HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: Iain.Lea%anl433.uucp@Germany.EU.net (Iain Lea)
Subject: Re: TIN 1.1 PL6 and newsgroup choosing
Reply-To: Iain.Lea%anl433.uucp@Germany.EU.net
Organization: TIN Support
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 Beta PL7]
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1992 08:58:37 GMT

Tim Pierce (twpierce@unix.amherst.edu) wrote:
: 
: * A user is permitted to subscribe to a deactivated group (one marked
: with "x" or "=" in the active file), being told simply that that group
: is empty.  I think he/she should be told that the group is bogus, as
: with rn and trn.

It should not be able to do this as all groups with 'x' are never read
in to tins active[] array. Groups marked with '=' are still read in. 
Should groups with a '=' in the active file be read in?

: * Tin checks only the active file to see if there are new groups to be
: subscribed to.  If you use more than one newsreader regularly (I
: usually use trn), you might have already been asked about these
: groups.  Shouldn't tin check the active file *and* the user's .newsrc?

Maybe. I will put it on the TODO list.

Iain

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Newsgroups: news.software.readers
From: cs3ea3cd@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca (Abrams       J)
Subject: cross posting in rn
Organization: Department of Computer Science, McMaster University
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1992 02:46:56 GMT

Probably a really obvious/silly question, but how do you cross post
to different newsgroups with rn?  Usually i hit f while in in the
group that I wish to post to...  If I simply add some other news
groups to the header, does that I mean I have to check manually that
I remembered the full and correct newsgroup names?


-- 

Jonathan H. Abrams - McMaster University, Canada 

cs3ea3cd@maccs.dcss.mcmcaster.ca
From: madsere@okys.infoserv.com (Rene Madsen)
Newsgroups: news.software.readers
Subject: WANTED: newsreader
Keywords: trn rn nn
Date: 29 Sep 92 23:21:56 GMT
Organization: Brackton Ltd. Luxembourg

Hi Netters,

I need a new newsreader. The system currently uses vnews which is 
kinda ok, but to read all news it would take me 10+ hours.

What I really miss in vnews :

1)	The ability to show newsgroups with new postings;
2)	The ability to create a 'kill-file', or some other way of killing
	postings with a known pattern.
3)	A command to follow a 'tread'.

I have heard of many newsreaders and trn sounds like it can do these
things.  Unfortunately I don't have FTP access, so if some kind sould
would send it to me, please send me a note (First. Just so I don't 
receive 1.0E9 identical copies ;-)

As I said, I haven't actually seen any of those newsreaders mentionned,
so I'm open for suggestions.

Please answer by email as my site is not currently getting the
news.* groups

Thanx,

-- 
Rene Madsen                
Unix Systems Support/Dev.       
madsere@okys.infoserv.com
From: ranck@joesbar.cc.vt.edu (Wm. L. Ranck)
Newsgroups: news.software.readers
Subject: Re: TIN 1.1 PL7
Date: 29 Sep 92 14:16:53 GMT
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]

I am wondering why Iain is considering remapping r -> R and f -> F.  
Will TIN then prompt for inclusion of text?  That seems inconvenient to me.
I like the way it works now.  What is to be gained by remapping that offsets
the extra prompt that it seems would be required?

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From: fritz@hpfcbig.sde.hp.com (Gary Fritz)
Newsgroups: news.software.readers
Subject: Tin $MAILER?
Date: 28 Sep 92 15:40:51 GMT
Article-I.D.: fc.BvAow3.KxJ
Organization: HP SESD, Fort Collins, CO
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1.1 PL6]


I'm having trouble getting the $MAILER variable to work with Tin.  I've tried
setting it and I still get the default mailer.  Given that Iain sets up
a whole bunch of stuff ahead of invoking it (message content, To: address,
asks you if you want to edit or mail, etc.), I'm not sure how to hook into it
anyway.

My latest experiments have, I think, resulted in the default mail-edit
stuff being invoked in Tin, and then the message is passed somehow to 
my $MAILER in the form "$MAILER <address>".  Unfortunately that doesn't
work for me...

