HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: narkiewi@madona.pilgrim.umass.edu (J. David Narkiewicz)
Subject: Nichole Kidman is at it again (e.g. news from Western Mass)
Organization: Project Pilgrim, Umass
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1992 19:26:18 GMT
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Dear Mom,
	Well it happened.  I knew SHE couldn't stay away from me.  It's
bad enough that in a fit of heartbreak and despair, she married that guy
Tom What's-his-face -- oh, yeah, Cruise.  So Nichole Kidman is supposedly
doing a movie, Dangerous, and it's being filmed in Northampton and
Amherst.  She's stalking me.  I can tell.  Lord forbid she should create
another scene like last time when she took off all her clothes and begged
me to make love to her -- in public too.  I was so embarrassed.  I can't
face going back to church, not even on a holy day.  Whenever I see Father
Roach in town, he looks down, genuflects and pretends not to notice me.

	She went all out this time -- no not like the time she parachuted
naked into the middle of my soccer with my first name tattooed to her
right breast and my last name to her left breast stretching around her
back all the way to her right shoulder blade.  Just her luck to fall in
love with a guy named Narkiewicz.  No this time, it's worse.  She actually
brought a movie crew with her.  They shut down the stores on the first part
of South Pleasant Street and rerouted the buses around the other side of the
common.  A couple hundred locals actually think they're going to be extras
in a real movie.  Little do they know it's just another ploy by Nichole
to talk me into fathering her children.

	I foiled part of her ruse earlier today.  5 minutes into my 
Linear Systems class the fire alarm went off.  Now this is a video tape
class.  So we shut down before we started.  Outside the firemen actually
showed up and K.M. Lau, a prof, was there talking to the them.  She works 
in a fabrication lab downstairs so obviously there was a little release
of toxic fumes -- Nichole will go to any lengths to get me out of class
and into her arms.  Of course, once we realized class was cancelled, I 
high tailed it back to the office to hide.  I'm glad the office doesn't
have windows.  If she sky-writes "Make Love to Me, Jan" again, no one
in the office will see it.  And then there was the time she greased herself
up, attached suction cups to her body and stuck herself to the window
outside of my other office.  I didn't really mind because I was too busy
to notice, but after 4 days my plants started to get yellow from lack of
sunlight.  I had to have Health and Public Safety remove her.  Of course,
it's right after that she made "Days of Blunder."  I guess it could have
been worse.  She could have co-starred in "Cocktail."

	Well, that's all the news from Amherst.

		Love,
		Jan
From: wes@terminator.rs.itd.umich.edu (Wesley Craig)
Newsgroups: alt.prose
Subject: Re: Please Help
Date: 8 Oct 1992 12:35:22 -0400
Organization: University of Michigan
NNTP-Posting-Host: terminator.rs.itd.umich.edu

In article <16280001@hpwrce.mayfield.hp.com> Kingsley Morse writes:
> Please answer these 9 questions and return.

You get this from Pat Robertson's group, or what?

wes
Organization: Penn State University
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1992 00:36:06 EDT
From: <LPR100@psuvm.psu.edu>
Newsgroups: alt.prose
Subject: At Any Moment

This is my first post here. All comments are appreciated.

***   ***   ***   ***   ***   ***   ***   ***   ***   ***   ***   ***   ***

At Any Moment
by Larry Rossi

   I found myself wishing the noise would stop. The sound of human
screams and crashing stones reverberated off the walls of the small cave
with such force that I could not think, could not even comprehend what
was happening to us. The first focused thought I could muster was that of
sensory overload; I  felt and heard so much that everything swarmed
together into a cloud of seething red. And air, so difficult to breathe! My
chest was compressed between stone and stone and I strained just to pull
in enough air to stay alive.
  Suddenly, silence. I was panting, my throat raw from the
screaming. It wasn't even until after I stopped that I realized I had been
making the noise. But I could feel the pain beginning, and the need to
breathe freely was already urgent in my lungs. What could I do but lie
there?
   I couldn't feel my legs. Would I ever stand again?. I lay on my
stomach- fortunate, because I have this odd fear of being trapped
looking up- but from the pain and pressure on my back I could tell I was
covered in rubble. How my head got saved from getting crushed, I'm not
sure. My left arm was immobile, but my right was almost free. Once I was
calm enough to realize all this, I began to look for Tom.
   All I could see of him in the dim light of one of the dropped
lanterns was his upper shoulder and arm. His hand was only about a foot
from mine, but his head and body were wholly covered with collapsed
stone and heavy dust. Gray is the color of death, not black.
   I began breathing in short gasps as the adrenaline surged in my
heart; I was trapped, I would die. I'd get tired of trying to breathe and
suffocate from the rocks piled on my back long before the air in here
was gone. And if I moved too much I would just die sooner.
   I had to do something, so I stretched out to grab Tom's hand, trying
to ignore the spikes of pain raging through my arm and spine as I
moved. I was wheezing now, trying to get air, but I reached him. And his
hand wasn't cold yet; it still had a pulse! For a moment his heart beat in
perfect time with my breathing. Only for a moment, before it stopped.

