HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: miner@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
Subject: unwanted newsgroups in register
Date: 14 Aug 92 22:21:50 CDT
Organization: University of Kansas Academic Computing Services

I regularly find newsgroups popping up in my registered list 
that I didn't register for.

Anybody else have this happening, and/or know what I can do 
about it?

	- Ken <miner@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu>
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
Subject: private reply.
From: fpaterek@uceng.UC.EDU (Franz Paterek)
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 00:09:22 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: College of Engineering, University of Cincinnati

If I see a message on the net I want to reply to but I feel that a private 
reply is the best solution, how can I without leaving trn (the program I am
using) reply to the message privately.  As editor I am using Gnome.

Harald Paterek
From: mangane@SOLEIL.matra-espace.fr (Laurent 7557)
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
Subject: How do you read me ?
Date: 18 Aug 92 11:55:19 GMT


I can't read nor write directly in News but I would like to know if
I can write by sending e-mail in a given news-group.
If you receive this contribution, please let me know at the following
address: mangane@soleil.matra-espace.fr.

Thanks.
From: ziane@nuri.inria.fr (ziane mikal -)
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
Subject: which group to ask for a bibliographic tool ?
Date: 21 Aug 92 16:21:05 GMT
Organization: INRIA Rocquencourt,Le Chesnay, France.

I am looking for a tool to help me manage bibliographic references
but I do no know on which group I should ask.
I will try comp.unix.questions and comp.sys.mac.wanted since
I'd likethe tool to run on mac or unix.

Thanx for any help.

Mikal.
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
From: king@rtsg.mot.com (Steven King, Software Archaeologist)
Subject: Re: Newsreader for IBM PC
Reply-To: king@rtsg.mot.com
Organization: Motorola Inc., Cellular Infrastructure Group
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 18:21:41 GMT

nchow@ersys.edmonton.ab.ca (Norman Chow) publicly declared:
>Need recommendations for IBM PC newsreader software.  Prefer shareware, 
>but all advice considered.

Look at WAFFLE.  It's a full-fledged bulletin board program, but many
people run it as a stand-alone news package.  It uses the Unix-standard
UUCP protocol for transfering news, includes a 'cron' package to make
calls or do disk maintenance (or whatever) when you're not around, and
handles email as well as Usenet news.  All you need is a host that's
willing to feed you!

In local mode WAFFLE allows you to use any text editor you want.  If
you're going to dial in you're restricted to using an editor that
doesn't make direct screen writes, of which there are surprisingly
few.

There are lots of add-ons for WAFFLE, including a (modified) PC-ELM
mail reader, and an NN-like news reader.

For more information, see comp.bbs.waffle.

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From: jaapjl@tab00.larc.nasa.gov (J Lee Jaap)
Subject: Re: .sig files
Organization: AS&M Inc
Date: Sun, 23 Aug 1992 02:33:04 GMT

mesm@netcom.com (Mary E. S. Morris) writes:
   FYI - $HOME is usually the directory that you start out from
   when you first login. If you are unsure, type

   cd '$HOME'

I realize it's probably a typo, Mary, but we need to realize that
newbies may type exactly what you tell them (remember the 'R-U-N - Are
you in' legend).  Variables in single quotes are _not_ expanded.  Try

cd $HOME

or as was already followed-up, just plain

cd

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From: dman@netcom.com (Dallman Ross)
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
Subject: Re: Lexis/Nexis please...
Date: 22 Aug 92 20:07:31 GMT
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest)
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4

Or call customer service at (800) 543-6862.

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From: paul@xcluud.sccsi.com (Paul Hutmacher)
Subject: Re: Articles I Post are Being Deleted Too Quickly!
Organization: Greater Montrose UFO Appreciation Society & Data Haven
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 03:00:33 GMT

In article <16nv5dINNct4@grasp1.univ-lyon1.fr> Christophe.Wolfhugel@univ-lyon1.fr (Christophe Wolfhugel) writes:
>
>Disagreed.   Site admins are [supposedely] the one defining how long
>articles should remain in their spool.  There are some special
>cases where Expires (generally coupled with a Supersedes of the previous
>article) may have sense: stuff such as the FAQ postings, or conference
>announcements.

