HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: dgil@pa.reuter.COM (Dave Gillett)
Newsgroups: news.software.nn
Subject: Help with database errors 7 and 11?
Date: 16 Oct 92 01:24:46 GMT
Organization: Reuter:file Inc  (A Reuter Company) Palo Alto, CA


     There are a small number of newsgroups which are flagged as exceptions
when I try to use Validate in nnmaster, but when I ask to fix them the log
reports a "database error 7" or sometimes "database error 11".  It looks like
the latter also gets logged whenever a user tries to read one of those
groups.
                                         Dave Gillett
From: wohler@sapwdf.UUCP (Bill Wohler)
Newsgroups: news.software.nn
Subject: Re: Trouble marking all articles as read...
Date: 14 Oct 92 10:40:42 GMT
Reply-To: Bill Wohler <wohler@sap-ag.de>
Organization: SAP AG, Walldorf, Germany

ph600fcy@sdcc14.ucsd.edu (Matthew Harrington) writes:
>I just switched from rn to nn and I'm having some trouble marking
>all articles as read.  I want to accomplish what 'c' in rn does
>(catch up).
>	  What I think I should do is:
>		select all articles with =.
>		Hit J (for the mark as read menu)
>		Hit A (to select all articles tobe marked as read)

matthew,

  forget the rn thinking. ;-)  at the menu, simply hit 'X' to read
  selected articles.  if you don't have selected articles, all
  articles are automatically marked as read and you move on to the
  next group.

Bill Wohler <wohler@sap-ag.de> <sapwdf!wohler>
Heidelberg Red Barons Ultimate Frisbee Team
From: ph600fcy@sdcc14.ucsd.edu (Matthew Harrington)
Newsgroups: news.software.nn
Subject: Trouble marking all articles as read...
Summary: nn question
Date: 13 Oct 92 00:13:50 GMT

I just switched from rn to nn and I'm having some trouble marking
all articles as read.  I want to accomplish what 'c' in rn does
(catch up).
	  What I think I should do is:
		select all articles with =.
		Hit J (for the mark as read menu)
		Hit A (to select all articles tobe marked as read)

I can't get it to work, though.  What can I do besides 'nn -a0' or
editing the .newsrc file?  Thank you in advance...

					Regards,

					Matt Harrington

Newsgroups: news.software.nn,comp.lang.perl
From: mullins@convex.com (Don Mullins)
Subject: Re: Sorting .newsrc
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1992 13:50:48 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Engineering, CONVEX Computer Corp., Richardson, Tx., USA
X-Disclaimer: This message was written by a user at CONVEX Computer
              Corp. The opinions expressed are those of the user and
              not necessarily those of CONVEX.

  Use the posted FixNewsrc script, and put this in your ~/.nn/init:

sequence
  RC:!
--
---                     Don Mullins, mullins@convex.com
----                      Convex Computer Corporation
---                         Richardson, Texas (USA)
--
Newsgroups: news.software.nn
From: bernie@metapro.DIALix.oz.au (Bernd Felsche)
Subject: Re: Problems with cnews+nn6.4.16 on SCO3.2.2
Keywords: problem cnews nn 6.4.16 sco 3.2 v2 news
Organization: MetaPro Systems, Perth, Western Australia
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 92 01:48:10 GMT

In <1992Oct05.191129.22817@anomaly.sbs.risc.net>
   kd1hz@anomaly.sbs.risc.net (Michael P. Deignan) writes:

>mike%jim.uucp@wupost.wustl.edu (Mike S.) writes:

>>If I look in the /usr/spool/news hierarchy, all the news files are
>>there, nn just doesn't have them in its database..  If I go into
>>nnadmin and Init (re-collect all groups), all is well, but it will
>>just happen again next time.  

Has nnmaster died? I believe that nnmaster will die if it
can't get enough memory to do collect or expire. Either
that, or the paging/swapping logic causes a memory fault and
nnmaster to be killed.

