HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: bibbo@moncol.monmouth.edu (Steve Bibbo)
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
Subject: PHARMACIA BIOTECH?
Date: 8 Sep 92 19:55:50 GMT
Organization: Monmouth College, W. Long Branch, N.J.  07764



Does anybody know if a company called Pharmacia Biotech, located in
Piscataway, New Jersey is on the net?


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From: lib1p@rosie.uh.edu (Tammy Stark Blandino)
Subject: Starting a newsgroup
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    
Organization: University of Houston
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 03:31:00 GMT

I want to start a newsgroup.  I've heard from a number of 
people who want to start this group.  I want this group bad
enough that I will do all the work to get it started.

But how do I do it?????????

Thanks

Tammy Stark Blandino
lib1p@jetson.uh.edu
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From: rot@rlyeh.multisys.com (Republic of Taiwan)
Subject: Re: Internet access from home?
Organization: Multimedia Information Systems Corporation, San Jose, CA                        TEL: (408) 436-8929            E-mail: info@multisys.com
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 04:52:34 GMT


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From: fsars@acad3.alaska.edu (Allen R Sparks)
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
Subject: Re: Peace.Corps Group?Summary:
Date: 13 Sep 92 10:50:31 GMT
Organization: University of Alaska Fairbanks

In article <FQr-Ap=@engin.umich.edu>, quay@engin.umich.edu (Bryan S. Leudy) writes:
> Is there a USENET Peace Corps Group?
> Thanks in advance
> 
> --
> bryan.luedy@um.cc.umich.edu
> --

There is an alt group that has pretty low traffic.  The group name is
alt.peace-corps.  Since it's an alt group, it's technically not a
Usenet group.  But that's a different subject.  See the "What is
Usenet?" FAQ under news.announce.newusers for that old argument. === Al
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
From: kschwab@nyx.cs.du.edu (Kerry Schwab)
Subject: Re: How can I load only Newsgroups I like?
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: Wed, 9 Sep 92 11:09:28 GMT

In article <18k2ctINNgda@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> bj368@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Mike E. Romano) writes:
>
>How can I load only the newsgroups I like, instead of all
>3,811 of them (increasing steadily) ?
>I am accessing Usenet through Cleveland Free Net (prob obvious)
>and sometimes it takes several minutes to load all those
>newsgroups, if which I tend to value about 40.
>about 40 newsgroups are relevant to my personal interests.
>-- 
>            Mike Romano     Univ. Calif. Berkeley

You didn't say, but I'll assume you are using the canned newsreader that you 
*have* to use on the cleveland freenet. (unless you have shell access)
If this is the case, you just have to grin and bear it. You don't have a 
".newsrc" file , it loads newgroups from /usr/lib/news (which you cannot 
modify)

After the big wait for the reader to start-up however, you can skip some of
the clunkyness by typing "go the.newsgroup.you.want" at the highest level
news menu.  This is much faster than negotiating the mass of newsgroups
levels.

--
Kerry Schwab
kschwab@nyx.cs.du.edu p.s.- why not go to the cs dept @ berkeley and get a 
                            "real" account ?

Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
From: twpierce@unix.amherst.edu (Tim Pierce)
Subject: Re: How Do You Cancel an Article
Organization: Amherst College, Amherst MA
Distribution: usa
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 02:22:23 GMT

In article <1992Sep15.004259.3301@ntmtv> robin@ntmtv.UUCP (Robin Coutellier) writes:

>In any case, if someone knows how to cancel an article, please e-mail me.

If you're on a Unix system, from the shell prompt, you type "man" and
then the name of the newsreader you're using.

>Thanks.

You're welcome!

-- 
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From: stan.rohrer%theweb@meaddata.com (Stan Rohrer) 
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
Subject: AFRICA NODES
Date: 11 Sep 92 12:50:00 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: The Web BBS 1-513-436-9011 6 Lines 1200 News groups 50,000 files!
Reply-To: stan.rohrer%theweb@meaddata.com (Stan Rohrer) 


I've got a friend who will be spending some time in Africa.  Is there a
way to get a listing of nodes and access phone numbers for networks in
Africa?  The area I'm concerned with is east of Johannesburg (the
country of Swaziland and surrounding).  I'd like to establish a
connection to that area.  Thanks.

Stan Rohrer Dayton, Ohio, USA
Internet:  stan.rohrer%theweb@meaddata.com
  
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From: phart@heineken.tuc.nrao.edu (Paul O. Hart)
Subject: Re: Duplicate .sigs ?
Organization: National Radio Astronomy Observatory
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 21:53:31 GMT

The *USUAL* reason for this is that the person
sending the message has used a program which will
or does append a sig file automatically and thinks
that he/she needs to append one as well.  Pnews will
automatically append you sig and if you send a file
with it in it, ther will be two.  ;^)

Regards,

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From: jmoulder@mis.mcw.edu
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
Subject: E-mail addressed in Eastern Europe
Date: 15 Sep 92 18:14:46 GMT
Organization: Medical College of Wisconsin

Does anyone have suggestions for finding e-mail addresses in Eastern Europe?

