HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: ckd@eff.org (Christopher Davis)
Subject: Top 25 list changes/additions?
Organization: Electronic Frontier Foundation Tech Central
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 20:16:39 GMT

Here are some ideas for the biweekly Top 25 lists:

1) a Top 25 Human News Submitters by User list, that would exclude the
various weather services and whatnot;

2) a Top 25 Submitters To Non-Binaries Newsgroups list that would exclude
{comp,alt}.binaries.all postings from the rankings;

3) a Top 25 "single-group" posters list, or a Top 25
"massive-crossposters" list, or something; the latter could be used to
preload kill files :)
--
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From: orellana@mcclb0.med.nyu.edu
Newsgroups: news.misc
Subject: <None>
Date: 10 Sep 92 18:25:39 GMT
Organization: NYU Medical Center, New York, NY 10016, USA

Hi, my name is Danny,
I deal with alot of Mac and PC interface. I'm wondering if any one is
interested in creating a news group just for this kind of work.  I am
not aware of any group that deals with such work.  If any one is
interested you can send me mail.

Daniel Orellana
Network Specialist
orellana@mcclb0.med.nyu.edu

my phone number is (212)263-5757
Newsgroups: news.misc
From: mlstocku@laplace.uwaterloo.ca ()
Subject: Tracking someone down.
Originator: mlstocku@laplace.uwaterloo.ca
Organization: University of Waterloo
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 14:42:32 GMT



I'm trying to track down a student who has several accounts
on machines at Mcgill university, Canada.
Is there a telnet site at mcgill for tracking down students?
I've tried fingering several machines at mcgill, including
quiche.cs.mcgill.ca, math.mcgill.ca, and cs.mcgill.ca.
Any suggestions as to how I can track this person down?
[besides crossposting to every newsgroup in existence.]
/Michael Stockus
 


Newsgroups: news.misc
From: gregb@murphy.com (Greg Banschbach (Unigroup of New York))
Subject: Mistake on Sterling Software info ( Sorry ).
Organization: Murphy & Durieu, New York, NY
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 12:56:45 GMT



	I made a mistake and posted the address / phone of Sterling
	Software ( EDI ) division in hopes that they would refer others
	to the proper phone number to get the netnews CD.   

	Later, I see that they have already re-posted their phone
	number.   

		 Again I am Sorry,

		Greg.

Newsgroups: news.misc
From: kent@sparky.imd.sterling.com (Kent Landfield)
Subject: Re: Top 25 list changes/additions?
Organization: Sterling Software
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 17:49:19 GMT
X-Md4-Signature: f4d7a5c96c28795630544052851e9630

In article <CKD.92Sep9161637@loiosh.eff.org> ckd@eff.org (Christopher Davis) writes:
>Here are some ideas for the biweekly Top 25 lists:
>
>1) a Top 25 Human News Submitters by User list, that would exclude the
>various weather services and whatnot;
>
>2) a Top 25 Submitters To Non-Binaries Newsgroups list that would exclude
>{comp,alt}.binaries.all postings from the rankings;
>
>3) a Top 25 "single-group" posters list, or a Top 25
>"massive-crossposters" list, or something; the latter could be used to
>preload kill files :)

Maybe a set of Top 25 that is limited to just the mainstream USENET Newsgroups
comp, misc, news, rec, sci, soc, talk.  Then have another set that has 
alt and all the other hierarchies which piggy back on the USENET transport
and reader facilities.  

			-Kent+
---
Kent Landfield                   INTERNET: kent@IMD.Sterling.COM
Sterling Software, IMD           UUCP:     uunet!sparky!kent
Phone:    (402) 291-8300         FAX:      (402) 291-4362
Please send comp.sources.misc-related mail to kent@uunet.uu.net.
From: dsew@troi.cc.rochester.edu (David Sewell)
Newsgroups: news.misc
Subject: Usenet readership surveys?
Date: 10 Sep 92 23:36:09 GMT
Organization: University of Rochester - Rochester, New York

If you know of any fairly thorough surveys that have been done to
provide a composite picture of Usenet readers I'd appreciate hearing
about it.  I'm particularly interested in figures on average age and
gender breakdown.  I've just received 100+ responses to a questionnaire
from one newsgroup and I want to know if the averages are typical of
Usenet readers as a whole.