This can happen on very busy systems, especially during a
Cnews expire. I've seen this happen on other SCO Unix
systems as well, and never been able to isolate the culprit
(can't find the core dump). However, nnmaster has died if nn
can't find existing articles after a reasonable amount of
time, as determined by the nnmaster startup options.
-- 
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| | | | MetaPro Systems Pty Ltd          /      \ bernie@metapro.DIALix.oz.au
| | | | 328 Albany Highway,              X_.--._/         Fax: +61 9 472 3337
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Newsgroups: news.software.nn
From: dwj@sactoh0.sac.ca.us (Daniel W. James)
Subject: Re: .signature: How to only get one copy?
Keywords: .signature
Reply-To: ccpoabt!dan@sactoh0.SAC.CA.US
Organization: CCPOA Benefit Trust Fund
Distribution: na
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 92 01:58:44 GMT

guckes@math.fu-berlin.de (Sven Guckes) writes:

:)Sven@Read.the.bloody.FAQ | Suggestion for a new inews feature:
:)if (size(signature_file) > (4_rows*75_chars)) then mail_bomb(sender)

God suggestion!  Might I also add one:
	if (included-followup = original-post) then
		mail_slow-painfull-death(sender)
-- 
____________________________________________________________________________
Some folks try to multiply from sunrise to  |  ccpoabt!dwj@sactoh0.SAC.CA.US
Sunset--leave behind more of their kind so  |...!pacbell!sactoh0!ccpoabt!dwj
no one will forget             -- Level 42  |          dwj@sactoh0.SAC.CA.US
Newsgroups: news.software.nn
From: tal@Warren.MENTORG.COM (Tom Limoncelli)
Subject: Sorting .newsrc
Organization: Mentor Graphics -- IC Group
Distribution: usa
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1992 20:59:16 GMT

I would like to sort my .newsrc file based on how me init file
specifies.

Why?  Because I switch between trn and nn a lot, and nn presents
newsgroups in the order described in ~/.nn/init but trn presents the
newsgroups in the order described in ~/.newsrc.  It would be nice
to see them in the same order no matter what program I use.

This shouldn't be a difficult Perl program.  Basically one would just
have to interpret the init file and write out a .newsrc when done.  I
began writing the code at least once, but I've never had the time to
finish it.

It would be nice if nn would write out the .newsrc file in the order
that it presents the newsgroups (with "hidden" newsgroups put at the
end).

Thanks in advance,
Tom

-- 
Tom Limoncelli -- tal@warren.mentorg.com (work) -- tal@plts.uucp (play)
"I like Bill Clinton tremendously.  I know him from the governors' conferences.
The Democrats nominated their best person, a very able fellow.  The country is
well served by that choice." -Bush's re-election chair in NJ (Thomas Kean)
Newsgroups: news.software.nn
From: root@rgm.com (System Administrator)
Subject: Crazy failed post mail
Organization: RGM Unix - Sacramento, CA
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 07:18:10 GMT


I'm running nn on a Coherent 4.0 platform.  Cnews is the news workhorse.

EVERY post yields a REC_MAILED message back to the sender saying failed
post/follow, even if there was NO error.  HELP me?
-- 
------------------------------------------------------------->
Ray Mendonsa ---- root@rgm.com ---- Admin., rgm.com --------->
916/923-5013 8n1,HST -- login: new -- Public access Usenet -->
------------------------------------------------------------->
Newsgroups: news.software.nn
From: jon@socrates.umd.edu (Jonathan Kruger)
Subject: Problem running nnmaster on 2.2 NeXT
Reply-To: jon@starburst.umd.edu
Organization: University of Maryland University College
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1992 15:33:15 GMT

I managed to compile and install things fine, but when I go to
initialize the database I get the following error:

/usr/local/bin/nn/nnmaster run with incorrect privileges

The protections are rwsr-s--- news news.  Help?
-- 
Jonathan Kruger        jon@socrates.umd.edu         UNIX & VMS Systems Staff

"I bet one legend that keeps recurring throughout history, in every culture,
 is the story of Popeye."
From: dansmith@Autodesk.COM (Daniel Smith)
Newsgroups: news.software.nn
Subject: how to detect duplicate message id's?
Date: 8 Oct 92 20:48:24 GMT
Organization: Autodesk Inc., Sausalito CA, USA


	We get our newsfeed from a couple of different sites.  One of
them duplicates articles that we've gotten several days earlier from
another site.  Our admins don't seem to have ihave/sendme working
right, and if we take off the site that produces the duplicates, we
lose some of our articles.

	Sigh.

