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From: doing@bach.udel.edu (David Allen Doing)
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
Subject: Diana Farrell's Birthday
Date: 12 Nov 92 01:55:26 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: University of Delaware

To all those people who see Diana Farrell on friday the 13th of November,
wish her a grand and happy BIRTHDAY, why?  Because she is turning the
elder age of 20!!!
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From: howp@skyfox.usask.ca
Subject: Question regarding group PERFORMING ARTS NETWORK
Organization: University of Saskatchewan
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 04:39:00 GMT

Hi.
      Does anybody know anything about the 'Performing Arts Network'?  I
think that it has something to do with multimedia/Apple Macintosh, but I don't
know where it is located (somewhere on Internet, though, I'm told).
      More specifically, can you tell me how I would access this (I think it's
some sort of newsgroup type of thing)?

Thanks.

Peter How, Gradual Student
Institute of Space and Atmospheric Studies,
University of Saskatchewan,
Saskatoon, SK
S7N 0W0
(306) 966-6452
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
From: erodrigu@dcc.uchile.cl (Eduardo Rodriguez)
Subject: Re: How do I include the text of a msg?
Originator: erodrigu@tortel
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 20:30:03 GMT
Organization: Universidad de Chile, Depto. de Ciencias de la Computacion


In article <1dq8q4INN24r@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu>, ck270@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Andrea Von Ahnen) writes:
> 
> When replying to a message, how do I include some or all of the
> text of the message I'm replying to?  Following Unix logic, since
> I use "f" to reply, a capital F should work to include text, but
> it doesn't.

In rn and xrn this should work. What newsreader are you using?
What op. sys?

edo...

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Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
From: kennym@netcom.com (Kenny Meyer)
Subject: Regular expression search of articles in a folder
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 23:29:38 GMT

Is there a way to do a regular expression search of all the 
articles in a folder?  The nn FAQ says you can't do it in 
nn.  Is there another utility available?

Thanks,
Kenny Meyer
From: geoffm@purplehaze.Corp.Sun.COM (Geoff Miller)
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
Subject: New Newsgroups
Date: 9 Nov 92 22:08:59 GMT
Article-I.D.: jethro.lftobrINNlpd
Reply-To: geoffm@purplehaze.Corp.Sun.COM (Geoff Miller)
Followup-To: news.newusers.questions
Distribution: world
Organization: Sun Microsystems, Inc.  Mt. View, Ca.
NNTP-Posting-Host: purplehaze.corp.sun.com




When I go into 'rn,' I often get the following message:

		"Checking active list for new newsgroups..."

This used to happen just once a day, but now it happens more often than
not when I activate my newsreader.  I wouldn't mind, except for the fact
that my window locks up for a period ranging from ten seconds to several
minutes while this "active list" is being checked.

Is there any way of circumventing this procedure, or better yet, restricting
it to only happening, say, once in every 24-hour period?  (I'd rather not 
delete my .newsrc file and get a new one if it can be avoided.)  


Geoff

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From: ggw@wolves.uucp (Gregory G. Woodbury)
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
Subject: Re: Internet miracles??? - Mail Delivery
Date: 8 Nov 92 01:37:11 GMT
Organization: Wolves Den UNIX
X-Md4-Signature: dbb5ebc364a68d41efe13fc1ff343b44

golds_ss@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu (Stuart S Goldstone) writes:
> For example, if I send E-Mail to a site that just
>came on the net yesterday, how in the world does my mail program know where
>to send it?  Or does everyone's mail get sent everywhere, and the local
>machines ignore it if it's not for them?  Can someone explain to me how this
>miracle of Internet E-Mail works?  Or, probably better, direct me to a
>source that can explain it to me in simple terms?  Thanks...

Mail delivery is really quite a simple process.  Here is a brief
example of how the system works.

1.  Given a "new" site appearing on the net, one of its users posts an
article to some newsgroup (on Usenet - which only uses the Internet some
of the time :-)  and someone wants to send a mail reply.

Let us call that person and site:

		wolfe@wolves.durham.nc.us

[Technical note: wolves.durham.nc.us isn't directly on the internet, but
all the better for the example!]

