HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: robin@dcs.warwick.ac.uk (Rob Rainton)
Subject: Re: UK teletext server
Organization: Department of Computer Science, Warwick University, England
Distribution: uk
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 14:24:43 GMT

In article <C19Az0.EMx@dcs.ed.ac.uk> paul@dcs.ed.ac.uk (Paul Anderson) writes:
>In article <1788@ozz.oasis.icl.co.uk>, ppg@oasis.icl.co.uk (Philippe Goujard)
>writes:
>> 
>> You can easily filter out graphic characters and colors so a page will
>> display on any terminal.
>
>A student of mine started to do an X-based Teletext terminal emulator.
>Unfortunately, it was never really finished properly, but it isn't hard - if
>there was a good source of pages, it might be worth doing.
>

I'm writing an X based teletext system here, I've done this by impelmenting an
X toolkit widget which takes a pointer to a teletext page class as one of it's
resources.

The class decodes pages and decides which characters go where, what the
colours are, etc. - the widget just renders them in a window. You could
interogate the class and output any ascii characters you find onto a normal
terminal if you wanted.

My biggest problem is where to get pages from as well. At the moment the only
ones I have were captured by a friend of mine on an amiga with a teletext
adapter.

Rob.
Newsgroups: alt.internet.services,alt.california
From: eugene@wilbur.nas.nasa.gov (Eugene N. Miya)
Subject: Re: EARTHQUAKES/INTERNET
Organization: NAS, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 93 01:31:31 GMT

1) One regional group exists on earthquakes: ca.earthquake which is
populated by an interesting crew of people: oil company seismologists,
nuclear test ban verification seismologists, a few earthquake people
(seismo, geophysics types), mining geologists, and the vast majority of
lay public who read or do catharsis posts following a quake.

2) sci.geo.geology.

--eugene miya, NASA Ames Research Center, eugene@orville.nas.nasa.gov
  Associate Editor, Software and Publication Reviews
  Scientific Programming
  {uunet,mailrus,other gateways}!ames!eugene
Seeking Books to buy:	Bongard, Pattern Recognition
			3 down 1 to go.
From: paul@dcs.ed.ac.uk (Paul Anderson)
Newsgroups: alt.internet.services
Subject: Re: UK teletext server
Date: 22 Jan 93 13:04:11 GMT
Distribution: uk
Organization: Department of Computer Science, University of Edinburgh

In article <1788@ozz.oasis.icl.co.uk>, ppg@oasis.icl.co.uk (Philippe Goujard) writes:
> mjh@dmu.ac.uk (Mike Howarth) writes:
> 
> Actually this is exactly what I do on my server : call (0734) 34 00 55,
> login as 'new' and you have access to teletex pages, even without needing
> to register.

That sounds great! I don't suppose you want to make them available over the
Internet?

> >Practically, though, although the idea is good, would it really work ? 
> >How many people have machines hooked-up that can actually take level 2
> >teletext codes ?  I know of very little software to handle this (excepting
> >the Beeb computers) on PC's, VAX etc.
> 
> You can easily filter out graphic characters and colors so a page will
> display on any terminal.

A student of mine started to do an X-based Teletext terminal emulator.
Unfortunately, it was never really finished properly, but it isn't hard - if
there was a good source of pages, it might be worth doing.

	Paul

-- 
Paul Anderson                      email: paul@dcs.ed.ac.uk
LFCS, Dept. of Computer Science
University of Edinburgh            phone: (+44) (0)31-650-5193
Edinburgh EH9 3JZ, UK.             fax:   (+44) (0)31-667-7209
From: tdarcos@digex.digex.com (Paul Robinson)
Newsgroups: alt.internet.services
Subject: Re: Area Code lookup?
Date: 23 Jan 1993 12:54:51 GMT
Organization: Tansin A. Darcos & Company, Silver Spring, MD USA
Distribution: usa
NNTP-Posting-Host: access.digex.com
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL3

regnad@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Paul Prescott) writes:
: 
: Is there any kind of service available which will tell you the telephone
: area code for a given city and state?  Alternatively, is this information
: available elsewhere?  Like the public library, perhaps?