I use mh.  I want to use "comp" (or should that be "send", or some script
wrapping "send", or "post", or...?) instead of Tin's mailer, since Tin's 
doesn't do nice things like record outgoing mail in my outbox.  Anybody 
got any suggestions?  Iain?

Thanks -- Gary
From: sergio@Ingres.COM (Sergio L Aponte)
Newsgroups: news.software.readers
Subject: Re: TIN 1.1 PL6: SIGSEGV upon entering
Date: 28 Sep 92 21:40:25 GMT
Organization: Ingres, an ASK Company, Alameda CA 94501
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5


	Our instance was one particular NNTP server, but not the other two.

	I traced it down to the subscriptions file. One of the entries there
	had an extra space at the end of the line.

	I would check his/her files for extra chars due to editing or something
	like that...

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Newsgroups: news.software.readers
From: peter@psychnet.psychol.utas.edu.au (Peter R. Tattam)
Subject: Re: NNTP readers through a telnet or modem link direct to NNTP server
Keywords: readers NNTP telnet modem dialup
Organization: Psychology Department, University of Tasmania
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1992 00:45:03 GMT

In article <seant.93.0@sunfish.ratsys.com> seant@sunfish.ratsys.com (Sean D. True) writes:
>From: seant@sunfish.ratsys.com (Sean D. True)
>Subject: Re: NNTP readers through a telnet or modem link direct to NNTP server
>Keywords: readers NNTP telnet modem dialup
>Date: Sat, 26 Sep 1992 21:46:28 GMT
>In article <1992Sep25.141948.22500@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> tbuskey@nyx.cs.du.edu (Tom Buskey) writes:
>
>>Are there any readers that can access a NNTP server directly through a
>>modem link?  I have dial-up access directly to an NNTP server & I'd
>>like to be able to read news through it.  I'm using a PC btw.  
>>Thanks in advance.  Tom Buskey   tbuskey@nyx.du.cs.edu
>
>Trumpet with the NEWSX wrapper and the FTP Software PCTCP slip kernel
>would work just fine. PC/TCP isn't free, though.
>
>================================================================
>Sean D. True
>Rational Systems, Inc.
>seant@ratsys.com -- uunet!rational!seant

The stand-alone version of Trumpet will also work quite reliably with the 
SLIP8250 driver. This would be a cheaper alternative to the one suggested.  
I would however suggest 9600 baud or better since Trumpet makes heavy usage 
of the network to get headers etc.

Peter
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From: rsalz@rodan.UU.NET (Rich Salz)
Newsgroups: news.software.nntp
Subject: Re: INN Path header woes
Date: 5 Oct 1992 09:05:16 -0400
Organization: UUNET Technologies Inc, Falls Church, VA
NNTP-Posting-Host: rodan.uu.net

In <69944@hydra.gatech.EDU> gt5870c@prism.gatech.EDU (Noah White) writes:
>  I have been having problems with my Path headers produced by INN. Specific-
>ally if I post a message from cae (my news server) the path looks like this:
>cae!cae!not-for-mail
>Shouldn't it be cae!not-for-mail ? And just why is this not-for-mail tacked on?
>BTW this is without a pathhost defined in inn.conf.
If there is no Path line, the nnrpd server creates one of the form
	${PATHHOST}!${NEWSMASTER}
since that it is unlikely that "not-for-mail" is the name of your NEWSMASTER
then we can ignore nnrpd.  This means that it must be coming from inews.
We can double-check by looking for "not-for-mail" in the config.dist file:
	##  Who gets email on the Path line?
	#### =()<PATHMASTER		@<PATHMASTER>@>()=
	PATHMASTER		not-for-mail
The Path line is not to be trusted for mail.  Unless you hack the source,
INN makes it impossible to use the Path line.  Unfortunately, much
software (think DECWRL ratings :-) assume that the last item in a path
line is a username, not a host name, so INN has to put something there.

Okay, so now we know that inews is responsible for the last part of the
Path.  What about the middle?  Simple:
	##  Put hosts in the inews Path header?  Pick DO or DONT.
	#### =()<INEWS_PATH		@<INEWS_PATH>@>()=
	INEWS_PATH		DO
If you set this value to DONT then inews will not put the local host in
the path line.