2.  Some user at an educational site that is on the internet sends a
reply.
	a)  the mailer examines the address 'wolfe@wolves.durham.nc.us'
	b)  the mailer focuses on '.us'
	c)  the mailer asks the Domain Name Service (DNS) for
		information about '.us'
	d)  the mailer (actually the resolver routines in the mailer)
		get told to ask a particular machine for information
		that handles all .us name resolution (there may be
		several, but that doesn't matter)
	e)  the mailer asks that machine about 'wolves.durham.nc.us'
	f)  the mailer get told to contact '128.109.xxx.xxx' to perform
		the delivery.  [the MX holder for wolves.]
	g)  the mailer connects to the given machine
	h)  the mailer gives the receiver the address, and that machine
		decides if it can handle the address.
	i)  the mailer sends the rest of the message to the delivery
		machine.
	j)  the rest is up to the delivery machine.

3)  Some user off the internet wants to reply.

	a)  the mailer looks at the address and figures out where to
		send the mail for forwarding.  Typically to a
		(logically) nearby machine that is on the net.
	b)  the mailer forwards the message there.
	c)  the forwarding machine treats it as in 2 (above)

4)  At the delivery machine.

	a)  the mailer on the delivery machine recognized that
		'wolves.durham.nc.us' is a special case and forwards the
		message via uucp to 'wolves'
	b)  'wolves' receives the message from the delivery machine and
		passes the message to the user.

5)  Internet to internet.

	is handled as in 2 (above) but without the delivery machine
	forwarding it to the user machine.
-- 
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UUCP: ...dukcds!wolves!ggw   ...duke!wolves!ggw           [use the maps!]
Domain: ggw@wolves.Durham.NC.US  ggw%wolves@duke.cs.duke.edu
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Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
From: schongvm01@cc.curtin.edu.au
Subject: dir/reg
Organization: Curtin University of Technology
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 02:49:33 GMT

Could someone please explain how I can decode a multi-posted or single-
posted file (compressed .ZIP) back into a normal .ZIP file either
in VAX or IBM PCs?  

I have a few compressed (claimed to be .ZIP) files containing source codes
which I got through e-mail but having difficulty in decoding them.

Thanks for the help!

(I thought this problem should be in FAQ list but I couldn't find it)

Vei-Ming Chong
schongvm01@cc.curtin.edu.au
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
From: mayers@gnat.syr.EDU (Michael  Ayers)
Subject: Re: Question about Mac files
In-reply-to: gordonj@acpub.duke.edu's message of 7 Nov 92 09:55:49 GMT
Organization: Syracuse University
Date: Sun, 8 Nov 92 02:16:56 EST

In article <6778@news.duke.edu> gordonj@acpub.duke.edu (Jon Gordon) writes:


>My question is: all of the file names have the suffix '.hqx' - what does this
>mean? Is there some utility I need to get before I can use these files?

    The 'q' in the middle of the extension stands for squeezing.  This
 can be undone by a program named UNSQ which may have been available at that
 site.  I suggest checking the comp.sys.mac.misc group for more info.

    P.S.  As far as I can tell, this is an appropriate place for almost
 any question, if you can't find a better place.


--

             Mike                       mayers@rodan.acs.syr.edu

    ADA:Reliable software must kill people reliably.
From: alizard@tweekco.uucp (A.Lizard)
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
Subject: Re: finding e-mail addresses
Date: Sat, 07 Nov 92 03:15:05 PST
Organization: Tweek-Com Systems BBS, Moraga, CA (510) 631-0615

jaapjl@tab00.larc.nasa.gov (J Lee Jaap) writes:

> Hayes seems not to be on the internet.  Hayes.com does have an MX
> resource record, so DNS-savvy email transports should be able to send
> to postmaster@hayes.com
> 
> Good luck.
> --
> J Lee Jaap <J.L.Jaap@LaRC.NASA.Gov> +1 804/864-2148
>     employed by, not speaking for, AS&M Inc, at
>          NASA LaRC, Hampton VA 23681-0001

The phone number for the Hayes BBS is:
1-800-874-2937
good luck.
A.Lizard

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From: rkc@maestro.bellcore.com (Ramakrishna Chamarthy)
Subject: Questions on "rn"
Organization: Bellcore (Red Bank, NJ)
Distribution: usa
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 92 14:48:42 GMT
Keywords: "Skipping Unavailable Articles", "read" to "not read"  -- "rn" 

I have a couple of questions on "rn" that I use to read/post articles in
various newsgroups. 