-- 
David Sewell, English Dept, U of Rochester   |  "Grammarians without any
  dsew@troi.cc.rochester.edu                 |  character at all lecture
  dsewell@violet.ccit.arizona.edu            |  us upon that of Homer."
  (On leave in Tucson, Arizona, '92-'93)     |     --Diogenes the Cynic
Newsgroups: news.lists
From: newsstats@uunet.UU.NET
Subject: Top 25 News Groups for the last 2 weeks
Organization: UUNET Technologies, Inc
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 03:31:23 GMT

         No. of        $ Cost  % of  Cumulative
Rank  Kbytes Articles per Site Total  % of Total  Group (Articles/contributor)
   1 23332.9     642     61.57  5.2%     5.2%     alt.binaries.pictures.erotica (3.4)
   2 17771.6     460     46.90  4.0%     9.2%     alt.binaries.pictures.misc (3.3)
   3  7973.0     196     21.04  1.8%    11.0%     comp.binaries.os2 (1.0)
   4  5938.2     235     15.67  1.3%    12.3%     news.answers (1.0)
   5  5719.1     165     15.09  1.3%    13.6%     alt.binaries.pictures (2.8)
   6  5426.4     186     14.32  1.2%    14.8%     alt.binaries.sounds.misc (3.6)
   7  5064.3    2465     13.36  1.1%    15.9%     talk.politics.misc (3.7)
   8  4628.2     248     12.21  1.0%    17.0%     comp.mail.maps (1.0)
   9  4178.4      84     11.03  0.9%    17.9%     de.alt.binaries.sounds (28.0)
  10  3986.9    2255     10.52  0.9%    18.8%     talk.abortion (9.9)
  11  3509.3     981      9.26  0.8%    19.6%     bionet.molbio.genbank.updates (1.0)
  12  3092.7      86      8.16  0.7%    20.3%     comp.binaries.apple2 (5.1)
  13  2952.9     913      7.79  0.7%    21.0%     soc.culture.vietnamese (3.4)
  14  2858.0    1590      7.54  0.6%    21.6%     alt.politics.bush (3.2)
  15  2793.1    1795      7.37  0.6%    22.2%     rec.arts.tv.soaps (4.1)
  16  2774.6    1543      7.32  0.6%    22.8%     alt.politics.clinton (3.3)
  17  2742.1    1129      7.24  0.6%    23.5%     talk.religion.misc (4.0)
  18  2646.3    2752      6.98  0.6%    24.0%     ncar.weather (1376.0)
  19  2552.5     412      6.74  0.6%    24.6%     alt.rush-limbaugh (2.8)
  20  2500.5     347      6.60  0.6%    25.2%     alt.fan.rush-limbaugh (3.7)
  21  2490.6    2096      6.57  0.6%    25.7%     rec.motorcycles (4.3)
  22  2403.4      54      6.34  0.5%    26.3%     comp.binaries.mac (1.0)
  23  2332.1    1279      6.15  0.5%    26.8%     soc.culture.indian (2.2)
  24  2282.8    1623      6.02  0.5%    27.3%     soc.motss (4.5)
  25  2161.8    1154      5.70  0.5%    27.8%     alt.politics.elections (3.2)

$ Cost is the cost of sending it over a Trailblazer to UUNET, using the 
800 number and Night rates. (1000 characters per second and $9.50 per hour)
I.e .264 cents per kilobyte
Newsgroups: news.lists
From: Jyrki Kuoppala <jkp@cs.hut.fi>
Subject: 2nd RFD: comp.org.lpf.news moderated, comp.org.lpf.talk
Followup-To: news.groups
Organization: Helsinki University of Technology, Finland.
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 02:56:56 GMT

This is a second request for discussion regarding creation of two
newsgroups for discussions and announcements on and of the League for
Programming Freedom.  There is some slight modification in the
charter of comp.org.lpf.news from the first RFD.