We are trying to contact a molecular biologist in Zagreb, Croatia.  As you can
imagine, both telephone and mail contact with this area are very difficult.

It may be foolish to think that e-mail might get through when phone and regular
mail cannot, but who knows.

John Moulder (jmoulder@mis.mcw.edu)
Radiation Biology Group
Medical College of Wisconsin
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
From: elana@agora.rain.com (Elana Beach)
Subject: What newsgroup can answer this question?
Organization: Open Communications Forum
Date: Sat, 12 Sep 1992 16:25:48 GMT

Looks like I will be writing, editing and desktop-publishing someone's
one-shot 'zine soon, and I have no idea what to charge him for my services.

So my actual question is:  What would be the best newsgroup or mailing list
to consult to help me set the fee?

Thanks in advance!

Elana

 
 :
 :


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From: istewart@pyrian.com
Subject: Is this working?
Organization: Pyrian, San Fran, CA, USA
Date: Sun, 6 Sep 1992 06:32:31 GMT

is this working, if so please reply to:

pyrian!istewart@netcom.com
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From: sfeldon@coco.ms.washington.edu (steve feldon)
Subject: stamp collecting newsgroup?
Summary: Is there a newsgroup for philatelists?
Keywords: stamps, collecting, philately
Organization: Univ of Wash  Math Sciences Computing Center
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 11:45:27 GMT

I just spent half an hour looking, and there doesn't seem to be a
newsgroup for stamp collecting, other than rec.collecting, which is
empty.  It seems to me that this must be wrong.  Am I missing
something?

Reply by email and I'll summarize.

steve

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sfeldon@ms.washington.edu |   and opinions.    | university of washington
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From: ai118@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Rich Zidonis)
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
Subject: Re: How can I load only Newsgroups I like?
Date: 9 Sep 1992 13:31:43 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio (USA)
Reply-To: ai118@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Rich Zidonis)
NNTP-Posting-Host: slc4.ins.cwru.edu


In a previous article, kschwab@nyx.cs.du.edu (Kerry Schwab) says:

>In article <18k2ctINNgda@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> bj368@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Mike E. Romano) writes:
>>
>>How can I load only the newsgroups I like, instead of all
>>3,811 of them (increasing steadily) ?
>>I am accessing Usenet through Cleveland Free Net (prob obvious)
>>and sometimes it takes several minutes to load all those
>>newsgroups, if which I tend to value about 40.
>>about 40 newsgroups are relevant to my personal interests.
>>-- 
>>            Mike Romano     Univ. Calif. Berkeley
>
>You didn't say, but I'll assume you are using the canned newsreader that you 
>*have* to use on the cleveland freenet. (unless you have shell access)
>If this is the case, you just have to grin and bear it. You don't have a 
>".newsrc" file , it loads newgroups from /usr/lib/news (which you cannot 
>modify)
>
>After the big wait for the reader to start-up however, you can skip some of
>the clunkyness by typing "go the.newsgroup.you.want" at the highest level
>news menu.  This is much faster than negotiating the mass of newsgroups
>levels.
>
>--
>Kerry Schwab
>kschwab@nyx.cs.du.edu p.s.- why not go to the cs dept @ berkeley and get a 
>                            "real" account ?
>
>

Better, at the main newsgroup menu, type <fav>orite.  Then, edit your
favorite groups into place.  A single keystroke will then acquire each.
-- 
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Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
From: 35002_3044@uwovax.uwo.ca
Subject: dowloading binaries?
Organization: University of Western Ont, London
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 02:14:07 GMT

I was wondering if anyone could tell me how i go about dowloading binaries from
the Internet?  I had seen a post on this and had downloaded it but I somehow
lost the information.  If you can tell me where i can get the information or
tell me how to do it, i would be most grateful.
marcel fortin
fortin@uwo.ca

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From: mjo@ef2007.efhd.ford.com (Mike O'Connor)
Subject: Re: Guest Account?
X-Disclaimer: Not an official spokesperson for Ford OPEO
Reply-To: Mike O'Connor <mjo@fmsrl7.srl.ford.com>
Organization: International Affairs, Overseas Engineering, "Fordz"
Distribution: na
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 13:52:33 GMT

In article <1992Sep9.200256.10933@esseye.si.com> jongsma@benzie.si.com writes:

:I have a friend who is the sysadmin of a machine that is physically
:on the internet. He would like to be able to read the netnews in a
:couple of specific groups.
:
:He is somewhat inexperienced and would rather not try to install
:cnews at the present time. I suggested that he ask someone for a
:guest account solely for the purpose of reading news. He would
:be able to telnet to that machine.
:
:So.... Is there some kind sole that would offer him a guest
:account with access to netnews?