(1) When I am in an/at the end of an  article, and press "n" to go to the
    next unread article -

    every once in a while, I get the message 
    "Skipping Unavailable Articles....." 
    (and it DOES skip some number of articles - verified by the number of
     articles "still to be read").

    Is this related to the article (that has been skipped) appearing in the 
    current newsgroup that I am reading that is cross-posted to some other
    newsgroup in which I might have already read that article.
    I have no way of verifying this. 

(2) How does one mark some or all of the articles 
    to be "not read" from "read" in a newsgroup in "rn"?

Can some one please answer? 
 
Thanks
Ramakrishna			E-mail: rkc@maestro.bellcore.com 

Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
From: ii67@vaxb.acs.unt.edu
Subject: Welp...
Organization: University of North Texas
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 01:48:30 GMT

Ok, if anyone can help me out here, I would greatly appreciate 
it...
 
I know the basics of networking, and I was wondering if anyone 
could explain to me how to access MUDs, MUSHs, etc. if I had 
the network address for them...
 
Matthew McGarity
II67@vaxb.acs.unt.edu
From: ggw@wolves.uucp (Gregory G. Woodbury)
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
Subject: Re: Internet miracles??? - Mail Delivery
Date: 7 Nov 92 13:24:00 GMT
Organization: Wolves Den UNIX
X-Md4-Signature: 94a0c50542e21fa245452f788436ddbe

golds_ss@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu (Stuart S Goldstone) writes:
> For example, if I send E-Mail to a site that just
>came on the net yesterday, how in the world does my mail program know where
>to send it?  Or does everyone's mail get sent everywhere, and the local
>machines ignore it if it's not for them?  Can someone explain to me how this
>miracle of Internet E-Mail works?  Or, probably better, direct me to a
>source that can explain it to me in simple terms?  Thanks...

Mail delivery is really quite a simple process.  Here is a brief
example of how the system works.

1.  Given a "new" site appearing on the net, one of its users posts an
article to some newsgroup (on Usenet - which only uses the Internet some
of the time :-)  and someone wants to send a mail reply.

Let us call that person and site:

		wolfe@wolves.durham.nc.us

[Technical note: wolves.durham.nc.us isn't directly on the internet, but
all the better for the example!]

2.  Some user at an educational site that is on the internet sends a
reply.
	a)  the mailer examines the address 'wolfe@wolves.durham.nc.us'
	b)  the mailer focuses on '.us'
	c)  the mailer asks the Domain Name Service (DNS) for
		information about '.us'
	d)  the mailer (actually the resolver routines in the mailer)
		get told to ask a particular machine for information
		that handles all .us name resolution (there may be
		several, but that doesn't matter)
	e)  the mailer asks that machine about 'wolves.durham.nc.us'
	f)  the mailer get told to contact '128.109.xxx.xxx' to perform
		the delivery.  [the MX holder for wolves.]
	g)  the mailer connects to the given machine
	h)  the mailer gives the receiver the address, and that machine
		decides if it can handle the address.
	i)  the mailer sends the rest of the message to the delivery
		machine.
	j)  the rest is up to the delivery machine.

3)  Some user off the internet wants to reply.

	a)  the mailer looks at the address and figures out where to
		send the mail for forwarding.  Typically to a
		(logically) nearby machine that is on the net.
	b)  the mailer forwards the message there.
	c)  the forwarding machine treats it as in 2 (above)

4)  At the delivery machine.

	a)  the mailer on the delivery machine recognized that
		'wolves.durham.nc.us' is a special case and forwards the
		message via uucp to 'wolves'
	b)  'wolves' receives the message from the delivery machine and
		passes the message to the user.