And we (site admins) do decide how long something stays in /spool.  We
use the cnews bounds line in /usr/lib/news/explist to control it.  Expires
lines do not supercede bounds lines.


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 no justice. There is nothing but random horror."    | Houston, Texas
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Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
From: alz@nestor.uucp (80122-zoble)
Subject: Trouble with Readnews
Organization: Bellcore, Livingston, NJ
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 92 13:51:13 GMT

I posted this question recently, and got one response - that I should
get an updated version of readnews. I can't do that.

Almost every time I enter rn, I get prompts to subscribe to newsgroups
that I previously either unsubscribed to or deleted from my .newsrc
file. A couple of days ago, I reset by removing the .newsrc and
having it recreated. The problem still exists.

After typing "rn", the first few newsgroups I subscribe to are shown,
with their respective number of articles. Then a message appears,
before I can read anything, that it is checking for new newsgroups.
Invariably what is listed is what I described above - newsgroups that
I'd already deleted/unsubscribed to. I proceed to respond "n" for no
to each prompt, but before this process is completed, the screen
fills with the following message: Warning! Bogus Newsgroup: <insert
names of many NON-bogus newsgroups, including this one>. After a
few screens of this, I get a prompt saying these newsgroups have been
moved to the end of my .newsrc, and would I like to delete them. I
say no, and usually another screenful appear with the same question.
Then, suddenly, it ends and there is a message about an error and
that my .newsrc has been restored, and I'm back at my system prompt.

So I never got into readnews at all. Every once in a while, I am
able to read news without any of these messages, but this problem
occurs more often than not.

No one around here seems to know who the system admin is, or else
I would contact him/her. Is there anything I can do to correct this?

Any help would be appreciated.

Allison

Allison Zoble                         "Things are getting worse ...
nestor.cc.bellcore.com!alz             please send chocolate!"- Boynton
My opinions are not necessarily those of my employer - thank goodness!
From: hutch@bellman.lanl.gov (John Hutchinson)
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
Subject: How to KILL a post
Date: 21 Aug 92 16:00:32 GMT
Reply-To: hutch@bellman.lanl.gov
Organization: Los Alamos National Laboratory

Is it possible to KILL (cancel, delete, zap, etc) a recent newsgroup post that
I wrote?  I've changed my mind and rather the info not be mad public.

I'm using a Sun workstation with xvnews software if it makes a difference.

Email replies would be appreciated.  Thanks!

-Hutch-
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
From: ts@uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi)
Subject: Re: Test Message
Organization: University of Vaasa, Finland
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 12:25:42 GMT

In article <714369587.F00001@leotech.mv.com> epoole@leotech.mv.com (Eric Poole) writes:
>->> I hope that you realize that the successful posting
>->> of a test message to your own computer means little.
>
>'Course if you post them here you get all the flames back to
>let you know you made it out ... <sigh>

'Course if you post them to misc.test you get all the test echos
back without the flames to let you know you made it out ...  <sigh>
:-) :-) :-)

Said also seriously, since if one has access to misc, that is the
best alternative for the testing.  Alternatively alt.test may also
be available. 

   All the best, Timo

..................................................................
Prof. Timo Salmi
Moderating at garbo.uwasa.fi anonymous FTP archives 128.214.87.1
Faculty of Accounting & Industrial Management; University of Vaasa
Internet: ts@uwasa.fi Bitnet: salmi@finfun   ; SF-65101, Finland
From: mike@bhs.hb.se (MIKAEL FURTH)
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
Subject: Archiving news thru nntp? (software)
Summary: Any software for archiving news using nntp?
Keywords: archive, news, nntp
Date: 14 Aug 92 14:55:35 GMT
Organization: Gothenburg Universities' Computing Centre

Are there any programs for DOS or Unix to archive news using nntp.
I have only nntp access to the newshost.