	So, is there a way for nnmaster or some other program to detect
the duplicates, and not include them in the article database?

				Daniel
-- 
     Daniel Smith, Autodesk, Sausalito, California, (415) 332-2344 x 2580
	      Disclaimer: written by a highly caffeinated mammal
	    dansmith@autodesk.com            dansmith@well.sf.ca.us

Newsgroups: news.software.nn,comp.lang.perl
From: tal@Warren.MENTORG.COM (Tom Limoncelli)
Subject: Re: Sorting .newsrc (SUMMARY)
Organization: Mentor Graphics -- IC Group
Distribution: usa
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1992 14:43:20 GMT

In <1992Oct8.205916.13274@Warren.MENTORG.COM> tal@Warren.MENTORG.COM (Tom Limoncelli) writes:

>I would like to sort my .newsrc file based on how me init file
>specifies.

>Why?  Because I switch between trn and nn a lot, and nn presents
>newsgroups in the order described in ~/.nn/init but trn presents the
>newsgroups in the order described in ~/.newsrc.  It would be nice
>to see them in the same order no matter what program I use.

I got tons of mail saying, "put RC in your .nn/init file and then edit
your .newsrc".

Well folks, I knew I could do that.  I wanted to do the reverse.

The fixnewsrc looks interesting.  I still think I'm going to write the
perl program myself.  I'll post it when I'm done.

I just happen to like the way nn lets me specify things.

Tom

-- 
Tom Limoncelli -- tal@warren.mentorg.com (work) -- tal@plts.uucp (play)
"I like Bill Clinton tremendously.  I know him from the governors' conferences.
The Democrats nominated their best person, a very able fellow.  The country is
well served by that choice." -Bush's re-election chair in NJ (Thomas Kean)
From: jmaynard@oac.hsc.uth.tmc.edu (Jay Maynard)
Newsgroups: news.misc
Subject: Re: sending sys files
Date: 12 Oct 1992 19:24:03 GMT
Organization: UT Health Science Center Houston

In article <1992Oct12.125255.4354@fasttech.uucp> zeke@fasttech.uucp (Bohdan Tashchuk) writes:
>In <7537@lib.tmc.edu> jmaynard@oac.hsc.uth.tmc.edu (Jay Maynard) writes:
>>In particular, the Usenet RFCs state that your sys file is public information.
>>Why is it not? What private info is there in it?
>Which RFC in particular? I want to know what else it says.

From RFC 1036, the standard that describes Usenet messages:

3.5.  Sendsys
                           sendsys (no arguments)

    The sys file, listing all neighbors and the newsgroups to be sent to
    each neighbor, will be mailed to the author of the control message
    ("Reply-To", if present, otherwise "From").  This information is
    considered public information, and it is a requirement of membership
    in USENET that this information be provided on request, either
    automatically in response to this control message, or manually, by
    mailing the requested information to the author of the message.
    This information is used to keep the map of USENET up to date, and
    to determine where netnews is sent.

    The format of the file mailed back to the author should be the same
    as that of the sys file.
[It then goes on to describe the sys file format...]

>We have very little real privacy left in the U.S. these days. Fortunately,
>about the only way anyone can find out what's in my computer is to break into
>my house or to sit in my neighbor's back yard with surveillance equipment.

This one is harmless. Henry and Geoff were right when they advised that you
"remain calm"; it is unfortunate that more folks don't heed the advice.
-- 
Jay Maynard, EMT-P, K5ZC, PP-ASEL | Never ascribe to malice that which can
jmaynard@oac.hsc.uth.tmc.edu      | adequately be explained by stupidity.
    Vote for a REAL change on 3 November: Throw out the check-bouncing,
  tax-and-spend Democrat Congress! (obviously, not an opinion of UTHSCH)
Newsgroups: news.misc
From: emcguire@Intellection.COM (Ed McGuire)
Subject: Re: sending sys files
Supersedes: <EMCGUIRE.92Oct12100943@fuller.Intellection.COM>
Organization: Intellection Inc.
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1992 21:59:01 GMT

In article <1b4egrINNj9g@argo.hks.com> little@carina.hks.com (Jim Littlefield) writes:

   The contents of a sys file can contain information which a site might consider
   proprietary, such as the names of unpublished products, etc.