The groups:


comp.org.lpf.news	News from the League for Programming Freedom

A moderated group containing announcements, news etc. from the LPF.  A
person from the LPF moderates the group - ie. sends the LPF
announcements and such to the group.  Discussions on the material here
should not be in this group but on the "talk" group.


comp.org.lpf.talk	Discussions relevant to the LPF

An unmoderated group for discussions on the LPF and on topics relevant
to the goals of the LPF.

Previously there has been no good home for discussions on the LPF and
the relevant issues.  The gnUsenet group gnu.misc.discuss has been
used, but this has created confusion since the LPF's goals are
different from the goals of the GNU project or the FSF and the LPF as
an organization isn't connected with GNU, the FSF or free software.

The discussion on this proposal will take place in news.groups.  More
complete descriptions for the groups are desirable.

The discussion following the first RFD for the groups has been
generally positive.

Please see the pertinent postings in news.answers and
news.announce.newgroups for the rules that will be followed in
creating a newsgroup (<spaf-howto_711614959@cs.purdue.edu>).

//Jyrki
Newsgroups: news.announce.newgroups,news.groups,alt.models,rec.models.rc,rec.models.railroad,rec.models.rocket
From: finchc@ucsu.Colorado.EDU (finch clifton d)
Subject: RFD: soc.religion.miracles
Followup-To: news.groups
Keywords: Christianity Love Forgiveness Peace Miracles God Mysticism
Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 21:26:00 GMT

NewGroup request: soc.religion.miracles

This newsgroup is for the discussion of the book, A Course in Miracles, which
an inner voice "dictated" to Helen Schucman, a Professor of Medical Psychology
at Columbia University.  The book teaches a mystical Christian view of the 
world, and includes a workbook to help the reader apply the teachings to 
everyday life.

It is difficult to describe this wonderful book that advovates forgiveness
and love as the way to find God and inner peace in this life.  Here is the way 
Dr Schucman introduces the book:

   "This is a course in miracles.  It is a required course.  Only the time you
take it is voluntary.  Free will does not mean that you can establish the 
curriculum.  It means only that you can elect what you want to take at a given
time.  The course does not aim at teaching the meaning of love, for that is 
beyond what can be taught.  It does aim, however, at removing the blocks to the
awareness of love's presence, which is your natural inheritance.  The opposite
of love is fear, but what is all-encompassing can have no opposite.

   This course can therefore be summed up very simply in this way:

               Nothing real can be threatened.
               Nothing unreal exists.

Herein lies the peace of God."
Newsgroups: news.announce.newgroups,news.groups,alt.support,misc.fitness
From: ziegast@uunet.UU.NET (Eric Ziegast)
Subject: RFD: misc.best-of.usenet moderated, misc.best-of.usenet.d
Followup-To: news.groups
Organization: HappyNet NSPF
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 16:34:14 GMT

This is a request for discussion regarding creation of two newsgroups for
the submission and discussion of articles that the posters consider as
the "best" articles found on USENET.  A similar unmoderated newsgroup,
alt.best.of.internet, was created for the purpose of posting articles
only, but it is currently suffering abuses including cross-posting, fol-
lowups, and even cascades.


The groups:

#### misc.best-of.usenet  Selected USENET postings.  (Moderated)

The purpose of misc.best-of.usenet is for the distribution of already-posted
USENET articles that the posters regard as the "best of" USENET postings
or at least interesting enough to warrant submission to this group.  The
article submissions must be forwarded, non-origional articles submitted
by someone other than the origional author.

	- Forwarded: Forwarded by e-mail to the moderator or (preferably)
		posted to the newsgroup.
	- Non-origional: Articles must have been already posted to another
		USENET newsgroup before it can be considered for m.best-of.u.
	- Other than the origional author: One cannot nominate their own works.
		Someone else must think the article is worth posting to
		m.best-of.u.

