HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: jfurr@polaris.async.vt.edu (Joel K. Furr)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.lemurs,alt.internet.access.wanted
Subject: Re: Net Access For Lemurs (Was: Re: Lemurs (Was: Re: Joey the Lemur (transcript, kinda long)))
Date: 22 Dec 92 22:44:30 GMT
Organization: Virginia Center for Lemur Fandom (subscribe to alt.fan.lemurs TODAY)

In article <wfBq0mP0Bwx2EauiYI@transarc.com> Pat_Barron@transarc.com writes:
>jfurr@nyx.cs.du.edu (JKF) writes:
>> Is there anyone else out there who'd also be willing to provide free net
>> access for lemurs, or perhaps net access at a discount rate?
>
>I have a machine at home (whose name, oddly enough, is "lemur" - I'm
>not making this up, mail to "lemur!pat@orac.pgh.pa.us" if you don't
>believe me....), and I would be happy to give any lemurs e-mail access
>on it.  Of course, it's just an MS-DOS PC, so they would have to come
>to my apartment to read their mail.  As long as they don't play with
>my appliances, or fill up my hard drive with X-rated lemur GIF files,
>I don't mind....

I told Nigel and Rudolpho.  They left in a hurry, heading north toward
Pittsburgh.  West Virginia is probably in for a bad time of it.  Let me
know if they ever get there.

(By the way, would it be possible for the lemurs, assuming they don't get
locked up for devastating the Monongahela river valley, to simply telnet
to your machine?)

Joel "Fortunately, I am not legally liable for what the lemurs do" Furr
jfurr@polaris.async.vt.edu
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From: jfurr@polaris.async.vt.edu (J. Furr)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.lemurs,rec.arts.books,rec.arts.pets
Subject: Re: lemurs in literature
Date: 31 Dec 92 11:00:29 GMT
Organization: Virginia Center for Lemur Fandom (subscribe to alt.fan.lemurs TODAY)

In article <MAYER.92Dec30112851@fliff.wrc.xerox.com> mayer@wrc.xerox.com (Jim Mayer) writes:
>While on vacation over the holiday I leafed through Gerald Durell's
>"The Stationary Ark".  Chapter 4, which covers breeding of zoo
>animals, has a section on lemurs.  Does anyone know if Durell's zoo
>bars National Geographic photographers so that the lemurs can breed
>undisturbed?

Where is Durrell's zoo?
From: shag@aero.org (Robert M. Unverzagt)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.lemurs
Subject: Lemurs in the latest Scientific American
Date: 30 Dec 1992 17:31:20 GMT
Organization: Organization?  You must be kidding.
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: aerospace.aero.org

Just an announcement -- the latest issue of _Scientific
American_ has an article about lemurs.  Haven't read it
yet, though.

Shag

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From: jfurr@polaris.async.vt.edu (J. Furr)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.lemurs
Subject: Re: The Great Simian Cartography Conspiracy (was: lemurs in lit)
Date: 31 Dec 92 10:58:31 GMT
Organization: Virginia Center for Lemur Fandom (subscribe to alt.fan.lemurs TODAY)

In article <1992Dec26.202757.29793@microsoft.com> siobhan@microsoft.com (Siobhan Harper) writes:
>This probably has something to do with a phenomenon I've noticed on TV
>news shows--often, when the globe is depicted, they draw Africa and India,
>but nothing in between. This is obviously a conspiracy on the part of
>the chimps, gorillas, and monkeys to suppress world awareness of the
>*original* members of the primate family.
>
>I'd write a letter, but I'm not sure where Monkey Central is located...

Try Sam Donaldson, at ABC News.