This is an administrative error.  C News administrators, at any rate,
are warned explicitly in the distributed sys file not to put
proprietary information in the file.
-- 
Ed McGuire                   1603 LBJ Freeway, Suite 780
Systems Administrator/       Dallas, Texas 75234
 Member of Technical Staff   214/620-2100, FAX 214/484-8110
Intellection, Inc.           <ed@intellection.com>
Newsgroups: news.misc
From: paul@xcluud.sccsi.com (Paul Hutmacher)
Subject: Re: sending sys files
Organization: Greater Montrose UFO Appreciation Society & Data Haven
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1992 03:57:48 GMT

In article <1b1o88INN3r4@argo.hks.com> little@carina.hks.com (Jim Littlefield) writes:
>I have INN setup to mail me a message when a sendsys control article arrives.
>Needless to say, I ignored the requests.

Why did you ignore it?  sys files are considered public information for
news admins and should be available to those that want them.

Personally I send a sendsys to my net neighbors every month or so just to
see how they interpret the news we exchange and how it flows.

-- 
Paul Hutmacher
paul@xcluud.sccsi.com
{lobster,nuchat}!xcluud!paul
Xref: sparky news.misc:1724 news.admin:7950 misc.misc:3505 news.groups:19059
From: mjo@ef2007.efhd.ford.com (Mike O'Connor)
Newsgroups: news.misc,news.admin,misc.misc,news.groups
Subject: Re: Alternate Means of Posting to Newsgroups
Date: 12 Oct 1992 12:09:50 -0400
Organization: Not an official spokesperson for Ford Motor Co.
Reply-To: "Mike O'Connor" <mjo@fmsrl7.srl.ford.com>
NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.efhd.ford.com

In article <1992Oct10.103354.24416@leland.Stanford.EDU>
underdog@leland.Stanford.EDU (Dwight Joe) writes:

:About 1.5 years ago, I discovered that news could be posted indirectly by,
:for example, mailing to 
:
:       news-misc@ucbvax.berkeley.edu

:Does this still work?  Specifically, is ucbvax.berkeley.edu still a valid
:post-news site?  Also, can all news groups of the form "x.y.z" be
:reachable by sending mail to x-y-z@ucbvax.berkeley.edu (i.e. just replacing
:the "." with "-")?

I've heard that the Berkeley people don't like having their mail-news
gateway used by non-Berkeley people.  If anyone from Berkeley is
reading and is in a position to comment publically, I'm sure a lot of
people would be interested.

Use the mail-news gateway at decwrl.dec.com -- it's more reliable and
has access to a wider variety of newsgroups.  To post to news.misc,
one would mail:

news.misc.usenet@decwrl.dec.com

						...Mike

-- 
 Michael J. O'Connor           |  Internet:  mjo@fmsrl7.srl.ford.com
 Ford Motor Company, OPEO      |  UUCP:      ...!{backbone}!fmsrl7!mjo
 20000 Rotunda, Bldg. 1-3001   |  Phone:     +1 (313) 248-1260
 Dearborn, MI  48121           |  Fax:       +1 (313) 323-6277
From: hartman@ulogic.UUCP (Richard M. Hartman)
Newsgroups: news.misc
Subject: Re: sending sys files
Date: 12 Oct 92 19:09:14 GMT
Organization: negligable

In article <1992Oct10.045344.10659@fasttech.uucp> zeke@fasttech.uucp (Bohdan Tashchuk) writes:
>In the six months or so that I've been running news, I've never gotten a
>legitimate sendsys, but I've gotten dozens of either stupid or malicious ones.

What makes a sendsys "malicious"?


		-Richard Hartman
		hartman@ulogic.COM

=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
"Badges?  I don' got to show you no stinkin' badges!"
From: boone@psc.edu (Jon Boone)
Newsgroups: news.misc
Subject: k12 groups
Date: 14 Oct 92 20:33:56 GMT
Article-I.D.: psc.1992Oct14.203356.439
Distribution: usa
Organization: Pittsburgh SuperComputing Center, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

I need to setup a newsfeed for the k12 heirarchy.  Please respond to
boone@psc.edu.  Thanks,

