HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: ddodell@stjhmc.fidonet.org (David Dodell)
Newsgroups: news.newsites
Subject: map update: wsyd.fidonet.org
Date: 24 Jul 92 13:18:17 GMT
Organization: IEEE Service Center, Piscataway, NJ


#N	wsyd, .n325.z1.fidonet.org
#S	Gateway 2000 386; MS-DOS 5.0
#O	We Serve Your Drives
#C	James Pallack
#E	wsyd!postmaster
#T	+1 802 453 6073
#P	P.O. Box 5035, Burlington, Vermont  05402-5035
#L	44 02 N / 73 10 W
#U	kira.emba.uvm.edu
#R	Fido 1:325/2 running UFGATE, FIDONET host for net 325
#W	stjhmc!ddodell (David Dodell); Fri Jul 24 06:00:00 MST 1992
#
#	Approved by ddodell@stjhmc.fidonet.org
#	Administrator, fidonet.org
#
wsyd	.n325.z1.fidonet.org
wsyd=	wsyd.fidonet.org, f101.n325.z1.fidonet.org
wsyd	kira.emba.uvm.edu(DAILY) 

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From: flip@irsaims.UUCP (Gary Filipski)
Newsgroups: news.newsites
Subject: New site - irsaims
Date: 27 Jul 92 13:21:52 GMT
Organization: Insurance Rating Sys., Universal City TX

#N	irsaims
#S	CompuAdd 433t 486/33; SCO Unix 3.2v4
#O	Insurance Rating Systems
#C	Gary L. Filipski
#E	irsaims!postmaster
#T	+1 512 658 4691
#P	PO Box 2576, Universal City, TX, 78148, USA
#L	29 30 N / 98 20 W city
#R	San Antonio, Tx  Metro Area
#U	uunet
#W	irsaims!flip (Gary L. Filipski); Thu Jul 23 15:05:18 CDT 1992
#
# Local
#	None
#
# Long Distance
irsaims	uunet(POLLED+FAST)
From: ddodell@stjhmc.fidonet.org (David Dodell)
Newsgroups: news.newsites
Subject: new map: bdragon.fidonet.org
Date: 25 Jul 92 14:47:18 GMT
Organization: IEEE Service Center, Piscataway, NJ


#N	bdragon, f401.n322.z1.fidonet.org
#S	Goldstar PC/AT ; MS-DOS 5.0
#O	Black Dragon Inn BBS
#C	Stephen Griffin
#E	bdragon!postmaster
#T	+1 508 870 0525
#P	507 Windsor Ridge Drive, Westborough, MA 01581
#L	42 16 N / 71 35 W CITY
#R	Fidonet Internet Gateway
#U
#W	stjhmc!ddodell (David Dodell); Sat Jul 25 08:00:00 MST 1992
#                                                             
#	Approved by hostmaster@fidonet.fidonet.org
#	David Dodell, Administrator
#
bdragon=	bdragon.fidonet.org, f401.n322.z1.fidonet.org
bdragon	jjmhome(DAILY)

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Newsgroups: news.newsites
From: root@plex-1.ann-arbor.mi.us (Dave Parks)
Subject: 2 new addons (Plex-1)
Organization: Plex-1, Michigan's Public Access Usenet Gateway  (Ann Arbor).
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 20:37:24 GMT

#N	plex-1, plex-1.ann-arbor.mi.us
#F	vela.acs.oakland.edu
#S	Plexus P/35 68000 ; Unix Sys5.2
#O	Kite-Net LTD.
#C	Dave Parks
#E	root@plex-1.ann-arbor.mi.us
#T	+1 313 663 2247 
#P 	1439 Kirtland  Ann Arbor, MI 48103
#L	42 18 N / 83 45 W city
#R	Ann Arbor's -NEW- Public Access USENET News server (non University)
#R	To receive an account mail: accounts@plex-1.ann-arbor.mi.us
#U	destroyer.rs.itd.umich.edu iunet.ann-arbor.mi.us, heiftez.msen.com
#W	root@plex-1.ann-arbor.mi.us (Dave Parks); Tue Jul 21 16:32:30 EDT 1992
#
# Updates of this map entry should be sent to Bob Leffler,
# uucpmap@vela.acs.oakland.edu
#
plex-1= plex-1.ann-arbor.mi.us
plex-1  kitenet(LOCAL),
	iunet(LOCAL),
	upose(POLLED),
	ohriman(POLLED),
	netmeg(POLLED),
	toadstool(POLLED),
	suntec1(POLLED),
	unisys(POLLED),
	vela(DAILY*4),
	m-net(DAILY*4),
	caen(DAILY*4),
	destroyer(HOURLY*2),
	heifetz(DEMAND),
	ganglion(POLLED),
	mousetrap(POLLED)
-- 
sharkey!m-net!kite    Public Access   Altos 68020 UNIX Sys-III (313) 994-6333
sharkey!kitenet!kite     "     "      Altos 68000 UNIX Sys-III (313) 663-7255
vela!plex-1!root       Usenet News    Plexus P/35 68000 UNIX SysV.2  663-6207
  -- You can mail Dave Parks at these addresses, or phone (313) 663-2247 --
Newsgroups: news.newsites
From: nevs@cs.tu-berlin.de (Sven Goldt)
Subject: Re: nntp server machine?!?!?
Organization: Techn. University of Berlin, Germany
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 17:26:28 GMT