You can get State lookups from Internet RFC 1394.

Newsgroups: alt.internet.services
From: lingerke@expert.cc.purdue.edu (Ken Linger)
Subject: Re: Can newsgroups be distributed as email??
Organization: Purdue University Computing Center
Distribution: usa
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 19:08:06 GMT

In article <1jp6nsINNn8m@spock.dis.cccd.edu> markb@cccd.edu writes:
>I'm not aware of any automated servers that do this a la LISTSERVs, but a
>friendly newsadmin could setup such an e-mail relay for you.  I e-mail one
>of the Startrek newsgroups to a friend automagically.
>-- 
>Mark Bixby                         Internet: markb@cccd.edu
>Coast Community College District   1370 Adams Avenue
>District Information Services      Costa Mesa, CA, USA  92626
>Technical Support                  (714) 432-5064
>"You can tune a file system, but you can't tune a fish." - tunefs(1M)

Is there a batch file that can be set up to do this [automatically]?  If so,
would you forward me a copy of it?  Sometimes when I go away, I have an account
with no news access, but if I can leave a process running here, then that
could solve my problems.

Ken Linger
Linger@starsys.laf.in.us
-- 

        Ken Linger                              Linger@starsys.laf.in.us        
        School of Computer Science              lingerke@expert.cc.purdue.edu   
        Purdue University                       AOL:  Ken Linger
Newsgroups: alt.internet.services
Subject: Finding Compuserve Accounts
From: cspradling@cardinal.sc107.wesleyan.edu
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 21:53:57 GMT
Organization: Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT USA

I was wondering how an Internet user could find the numerical Compuserve 
account when you have the person's full legal name. If so, please reply to 
the above address as I am unable to frequent net news often.  Also, how can 
an Internet user access MCI X.400 mail? Thanks in advance.

Craig
From: mjo@iao.ford.com (Mike O'Connor)
Newsgroups: alt.internet.services
Subject: Re: IS NSF GOING TO BOOT COMMERCIAL USERS OFF INTERNET?
Date: 22 Jan 1993 21:47:23 GMT
Organization: Not an official spokesperson for Ford Motor Company
Reply-To: Mike O'Connor <mjo@fmsrl7.srl.ford.com>
NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost

In article <Jan.22.15.44.26.1993.23765@gandalf.rutgers.edu>
shagan@gandalf.rutgers.edu (Susan R. Hagan) writes:

:>This is doubtful.  Internet > NSFnet
:                    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
:What do you mean by this?  

Internet .gt. NSFnet

Or, in plain English.

The Internet is a considerable superset of the NSFnet, and said
superset would certainly not go away even if the NSF decided to pull
the plug tomorrow.

						...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
Newsgroups: alt.internet.services
From: jloya@world.std.com (Jim Loya)
Subject: Public Domain Artwork
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 23:20:36 GMT


Are there resources available over the nets to repositories of scanned
images that are in the public domain?  Either portraits, still life,
what-have-you, that can be re-used in advertising and/or other art
projects without royalties?  Any subject matter other than pornography
would be acceptable.

Respond via email, if possible.

Jim Loya (JLoya@World.Std.Com)

Newsgroups: alt.internet.services
From: lllowen@netcom.com (lllowen)
Subject: Re: Compuserve Access via Telnet.
Organization: Netcom Online Communications Services (408-241-9760 login: guest)
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 06:22:01 GMT

In article <1993Jan22.134416.63053@cc.usu.edu> fahole@cc.usu.edu writes:
>Note, the 8-5 m-f is local at Merit University.