   I'm numb now, colder than the rock that cradles my body. All I
feel is the heaviness on my back and the vague warmth of my slowing
heartbeat. All I see is gray. The screaming is starting again, though I'm
not sure it isn't in my head.


Newsgroups: alt.prose,alt.config,alt.prose.d,alt.non.sequitur,alt.fan.matt.welsh
From: mac@nyx.cs.du.edu (MAC)
Subject: Re: poems
X-Disclaimer: Nyx is a public access Unix system run by the University
	of Denver for the Denver community.  The University has neither
	control over nor responsibility for the opinions of users.
Organization: Nyx, Public Access Unix at U. of Denver Math/CS dept.
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 92 23:11:46 GMT

In article <1992Oct15.194839.29582@tc.cornell.edu> mdw@theory.TC.Cornell.EDU (Matt Welsh) writes:
>In article <1bk2d1INNr5t@bigboote.WPI.EDU> megazone@realsoon.WPI.EDU (MegaZone23) writes:
>>I post poems here becuase poetry and prose have the same traditional roots
>>and I view poetry as prose with a stricter format standard.
>>
>>I've been posting here since last spring, and I've seen others post poems here
>>too, and I've only seen 1 or 2 posted complaints and I just received my first
>>complaint the other day.
>
>Maybe someone can clear up the charter for alt.prose. I think poetry should be
>okay
>here, and that it should be MORE encouraged in the group. If it's not, then you
>should
>stick with rec.arts.poems (or create an alt.poetry...).
>
>mdw
>-- 
>Matt Welsh    mdw@tc.cornell.edu        +1 607 253 2737
>Systems Programmer, Cornell Theory Center
>  "Yow! Up ahead! It's a DONUT HUT!!"



The #1 item in the charter has to do with the "80 column standard".  Please
adhere to this in the future.


Hope this helps

TTFN,
M
From: cb522@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Cathy Atwood)
Newsgroups: alt.prose
Subject: is this the right place?
Date: 14 Oct 1992 01:05:28 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio (USA)
NNTP-Posting-Host: hela.ins.cwru.edu


I am posting this question for a friend.  If there is a better
place on UseNet, please let me know.

We would appreciate any citations or any personal observations on
the following:

It would seem that writing on paper and writing onto a computer/
word processor are quite different.  Specifically, the *drafts* 
that a prose piece or poem go thru would be different.  When
writing something *longhand* you can cross things out, and you
are responding to your own writing process.  On the computer,you
might *save* occasional *versions* of a piece, but this is not the
same as saving drafts.

Does this change how you write?  Do you make an effort to save 
versions of your work?  Do you still write before word processing?
Is it valuable for learning writing to see the drafts of other 
writers?  Have you seen anything about this topic in print, or
has it been discussed in class?

Thanks for whatever help you can offer, including direction to a
different group, if this should be elsewhere!

Cathy Atwood
Xref: sparky alt.prose:1365 alt.romance:12443
From: mdw@theory.TC.Cornell.EDU (Matt Welsh)
Subject: Re: poems
Followup-To: alt.prose,alt.config,alt.prose.d
Organization: Cornell Theory Center
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 19:48:39 GMT

In article <1bk2d1INNr5t@bigboote.WPI.EDU> megazone@realsoon.WPI.EDU (MegaZone23) writes:
>I post poems here becuase poetry and prose have the same traditional roots
>and I view poetry as prose with a stricter format standard.
>
>I've been posting here since last spring, and I've seen others post poems here
>too, and I've only seen 1 or 2 posted complaints and I just received my first
>complaint the other day.