/Mike.

Please reply to mike@bhs.hb.se
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
From: ekman@netcom.com (Crossly the Glad-Eyed Bear)
Subject: Re: America Online
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 92 04:03:14 GMT
Organization: Home for the Terminally Infirm
Distribution: usa

In article <1992Aug19.013456.19950@news2.cis.umn.edu> amundsen@molbio.cbs.umn.edu (Craig Amundsen) writes:
>I know that it is possible to mail to people who are on CompuServe, my 
>question is: Is it possible to mail to America Online addresses?

Try username@aol.com
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From: asylvain@felix.filenet.com (The Chipmunk)
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
Subject: Re: How do I decode rec.humor.funny jokes?
Date: 15 Aug 92 00:06:14 GMT
Reply-To: asylvain@fritz.filenet.com (The Chipmunk)
Organization: Foundation for the Increased Wealth of Chipmunks

Written in article <9c7cPB2w164w@buscard.fidonet.org>
 by murph@buscard.fidonet.org (Brian Murphy):

: The moderator encodes offensive jokes in rec.humor.funny and it's piqued 
: my curiosity.  I'm afraid I don't know how to break the code but there 
: MUST be a FAQ around somewhere.  Where can I look for it (or is this part 
: of the encoding procedure, too?)?  :-)

Check the instructions for your newsreader.  If you're using "rn" or one
of it's many clones, you need only press control X (^X) to decrypt the
joke.

If you are using a primitive newsreader without the capability, the
algorithm used is called "rot13".  Basically what happens is that if the
character is a letter in the alphabet, 13 is added to it.  If that goes
past "z" it wraps around back to "a".  Spaces, numbers, punctuation etc.
isn't bothered.

If you have the Unix utility "tr" for "translate" you can do something
like the following:

    cat file.in | \
    tr "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz" "nopqrstuvwxyzabcdefghijklm" | \
    tr "ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ" "NOPQRSTUVWXYZABCDEFGHIJKLM" > \
    file.out

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Opinions are mine, void where prohibited, taxed, licensed or regulated.
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Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
From: jaapjl@tab00.larc.nasa.gov (J Lee Jaap)
Subject: Re: Single Source For FAQ Lists?
Organization: AS&M Inc
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 18:22:14 GMT

In article <595m!1_.westes@netcom.com> westes@netcom.com (Will Estes) writes:

   Is there a single place where all FAQ lists are stored, or is there at
   least a master list that tells the FTP sites for each FAQ list?

Many FAQLs are crossposted to news.answers, which is a general
place to find answers (duh :) to questions about USENET and its
groups.  There's even a `List of Periodically Posted Informational
Articles' (or some very similar name) if you don't want to retrieve
every article to find out what it's about.
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employed by, not speaking for, AS&M Inc, at NASA LaRC, Hampton VA 23681
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
From: af322@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Kevin Adams)
Subject: clari...
Reply-To: af322@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Kevin Adams)
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
Date: Sun, 16 Aug 92 20:00:20 GMT


In the list of usenet groups I notice one that starts
off with "clari" yet is not available from the reader.
Are these private or is there some other reason they
are not showing up.
 
Thanx!
From: chandan@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Ikramuddin Ahmed)
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
Subject: Re: The use of
Date: 21 Aug 92 21:12:22 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: The University of Texas at Austin, Austin TX

In article <54350SM@math.fu-berlin.de> guckes@math.fu-berlin.de (Sven Guckes) writes:
>Listen, everyone! For those of you who do not approve of how a command
>was named - use an "alias tool" ! Then all you need to do is:
>
>	alias mfa Nameofsomebloodycommandthatyouprobablyneverthoughtofbefore


But the question was, how does one learn about this "Nameofsomebloodycommandthat
<one>probablyneverthoughtofbefore" in the first place if it is really a
"Nameofsomebloodycommandthat<one>probablyneverthoughtofbefore"?