Merit University?  Close, but not quite.  :)  Merit could best be defined as
a collective organization that has close ties to the major Universities in
Michigan.  Merit provides a lot of services to Michigan educational
students, staff and faculty.  But not at all limited to just Michigan
citizens.  
-- 

Lon Lowen Jr.                        |  Wayne State University
Netcom Online Communications         |  Detroit, Michigan
lllowen@netcom.com                   |  (lllowen@mts.cc.wayne.edu)
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Newsgroups: alt.internet.services
From: dockhorn@probitas.cs.utas.edu.au (Patrick Dockhorn)
Subject: Re: World Map and Internet Map
Organization: University of Tasmania, Australia.
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 22:32:52 GMT

In <1993Jan26.222526.4554@dcs.warwick.ac.uk> wing@news.dcs.warwick.ac.uk (Wing Cheong R Chan) writes:

>	Is there any site where I can ftp some world maps or country maps?
>Also, is there any site have a general map of the Internet Network or Other
>network?

This is an excerpt of the README file of a small tool called 'wmap2ps'
I posted to alt.sources a while ago. You can get the package from
several ftp sites around the world(e.g. wilma.cs.brown.edu in
/pub/postscript) , but if you're interested, let me know and I'll send
you the latest release.

-patsch

--------------------------------------------------------------------
WHAT IS wmap2ps ?
=================

wmap2ps converts map files (MP1 format) from John B. Allisons
'The World Digitized' package to EPSF 2.0 conforming
PostScript files. The latitude is usually projected using the
mercator projection and the resulting figure may be scaled and
positioned to the needs of the user.
The MP1 format is described in the header of wmap2ps.c


THE WORLD DIGITIZED:
====================

The 'Digital World' data can be found on several 
servers around the world; you might want to query
archie for 'worldmap' or get the data for example from

nz20.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de
in
/pub/msdos/worldmap

If you decide to go there, you'll need the arc utility to extract the maps.

wmap2ps is in the Public Domain. You may use, copy and distribute it freely,
as long as this README file is kept intact.
On the contrary, the MP1 files you need to let it do something useful are not.
I suggest that you send a donation of $20 to the author of 
'The World Digitized', John B. Allison. His address is

The World Digitized
Dept. PC SIG
166 Shady Lane
Apollo, PA 15613


STILL READING ?
===============

The reason for writing this program was the need of a map of Tassie -
well, I can promise that it is AT LEAST able to solve this problem.

Any suggestions, bug reports etc. should be directed to dockhorn@fzi.de.
Newsgroups: alt.internet.services
From: clweimer@eastrg1.cray.com (Christine Weimer)
Subject: newsgroups
Followup-To: alt.internet.services
Date: 21 Jan 93 14:11:46 CST


There are a few USENET newsgroups unavailable at
my location which I would like to join, or at
least read.

Could someone tell me a way to get into another
location which has no moderating of which 
groups it receives, and which groups it denies?

Any help would be most appreciated.
From: arne@mango.mef.ki.se (Arne Elofsson)
Newsgroups: alt.internet.services
Subject: Posting on USENET through E-mail
Date: 25 Jan 1993 06:47:24 -0600
Organization: UTexas Mail-to-News Gateway
NNTP-Posting-Host: cs.utexas.edu

I know two places that can post through E-mail
they are:
cs.utexas.edu and ucbvax.berkeley.edu
The username should be the group with . exchanged for -
i.e. this is posted to:
alt-internet-services@cs.utexas.edu
arne
Newsgroups: alt.internet.services
From: Ken Wilkens <wilkens@mrisun.med.yale.edu>
Subject: Internet access in phoniex?
Organization: Yale University
X-Useragent: Nuntius v1.1a2
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 19:56:25 GMT

A friend of mine in phoniex is looking for internet access, does anyone
know of anyway to get on internet that is cheap or free? They want to get
to IRC and a few things so an email gateway wouldn't help. Thanks in
advance

Ken
Newsgroups: alt.internet.services
From: nejib@eecs.umich.edu (UM address) 
Subject: Bitnet to Internet
Originator: nejib@krusty.eecs.umich.edu
Organization: MI
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 17:04:52 GMT

Hello everyone,


Does anyone know how to get an internet address for the following
bitnet address, if any?
                         FRESE51.BITNET
It is the address of a school in France (Ecole Nationale D'electricite, I
think; and I received mail from a, novice, user like this 
user%FRESE51.BITNET@PUCC.PRINCETON.EDU).