Siddharth.Soni@bbs.oit.unc.edu (Siddharth Soni) writes:
> In article <1992Jul17.193814.19869@samba.oit.unc.edu> Siddharth.Soni@bbs.oit.unc.edu (Siddharth Soni) writes:
> 
> I currently use internet and telnet to the unc.bbc to read news.
> how do i use these newssites??
> im in NY
> >
Hello ,
yes,this is too obvious.I don't know which newsreader you use but
in most cases you have to set your environment NNTPSERVER to a host
which works as a NNTPSERVER.e.g. setenv NNTPSERVER news.a_host_name.domain
I am looking,too,for some NNTPSERVERs because our NNTPSERVER
mailgzrz.zrz.tu-berlin.de does not offer some newsgroups.
Greets, Sven

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Newsgroups: news.newsites
From: root@plex-1.ann-arbor.mi.us (Dave Parks)
Subject: Plex-1 Becomes UUCP/Usenet Backbone (Ann Arbor)
Organization: Plex-1, Michigan's Public Access Usenet Gateway  (Ann Arbor).
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 18:24:55 GMT

#N	plex-1, plex-1.ann-arbor.mi.us
#F	vela.acs.oakland.edu
#S	Plexus P/35 68000 ; Unix Sys5.2
#O	Kite-Net LTD.
#C	Dave Parks
#E	root@plex-1.ann-arbor.mi.us
#T	+1 313 663 2247 
#P 	1439 Kirtland  Ann Arbor, MI 48103
#L	42 18 N / 83 45 W city
#R	Ann Arbor's -NEW- Usenet News Backbone site currently feeding 10 sites.
#R	Online read/post accounts, mail: accounts@plex-1.ann-arbor.mi.us
#U	destroyer.rs.itd.umich.edu iunet.ann-arbor.mi.us, heiftez.msen.com
#W	root@plex-1.ann-arbor.mi.us (Dave Parks); Thu Jul 23 14:19:22 EDT 1992
#
# Updates of this map entry should be sent to Bob Leffler,
# uucpmap@vela.acs.oakland.edu
#
plex-1= plex-1.ann-arbor.mi.us
plex-1  kitenet(LOCAL),
	iunet(LOCAL),
	upose(POLLED),
	ohriman(POLLED),
	netmeg(POLLED),
	toadstool(POLLED),
	suntec1(POLLED),
	unisys(POLLED),
	vela(DAILY*4),
	m-net(DAILY*4),
	caen(DAILY*4),
	destroyer(HOURLY*2+FAST),
	heifetz(DEMAND),
	ganglion(POLLED),
	mousetrap(POLLED),
	qflag(POLLED),
	fog(POLLED)
-- 
sharkey!m-net!kite    Public Access   Altos 68020 UNIX Sys-III (313) 994-6333
sharkey!kitenet!kite     "     "      Altos 68000 UNIX Sys-III (313) 663-7255
vela!plex-1!root       Usenet News    Plexus P/35 68000 UNIX SysV.2  663-6207
  -- You can mail Dave Parks at these addresses, or phone (313) 663-2247 --
From: bret@codonics.com (Bret Orsburn)
Newsgroups: news.newsites
Subject: Map update: codonics.com
Date: 27 Jul 92 19:39:24 GMT
Organization: Codonics Inc.