5)  Internet to internet.

	is handled as in 2 (above) but without the delivery machine
	forwarding it to the user machine.
-- 
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news@wolves.durham.nc.us  news%wolves@cs.duke.edu  ...duke!wolves!news
"The flame war is a specific Usenet art form." --me
[This site is not affiliated with Duke University. (Idiots!) ]
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
From: airn@ellis.uchicago.edu (Anthony Airne)
Subject: GIFs on newsgroups
Summary: how, exactly
Keywords: GIF
Reply-To: airn@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: University of Chicago Computing Organizations
Date: Sat, 7 Nov 1992 03:49:51 GMT

Could someone please explain, in painstakingly exact terms, how I turn those 
huge multiple-post alphanumeric files on groups such as 
alt.binaries.pictures.misc into pictures on my computer? I am working on a
Mac II and have the program GifConverter. Thanks in advance!
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From: gumby@spock.uucp (Danny Richman)
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
Subject: New Newsgroup Trouble
Date: 13 Nov 92 15:03:40 GMT
Article-I.D.: spock.1992Nov13.150340.6336
Organization: Choate Rosemary Hall

I am currently in the process of creating a new newsgroup.  The first step
is to request permission for a discussion on new.announce.newgroups.  When
I mailed the moderator, I recieved a message regarding my mail.  My original
message was not returned, but I recieved a blank message from what I believe
was the moderator (I think).  What happens next?  Is that moderator going
to take any action?  Will that moderator post a message to the other newsgroup
involved telling everyone what to do next, where, for how long, and how?  The
manual for new newsgroups does not cover moderator involvement too well.  Is
there anyone out there who has done this before, and can tell me anything.
Our group would like to start the discussion as soon as possible.  Some have
already begun it on our own newsgroup.  Help Soon Please!!!

-Thanks

-- 
                                              gumby@choate.edu

 -My name's Gumby damnit! Not Gum! It's Gumby!
From: harris@gallium.cs.unc.edu (Trey Harris)
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
Subject: Re: Questions on "rn"
Keywords: "Skipping Unavailable Articles", "read" to "not read"  -- "rn"
Date: 7 Nov 92 03:38:31 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

In article <1992Nov5.144842.1766@porthos.cc.bellcore.com> rkc@maestro.bellcore.com (Ramakrishna Chamarthy) writes:
>I have a couple of questions on "rn" that I use to read/post articles in
>various newsgroups. 

>    every once in a while, I get the message 
>    "Skipping Unavailable Articles....." 

This is not anything you are doing.  Either the article was canceled
by the poster, it has not yet reached your site (only happens if you
use a threaded news server, i believe, but don't quote me on that one)
or it has expired (ditto.).  Sometimes a malfunctioning news server
will cause more of these to occur.

In any case, nothing you are doing is causing this.

>(2) How does one mark some or all of the articles 
>    to be "not read" from "read" in a newsgroup in "rn"?

While looking at the article, type 'm.'  If you aren't looking at the
article, you will have to search for it using ?x?r or /x/r, where 'x'
is your search pattern.

This can be quite difficult;  I know that when I first used rn, trying
to find an article I had already read was one of the most difficult
things.  (If it makes you feel any better, it gets easier;  I don't
even remember now why I had trouble.)

Trey Harris
--Stranger in a Strange Thread!
From: ai118@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Rich Zidonis)
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
Subject: Re: How do I include the text of a msg?
Date: 11 Nov 92 16:43:31 GMT
Reply-To: ai118@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Rich Zidonis)
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
NNTP-Posting-Host: slc4.ins.cwru.edu


In a previous article, ck270@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Andrea Von Ahnen) says:

>
>When replying to a message, how do I include some or all of the
>text of the message I'm replying to?  Following Unix logic, since
>I use "f" to reply, a capital F should work to include text, but
>it doesn't.
>

Try one of the following groups for assistance:

	freenet.admin.questions
	freenet.admin.info
	freenet.bugs
	freenet.rec.inet.general
	freenet.rec.inet.qa
-- 
RAZ     ai118@cleveland.freenet.edu
From: bwilliam@oyster.smcm.edu (Bill Williams)
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
Subject: Re: Question about Mac files
Date: 12 Nov 92 14:07:39 GMT
Organization: St. Mary's College of Maryland
X-UserAgent: Nuntius v1.1.1d10
X-XXMessage-ID: <A727DE58390101D2@williams.smcm.edu>
X-XXDate: Thu, 12 Nov 92 15:11:36 GMT

In article <6778@news.duke.edu> Jon Gordon, gordonj@acpub.duke.edu
writes:
>My question is: all of the file names have the suffix '.hqx' - what
does this
>mean? Is there some utility I need to get before I can use these
files?