Please e-mail; I do not follow regularly this group. Thanks in advance.

Newsgroups: alt.internet.services
From: stone@bradley.bradley.edu (Steve Stone)
Subject: Re: Listing of Libraries on the Internet
Organization: Bradley University
Distribution: usa
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 93 23:27:05 GMT

In <1993Jan27.121216.63252@cc.usu.edu> slt6s@cc.usu.edu writes:

>Is there a list anywhere which gives internet connections to research libraries
>in the nation?  I've heard of such a thing, but never seen it.  If someone has
>a copy would you mind sending e-mailing it.  Sorry if this is a FAQ, I wanted
>to get a reply ASAP.  Be sure to e-mail all flames :-),

The easiest way to get to a bunch of libraries would be to connect
to the Internet Gopher at Univ. of Minnesota (libraries/library 
catalogs via telnet). (telnet consultant.micro.umn.edu, if you
aren't already running your own gopher client)

If you want lists & instructions, there is Billy Barron's 
guide and Art St. George's guide. They may already be on
a gopher somewhere, ask veronica.

To ftp Billy Barron's guides, ftp ftp.unt.edu, login as anonymous
and then cd library. There are ascii, post script, etc. formats.

To get St. George's list, send a message to listserv@umnvma.bitnet,
body should contain "get library package".

This information was taken shamelessly from Ed Krol's _The Whole
Internet Catalog & User's Guide_. (I knew the items, but not
the addresses).

Steve
-- 
Steven A. Stone 			Bradley University  
Electronic Services Librarian		Peoria, Illinois 61625
stone@bradley.bradley.edu 		(309) 677-2839
From: Karl_Kleinpaste@cs.cmu.edu
Newsgroups: alt.internet.services
Subject: Re: Compuserve Access via Telnet.
Date: 22 Jan 93 01:26:25 GMT
Organization: Carnegie-Mellon Univ, Nectar Project

pstott@igc.apc.org writes:
   >Telnet to HERMES.MERIT.EDU, and at the prompt "Which Host," type
   >"compuserve".
   >It's not a cheap means of accessing Compuserve, however !

clark@umbc.edu writes:
   What do you mean?

The CompuServe access via hermes.merit.edu employs Telenet, Inc's X.25
connection to CompuServe.  Therefore, there are additional surcharges
to pay for the Telenet packet-passing involvement, over and above your
regular CompuServe connect time charges.  I don't know what those
extra charges are (my CServe account is not permitted access via that
route), but they're known to be not trivial.

--karl
Newsgroups: alt.internet.services
From: aa439@Freenet.carleton.ca (Robert Clark)
Subject: Re: internet addresses for Ottawa & Victoria freenets
Reply-To: aa439@Freenet.carleton.ca (Robert Clark)
Organization: The National Capital Freenet
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 19:54:13 GMT


In a previous article, gmadey@Nimitz.mcs.kent.edu (Greg Madey) says:

>Could somebody post or send me the internet addresses of the Ottawa
>and Victoria freenets for guest login. Thank you.
>
>Greg Madey
>Kent State University
>
>

Ottawa, Ont Canada (National Capital FreeNet): telnet freenet.carleton.ca
(the NCF is at Carleton University, Ottawa)