I've always thought he had a look about him that said "this man dislikes
lemurs."
Newsgroups: alt.fan.lemurs
From: siobhan@microsoft.com (Siobhan Harper)
Subject: The Great Simian Cartography Conspiracy (was: lemurs in lit)
Date: 26 Dec 92 20:27:57 GMT
Organization: Microsoft Corporation

In article <BzoDrI.4xC@polaris.async.vt.edu> jfurr@polaris.async.vt.edu (Joel K. Furr) writes:
>>There's an infinite number of monkeys at the door wanting to show us the 
>>script to Hamlet they've worked out...The school won't even LISTEN to me 
>>, much less let me speak for it...rachel@phsbbs.princeton.nj.us
>
>Notice how it's never "an infinite number of lemurs"?  Always monkeys.  

This probably has something to do with a phenomenon I've noticed on TV
news shows--often, when the globe is depicted, they draw Africa and India,
but nothing in between. This is obviously a conspiracy on the part of
the chimps, gorillas, and monkeys to suppress world awareness of the
*original* members of the primate family.

I'd write a letter, but I'm not sure where Monkey Central is located...
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From: mayer@wrc.xerox.com (Jim Mayer)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.lemurs,rec.arts.books
Subject: Re: lemurs in literature
Date: 30 Dec 92 16:28:51 GMT
Organization: Xerox Webster Research Center

While on vacation over the holiday I leafed through Gerald Durell's
"The Stationary Ark".  Chapter 4, which covers breeding of zoo
animals, has a section on lemurs.  Does anyone know if Durell's zoo
bars National Geographic photographers so that the lemurs can breed
undisturbed?
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From: dsh@eceyv.ncsu.edu (Doug Holtsinger)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.q
Subject: Re: How to start new group?
Date: 28 Dec 92 19:35:41 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: North Carolina State University

In article <42888@sdcc12.ucsd.edu> 
mstankus@oba.ucsd.edu (Mark Stankus) writes:

> I am interested in starting a newsgroup. How do you do that?

To start a newsgroup, you first post your ideas about
the newsgroup to this newsgroup: 'alt.fan.q'.  Then people
will follow-up to your posting and provide more ideas
and suggestions.  Then after awhile, everyone votes on
the creation of your newsgroup by posting their vote to
alt.fan.q.  If there are enough 'yes' votes, then 'q'
will create the newsgroup by process forking this
newsgroup.


>Mark Stankus


Doug Holtsinger
From: mstankus@oba.ucsd.edu (Mark Stankus)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.q
Subject: How to start new group?
Date: 28 Dec 92 07:00:15 GMT
Organization: Mathematics @ UCSD

I am interested in starting a newsgroup. How do you do that?
How do I get rid of the newsgroup after a while? (
I saw the word 'rmgroup' in a posting on this group, 
but when I did a 'man rmgroup'
(on a Sun), it didn't know anything about it.)

I am curious in general, but I will be satisified to set one 
up for just Univ. Of Calif. San Diego.

Would prefer e-mail response.


Thanks,
Mark Stankus
-- 
mstankus
mstankus@oba 
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
From: Onno.Meyer@arbi.informatik.uni-oldenburg.de (Onno Meyer)
Subject: Re: Question about Guards!Guards!
Organization: University of Oldenburg, Germany
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 09:51:09 GMT

klaus@snarc.gold.sub.org (Klaus Weidner) writes:

>In article <1992Dec21.094816.18091@arbi.Informatik.Uni-Oldenburg.DE> Onno.Meyer@arbi.informatik.uni-oldenburg.de (Onno Meyer) writes:
>>I've just read the german translation of G!G! and was surprised
>>to read the dragon speaking in capital letters. I always assumed
>>only death does this.

>I checked my english copy - the dragon speaks in italics and Death in
>CAPITALS. I think it is quite a nice touch that Death is instantly
>recognizable - remember the scene where the Brothers were talking and
>he enters the conversation, with nobody knowing what was going on.

There was one line where the dragon spoke in Capitals. During the other
parts of the conversation he spoke italics. I wondered if that capital
sentence came from death, but it wouldn't make sense.