Two approaches:

1.  There are several BBS-type systems that have Usenet newsgroups on
them -- one can telnet to nyx.cs.du.edu or bbs.oit.unc.edu and get
Usenet access.

2.  Have him use a public NNTP server and compile an NNTP newsreader. 

						...Mike

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From: michaeln@cs.uq.oz.au (Rabbit Himself)
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
Subject: Mailing to X400
Date: 8 Sep 92 05:38:45 GMT
Reply-To: michaeln@cs.uq.oz.au
Organization: Department of Computer Science, The University of Queensland

I have a friend with a connection to various IBM X400 networks.


1) Is there a way to get *mail* from this net to an X400 net?

2) Is there a better news group to ask?


thx in advance,
Michael N.

-/\/\/\/-
From: cathy@techbook.com (Cathy Gaupo)
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
Subject: 2 questions
Date: 4 Sep 92 16:03:02 GMT
Article-I.D.: techbook.1992Sep4.160302.1761
Organization: TECHbooks of Beaverton Oregon - Public Access Unix

First I want to thank all of you who answer questions from us newby's.
It's something you don't have to do, so I really apprectiate your time.


Now for my questions-

1--  I have lost a newsgroup (I deleted many, many things from my .newsrc
account one day and haven't figured out how to fix that.) and don't know
it's full name.  I am looking for a newsgroup about JFK conspiracy.  I
know it's not alt.conspiracy-  but I don't know what it is.  Does anyone
know the correct name?  


2--  I want to email something to a friend who works for intel in
Alb. New Mexico.  I don't know full addresses.  I would like this to
be a surprise, so I don't want to ask him for his address.  Is there a
way I can get the e-mail address?


Thanks,

I can be reached at cathy@techbook.com

Cathy

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From: mbrinker@mizar.usc.edu (Michael Brinker)
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
Subject: Malformed newsgroup lines???????
Summary: Why do I get Malformed newsgroup lines when trying to post?
Date: 10 Sep 92 16:36:52 GMT
Followup-To: mbrinker@mizar.usc.edu
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
NNTP-Posting-Host: mizar.usc.edu

Does anyone know why I get the message "Malformed Newsgoup Line" when I try to post to some boards?  I have created a new .newsrc and it didn't help...

I used to be able to post, but now I can't - (to Alt.politics.clinton/bush)

Any info via Emial would be appreciated!

Thanx
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
From: jaapjl@tab00.larc.nasa.gov (J Lee Jaap)
Subject: how does Pitt select consultants? (Re: PHARMACIA BIOTECH?)
Organization: AS&M Inc
	<5738@blue.cis.pitt.edu.UUCP> <BuFr6x.GAC@unix.amherst.edu>
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 18:22:46 GMT

In article <BuFr6x.GAC@unix.amherst.edu> twpierce@unix.amherst.edu (Tim Pierce) writes:
   In article <5738@blue.cis.pitt.edu.UUCP> terryg+@pitt.edu (Terrence J Golightly) writes:

   >I have one question. I would like to reply to messages on
   >the net with out using the vi editor. Please let me know if this is
   >possible,

   Almost certainly.

   >and if so how I can do this.

   Hopefully you're on a Unix system.  Are you?  What newsreader are you
   using?  Have you read the appropriate man page?  Have you asked user
   support at Pitt?

   >-- 
   >Terry Golightly               email Address: terryg+@pitt.edu
   >Student Consultant
   >Computer Informations Systems

   God save us all.

No, maybe Pitt's students are the only ones who need saving from a
consultant who doesn't know <bleep> from <bloop> or how to RTFM.

Maybe a weekend is enough penance for this poor consultant.  I'll give
a suggestion, although this is really newsreader-dependent and the
querent didn't supply necessary information.

Try setting various environment variables, such as EDITOR and VISUAL.

Also, what on Earth does `PHARMACIA BIOTECH' have to do with replying
to messages (which I assume means email; follow-up refers to a new
post)?  I'll guess at an answer to this one also; Terry followed-up to
an article instead of posting an original one, and didn't know enough
to change the subject.  And how to do that is newsreader-dependent as
well.