An additional requirement (to be discussed) could be that the origional
"Message-ID", "From or Sender", "Newsgroup" and "Date" headers be included
for credit and/or reference.

The moderator's primary purpose should be to filter out articles inappropri-
ate for the newsgroup.  Inapproprite is limited to:

	- Articles not following the guidelines set above.
	- Cross-postings from other groups.
	- Followups to posted articles (redirected to misc.best-of.usenet.d).
	- Articles better served by other more appropriate moderated newsgroups.
	  For example, a humorous submission that origionally appeared in
	  rec.humor is better served by rec.humor.funny.
	- (Optional, to be discussed)  Articles of poor taste or net ettiquite.

The selection of a moderator shall be part of the discussion.  A moderator
will be decided upon before a Call For Votes is submitted.


#### misc.best-of.usenet.d  Selected USENET postings discussion

Followups to misc.best-of.usenet would be directed here.  If others which
to comment or followup on posted articles or discuss other (related) topics,
it would be done in this unmoderated group.


The discussion on this proposal will take place in news.groups.  This is a
first draft.  A second (updated) RFD will be submitted on or before Sep 29,
1992 and a CFV submitted before one month's time.
-- 
Eric Ziegast
ziegast@uunet.uu.net   UUNET Technologies, Network Services
ziegast@eng.umd.edu    Univ. of Md., College of Enginnering
Newsgroups: news.announce.newgroups,news.groups
From: ali@simserver1.mentorg.com (Ali Haveliwala)
Subject: RFD: rec.arts.poems.urdu
Followup-To: news.groups
Organization: MGC, Oregon
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 20:50:14 GMT

CREATION of "rec.arts.poems.urdu"

Charter:
This group will serve the needs of all people within the Indian sub continent
that have a interest in the Urdu Language and its rich poetry collections.
	
Will be a forum of discussion for Urdu ghazals and interpretations.

Will be a forum to discuss the Urdu Language and its impact on arts within
the subcontinent
Newsgroups: news.announce.newgroups,news.groups,alt.pulp,rec.arts.books
From: saint@cats.ucsc.edu (Dan Bodenheimer)
Subject: RFD: rec.arts.mystery.detective
Followup-To: news.groups
Summary: A group is needed for mystery lovers
Keywords: mystery, new, group, detective
Organization: University of California; Santa Cruz
Date: Mon, 7 Sep 1992 15:54:15 GMT

Request for Discussion and Proposal for New Group  

Name:
        rec.arts.mystery.detective 

Status:
        unmoderated

Charter:

        An open forum to discuss topics relating to the mystery and detective
	genre. Subjects would relate to mystery authors, series characters,
	television dipictions, and movie news in keeping with the framework
	of the group. Subscribers will be free to post book reviews, author
	bibliographies, collecting hints, short stories, and anything else
	of a suspenseful or msyterious nature.

Reasons:

	There is great interest in the mystery and detective field, with at
	least five major magazines covering the topic. The Armchair Detective
	is just one. There are many groups in the Science Fiction vein, a
	list follows: 

		rec.arts.sf.announce
		rec.arts.sf.fandom
		rec.arts.sf.marketplace
		rec.arts.sf.misc
		rec.arts.sf.reviews
		rec.arts.sf.science
		rec.arts.sf.starwars
		rec.arts.sf.tv
		rec.arts.sf.written
		rec.arts.startrek.fandom
		rec.arts.startrek.info

	There seems to be good response to them, so it would appear that
        should be enough interest for at least one newsgroup dedicated to
	the mystery lovers of the net.
-- 
Dan Bodenheimer
saint@cats.ucsc.edu
Newsgroups: news.announce.newgroups,news.groups
From: rsk@aspen.circ.upenn.edu (Rich Kulawiec)
Subject: 3rd RFD: rec.music.makers.* groups
Followup-To: news.groups
Organization: Cardiothoracic Imaging Research Center
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 21:26:19 GMT

Introduction: There are several newsgroups in the alt.* hierarchy which
are utilized for the discussion of various musical instruments.  The traffic
in these groups and the degree of participation from posters to the
rec.music.* groups indicate that it might be time to consider shifting
these groups to rec.music.makers, creating another group, and renaming
an existing group.