>What the dragon does is different, `It wasn't telepathy. [...] This
>was like hearing a voice in your body.' (G!G!, pg. 226). I guess
>nobody could mistake her for a human.

>I think that the german translation doesn't do justice to Terry's
>style. I read the german version of `Pyramids' a year ago and wasn't 
>very impressed by the book, but I loved the english ones I read later
>on.

>chow, Klaus
>-- 
>Klaus Weidner (klaus@snarc.gold.sub.org)
>Internet: kweidner@physik.tu-muenchen.de | Fido: Klaus.Weidner@2:246/55.4
>Illungshofstr. 21 / D-8000 Muenchen 40 / (089) 3599987
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Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
From: hevans@estwm0.wm.estec.esa.nl (Hugh D.R. Evans (ESA/ESTEC/WMA Netherlands))
Subject: Re: A'Tuin is Male...?
Reply-To: hevans@estcs1.dnet.estec.esa.nl
Organization: European Space Research and Technology Centre
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 09:35:03 GMT

In article <BzMyHF.B0u@comp.vuw.ac.nz>, Michael.Norrish@comp.vuw.ac.nz
(Michael Norrish) writes:
|>>>>>> On 21 Dec 92 16:06:59 GMT, ssammy@cs.strath.ac.uk (Paul Sammy
|>>>>>> 4th Year iE/CES) said:
|>
|>>>Regarding Re: A'Tuin is Male...?; garton@jeeves.ucsd.edu (Simon
|>>>Garton) adds:
|>
|>> > So the point of this all is that I don't know anything about >
|>> astrochelonians ..... maybe they're asexual .... ?
|>
|>> > Simon
|>
|>>  hmm, what about the four elephants?  If they get a bit (ahem)
|>>  frisky, do they cause discquakes?
|>>  
|>
|>Nah, the elephants were fixed at an early age by an anonymous vet
|>with
|>considerable foresight.
|>
|>Michael.
|>

And quite a considerable amount of foreskin!  Anyone want to buy a purse that
grows when you rub it?

Hugh.
From: ralf@ark.abg.sub.org (R.Stephan)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
Subject: Re: TP research                             
Date: 26 Dec 92 10:30
Organization: Not Very Ltd.

tpratchett@cix.compulink.co.uk (Terry Pratchett) writes:
> What is the troll equivalent of a drug?
> [...]  It would be NICE if its something
> commonplace, like the sour milk 'drug' in Alien Nation.

With some writers suggesting alpha radiation and TP calling for a
commonplace thing, why not just let them smoke cigarettes?  The
subject of the alpha emitter polonium in cigarettes has been beaten
to death in sci.chem und would give the problem a real-world linkage.

ralf
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Sbetrg Pburerag
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
From: shemminga@cix.compulink.co.uk (Stuart Hemming)
Subject: Re: FAQ anyone?
Reply-To: shemminga@cix.compulink.co.uk
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 08:38:00 +0000


TITLE: FAQ anyone?


In <1992Dec27.195428.2238@ccsvax.sfasu.edu> a strange Texan asks:

> Howdy.  :)  Yeah, I'm from Eest Tehxass.  Anyway, as someone
> new to the group is there a FAQ roamin' around anywhere?
> I'm especially looking for a complete (and preferably in
> order (publication or desired to be read in) list of TP books.
>  :)  I've read most of the books(that I have) in one sitting 
> (each ;).  Anywho...Back to my latest purchase (Mort).  
> Heh heh.  Love it so far...

Just hang about for a couple of weeks. There's an FAQ file, a (long)
list of annotations and a biblography of PTerry's work. It's posted
about every 4 weeks.

Read on


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Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
From: damiene@aurora.cc.monash.edu.au (Eccles)
Subject: Re: Amzing, we got it back to Pratchett!
Organization: Monash University, Melb., Australia.
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 05:05:28 GMT

quetzal@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au (Quetzal) writes:

>In <1ghs35EINNs5o@uni-erlangen.de> uhschreg@cip.informatik.uni-erlangen.de (Ulrich Schreglmann) writes:

>>What would happen if the Enterprise(TM) discovered the Discworld(TM)?