>Also I noticed that if I put the line:
>pathhost cae.cad.gatech.edu  
>in the inn.conf file, the Path header is: cae!cae.cad.gatech.edu!not-for-mail
Right.  I bet that you did not restart your innd server.  If you did,
then it would have picked up the new pathhost value and you would see
	cae.cad.gatech.edu!cae.cad.gatech.edu!not-for-mail

Read doc/inews.1.  If you are curious about the effect of INEWS_PATH,
read the nroff source not the formatted output.
	/r$
Newsgroups: news.software.nntp
From: steveh@orbital.demon.co.uk (Stephen Hebditch)
Subject: Re: trn mods to nntp-server vs. tin mods to nntp-server
Organization: TQM Communications, London, UK
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1992 14:12:05 GMT

In article <1aa6saINN1tl@rodan.UU.NET> rsalz@rodan.UU.NET (Rich Salz) writes:
>In <1992Sep27.121030.21705@anl433.uucp> Iain.Lea%anl433.uucp@Germany.EU.net writes:
>>Once INN settles down in a few patchlevels time I will issue a patch to
>>support my extra NNTP extensions XINDEX, XMOTD & XUSER.
>
>That is too bad.
>
>It would be a better world if, instead, you spent your time and effort
>on helping to build and use a general NNTP-based indexing system.

Am I the only person who thinks that NNTP is getting to be rather a
mess?

To the commands in RFC 977 there have now been additions from the Unix
refererence implementation (LIST extensions, XHDR), the authorisation
stuff (AUTHINFO), INN (more LIST extensions, MODE, XREPLIC, XPAT,
LISTGROUP), anu-news (XGTITLE), trn (XTHREAD) and tin (XINDEX, XMOTD and
XUSER).

At the moment the standards seem to be lagging behind the software quite
badly, with there being a danger that a clean interface for NNRP and
NNTP v2 will have to be compromised for the sake of coping with a whole
series of enhancements added by individual implementors. In the case of
newsreader facilities like threading, it would seem to make sense for
everyone to work on an getting a first draft out of NNRP which properly
deals with such issues in a client-independent way.

-- 
Stephen Hebditch  TQM Communications  steveh@orbital.demon.co.uk +44 836 825962
Newsgroups: news.software.nntp
Subject: testing please ignore
From: system@fallout.lonestar.org
Date: 29 Sep 92 23:43:38 CST
Organization: DECUS DFWLUG BBS *Dallas*TX*

Testing please ignore

Xref: sparky news.software.nntp:1273 news.sysadmin:1298 news.admin:7895
From: rsalz@rodan.UU.NET (Rich Salz)
Newsgroups: news.software.nntp,news.sysadmin,news.admin
Subject: Re: Help with INN!
Date: 6 Oct 1992 11:06:30 -0400
Organization: UUNET Technologies Inc, Falls Church, VA
NNTP-Posting-Host: rodan.uu.net

In <1992Oct5.202942.11112@seas.gwu.edu> dobrien@seas.gwu.edu (David O'Brien) writes:
>1. How do I set INN up to go out and get my incoming feed?
Did you read appendix IV of the installation manual?  Paragraph four:
    Once the groups are set up, your newsfeed will periodically connect to
    your NNTP server and offer it any new articles that have arrived since the
    last connection.
It also discusses the non-use of nntpget.

>2. What needs to go in news' crontab?
Did you read Appendix IV of the installation manual?
A few paragraphs later:
    When someone at your site writes an article, \fIinnd\fP will record the
    filename in the batch file for your upstream site.
    Either \fIsend-nntp\fP or \fInntpsend\fP will flush and lock the batchfile,
    and then call \fIinnxmit\fP to connect to the remote site and send these
    queued articles out.
    You should edit the script to list the sites you want, and arrange for
    \fIcron\fP to run this script on a regular basis.
    You can run it as often as you like, but 10 minutes is a common interval.
    ...
    Once you have news flowing in and out of the system, you will have
    to expire it or your disks will fill up.
    The \fInews.daily\fP script should be run by \fIcron\fP in the middle
    of the night.
    ...
    You might also want to have \fIcron\fP run \fIrnews\fP hourly to pick
    up any stalled batches.
    .PP
    You will generally want to set up the \fIcron\fP jobs
    so that they are run as the news administrator, and not as root.