Victoria, BC Canada: telnet freenet.victoria.bc.ca
From: john.slater@uk.sun.com (John Slater)
Newsgroups: alt.internet.services
Subject: Re: UK teletext server
Date: 25 Jan 1993 18:47:27 GMT
Organization: Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Distribution: world
Reply-To: john.slater@uk.sun.com
NNTP-Posting-Host: scroff.uk.sun.com

In article 17519@ohm.york.ac.uk, pete@ohm.york.ac.uk (Pete French) writes:
->Can anyone give me an idea of the legal problems that would be caused
->by putting a machine onto the internet to serve pages from UK teletext.
->This would be a nice thing to have, but I know that, at least in this country,
->you need a UK TV lisence to receive CEEFAX teletext onto a computer (colour
->or monochrome depending on your monitor I believe !)
->

It's worse than that. Ceefax pages are covered by BBC copyright, and
you're not allowed to feed them to all and sundry (just as you're not
allowed to videotape your favourite show and distribute tapes to all
your friends). I'm sure the same goes for Teletext on ITV and C4.

And before someone says "but it's OK because I'm not charging money for
it", this has no bearing on whether the copyright laws have been
broken.

John Slater
Sun UK

Newsgroups: alt.internet.services
From: oppedahl@panix.com (Carl Oppedahl)
Subject: Re: Patent Search Online
Organization: PANIX Public Access Unix, NYC
Distribution: usa
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 01:29:57 GMT

In <1993Jan25.200638.103172@zeus.calpoly.edu> schurchv@zeus.calpoly.edu writes:

>Recently there was a post about online patent searches.  It was article
>#1864 if I remember correctly.  Can someone re-post this information or
>tell me where it may be archived since my local unix system has since
>deleted it.  Thanks.

I am not sure what post you are thinking of, but maybe it was the one
in which I mentioned Dialog (call 1-800-3-dialog) and Lexis
(call 1-800-543-6862).


-- 
Carl Oppedahl AA2KW  (intellectual property lawyer)
30 Rockefeller Plaza
New York, NY  10112-0228
voice 212-408-2578     fax 212-765-2519
From: tdowling@lib.washington.edu (Thomas Dowling)
Newsgroups: alt.internet.services
Subject: Re: Telnet/Encyclopedias?
Date: 22 Jan 1993 00:20:39 GMT
Organization: University of Washington Libraries
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: rainier.lib.washington.edu

In article <16B5DE8A7.SMCMILLN@NUACVM.ACNS.NWU.EDU>, SMCMILLN@NUACVM.ACNS.NWU.EDU writes:
> Can anybody tell me of any networks with encyclopedia databases that
> can be reached by telnet. I know the University of Georgia has
> the American Academic Encyclopedia as part of their network, but I
> don't know how to reach them by Telnet. Thanks!
>                                         smcmilln@nuacvm.acns.nwu.edu

As with most institutions that offer network access to a commercial service, UGA restricts use to people with UGA ID numbers. to wit:

         .----------------- PASSWORD IDENTIFICATION ------------------.
         |            AAE - Academic American Encyclopedia            |
         |                                                            |
         |    Due to contract restrictions, access is permitted to    |
         |  only those with valid UGA identification.                 |
         |                                                            |
         |    Enter your password, UGA identification number, or      |
         |  UGA library patron number in the box below, then press    |
         |  the ENTER key to proceed.                                 |
         |                                                            |
         |                     .----------------.                     |
         |                     |                |                     |
         |                     '----------------'                     |
         |                                                            |
         |    If your password is authorized for more than one        |
         |  database, you will not need to enter the password again.  |
         |                                                            |
         |  Press ENTER by itself to return to the previous screen.   |
         '------------------------------------------------------------'

If you still want access to their catalog, it's available via tn3270 to uga.cc.uga.edu (apparently also by telnet to gsvm2.cc.gasou.edu, but our nameserver does not care for that address).