>Picard:
>>Captain's Log, Stardate 123.456
>>Having accidentally taken a wrong turn at the Rigel Cluster, we have
>>discovered an extraordinary phenomenon...

>>Continue this thread, if you like.

>done!

>Picard (TM) (C) (R) All rights reserved:  Mr Data, scan for intelligent life.
>Data:  Aye, sir.  I am getting a negative, but there appears to be
>some interesting organic matter in a river directly beneath us.  At
>least, it *appears* to be a river.
>Picard:  Explain, Mr Data
>Data:  It is not flowing, captain.
Picard: Can we drop Wesley into it?

>Quetzal aka Merry christmas everyone.
Eccles aka Ditto


Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
From: slb22@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Seth "the Lesser")
Subject: Re: TP research
Organization: Generic American College Kids (G.A.C.K.)
Date: Fri, 25 Dec 1992 08:34:49 GMT
Reply-To: slb22@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Seth "the Lesser")
X-Posted-From: cunixb.cc.columbia.edu
NNTP-Posting-Host: sol.ctr.columbia.edu

andyh@syma.sussex.ac.uk (Andy Holyer) writes:
>
>N-type produce spare electrons floating around in the substrate (hence
>"Negative". I *think* this is what aluminium, iron etc. produce. P type are
>cuter: they make the subtrate have "holes" (as they're called) - i.e. places
>where an electron should by rights be, but isn't.

Metals are P-type dopants; nonmetals from Group V (phosphorus mostly) are the
usual N-type dopants.  You cannot dope silicon with iron; it would disrupt th
crystalline structure of the chip.  You use boron, aluminum, or anything else
from Group III as a P-type dopant.  MOS chips have layers of metal oxide
applied to a silicon (or silicon oxide?) substrate.

>The semiconductor effect occurs at the boundary between two differently-doped
>regions. MOS chips have a junction between N-type and vanilla silicon (almost
>always).

Undoped silicon is an excellent insulator, and MOS field effects don't lower
the band gap enough to make it anything else.

>So how do you bugger a semiconductor? Overdope the substrate - or dope it with
>the wrong stuff. So we have trolls taking either "uppers" or "downers", and if
>they take too much of the wrong one they keel over.  This also raises the
>vision of there being N-type and P-type trolls (with a few stick-in-the-mud
>germanium adherants, and of course all the trendy gallium arsenide boys
>wearing luminous bermuda shorts and blowing whistles at each other :-)

But doping is done during the process of laying down the chip--the dopant
vapors are mixed in with the silicon vapor at the right times.  If you want to
get impurities into the crystal matrix, you're going to have to use force to
displace the existing silicon atoms.  One might, I suppose, blow boron or
phosphorus vapor into a troll's ear, hoping that enough of it will bond to the
surface layers of his/her brain to give him/her a "buzz."  This effect would
be permanent until neutralized by the addition of just the right amount of the
other dopant; since it's hard to tell exactly how much dopant was absorbed,
troll junkies are going to be fractionally high all the time.  After enough
rounds of alternate P- and N-type doping, the troll's brain's surface layers
will be so contaminated with dopants that they will fail to work at all.  They
might even crumble off (boron phosphide shouldn't be a very stable substance,
according to my calculations :-), exposing fresh brain to be doped....

I think the radiation idea is better, myself, but I'm only a Merkin, so what
do I know?