Connect to Sumex-Aim.stanford.edu by anonymous FTP, get to the
info-mac/reports directory, and look around.  If I recall correctly,
there is an extensive and well-written guide to the file formats,
utilities, and procedures required for handling all manner of stuff on
Macs connected to networks.  I can't remember what it's called - Mac
FTP info or somesuch.  Enjoy!  It's a great way to waste LOTS of time!
___________________________________
William E. Williams, bwilliam@oyster.smcm.edu
Divison of Natural Sciences and Mathematics
St. Mary's College of Maryland
St. Mary's City, MD 20686
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
From: aphrk@Msu.oscs.montana.edu
Subject: RE:Botany newsgroups
Reply-To: aphrk@Msu.oscs.montana.edu
Organization: Montana State University
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 19:40:40 GMT

Try bionet.plants
It's the only other one I know of.  If there are more I would like
to know also.

Robyn Klein
From: crobshaw@rd.hydro.on.ca (Catharine Robshaw)
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
Subject: Kill File?
Date: 12 Nov 92 15:57:18 GMT
Organization: "Ontario Hydro - Research Division"

Can someone tell me how to make a kill file?  I am using the newsreader
"tin".  Some subjects in some of the newsgroups I do not want to see.
Thanks in advance.

Catharine
crobshaw@rd.hydro.on.ca
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
From: dougnews@access.digex.com (Doug Humphrey)
Subject: Re: What if my system doesn't subscribe to a newsgroup?
Organization: Express Access Online Communications, Greenbelt, MD USA
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 23:27:04 GMT

In article <1992Nov9.114258.1@skcla.monsanto.com> petersonk@skcla.monsanto.com writes:
>>The system I used during my grad school days subscribed to some newgroups that
>>my work system does not (like rec...).  How can I continue to participate
>>in newgroups that are not subscribed to?
>
>I'm also interested in this topic.  Please post any suggestions, or (more
>preferably since I don't get much time to read this group) E-mail me.
>Thanks,
>
>Karen Peterson
>Petersonk@skcla.monsanto.com

Well, if you can not find another solution to this 
problem, you can purchase an account on our systems
here at Express Access.  For $15 a month, you get 
access to ALL of the newsgroups.  Just telnet into 
our system.  Send mail to  info@digex.com  for more
information.



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From: cm404@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Scott D. Newberry)
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
Subject: USENET Mail
Date: 10 Nov 1992 12:18:49 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio (USA)
NNTP-Posting-Host: hela.ins.cwru.edu


Is it possible, if you are on a system that does not have USENET
(such as tso.uc.edu), to have one or two specific USENET groups
sent to you via email?

Scott
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
From: aus@winx03.informatik.uni-wuerzburg.dbp.de (Hans Aus)
Subject: Re: Applelink>Internet
Organization: University of Wuerzburg, Germany
Date: Sun, 8 Nov 1992 17:29:04 GMT

Don't stop posting the mail quide. There is always a newcomer on the
network who, like myself, have seen it and many other FAQs for
the first time.  I certainly appreciate it. Don't give up.
> 
-- 
Hans M Aus, Institute of Virology, University of Wuerzburg, Germany
e-mail: hans.aus@vax.rz.uni-wuerzburg.dbp.de (preferred)
Versbacherstr 7, 8700 Wuerzburg. Fax: Germany +931 201 3934; tel:3954
From: mvbr@se.alcbel.be (Marc Verbruggen)
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
Subject: Interface to MXRN
Date: 9 Nov 92 09:56:06 GMT
Reply-To: mvbr@se.alcbel.be
Organization: Alcatel Bell Telephone


--
Does anyone know how it is possible to interface with MXRN via other VMS
utilities like DCL ? In other words, how can I post an article into news 
without using the GUI
Is it also possible to forward mail messages directly into a particular
newsgroup ?
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