If you have any ideas on how I could make this more clear, please let me know.
	/r$
Newsgroups: news.software.nntp
From: tim@refuge.Colorado.EDU (Tim Hunter)
Subject: trn mods to nntp-server vs. tin mods to nntp-server
Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder
Date: Sat, 26 Sep 1992 21:34:48 GMT

I'm in charge of running the primary news server at the University of
Colorado at Boulder.  It's a decstation 3100 running Ultrix 4.1, Cnews
(I'm not sure how to find out what version) and nntpd 1.5.11.

Recently I've had several requests to modify our news server so that
news readers can use a thread-based news reader.  Unfortunately, some
want "tin", and some want "trn".  This means installing two seperate
patches to nntpd (tin implements XUSER and XINDEX and LIST
SUBSCRIPTIONS while trn implements XTHREAD)

My questions are:

if I install both patches, will nntpd still work?

if I can only install one set of patches, which program is more widely used?

can one program be modified to use the nntp commands of the other?

trn says it will consume about 5% of my news spool in space,
how much space with the tin threads take?  (i assume the
threads databases would be seperate)

which threads commands does INN support, if any?

Thanks for your help!
Tim
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Newsgroups: news.software.nntp
From: jgg@fc.sde.hp.com (Jay Geertsen)
Subject: Re: trn mods to nntp-server vs. tin mods to nntp-server
Reply-To: jgg@fc.sde.hp.com
Organization: HP SESD, Fort Collins, CO
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1.4 PL6]
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1992 19:11:00 GMT

>> Once INN settles down in a few patchlevels time I will issue a patch
>> to support my extra NNTP extensions XINDEX, XMOTD & XUSER.

> It would be a better world if, instead, you spent your time and effort
> on helping to build and use a general NNTP-based indexing system.

When you say "NNTP-based", do you mean a system that relies on the
existing NNTP protocol without extensions?

For those of us who aren't NNTP wizards and don't speak it over the
dinner table, it's very easy for us to assume that Iain added his
extensions to facilitate doing indexing in a way that is not possible
with the existing NNTP protocol.  Is this an incorrect assumption?  Does
the existing protocol facilitate doing indexing quickly?  Efficiently?
Centrally?  If an "NNTP-based indexing system" means that indexing is
done on the fly every time I "enter" a group, and it takes more than 10
seconds to do it, then from my point of view, that is the wrong
approach.

Let me make it clear that when I suggest that I'm ignorant of what NNTP
provides, I mean exactly that.  I'd really like to know if--in your
opinion--Iain's extensions are unacceptable to you because they're
non-standard, unnecessary, or simply "wrong".

- Jay Geertsen
Newsgroups: news.software.nntp
From: shane@utdallas.edu (Shane Davis)
Subject: nntplink patches for Performance Release?
Keywords: nntplink patch C-news
Reply-To: shane@utdallas.edu
Organization: The Univ. of Texas at Dallas, ACC
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1992 16:51:28 GMT

Are there nntplink patches for the C-news "Performance Release?" I have
been running without patches on my 24-Mar-91 C-news, but I am upgrading
hardware and taking the opportunity to update my software. Does it make
much difference whether I use nntplink with the standard log file as opposed
to installing the patch.cnews?

The patch.cnews at Ohio State will not apply to the Performance Release.

Thanks in advance...

--Shane
From: rsalz@rodan.UU.NET (Rich Salz)
Newsgroups: news.software.nntp
Subject: Re: trn mods to nntp-server vs. tin mods to nntp-server
Date: 30 Sep 1992 09:27:09 -0400
Organization: UUNET Technologies Inc, Falls Church, VA
NNTP-Posting-Host: rodan.uu.net

In <BvCtAD.Hp3@fc.sde.hp.com> jgg@fc.sde.hp.com writes:
>Let me make it clear that when I suggest that I'm ignorant of what NNTP
>provides, I mean exactly that.
This can be fixed in an hour or so.  Get RFC977 (nnsc.nsf.net among
other places) and read it.