Seth L. Blumberg          \ Warning: This posting has been determined to cause
slb22@columbia.edu (play)   \ cancer in laboratory animals.  Please make sure
sethb@ctr.columbia.edu (work) \ that no white mice are allowed to read it.  
    > No one I know shares my opinions, least of all Columbia University. <
From: z_rasmusseam@ccsvax.sfasu.edu
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
Subject: FAQ anyone?
Date: 27 Dec 92 19:54:28 CST
Organization: Stephen F. Austin State University

Howdy.  :)  Yeah, I'm from Eest Tehxass.  Anyway, as someone
new to the group is there a FAQ roamin' around anywhere?
I'm especially looking for a complete (and preferably in
order (publication or desired to be read in) list of TP books.
 :)  I've read most of the books(that I have) in one sitting 
(each ;).  Anywho...Back to my latest purchase (Mort).  
Heh heh.  Love it so far...

  --  Adam
	z_rasmusseam@ccsvax.sfasu.edu
	"I hate COBOL" -- Myself
	"Thats the most barbaric weapon I've ever seen.
	 May I borrow it?" -- The Red Tape War
From: hairy@sloth.equinox.gen.nz (Phil Anderson)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
Subject: Re: Map 
Distribution: world
Date: Fri, 01 Jan 93 23:41:08 GMT
Organization: Lethargy Inc.


In article <1992Dec31.133617.1@ccsua.ctstateu.edu> 
berry@ccsua.ctstateu.edu writes:

  > SORRY I MET TERRY PRATTCHET AT A CONVENTION,

I hope it wasn't anything to do with his hourglass running out...

Phil

 ----------------------------------------------
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Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
From: damiene@aurora.cc.monash.edu.au (Eccles)
Subject: Re: STOP IT! NOW! (Pretty please?)
Organization: Monash University, Melb., Australia.
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 05:21:31 GMT

quetzal@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au (Quetzal) writes:

>In <damiene.724986459@aurora.cc.monash.edu.au> damiene@aurora.cc.monash.edu.au (Eccles) writes:

>>quetzal@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au (Quetzal) writes:

>>>In <1992Dec9.184054.14457@ucsu.Colorado.EDU> crosby@ucsu.Colorado.EDU (Matthew Crosby) writes:
>>[stuff about Canberra]
>>It was put half way because _neither_ city _wanted_ it :)
>In that case, I think we'd better not remind everyone that Melbourne was
>Capital of Australia for a good number of years . . .
$4.50

>>>>(Of course, Sydney *IS* much nicer and less rainy then Melbourne :-)

>>>Completely untrue.  Sydney's average annual rainfall is higher than
>>>Melbourne's.
>>Then why did I swim up to Uni this morning?
>>And have you been to Kilmore recently?
>Oi!  Just whose side are you on?
I'm on the side of me. Beautiful Kilmore by the sea....

>(I know it's not the American Way . . .)
Don't push it, pal.

>>>Quetzal aka why doesn't anyone remember that?
>>Eccles aka They're too busy bailing out.
>Quetzal aka What's a thread?
Eccles aka Is this alt.fan.monty-python? :) 
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
From: damiene@aurora.cc.monash.edu.au (Eccles)
Subject: Re: sydney vs MELBOURNE vs tasmania
Organization: Monash University, Melb., Australia.
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 05:08:29 GMT

uhschreg@cip.informatik.uni-erlangen.de (Ulrich Schreglmann) writes:

>rmv@dcs.ed.ac.uk (Robin Vickery) writes:

>>Terry, give up, go to NZ instead.

>Why should He go to a country where they don't even know how to spell
>"sea?"  :-)

ahahahahahhaa I can see great possibilities for another falme war.
Like my spelling for instance.

Eccles

>Mey the Kool Bee with Yoo!
Seth Efrican?

Eccles
From: pooh@brokendrum.stack.urc.tue.nl
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
Subject: Re: TP research
Date: 28 Dec 92 21:28:40 GMT
X-Mailer: rnMac Buggy, I mean Beta, Test Version


Talking about trolls: what do trolls use as their
power source?

maybe their equivalent to alcohol or drugs could be
something that causes noise or spikes on their power
supply lines?

pooh
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
Subject: Re: A'Tuin is Male...?
From: Michael.Norrish@comp.vuw.ac.nz (Michael Norrish)
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 00:53:39 GMT
Organization: Dept. of Computer Science, Victoria Uni. of Wellington, NZ.