Maybe someone can clear up the charter for alt.prose. I think poetry should be okay
here, and that it should be MORE encouraged in the group. If it's not, then you should
stick with rec.arts.poems (or create an alt.poetry...).

mdw
-- 
Matt Welsh    mdw@tc.cornell.edu        +1 607 253 2737
Systems Programmer, Cornell Theory Center
  "Yow! Up ahead! It's a DONUT HUT!!"
Xref: sparky alt.prose:1371 alt.sex.stories:2455
From: ICSCH@ASUACAD.BITNET
Newsgroups: alt.startrek.creative
Subject: Re: STORY: "Timesync"
Date: 12 Oct 92 17:30:43 GMT
Organization: Arizona State University

REPOST
From: John Lussmyer <dragon@angus.mi.org>
Newsgroups: alt.startrek.creative
Subject: Re: To bring back Tasha for good
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 92 19:42:22 EDT
Reply-To: dragon@angus.mi.org
Organization: North Star BBS

02maferguson@bsu-ucs.uucp writes:

> But If anyone could you give me the details and description
> of any episodes where they traveled back in time and how they did it
> once again it would be appriated.
> Also would the Federation have any knowledge on cloaking devices?
> If not since there is a great alliance between the Federation and the
> Klingons would the Klingons be willing to give a Klingon ship for a Rescue
> mission, or knowledge of a cloaking device?

I don't mean to be rude or anything, but have you seen ANY startrek
shows or movies?  It sounds like you haven't.  If you are planning on
writing a story to be read by other people, PLEASE go out and see
some Trek!  (the movies are cheap to rent, and the show is on FREE!
TV.)

--
John Lussmyer (dragon@angus.mi.org)
North Star BBS, Royal Oak, MI --------------------------------------------+-
Newsgroups: alt.startrek.creative
From: krk1@pyuxe.uucp (24228-knights)
Subject: Re: Leaptrek: the rest of it
Organization: Bellcore, Livingston, NJ
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 92 12:04:34 GMT

> >LEAPTREK
> >
> >by Katriena Knights
> [story deleted]
> 
> Well, that was pretty good -- but I think that Leaptrek II doesn't fit very
> well with it.  In L2, nobody rememberd Sam when he was in the brig, and yet
> at the end of L1, everybody (perhaps even the Captain) remembers what
                               ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

You're assuming this.  I didn't say it.  At the end of I, everybody
remembers (other than Picard), because everybody else didn't get
leaped.  In II, everybody Sam's talking to has been through the
leap experience and has had their memory scrambled, except for
Worf, who just plain had no clue what was going on. (As usual) :-)

Thanks to the person who did the repost.  I had gotten several
requests and was hoping to do it, but this saved me a lot of
trouble reformatting.


-----
Katriena Knights
"I don't mind being in touch with reality, as long as I don't 
have to live there."
From: lmahoney@chemdept.chem.ncsu.edu (Louise Mahoney)
Subject: Timesync 1 and 2 repost request
Organization: Chemistry Department, North Carolina State University
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1992 13:09:58 GMT

Hi sorry for the repost request but the frist two installments
aged befor I could get to them.

ADthanksVANCE

Louise Mahoney
From: felix@ocf.berkeley.edu (Felix Ling)
Newsgroups: alt.startrek.creative
Subject: Re: Needing more info for Story
Date: 11 Oct 1992 23:59:31 GMT
Organization: U.C. Berkeley Open Computing Facility
NNTP-Posting-Host: whirlwind.berkeley.edu

In article <1992Oct8.170332.10270@bsu-ucs.uucp> you write:
>I still need to find out the name of the episode where Sela tells Picard
>about what happens to Tasha after she is captured by the Romulans.

It's called "Redemption, Part II" (or maybe "Redemption II", but you get the
picture).  It was the first episode of the 5th season.

As for "Yesterday's Enterprise", you might want to check out Mike Brown's
(Vidiot) STTNG guides, which are available via ftp at ftp.coe.montana.edu, in
the /pub/STARTREK/st-tng directory, I think (my info could be outdated).  It
has plot synopses by Tim Lynch of all the episodes.  The other replies to
your post were basically correct, though.  Do watch the episode if you can.
It's one of the best.

If you don't have ftp access, I could post a somewhat short synopsis of it
myself, if you want.