Proposal A: Create rec.music.makers.guitar, and remove alt.guitar.
Charter: "Electric and acoustic guitar techniques and equipment"

	Rec.music.makers.guitar would be a one-for-one unmoderated
	replacement of alt.guitar.

Proposal B: Create rec.music.makers.bass, and remove alt.guitar.bass.
Charter: "Upright bass and bass guitar techniques and equipment"

	Rec.music.makers.bass would be a bit more than a one-for-one
	unmoderated replacement of alt.guitar.bass, since its scope
	would be slightly broader.  Considerable discussion seems to
	indicate that bass guitarists and upright bass players might
	be able to share this group -- for a while, at least.

Proposal C: Create rec.music.makers.guitar.tablature, and remove alt.guitar.tab.
Charter: "Guitar tablature/chords, associated discussion and requests".
 
	This group would be a one-for-one unmoderated replacement
	of alt.guitar.tab.

Proposal D: Create rec.music.makers.percussion.
Charter: "Percussion (including drums) techniques and equipment"

	Rec.music.makers.percussion would be an unmoderated group for the
	discussion of drums and related percussion instruments.
	(There is an existing recently-formed mailing list for drummers;
	there has been discussion there about forming a newsgroup.)

Proposal E: Rename rec.music.synth to rec.music.makers.synth
Charter: "Synthesizers and computer music"  [UNCHANGED FROM CURRENT]

	The rationale for moving the group is to place it with
	other newsgroups specifically designed for the discussion of
	instruments and techniques.  While discussion in this group
	also covers samplers, organs, pianos, MIDI devices, etc.,
	it does not seem appropriate to make a possible subdivision
	and/or renaming of this group part of this proposal.

Discussion:

A, B and C are designed to shift existing traffic to the main hierarchy;
it is hoped that this will make the relevant articles available to
a larger community.  D is a new group; E is a renaming.

If all proposals are approved, four newsgroups will be created;
three will be deleted; and one will be renamed.  Of course, each
proposal must be voted on separately.

I have read all the traffic posted to news.groups and/or received in my
mailbox a couple of times before formulating this, which I intend to be
the final draft of this proposal.  I recognize that it does not please
everyone; I hope the gentle reader will recognize it as an attempt to
reflect as much of the consensus as possible.
Newsgroups: news.announce.newgroups,news.groups
From: Jyrki Kuoppala <jkp@cs.hut.fi>
Subject: 2nd RFD: comp.international
Followup-To: news.groups
Organization: Helsinki University of Technology, Finland.
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 02:56:40 GMT

This is a second request for discussion regarding creation of an
unmoderated newsgroup for discussing international aspects of
computers, computer software, telecommunications and so on.

A summary of ideas for changes after the first RFD:

>comp.i18n?
>
>We really need a comp.design hierarchy for internationalization, component
>design, interoperability issues, API philosophies, etc...
>
>comp.design.i18n?

which (design) is not exactly the same topic, since a big part of the
internationalization by necessity is retrofitting international
features to existing systems.

Some have felt that comp.std.internat should be used for the topics
proposed for comp.international, but the topic area isn't the same.


The proposed charter:


comp.international	Discussions on hardware & software in international use.

Comp.international is a group for discussing design and use of
computer hardware and software (and other material in the field of
computing) around the world, ie. how to provide for differences in
character sets, cultural environments, styles in writing dates,
electrical and other requirements, legal requirements and so on.

The discussion on this proposal will take place in news.groups.