#Name                 codonics
#System-CPU-OS        Sun 3/80; Sun OS 4
#Organization         Codonics, Inc.
#Contact              Joe Kulig
#Electronic-Address   codonics!jjk
#Telephone            +1 216 243 1198
#Postal-Address       17991 Englewood Drive, Middleburg Heights, OH  44130
#Latitude-Longitude   41 21 N / 81 48 W city
#Remarks
#USENET 
#Written-by           bret@codonics.com (Bret Orsburn); Mon Jul 27 15:17:59 EDT 1992
#
codonics        uunet(DAILY*3)

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uunet!codonics!bret
Bret Orsburn
Newsgroups: news.newsites
From: Siddharth.Soni@bbs.oit.unc.edu (Siddharth Soni)
Subject: Re: nntp server machine?!?!?
Organization: Extended Bulletin Board Service
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 00:47:25 GMT

>in most cases you have to set your environment NNTPSERVER to a host
>which works as a NNTPSERVER.e.g. setenv NNTPSERVER news.a_host_name.domain

 type various sites in, but usually i get an access denied, try again later
error.  How do i get access?  the news program doesn't ever prompt me
for a password or anything like that anyway .  It just tries to logon
and then gives the error

Still lost, Sidd
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From: aaron@spectrx.saigon.com (Aaron Anderer - System)
Newsgroups: news.newsites
Subject: SPECTRX update
Date: 24 Jul 92 00:09:42 GMT
Organization: SPECTROX SYSTEMS (408)252-1005 Silicon Valley, Ca


#N    spectrx
#S    i80386; DR-DOS 6.0/DesqView 386/Waffle 1.65b9
#O    SPECTROX SYSTEMS 1.408.252.1005
#C    Aaron Anderer
#E    szebra!spectrx!system
#T    +1 408 446 1347
#P    7677 Normandy Way,Cupertino, Ca 95014
#L    37 20 41 N  / 122 3 40 W 
#R    SPECTROX SYSTEMS +1 408 252 1005  
#U    szebra tsoft anarky therat
#W    szebra!spectrx!system ; Mon May 25 14:11:00 PDT 1992
#
spectrx  saigon.com
spectrx  = spectrx.saigon.com
spectrx  szebra(HOURLY),tsoft(HOURLY),anarky(DAILY),nocturn(DAILY),
          net23(DAILY),therat(DAILY),kapono(DAILY),garg(DAILY),pooh(DAILY)



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Newsgroups: news.newsites
From: nevs@cs.tu-berlin.de (Sven Goldt)
Subject: Re: nntp server machine?!?!?
Organization: Techn. University of Berlin, Germany
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 16:51:04 GMT

Siddharth.Soni@bbs.oit.unc.edu (Siddharth Soni) writes:
> 
>  type various sites in, but usually i get an access denied, try again later
> error.  How do i get access?  the news program doesn't ever prompt me
> for a password or anything like that anyway .  It just tries to logon
> and then gives the error
> 
> Still lost, Sidd
> --
Hi Sidd,
this gives me the oppurtunity to modify my writings:
not news.a_host_name.domain but a_host_name.domain is correct.
You should know that receiving NEWS is not for free,so most
NNTPSERVERS deny the access to their news.
Watch out for Zen-1.0. which will describe what's happening in
netland.I know some NNTPSERVERS here in germany which allow
other domains to receive NEWS with the NNTP (another of these
protocolls) , but ask your System-Administrator for the name of
your NNTPSERVER if you really want to receive NEWS via the
slow NNT-Protocoll .Often the news are stored in a file on your
local-system just like mails,the newsreader just sorts them and
gives you easier access to them.Therefore you can sometimes use
a newsreader for reading your mails.
Don't ask ME where to find ZEN-1.0,ask archie or other internet-
users in your surrounding for a ftp-location which keeps it.
Greets, Sven

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From: boba@netcom.com (Bob Amstadt)
Newsgroups: news.newsites
Subject: New site
Date: 24 Jul 92 16:43:32 GMT
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest)

#N	amscons
#S	IBM Clone 486; MSDOS
#O	Amstadt Consulting
#C	Bob Amstadt
#E	amscons!postmaster
#T	+1 408 978 5743
#P	5059 Wayland Ave., San Jose, CA 95118
#L	122 01 52 W / 37 19 23 N city
#R
#W	amscons!bob (Bob Amstadt); Tue Jul 14 08:24:54 PDT 1992
#
amscons	zorch(DIRECT)

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From: frampton@vicuna.ocunix.on.ca (Steve Frampton)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: The 'newgrp' control message is a forgery!
Keywords: forged control message
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 92 18:27:21 EDT
Reply-To: frampton@vicuna.ocunix.on.ca
Followup-To: poster
Distribution: world
Organization: Vicuna Systems, Kingston, ON (613) 547-5066

clewis@ferret.ocunix.on.ca (Chris Lewis) writes:

> Did you post the alt.fashion newgroup with the expiry of next month?