Ian:
>Once INN settles down in a few patchlevels time I will issue a patch
>to support my extra NNTP extensions XINDEX, XMOTD & XUSER.

Me:
>It would be a better world if, instead, you spent your time and effort
>on helping to build and use a general NNTP-based indexing system.

Jay again:
>When you say "NNTP-based", do you mean a system that relies on the
>existing NNTP protocol without extensions?

trn, tin, and nn all have external databases.  They are all special-case
with proprietary format and access methods.  I would like to see a generic
access method.  For example
	return :artnum from 10-20 where References has <a@b>
rather than whatever warped binary data is returned by the trn XTHREADS
command.  (Binary data; sheesh!)

Right now, trn, tin, etc., all have their own little NNTP extension and their
own little external database that "only" adds a few percentage to your
spool area.  Abstract out the common facility, make it general, and make it
possible for all those readers to use a single command (maybe two; certainly
no more) and a single database.

One clean extension to the protocol.  Not the current set of random hacks
that are useful as prototypes, but nothing else.

I hope this is more clear.
	/r$
Newsgroups: news.software.nntp
From: jgg@fc.sde.hp.com (Jay Geertsen)
Subject: Re: trn mods to nntp-server vs. tin mods to nntp-server
Reply-To: jgg@fc.sde.hp.com
Organization: HP SESD, Fort Collins, CO
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1.4 PL6]
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1992 13:55:35 GMT

> [Dicussion history and clarification deleted.]
>
> I hope this is more clear.

Yes, it is.  Thanks for taking the time to elaborate.

So, assuming that a uniform indexing scheme is desired by everyone,
what's the next step to getting there?

- Jay Geertsen
From: karena@teal.csn.org (Karen Allen)
Newsgroups: news.software.nntp
Subject: nntpxmit not transferring batch file
Date: 29 Sep 92 00:19:29 GMT
Organization: Colorado SuperNet, Inc.


Problem: not getting news batch file transmitted from host doc to host baloo.

I post from host doc, see file baloo.nntp in /usr/spool/news/nntp.batches.
Then I run (on doc) nntpxmit -d baloo:baloo.nntp (cwd: /usr/spool/news/nntp.batches) and get the follwing info:

200 baloo NNTP server version 1.5.11 (10 February 1991) ready at Mon Sep 28 18:0
3:19 1992 (posting ok).
nntpxmit: cleanup()
nntpxmit: requeue(): reset
nntpxmit: unlink(baloo.nntp)
>>> QUIT
205 baloo closing connection.  Goodbye.
nntpxmit: baloo stats 0 offered 0 accepted 0 rejected 0 failed
nntpxmit: baloo xmit user 0.070 system 0.070 elapsed 2.200

Its like doc is not seeing anything to transmit.
 
sys and access file on doc:

ME:all/all::
baloo:boulder,co,biz,comp,csn,gnu,misc,ncar,news,unix,unix-pc,\
vax/co,pvi,usa,na,world,to.baloo,to:F:/usr/spool/news/nntp.batches/baloo.nntp

sys file on baloo:

ME:all/all::
doc:boulder,co,biz,comp,csn,gnu,misc,ncar,news,unix,unix-pc,\
vax/co,pvi,usa,na,world,to:F:/usr/spool/news/nntp.batches/doc.nntp

access file on either system have xfer and post for the other host.
 
I have a feeling this is something I'm overlooking ... please help, this is
driving me nuts.

Thanks,

Karen Allen
karena@csn.org
From: karena@teal.csn.org (Karen Allen)
Newsgroups: news.software.nntp
Subject: Re: nntpxmit not transferring batch file
Date: 29 Sep 92 18:12:05 GMT
Article-I.D.: csn.BvCqK6.A81
Organization: Colorado SuperNet, Inc.