>>>>> On 21 Dec 92 16:06:59 GMT, ssammy@cs.strath.ac.uk (Paul Sammy
>>>>> 4th Year iE/CES) said:

>>Regarding Re: A'Tuin is Male...?; garton@jeeves.ucsd.edu (Simon
>>Garton) adds:

> > So the point of this all is that I don't know anything about >
> astrochelonians ..... maybe they're asexual .... ?

> > Simon

>  hmm, what about the four elephants?  If they get a bit (ahem)
>  frisky, do they cause discquakes?
>  

Nah, the elephants were fixed at an early age by an anonymous vet with
considerable foresight.

Michael.
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
From: damiene@aurora.cc.monash.edu.au (Eccles)
Subject: Bits and pieces (Good Omens)
Summary: penguins on parade
Keywords: aardvarks
Organization: Monash University, Melb., Australia.
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 01:05:12 GMT

Hurro.

I can't remember if these bits have been asked before, but 
I was rereading Good Omens (fourth time :)) and I finally 
got around to remembering to ask:

a) Is it just me who thinks Aziraphale looks like Sting on the
from cover?

b) Who did the hoopy letter Illustrations. Look at the start
of each chapter, and there is a letter drawn, in the style 
of medieval writings, but with a twist (like an angel's hand
has a digital watch on it).

Any ideas?

Eccles the terminally Christmassed.
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
From: tpratchett@cix.compulink.co.uk (Terry Pratchett)
Subject: Translations                            
Cc: tpratchett@cix.compulink.co.uk
Reply-To: tpratchett@cix.compulink.co.uk
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 14:49:00 +0000

I'll word this carefully, because I don't usually comment on translators and
translations (because anyone translating a DW novel is on a hiding to
nothing, _especially_ since so many fans can also read the English originals;
the poor guys doing the work have got thousands of informed critics leaning
over their shoulders)...BUT...

I met my Dutch translator a few months ago, and he gave me a copy of the DW
lexicon he's been building up.  He's really into it, and I got a distinct
impression that he's _good_ at what he does; we spent an hour trading
colloquialisms.  His approach is to try and think in Dutch in the same way I
think in English.  I'm pleased to see him commended on the net.

When a couple of fans of _Another Language_ translation wrote to me to
complain that the books weren't being done properly, I got them to send me a
specimen list of 'errors' and tactfully went though them with the publisher.
At worst, it turned out, the 'errors' boiled down to differences of opinion
as to the best translation, often of archaic words or complex allusions or
puns.  It's a tough job.

Terry
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
From: hennebry@plains.NoDak.edu (Michael J. Hennebry)
Subject: Re: TP research                             
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 22:54:03 GMT
Organization: North Dakota Higher Education Computing Network


First there were bipolar transisitors, then there were JFETs,
then PMOS transistors, then NMOS transistors, then CMOS transistors.

Only the first is controlled by a junction effect. 
All except the first are field effect transistors. Conductivity is
controlled by the effect an electric field has on the charge carrier
density in the channel. In PMOS and NMOS tranistors the channels are
made of P-type and N-type silicon respectively. CMOS has both types of
transistors. In the ?MOS transistors the gates are insulated by a
metal oxide or some new improved insulator. In the JFETs the
'insulation' is an N-P junction. Both P-type and N-type channels are
made. I don't know if chips with both kinds were ever made.

PMOS came before NMOS because impurities such as sodium screwed up
the manufacturing process. To make matters worse an NMOS chip could
seem all right for a while, but the electric fields in the chip would
cause sodium migration to where it would do the most damage: the gate.

The moral of this story is that trolls should not put salt on their food.

-- 
Mike   hennebry@plains.NoDak.edu
"I myself have had to change banks having filled the first one up."
                                                            Terry Pratchett