/*****************************************************************************/
/* Jon `Iain` Boone   Network Systems Administrator     boone@psc.edu        */
/* iain+@cmu.edu      Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center  (412) 268-6959       */
/* I don't speak for anyone other than myself, unless otherwise stated!!!!!! */
/*****************************************************************************/
From: hartman@ulogic.UUCP (Richard M. Hartman)
Newsgroups: news.misc
Subject: Re: How do you cross-post????????????
Date: 13 Oct 92 20:11:01 GMT
Organization: negligable

In article <1992Oct12.210912.24630@llyene.jpl.nasa.gov> robert@triton.Jpl.Nasa.Gov writes:
>All,
>	I've been trying to figure this one out for a while.  The "Newsgroups"
>variable (or whatever you call it) doesn't accept mail format
>(Like the "To:" field where you can do something like 
>"To: john@pluto, bob@earth, judy@mars" ).

Yes it does.

e.g. "Newsgroups: news.misc, alt.flame, comp.whatever, ..."


=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
Why do we never get an answer		|
when we're knocking at the door?	|	-Richard Hartman	
because the truth is hard to swallow 	|	hartman@uLogic.COM
that's what the war of love is for.	|
Newsgroups: news.misc,alt.activism
From: jbotz@mtholyoke.edu (Jurgen Botz)
Subject: Re: Commercialization of the Nets?
Organization: Mount Holyoke College
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1992 15:58:39 GMT

In article <1ar6sgINNhqb@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> bm665@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Jay Robert Hauben) writes:
>     The following article appeared in the University of Michigan 
>Information Technology Division publication INFORMATION TECH-
>NOLOGY DIGEST, Volumne 1, Number 10, September 7, 1992 on page 3.
> 
>     Can anyone explain what this is all about? Doesn't the 
>agreement this article describes violate the non-commercial 
>essence of the Internet?

There is no entity called "the Internet".  The Internet is merely
the term for the aggregate of many individual networks which are
interconnected via routers.  Each individual network may have its
own use policies and mission, but at the routers to other networks
has some responsibility for making sure that what is passed is
in accordance with the use policies of the connected networks.

>I thought that government participation 
>and public contribution to the developemnet of the Internet was 
>predicated on the non-commercial nature of the traffic that the 
>Internet would carry.

There is no entity called "the Internet".  Government participation
and public contribution played a major role in the development of
some of the largest member networks of the Internet, such as NSFnet.
There are other member networks which are entirely commercial, and
undoubtedly in the not-too-distant future those will be in the
majority.
--
Jurgen Botz                  |   Internet: JBotz@mtholyoke.edu
Academic Systems Consultant  |     Bitnet: JBotz@mhc.bitnet
Mount Holyoke College        |      Voice: (US) 413-538-2375 (daytime)
South Hadley, MA, USA        | Snail Mail: J. Botz, 01075-0629
From: scs@iti.org (Steve Simmons)
Subject: Stupidity Nomination -- Most creative use of cancel and expire
Organization: Industrial Technology Institute
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1992 18:19:24 GMT


One of the system status reports we run periodically rummages thru
/var/spool/news and looks for things which should have been expired
but aren't.  Recently we turned up the following article in control:
Path: hela.iti.org!usc!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!ira.uka.de!Germany.EU.net!news.Hamburg.Germany.EU.net!abqhh!drdhh!ponton!kate
  From: kate@ponton.hanse.de (Katharina Baumann)
  Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle,news.answers
  Subject: cancel <waffle-faq_715763706@aw2.fsl.ca.boeing.com>
  Message-ID: <RuksqB6w164w@ponton.hanse.de>
  Date: Tue, 08 Sep 92 17:55:14 MEZ
  Expires: Tue, 20 Oct 1992 07:15:06 GMT
  Control: cancel <waffle-faq_715763706@aw2.fsl.ca.boeing.com>
  Sender: root@aw2.fsl.ca.boeing.com
  Reply-To: kate@ponton.hanse.de (Katharina Baumann)
  Followup-To: comp.bbs.waffle
  Organization: none
  Approved: news-answers-request@MIT.edu
  Lines: 41

Yes, there were 41 lines of text in this cancel message which was posted
September 8 with a SIX WEEK expire date.  Just when you thought you'd
seen it all....
-- 
scs:  Tied for last on the Zwicky list with `zwicky'.
Newsgroups: news.misc
From: mrapple@quack.sac.ca.us (Nick Sayer)
Subject: Re: A partial sendsys fix (was Re: sending sys files)
Organization: The Duck Pond public unix: +1 408 249 9630, log in as 'guest'.
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 14:37:40 GMT

hartman@ulogic.UUCP (Richard M. Hartman) writes:

>It might help if the RFC was revised to honor only the "From:" address
>and not the "Reply-to:" address.  This would make it at least slightly
>harder to use a sendsys to mail-bomb someone else.