In article <BvBCwH.Eoz@csn.org> karena@teal.csn.org (Karen Allen) writes:
>
>Problem: not getting news batch file transmitted from host doc to host baloo.
>
>I post from host doc, see file baloo.nntp in /usr/spool/news/nntp.batches.
>Then I run (on doc) nntpxmit -d baloo:baloo.nntp (cwd: /usr/spool/news/nntp.batches) and get the follwing info:
>
>200 baloo NNTP server version 1.5.11 (10 February 1991) ready at Mon Sep 28 18:0
>3:19 1992 (posting ok).
>nntpxmit: cleanup()
>nntpxmit: requeue(): reset
>nntpxmit: unlink(baloo.nntp)
>>>> QUIT
>205 baloo closing connection.  Goodbye.
>nntpxmit: baloo stats 0 offered 0 accepted 0 rejected 0 failed
>nntpxmit: baloo xmit user 0.070 system 0.070 elapsed 2.200
>
>Its like doc is not seeing anything to transmit.
> 
>sys and access file on doc:
>
>ME:all/all::
>baloo:boulder,co,biz,comp,csn,gnu,misc,ncar,news,unix,unix-pc,\
>vax/co,pvi,usa,na,world,to.baloo,to:F:/usr/spool/news/nntp.batches/baloo.nntp
>
>sys file on baloo:
>
>ME:all/all::
>doc:boulder,co,biz,comp,csn,gnu,misc,ncar,news,unix,unix-pc,\
>vax/co,pvi,usa,na,world,to:F:/usr/spool/news/nntp.batches/doc.nntp
>
>access file on either system have xfer and post for the other host.
> 

Thanks to:

Tim Pierce <twpierce@unix.amherst.edu>
Rahul Dhesi <dhesi@rahul.net>
derwin@mach2.wlu.ca (Daryl Erwin)
eduardo.rodriguez@dcc.uchile.cl (Eduardo Rodriguez)

I appreciate your help.

Fix is:

cwd needs to be relative to news articles, ie; /usr/spool/news
and nntpxmit needs full path for batch file, ie;

nntpxmit -d baloo:/usr/spool/news/nntp.batches/baloo.nntp

Karen Allen
karena@csn.org or karena@pvi.com
From: rsalz@rodan.UU.NET (Rich Salz)
Newsgroups: news.software.nntp
Subject: Re: trn mods to nntp-server vs. tin mods to nntp-server
Date: 29 Sep 1992 14:22:02 -0400
Organization: UUNET Technologies Inc, Falls Church, VA
NNTP-Posting-Host: rodan.uu.net

In <1992Sep27.121030.21705@anl433.uucp> Iain.Lea%anl433.uucp@Germany.EU.net writes:
>Once INN settles down in a few patchlevels time I will issue a patch to
>support my extra NNTP extensions XINDEX, XMOTD & XUSER.
That is too bad.

It would be a better world if, instead, you spent your time and effort
on helping to build and use a general NNTP-based indexing system.
	/rich $alz
Newsgroups: news.software.nntp
From: kre@cs.mu.oz.au (Robert Elz)
Subject: Re: Fastest relay for news
Organization: Computer Science, University of Melbourne, Australia
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1992 20:26:07 GMT

In <75G7VPH@mailgzrz.tu-berlin.de>
pcg04000@mailszrz.zrz.tu-berlin.de (Peter-Ch. Gentz) writes:

| I want to setup a very fast relay for news. I want to use
| INN and nntplink (with logfile option).

| Is there any faster configuration  ???

"fast relay" isn't unambiguous, but assuming you want minimim delay
between article arrival and transmission, use nntplink -istdin and
run it from an INN channel - INN doesn't flush the logfile on every
write (that would cost time), so monitoring the logfile will
inevitably add a small delay - how big will depend on how sites you feed,
which influences the log file size, and consequently how many articles
you have to wait to arrive before a log file write will occur.

Provided your nntplink can keep up with the peak article rate the
-istdin scheme works well - nntplink will keep up if you have sufficient
bandwidth and low enough delay.

kre
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