Felix Ling
--
   Pulaski walked to the Turboshaft doors, stepped in, and plummeted down
ninety-nine floors, yelling, "Dammit, Jean-Luc!  I'm a doctor, not a
skydiver!"
She landed with a resounding thump and croaked, "I've fallen, and I can't get
up!"
   "She's dead, Jean-Luc," announced Dr. Beverly Crusher.
                                -excerpt from "Still Looking for Things"
From: jfy@cis.ksu.edu (Joseph F. Young)
Newsgroups: alt.startrek.creative
Subject: Star Trek story archive (FAQ)
Date: 11 Oct 1992 11:00:05 GMT
Organization: Kansas State University, Dept. of Computing and Information Sciences
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: depot.cis.ksu.edu

Last updated: 17 Sept 1992
------------------------------FTP--------------------------------------
I've seen many inquiries about an anonymous ftp archive for the
stories that appear in alt.startrek.creative.  As others have
mentioned, I maintain an archive on ftp.cis.ksu.edu (129.130.10.80) in
the directory /pub/Startrek/stories.  All files are compressed using
the UNIX LZW ".Z" compression used by the "compress" and "uncompress"
programs.  For non-UNIX systems, there are sourcess and binaries
available to handle files in this format on various archive sites.

If you find a story that I've missed, especially any of the ones that
appeared early in the life of this group or in the rec.arts.startrek.*
groups, mail it to me (jfy@cis.ksu.edu) or upload it to /pub/upload on
the archive site.

If you have any contributions to the archive, suggestions, etc. you
may also email them to me.
-----------------------------Mail--------------------------------------
For all those unfortunates who don't have Internet ftp access, I've
setup a mailserver to provide access to the archives on
ftp.cis.ksu.edu.

This mailserver can be contacted via mail one of the following
addresses:

...!rutgers!depot!mailserver  (UUCP)
mailserver@cis.ksu.edu        (Internet)

The server accepts commands given in the body of the mail messages;
help is available with the command "help".  

A listing of the files in
the story archive may be obtained by "dir -l /pub/Startrek/stories".

Since the story archive consists of UNIX compressed files, they must
be uuencoded before they are sent on their way.  To specify this mode,
use the command "encode uuencode"  To retrieve the files, use the
"send" command (ex:  send /pub/Startrek/stories/Bestseller.Z).

Here is an example mail message:

% Mail mailserver@cis.ksu.edu
Subject: request 
help
encode uue     
send /pub/Startrek/stories/Bestseller.Z
^D
%

Please note that this is completely experimental and is not bug free.
Questions and problems about this mailserver may be directed to
"mailserver-reply@cis.ksu.edu".



-- 
Joseph Young, Systems Programmer
KSU Department of Computing and Information Sciences
Manhattan, Kansas 66506  FAX: (913) 532-7353  Phone: (913) 532-6350   
Internet: jfy@cis.ksu.edu  UUCP: rutgers!depot!jfy 
Newsgroups: alt.startrek.creative
From: g92n3258@giraffe.ru.ac.za (MR RL NICOL)
Subject: re: Yar! and USS Cavalier
Organization: Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa
Distribution: World
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 11:09:10 GMT

I have a copy of Yar! Part One, but have yet to see any follow-ups.  Does 
any one know if any are planned?

Also, I enjoyed USS Cavalier, though I don't necessarily share the same 
viewpoint as the writer regarding the Borgs.  It was enjoyable and nice to 
see Riker in command, something which he definitely carries well.  Is there 
to be a sequal to this, as the Q-beings were mentioned in the story 
regarding the Borg, but that part was left open-ended.  And personally, I 
think that with a ship like the Cavalier, story possibilities are endless.  
Any thoughts from the writers of the above two stories, or anyone else?

Ryan.
From: felix@ocf.berkeley.edu (Felix Ling)
Newsgroups: alt.startrek.creative
Subject: Re: STORY:Hows this 4 a plot?
Date: 14 Oct 1992 01:39:34 GMT
Organization: U.C. Berkeley Open Computing Facility
NNTP-Posting-Host: hailstorm.berkeley.edu

In article <1992Oct13.171359.10537@bsu-ucs.uucp> 02maferguson@bsu-ucs.uucp writes:
>themelves in the past.  Since the Enterprise-D is faster than the old 
>model Enterprise, going back in time should be a breeze to bring Tasha back.

Hate to bring this up, but this is already something the Enterprise crew
wouldn't do.  Unlike universes like "Quantum Leap" where changing history
is fine, the Star Trek universe considers changing history to be disastrous.
I think the novel, _Entropy Effect_ by Vonda McIntyre (?) points out some
of the nasty effects of messing with time (universal chaos, I think).
Of course, you COULD take that novel to be non-canon, but this sentiment is
shown elsewhere.