But with the proposed scheme, you'd want to honor Reply-to:. Like
this:

>From: george@random.site.com (George Jetson)
>Newsgroups: misc.test
>Control: sendsys
>Distribution: ca
>Subject: Mapping project
>Reply-to: sendsys@random.site.com

This way, we know who asked for it, and yet the "sendsys@"
requirement still holds.

-- 
Nick Sayer <mrapple@quack.sac.ca.us> | "YOU GAVE AWAY FOURTY-SEVEN
N6QQQ @ N0ARY.#NOCAL.CA.USA.NOAM     | MILLION DOLLARS?! YOU FAT
37 19 49 N / 121 57 36 W             | BLOATED IDIOT!!!"
+1 408 249 9630, log in as 'guest'   | 	 -- Ren
Newsgroups: news.misc
From: paul@xcluud.sccsi.com (Paul Hutmacher)
Subject: Re: sending sys files
Organization: Greater Montrose UFO Appreciation Society & Data Haven
Date: Sat, 10 Oct 1992 17:41:09 GMT

In article <1b4egrINNj9g@argo.hks.com> little@carina.hks.com (Jim Littlefield) writes:
>The contents of a sys file can contain information which a site might consider
>proprietary, such as the names of unpublished products, etc.

They shouldn't contain anything you don't want the world to read.  At least
in the tradition of usenet that is.
-- 
"In the end, We will conserve only what we love;  |  Thomas Paul Hutmacher
We will love only what we understand; And we will |  Houston, Texas USA
understand only what we are taught." Baba Dioum   |  paul@xcluud.sccsi.com
From: jmaynard@oac.hsc.uth.tmc.edu (Jay Maynard)
Newsgroups: news.misc
Subject: Re: sending sys files
Date: 8 Oct 1992 17:59:03 GMT
Organization: UT Health Science Center Houston

In article <1b1o88INN3r4@argo.hks.com> little@carina.hks.com (Jim Littlefield) writes:
>I have INN setup to mail me a message when a sendsys control article arrives.
>Needless to say, I ignored the requests.

Why is that needless to say? Honoring sendsys is part of being on Usenet. It's
harmless (except in the case of forged sendsys-es, and that's another issue).
There's nothing in your sys file that is proprietary.
-- 
Jay Maynard, EMT-P, K5ZC, PP-ASEL | Never ascribe to malice that which can
jmaynard@oac.hsc.uth.tmc.edu      | adequately be explained by stupidity.
    Vote for a REAL change on 3 November: Throw out the check-bouncing,
  tax-and-spend Democrat Congress! (obviously, not an opinion of UTHSCH)
Newsgroups: news.misc
From: zeke@fasttech.uucp (Bohdan Tashchuk)
Subject: Re: sending sys files
Organization: Fast Technology
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1992 12:52:55 GMT

In <7537@lib.tmc.edu> jmaynard@oac.hsc.uth.tmc.edu (Jay Maynard) writes:

>In article <1992Oct10.045344.10659@fasttech.uucp> zeke@fasttech.uucp (Bohdan Tashchuk) writes:
>>	2) There's nothing in my sys file that's any business of anyone
>>	but me and my immediate neighbors. If one of them wants the info,
>>	they mail me asking for it.

>In particular, the Usenet RFCs state that your sys file is public information.
>Why is it not? What private info is there in it?

Which RFC in particular? I want to know what else it says.

In the absence of a compelling reason for the net at large to know what's in
my sys file, or in any other file in my computer for that matter, I consider
it to be private.

This is a matter of personal philosophy. I consider things like this to be
private by default.

We have very little real privacy left in the U.S. these days. Fortunately,
about the only way anyone can find out what's in my computer is to break into
my house or to sit in my neighbor's back yard with surveillance equipment.
Newsgroups: news.misc