Sure did.  Why, was there a problem with it?  The alt.fashion group is very
new, I find that when traffic comes to an abrupt halt on it if I post the 
charter things pick up for awhile.

----------------------------------------------------
frampton@vicuna.ocunix.on.ca (Steve Frampton)
Vicuna Systems BBS - 613/547-5066 [9600 v.32/.42bis]
Newsgroups: news.admin,comp.org.eff.talk,misc.legal.computing
From: chip@tct.com (Chip Salzenberg)
Subject: Re: OK to cancel? (was Re: Talking about Beals)
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 18:54:42 GMT
Organization: TC Telemanagement, Clearwater, FL

According to mwm@contessa.palo-alto.ca.us (Mike Meyer):
>The only way for a site to protect itself from such illegal resource
>usage is to make sure that the articles are never transmitted to their
>site.

That's impossible.  No site knows what newsgroups an article is
cross-posted to until the article has already arrived.  Therefore,
each site must have granted permission for such articles to arrive in
order to see and examine them.  So they are _not_ unauthorized.

And even if they were considered unauthorized, from a site's view,
local removal and global cancellation have the same effect.
Therefore, this situation (massive cross-posts) offers no grounds for
cancellation: simple local removal would be equally effective _and_
harmless to neighbors.
-- 
Chip Salzenberg at Teltronics/TCT  <chip@tct.com>, <73717.366@compuserve.com>
   "Do Rush place weird subliminal backmasked messages in their songs to
 compel unwilling geeks to commit evil .sig atrocities?"  -- Dean Engelhardt
Xref: sparky news.admin:6457 misc.legal.computing:1682 comp.org.eff.talk:5079
From: news@wolves.uucp (The Wolfe of the Den)
Newsgroups: news.admin,misc.legal.computing,comp.org.eff.talk
Subject: Re: What is "pay-per-read"?
Date: 31 Jul 92 16:34:11 GMT
Organization: Wolves Den UNIX
X-Md4-Signature: 67a7da28249a17ba40fae3996a3c09b4

pb1p+@andrew.cmu.edu (Peter Glen Berger) writes:
>merce@xenitec.on.ca (Jim Mercer) writes:
>> i didn't ask to make use of jj's articles, someone in effect is photocopying
>> them and stuffing them under my door.
>
>But that doesn't change the nature of the problem.  If I photocopy the
>entirety of Dave Touretzky's book on LISP (sorry, Dave) and stuff the
>copies under your door, that STILL doesn't give you the legal right to
>violate D.T.'s copyright.  Not unless Dave himself stuffed it under
>your door WITH A NOTE SAYING "I hereby put this book in the public
>domain."  Copyright exists unless it is specifically disclaimed.  

Its not *quite* someone shoving them under your office door, which gives
no indication of who did the stuffing.  News items come with a generic
indication of who did the copying (the author of the work) and who the
person "virtually walking the net and slipping articles under the doors
into the readers datastream."

It remains the responsibility of the person doing the posting (which is
really convenient in cases like someone making copies of Dave's LISP
book!)
-- 
Usenet Net News Administrator @ The Wolves Den  (G. Wolfe Woodbury)
news%wolves@cs.duke.edu     ...duke!wolves!news     "We don't need no
There is a real person who watches this account.   stinking disclaimers"
From: hartman@ulogic.UUCP (Richard M. Hartman)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: Net Culture assumptions! (very long!)
Keywords: imminent death of net predicted : -)
Date: 31 Jul 92 00:03:18 GMT
Organization: negligable

> Archive-name: usenet-primer/part1
> Original-author: chuq@apple.COM (Chuq Von Rospach)
> Last-change: 5 May 1992 by spaf@cs.purdue.edu (Gene Spafford)
> 
> 
>               A Primer on How to Work With the USENET Community
>                              Chuq Von Rospach 
> 
...
> 
>   Once something is posted onto the network, it is *probably* in the
>   public domain unless you own the appropriate rights (most notably,
>   if you wrote the thing yourself) and you post it with a valid
>   copyright notice; a court would have to decide the specifics and
>   there are arguments for both sides of the issue. Now that the US has
>   ratified the Berne convention, the issue is even murkier.  For all

The key word here is "*probably*", even Chuq emphasized it.  In other
words, Chuq is admitting to not knowing the applicable laws.  He 
himself even brings up the Berne convention.  In other words, 
referring to this FAQ document as the ultimate authority in support
of your contention that posting an article is the same as releasing
it into the public domain is ridiculous.  The FAQ itself states that
this is unclear.  The discussion going on here seems to have made it
rather clear that this is indeed NOT the case, unless you specifically
include the words "released to the public domain" or "all rights renounced"
or some such permissive notice.  At least, as far as the Berne convention
is involved.