Please see the pertinent postings in news.answers and
news.announce.newgroups for the rules that will be followed in
creating a newsgroup (<spaf-howto_711614959@cs.purdue.edu>).

//Jyrki
Newsgroups: news.announce.newgroups,news.groups,rec.aviation,sci.aeronautics,sci.military,rec.travel.air,rec.models.rc
From: Jyrki Kuoppala <jkp@cs.hut.fi>
Subject: 2nd RFD: talk.boycotts.calls moderated, talk.boycotts.misc
Followup-To: news.groups
Organization: Helsinki University of Technology, Finland.
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 02:57:26 GMT

This is a request for discussion regarding creation of two newsgroups
for discussions on and calls for boycotts.

Changes from the first RFD: The groups have been moved to "talk"
hierarchy from "misc", and "announce" has been renamed" "calls".

The groups:

talk.boycotts.calls	Calls for boycotts. (Moderated)

A moderated group containing calls for boycotts.  To avoid controversy
in moderation, the moderation process is automated and is limited to
only filtering out postings which do not conform to the submission
guidelines of t.b.calls.  The guidelines tell how to include the
relevant keywords and a sufficient description of the proposed
boycott.  The purpose of moderation is to keep the group only for
calls for boycotts, not for discussions.


talk.boycotts.misc	Discussions on boycotts.

An unmoderated group for discussions on boycotts not limited to those
called on talk.boycotts.calls, for theoretical discussions of boycotts
in general, etc.


The discussion on this proposal will take place in news.groups.  More
complete descriptions for the groups are desirable.

More detailed charters are welcome.

Please see the pertinent postings in news.answers and
news.announce.newgroups for the rules that will be followed in
creating a newsgroup (<spaf-howto_711614959@cs.purdue.edu>).

//Jyrki
Newsgroups: news.announce.newgroups,news.groups,rec.aviation,sci.aeronautics,sci.military,rec.travel.air,rec.models.rc
From: bobk@dogear.spk.wa.us (Bob Kirkpatrick)
Subject: 3rd RFD: misc.legal.family moderated
Followup-To: news.groups
Organization: Dog Ear'd Systems of Spokane, WA
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 00:33:43 GMT

3rd Call, RFD: misc.legal.family (moderated)

I.  General

The purpose of misc.legal.family is to discuss issues pertinent to
existing law so that people might learn from the knowledge and/or
experiences of others.

Case-specific legal advice should NOT be posted here, but, advice
of a general nature, or descriptions of procedures is welcome.

While warnings against certain actions are encouraged, disparaging
(flame) posts are discouraged. A reasonable attitude is expected of
those who post, where 'reasonable' may be metaphored as The Golden
Rule.

II. Basics

Articles for submission are sent to the moderator. Your newsreader
software should cause posts to be e-mailed. Articles submitted will
be read and either accepted or rejected in accordance with the news-
group charter.

If an article is rejected, a response article will be mailed to the
sender explaining why. Accepted articles will be posted immediately.

Readers who wish to respond to posted articles will have the option
of posting their response as a follow-up, or they may respond to the
original poster directly via e-mail. "From:" headers should reflect
the name and valid e-mail address of the submitter.

On the whole, misc.legal.family participants will define the topics
of the newsgroup. This will help to keep the group responsive to the
concerns of those who read and post here. The only unilateral rule is
that discussions remain grounded in the calm application of current, 
existing law. In other words, those that believe that the system is 
broken, is inequitable, or is in need of change should post those 
feelings or frustrations elsewhere.

A CFV (Call for Votes) will be posted for this group on or about Monday,
September 28, 1992 by David Lawrence (tale@uunet.uu.net) as per UseNet
Guidelines.

Comments or suggestions should be posted to news.groups when at all
possible.
-- 
Bob Kirkpatrick <bobk@dogear.spk.wa.us>
Dog Ear'd Systems of Spokane, WA 
Newsgroups: news.announce.newgroups,news.groups,rec.games.board,rec.games.frp.misc,rec.games.frp.advocacy