Try again, Terry, and do your homework first.
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employed by, not speaking for, AS&M Inc, at NASA LaRC, Hampton VA 23681-0001
From: jim@netlink.cts.com (Jim Bowery)
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
Subject: Moderator Identification
Date: 7 Sep 92 15:16:21 GMT
Organization: NetLink Online Communications, San Diego CA

How can one go about finding the name(s) of the moderator(s) of a
newsgroup?  How are moderators selected?

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Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
From: bell@cs.tamu.edu (Will Bell)
Subject: Re: mirror site
Organization: Texas A&M University, College Station, TX
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 06:14:11 GMT

In article <18iggaINN27d@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> ai118@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Rich Zidonis) writes:
>
>What is a mirror site?

A mirror site is an ftp site that contains a duplicate (a "mirror") of 
another ftp site.  wuarchive.wustl.edu contains a mirror of the Simtel 
archive, and I believe it also contains a mirror of the garbo.uwasa.fi
archive.

Mirrors are useful for when your desired site is extremely busy (e.g.
Simtel) or on another continent (e.g. garbo) and an alternate site is
needed.

WBB
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Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
From: sridhar@enuxhb.eas.asu.edu (Sridhar Venkataraman)
Subject: Re: A number of questions
Organization: Arizona State University, Tempe AZ
Date: Sun, 13 Sep 1992 18:53:40 GMT

cl129502@ulkyvx.louisville.edu
writes on news.newusers.questions:

)Hello, I am new and I have several questions:
)
)	1.  What is uuencoding and uudecoding?

Internet (and <include other networks>) is 7-bit which means that any
binary files sent will be mangled enough that you would have no way of
using the file. uuencoding is a type of encoding to get over this
problem. Most Unix machines have the utilities for it (uuencode,
uudecode etc.)  Their counterparts for VMS, DOS etc.  exist but they don't
come preinstalled. Check with your system administrator to get this
installed.

)	2.  What do you do with, and how do you use the binary files posted. 
)The ones that have a little text message at the beginning, then say ---CUT
)HERE---.  What are those?  I have no idea how to use them.

You must have noticed it on some binary newsgroup (like alt.binaries
or comp.binaries). Check out the particular newsgroup's FAQ or any
alt.binaries.* FAQ. They may have some info you want. UUencoded files
posted on USENET usually have such a text message. If the FAQs have
expired at your site, check out the alt.binaries.* directories under
/pub/usenet on rtfm.mit.edu.

)	3.  What are .Z files on the ftp sites.  They are compressed I assume,
)but how do I decompress?

.Z is an extension for files in the Unix compress format. You need to
use uncompress on Unix (or similar utilities on other platforms).
Check with your system administrator how to get it installed.

)	4.  Are the files at ftp sites without an extension, such as .ZIP, all
)text files?

Don't assume this. Some sites have Unix utilities available and Unix
executables usually have no extensions. There may be other cases too.
But usually a README (or similar file) in that particular directory
would explain what the file is.

)	5.  What is Archie?

It is a way of searching through all filenames found on all anonymous
ftp sites (which have opted tobe on Archie's database). Try telnetting
to archie.unl.edu or archie.sura.net (logon as archie). [archie.au for
Aus/NZ - Check alt.bbs.internet FAQ or the FAQ in alt.sources]. Read
the logon message carefully. You will be on your way. Get a client
installed on your machine (yourself or ask your system manager).

)Thanks in advance.  I really would appreciate any help on these topics.

Most of the questions are answered in postings in
news.announce.newusers/news.answers. Please do try browsing through
news.announce.newusers for pointers to information.

Since you have not provide what platforms (Unix, VMS, DOS etc.) you
have access to, I have not given any OS specific info. It is usually
informative to give the OS you use and machine you use when seeking
help.

Check 1) with your system administrator
       2) postings in the respective FAQs on /pub/usenet/* on rtfm.mit.edu

)Jude Greer
)cl129502@ulkyvx.louisville.edu

Sridhar.
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From: twpierce@unix.amherst.edu (Tim Pierce)
Subject: Re: Guest Account?
Organization: Amherst College, Amherst MA
Date: Sat, 12 Sep 1992 18:43:50 GMT

In article <BuFquA.GFo@ef2007.efhd.ford.com> Mike O'Connor <mjo@fmsrl7.srl.ford.com> writes:

>In article <ALAND.92Sep11140150@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu>
>aland@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu (Alan D.) writes, in response to me:
>
>:He probably doesn't even have to compile anything...  Emacs has 'gnus'
>:mode which works for newsreading, if NNTP is set up...
>
>This is provided he:
>
>A.  Has Emacs
>B.  Has GNU Emacs
>B.  Has NNTP client-ware set up
>
>Many NNTP newsreaders can "do" NNTP without setting up separate NNTP
>client software.

Including GNUS.

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