Makeing somthing explicitly (or implicitly) is not the same as 
releasing copyright.  The primary difference being that if I
say you can copy this work, you can copy the work, but not sell
it without paying me royalties (or at least getting my release).
If I release this work into the public domain, you may copy it,
sell it, clean your floors with it or whatever and I have no
further say in it.  The mechanism of the USENET News requires
an implicit permission to copy and redistribute, but does NOT
imply permission to sell for profit.  If fees are being charged
for the use of equipment (connect charges) that is not the same
as selling the article (sending it to a magazine and accepting
a check in your name for my article).  The issue becomes quite
murky at this point as to whether selling a CD archive of
the News would be considered to be more like the first case
or the second.....  Unless very minimal charges were involved
(pressing & mastering fees for the CDs), I would have to say
that it is more like the second -- reselling for profit.  So
how much are they intending to charge for this CD anyway?

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Xref: sparky news.admin:6416 comp.org.eff.talk:5051 misc.legal.computing:1657
From: hartman@ulogic.UUCP (Richard M. Hartman)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: The Great Floating USENET Copyright War (was: NetNews/CD - USENET News Available)
Date: 28 Jul 92 16:34:45 GMT
Organization: negligable

Unfortunately for your argument, since 1982 (I think) in the United
States, copyright notices have become permissive rather than restrictive.
Basically, there is an *implicit* copyright now on all writing that
preserves certain rights for the author.   If the author wishes to
*grant* certain copying rights to, say, non-profit organizations, then
he may add a notice specifically granting those rights.  He may also
add a notice further restricting copyright.  What, exactly, the "implicit"
rights are, I do not know.  I *think* that this came about when the
U.S. signed into this "Berne Convention" that we've heard mentioned
in other articles about this.  If anyone knows more about the stuff
I've just brought up, please expand on (or correct) my info, because
what I know is sketchy at best and may be incorrect.



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Xref: sparky news.admin:6414 comp.org.eff.talk:5049 misc.legal.computing:1655
From: mwm@contessa.palo-alto.ca.us (Mike Meyer)
Subject: Re: Copyrights on netnews articles - What about CANCELS?
Newsgroups: news.admin,comp.org.eff.talk,misc.legal.computing
Distribution: #F
X-NewsSoftware: Amiga Yarn 3.0, 1992/07/29 18:33:54
Keywords: 
Summary: 
Date: 29 Jul 92 19:02:57 PST
Organization: Missionaria Phonibalonica

In <4880@tuegate.tue.nl>, gtoal@gem.stack.urc.tue.nl (Graham Toal) wrote:
> In article <JAAPJL.92Jul28121302@cmb00.larc.nasa.gov> jaapjl@tab00.larc.nasa.gov (J Lee Jaap) writes:
> >Someone would issue a cancel (justified, IMO), and the article would
> >be removed from all systems (automatically, or by the newsadmin who
> >gets mail because he's disabled cancels).
> 
> Now *there's* a very interesting point.  How does the CD transmission
> mechanism cope with cancels?  Recall all the CDs and replace them?

Why does a CDROM need to honor cancels? Not all news systems implement
cancels, and some sites that run news software that does implement
cancels don't honor them. Why should CDROMs be special, in that they
must honor cancels?

> This is a *serious* point: I once posted a hyphenation program to
> alt.sources and was immediately jumped on by a senior person from
> AT&T who said the code was based on part of their troff source (It
> wasn't - it was based on one of their technical papers which was
> published - but I wasn't going to take on AT&T single-handed :-( )

If your articles find their way onto CDROM, it will be up to AT&T to
find the people distributing the CDROM, and get them to stop. At
least, that's what happened the other times I know of that someone
started giving away AT&T code to people who weren't licensed for it. I
don't believe AT&T did anything about copies that had been shipped
before they notified the offender.

> Anyway, I had to issue a cancel and personally check all the archives
> and ask for copies to be removed.  What the hell would happen if
> 5000 CDs had gone out with this code on it?

Why did you have to personally check the archives? From analogies with
other such cases (of protected code winding up in "freely
distributable" places), I'd assume that sending a message to the
archive maintainers informing them of the problem should be enough.
After that, the matter is between them and AT&T.

	<mike
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