Remember, in "Yesterday's Enterprise", the emphasis was on the fact that they
had to RESTORE the timeline changed by the Enterprise-C's time travel.
And recall that the seemingly inconsequential decision of letting Tasha
go back in time had some serious repercussions (which was why Guinan was
angry at Picard).  And in "Time's Arrow", the crew was mainly concerned that
the aliens might be altering history (and Data remarks that the finding of
his head indicates that this is his fate, and it cannot be altered).

If this were not so, the ease of time-travel would allow anybody to go back
and fix things so that they come out the way they wanted (sorta like the
Bill & Ted's syndrome).  They could go back and arrange so that the massacre
by the Borg never happens, or the Klingon Civil War never happens, or
anything else.

Not to mention that the existence of the YE timeline Yar in our universe
is rather paradoxical in itself (which is why they should not have cooked
up that silly explanation in Redemption II).

This is basically why you never see the Enterprise voluntarily do any time-
travel.  Note that this was NOT how time-travel was regarded in the original
series, where they did that stuff all the time until the writers realized how
silly it was getting.

Of course, none of this means you shouldn't write that story.  I think it
might come out pretty interesting, just rather non-ST:TNGish, if such a word
were to exist.

>Mark

Felix Ling
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Newsgroups: alt.startrek.creative
From: ueh@pool.sunyit.edu (Eric Hausgaard)
Subject: ST: 3GEN 
Organization: State University of New York -- Institute of Technology
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1992 04:37:44 GMT

Hello Netters,
  I have the updated ST:The Third Generation!!!

I am going to post it (If my host will let me!) tonight so look for it!

I have the latest copy from Rebecca J. Anderson Herself!!
It is a bit different and the "Captain's Holiday" part is a bit more 
complete as well as fixed up a bit!!

If you want to comment to her, You can do it through me at "ueh@sunyit.edu"
I will foreward it to her...You Modemers can call the Shadowlands BBS 
at +1-519-663-9127 .

I haven't read all of it so I cannot say how complete it is....
But Hearsay says is is up-to-date as of today (10/8/92).

So enjoy it!!
PS if you miss a part E-Mail me and I'll send you the Whole Story.
If it bounces back at me, I'll send it to you in parts...But I want to 
do it as quick as I can, I only have so much time, ya know!

LLAP
Eric Hausgaard

-- 
         "Seize the moment, Mirabor...Seize the moment" -- Picard 
==============================================================================
    Even *I* don't want my opinions      |  Eric Hausgaard VP Comp Sci Club  
    All Flames/E-mail to ueh@sunyit.edu  |   SUNY Institute of Treknology 
Newsgroups: alt.startrek.creative
From: edd159psft@vx24.cc.monash.edu.au
Subject: Where Displomacy Fails
Organization: Computer Centre, Monash University, Australia
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 08:23:04 GMT

hello all
Can somone tell me what has happened to Where Deplomacy fails has gone.  I only
have the first few chapters and would like the rest.

Thanks in advance
From: dave@cs.arizona.edu (Dave Schaumann)
Newsgroups: alt.startrek.creative
Subject: Re: Leaptrek: the rest of it
Date: 9 Oct 92 01:00:12 GMT
Organization: U of Arizona CS Dept, Tucson

In article <1992Oct8.194528.21816@menudo.uh.edu> edc@evolution.bchs.uh.edu (edward s. chen) writes:
>LEAPTREK
>
>by Katriena Knights
[story deleted]

Well, that was pretty good -- but I think that Leaptrek II doesn't fit very
well with it.  In L2, nobody rememberd Sam when he was in the brig, and yet
at the end of L1, everybody (perhaps even the Captain) remembers what
happened...
--
Dave Schaumann			dave@cs.arizona.edu
Newsgroups: alt.startrek.creative
From: rez@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au (Anestis Kozakis <Rez>)
Subject: Re: NEW STORY: LEAPTREK II -- CHAPTER ONE
Organization: Monash University, Melb., Australia.
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1992 03:19:11 GMT

Since I kept on getting returned mail, address unknown, no matter what I
tried..I decide to follow up here....
I like the story so far. Besides the few grammatical errors, and a few
inconsistancies with one or two characters, I liked it.
But, one mistake does bug me. It's Gushie, not Gooshie. The reason I
know this is because we just saw "The Leap Back" Here in Australia, and
I noticed it in the credits.
BTW, anyone care to send me the first Leaptrek Story?
Much appreciated.
Rez.
-- 
Anestis Kozakis
rez@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au               ent670w@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au
"Off days" are a part of life, I guess, whether you're a cartoonist, a
neurosurgeon, or an air-traffic controller. -- Gary Larson.