address. Since the hostname on our machine
: returns just the machine name, this gets set to, for example,
: murthy@molbio instead of murthy@molbio.cbs.umn.edu. When someone
: tries to reply from a host in another domain, they can't recognize
: the address. Setting 'REPLYTO' won't help because the newsreaders keep
: sending the autoreply to the 'From" address.

The *first* thing you could do would be to read the INSTALL document that
comes with the tin distribution which documents exactly what you are asking.

All you need to do is specify -DNNTP_INEWS_DOMAIN=\"cbs.umn.edu\" in CFLAGS
in the Makefile and to recompile tin.

Iain

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PHONE  +49-911-3089-407 (work) +49-911-331963 (home) +49-911-3089-290 (FAX)
From: swanger@news.duc.auburn.edu
Newsgroups: news.software.readers
Subject: .newsrc format wanted
Date: 15 Sep 92 16:15:19 GMT
Organization: Auburn University, AL

I am writing a news reader (SUN IPC, SUNOS 4.1.2, NNTP 1.5.11) and I would
like to know if there is a standard format for .newsrc files.  I would like
to use xvnews at work and my own news reader at home (2400 baud dialup) and
share a .newsrc file between the two.

Also, do xvnews and rn use the same .newsrc file format?

Thanks for any advice you can send!
-- 
David Swanger,   Auburn University, Alabama,   swanger@ducvax.auburn.edu 
Newsgroups: news.software.readers
From: cobb@betsy.mc.ti.com (Chip Cobb)
Subject: PC POP3 Client Needed
Followup-To: news.software.readers
Organization: Texas Instruments
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 12:36:30 GMT

Hi,

I've been experimenting with the POP3 mail server running on an HP-PA based
unix box.  

I've been utilizing a Macintosh based client(Eudora - excellent) to read
and post mail.

I'd like to locate a "free" or commercial PC Windows based client.  Does
anyone have a favorite?

Thanks in advance,
Chip

......................................................
    //  /   O           Chip Cobb
  /    /_    _         Texas Instruments  
 /    / / / /_/       Advanced Development
  // / / / /         Materials & Controls Group
          /         Attleboro Massachusetts USA        
  
             email: cobb@betsy.mc.ti.com   timsg: TOON         
......................................................
From: cudep@warwick.ac.uk (Ian Dickinson)
Newsgroups: news.software.readers
Subject: Re: NFS vs NNTP for news reading
Date: 11 Sep 92 16:42:12 GMT
Organization: Team Limpid's Meathead With Aptitude - Kunst und Wahnsinn

In article <19920910174059SEB1525@MVS.draper.com> SEB1525@MVS.draper.com (Steve Bacher) writes:
>Yes, NNTP has a lot of problems, but it's still better to have a
>protocol than to depend on a general-purpose file-sharing technique
>that is OS-biased and poorly designed to boot.

That happens to be much better in certain circumstances.
We mostly read via soft read-only NFS and post via NNTP.
NNTP news reading kills small machines.  NFS is lot less greedy.
As far as having a decent (or existing) NFS implementation for all hosts goes,
you can always run NNTP for those hosts that can't read sensibly over NFS,
such as PCs running trumpter (or whatever).
Even xrn uses NFS here now, and it's faster.

Cheers,
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\/ato - Ian Dickinson - NIC handle: ID17                   No-one is to molest
vato@csv.warwick.ac.uk  ...!mcsun!uknet!warwick!vato           the wombat when
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@c=GB@o=University of Warwick@ou=Computing Services@cn=Ian Dickinson  watching.
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