>In this case "mf" is just a name that means "my favourite abbreviation".
>
>Ikramuddin might do this:
>
>	alias postnews Pnews


Ikramuddin did that long before Sven thought of suggesting this; thank you.

IA
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Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
From: abutler@ariel.demon.co.uk (Tony Butler)
Subject: Please 'ack' if you see this... 
Distribution: world
Organization: Megadodo, Inc.
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 20:14:12 +0000


In article <1992Aug20.131158.8572@brtph560.bnr.ca> anurag@bnr.ca writes:

> 
> I'm not sure if my postings are visible to external world!
> Can somebody in the netland please ack this posting?
> 

Nope! They're not getting thro' to anyone - which is why I'm not
replying to this. :-)

Seriously though, if you want to post test messages, try uk.test

Tony.
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From: kilgore@wuntvor.norman.ok.us (Stan Hall)
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
Subject: Re: Internet History?
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 92 20:30:53 CDT
Distribution: world
Organization: The Eternal Apprentice BBS, Norman, OK

> 
>     Can anyone point me a to a reference to the history of Internet?
>     I started explaining to one of my users and figured out how much
>     I really don't know (not to mention that I am throughly confusing).


     Note: I am asking for the history of the *INTERNET* not the history
     of Usenet.  These are two seperate things whose paths may have 
     crossed but are not in anyway the samething. 

     I would still appreciate pointers to a history of the Internet.

  
     Kilgore



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Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
From: richards@beta.lanl.gov (William C. Richards)
Subject: Internet access from home
Organization: Los Alamos National Laboratory
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 18:15:04 GMT


I realize this question has been asked probably 1K times, so if there is a FAC
on this subject, could someone send email telling me where it is.  I have a 
friend in the Baltimore-Washington area who would like to get Internet access
from his home.  How would he do this?

Great thanks in advance for all responses!



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From: amundsen@molbio.cbs.umn.edu (Craig Amundsen)
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
Subject: America Online
Date: 19 Aug 92 01:34:56 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: College of Biological Sciences, U of MN

I know that it is possible to mail to people who are on CompuServe, my 
question is: Is it possible to mail to America Online addresses?

Thanks B-)


-- 
                  Craig Amundsen (amundsen@molbio.cbs.umn.edu)


                           <Insert Standard Disclaimer>
From: fsars@acad3.alaska.edu (Allen R Sparks)
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
Subject: Re: Articles I Post are Being Deleted Too Quickly!
Date: 17 Aug 92 19:05:18 GMT
Organization: University of Alaska Fairbanks

In article <my9mw9=.lindae@netcom.com>, lindae@netcom.com () writes:
> I appreciate all of your help, but I am still having a problem with this.
> Many of you have suggested that I use an "Expires" header and I just
> tried to do that.  It didn't work.  I am using Vi and here's what I've
> tried:
> 
> I type, "Pnews alt.missing-kids".  Then, it asks for a subject and I 
> type "xyz", it asks for distribution, and I type "world", and it says
> "are you sure you want to do this" and I say yes.  That's all it asks.
> There is never a place where it asks for keywords, expiration, etc.
> 
> Once I am in the body of the article, I've tried moving my cursor up
> to the header area and editing it to include an expires line, but it
> doesn't seem to work.  
> 
> Please help (in easy, step-by-step English please!! I'm just a novice
> at this!)
> 
> Thanks,
> Linda
> lindae@netcom.com

I no longer have access to rn, so I can't check it out.  Doesn't Pnews
have a modifier that causes it to prompt for all or almost all of the
headers?  Come on guys, surely there's someone out there with access
to "man Pnews".  BTW Linda, maybe your machine does to.  Typing "man
Pnews" should get you the help file.  Try it.  === Al Sparks
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
From: mgfrank@avernus.com (Marc G. Frank)
Subject: Re: Articles I Post are Being Deleted Too Quickly!
Organization: Maryland Appreciation Society
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1992 23:56:32 GMT