If this is important to you, contact your own library and ask what plans they have for adding an encyclopedia to their online catalogs.  I note that NWU is already shelling out for Medline and the Expanded Academic Index; Grolier's Encyclopedia is probably already high on their list of possible additions, and the squeaky wheel usually gets the grease.

Thomas Dowling
University of Washington Libraries 
(Yes, we have Grolier's also, and yes, we restrict access also).
tdowling@u.washington.edu
From: nev@renews.relcom.msk.su ( VLADIMIR SHLIEMIN )
Newsgroups: alt.internet.services
Subject: Re: >Russian News Articles On-Line???
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 93 10:27:56 +0200
Distribution: world
Organization: RELCOM Corp.
Reply-To: nev@renews.relcom.msk.su

Hi!
Do you receive Russian network magazine ReNews ?
  Vladimir Shliemin
    Head of Information department RELCOM Corp.
    Editor of RENEWS
    Phone: +7 095 4016248
           +7 095 1989510
              Moscow
  !-------------------------------------------!
  !       E'mail: nev@renews.relcom.msk.su    !
  !-------------------------------------------!
       OUR BUSINESS IS INFORMATION !
From: schurchv@zeus.calpoly.edu
Newsgroups: alt.internet.services
Subject: Patent Search Online
Date: 25 Jan 93 20:06:38 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo

Recently there was a post about online patent searches.  It was article
#1864 if I remember correctly.  Can someone re-post this information or
tell me where it may be archived since my local unix system has since
deleted it.  Thanks.

Steve Churchvara
schurchv@oboe.calpoly.edu
Newsgroups: alt.internet.services
From: bgarrett@hp8c.nrl.navy.mil (Brian S. Garrett)
Subject: Re: Listing of Libraries on the Internet
Keywords:  Library
Organization:  Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 22:38:43 GMT

In article <1993Jan27.121216.63252@cc.usu.edu>, slt6s@cc.usu.edu writes:
> Is there a list anywhere which gives internet connections to research libraries
> in the nation?  I've heard of such a thing, but never seen it.  If someone has
> a copy would you mind sending e-mailing it.  Sorry if this is a FAQ, I wanted
> to get a reply ASAP.  Be sure to e-mail all flames :-),
> 

ftp to  ftp.msstate.edu (130.18.80.11)
cd into pub/docs/internet
get internet.library

Hope it helps.

Brian S. Garrett
bgarrett@hp8c.nrl.navy.mil

I
-- 

"The idea is like grass.  It craves light, likes crowds, thrives on
crossbreeding, grows better for being stepped on."

						-Ursula K. Le Guin

Newsgroups: alt.internet.services
From: buehlman@iwf.mabp.ethz.ch (Buehlmann Thomas)
Subject: Re: File extension .Z
Organization: Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich, CH
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 15:03:50 GMT

jfleming@koko.csustan.edu (John Fleming) writes:

>Can someone direct me to a newsgroup where I can find out
>about files on UNIX machines which have the .Z extension.

>I need to know about how to access these files.

>Thank You.. John Fleming

Get them from wherever they are (make sure you download them in binary
mode) and use the utility decompress which can be found in executable
form on any UN*X system.
tb
Newsgroups: alt.internet.access.wanted
From: bonacci@ecf.toronto.edu (BONACCI John)
Subject: I L L I N O I S   C A N   Y O U   H E L P   M E ???
Organization: University of Toronto, Engineering Computing Facility
Distribution: na
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 20:31:20 GMT

I am looking for names/numbers/terms of BBSs in the JOLIET, ILLINOIS
area (Will, DuPage, Cook counties) that have any or all of:
Internet access, e-mail, Usenet newsreader.
Area code 815 is preferred.

One that I have heard of in Joliet is called  "WorldBridge" 
but I do not know anything else about it.

If you can help, please e-mail me at
bonacci@cevax.ce.uiuc.edu    OR
bonacci@civ.utoronto.ca

ADthanksVANCE,
JB
Newsgroups: alt.internet.access.wanted