In article <7@ecicrl.ocunix.on.ca> clewis@ferret.ocunix.on.ca (Chris Lewis) writes:
>"Purge period"  whassat?  Your terminology is a trifle confusing.
>If there's an Expires: line it overrides normal expiry, and the
>article can stay around longer.  However, the Expires: line is
>also subject to control.  in C news, there is a "bounds" parameter
>(again potentially per-newsgroup), which limits the maximum Expires:
>period.  And in B news you can explicitly ignore expires lines and
>expire more quickly.

Yes, that was what I meant.  The "bounds" parameter is referred to as
the "purge period" in the man pages.  At least, it is when you set it
for newsgroups individually.  That is, with a "0-5-7" type field in
explist.


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From: jaapjl@tab00.larc.nasa.gov (J Lee Jaap)
Subject: Re: Posting a file for FTP access -- how?
Organization: AS&M Inc
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 17:57:44 GMT

In article <++0m=5j.derich@netcom.com> derich@netcom.com (Scott A. Steinbrink) writes:

   How do I post a file at a site for other people to FTP from?

RTFM for your system.  What you need to do is set up an anonymous
FTP login.  And that can be different from machine (OS) to another.
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employed by, not speaking for, AS&M Inc, at NASA LaRC, Hampton VA 23681
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
From: jtbell@hubcap.clemson.edu (Jon Bell)
Subject: Re: Internet History?
Organization: Presbyterian College, Clinton SC
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 03:26:09 GMT

In article <7D8RPB2w165w@wuntvor.norman.ok.us> kilgore@wuntvor.norman.ok.us (Stan Hall) writes:
>
>     I would still appreciate pointers to a history of the Internet.

You could try Quarterman's _The_Matrix_, published by Digital Press.  I don't
have my copy handy so I can't give you the ISBN, but it's probably in 
_Books_In_Print_.

>kilgore@wuntvor.norman.ok.us (Stan Hall)
>The Eternal Apprentice BBS, Norman, OK -- +1 405 325 9607

Jon Bell / Dept. of Physics & Comp. Sci. / Presbyterian College
Clinton SC, USA / jtbell@presby.edu
From: bnchung@usenet.etri.re.kr (System Manager)
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
Subject: TEST AGAIN (SORRY)
Date: 22 Aug 92 00:37:55 GMT
Organization: ETRI

This is test.
Thanks.
From: mgflax@ernie.Princeton.EDU (Marshall G. Flax)
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
Subject: Re: unsolicited junk email - what do I do ?
Date: 19 Aug 92 15:09:40 GMT
Organization: Princeton University

In article <1992Aug17.052529.28138@newshost.anu.edu.au> jdb@arp.anu.edu.au (John D. Barlow) writes:
>I received some unsolicited junk email from a reseller of Sun equipment.
>What do I do to stop such "commercial" use of the net ?  Junk snail
>mail is bad enough, please - not junk email !

It depends on whose wires the message flows through.  UUNET has no
restrictions (being a common carrier), NSFNET has minimal restrictions
(anything remotely connected to academic uses), and other nets may have
their own standards.

My own suggestion is to take ten minutes and write a form letter
indicating that you do not desire or appreciate unsolicited e-mail.
The first time you get junk mail from X, send X the letter.  The second
time, send X and X's postmaster the letter.  The third time, file
harassment charges.

marshall
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From: FLETCHERJP@aston.ac.uk (John Fletcher)
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
Subject: Group on family history/genealogy
Summary: Is there such a group?
Keywords: genealogy family history
Date: 18 Aug 92 16:04:05 GMT
Organization: Aston University

Is there a group discussing 
(a) family history
(b) how to find out about it
(c) how to use computers for family history data

Secondly, where is the correct location for such queries?

John
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