HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: erics@sco.COM (eric smith)
Subject: Re: Mail from Internet to Prodigy?
Organization: The Santa Cruz Operation, Inc.
Date: Wed, 07 Oct 1992 18:30:01 GMT


grady@world.std.com (Dick Grady) writes:

>Prodigy has announced that an Internet connection will be established by
>the end of this year for Prodigy users with MSDOS computers, and by next
>Spring for those with MacIntosh computers.
>Prodigy users will pay a surcharge to read mail from the Internet.

Interesting reversal of position on Prodigy's part. A while back they
were saying there would never be an Internet gateway; it was not possible
because their internal communications were not in ascii format (!).
I wonder how it suddenly became possible?

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From: Richard.de.Mos@p21.f112.n100.z60.wlink.nl (Richard de Mos)
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
Subject: I am looking for....
Date: Fri, 09 Oct 1992 20:35:00 -0100

Hello All!

I am looking a newsgroup on accountancy, auditing and administraion.

I posted this message about a week ago. I did not get any anwsers, my uplink
lost some messages so please reply again if you will, peferably NOT by personal
mail because that is not well at the moment.

I have list of about 600 newsgroups and i did not find anything about the
subject, if there is a group I can ask my uplink to pass it trough to me.

Thanks!

   Kind regards,
        Richard

Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
From: cwebb@cs1.uct.ac.za (CF WEBB)
Subject: So tell me ... are you UTAH's all in cahoots or what?
Keywords: UTAH
Organization: Computer Science Department, University of Cape Town
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 16:07:24 GMT


		I READ THE NEWS....  };-)

    Howcome the sudden burst of interest from UTAH ???  (Wossup? Huh?)

         

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Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
From: news@geovision.gvc.com (News Administrator)
Subject: Re: Announcement for Newusers
Reply-To: pt@geovision.gvc.com
Organization: Not officially GeoVision Systems Inc., Ottawa, Ontario
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1992 01:35:18 GMT

hramchan@cwis.unomaha.edu (Harish Ramchandani) writes:
>This is a public service message from  Creighton University, College of
>Business Administration

This "public service message" is of no service to that large proportion of
net users who are not living in or citizens of that one country to which
this applies.

Next time you want to do the net a service, read the manuals first,
especially the bit about "Distribution".

-- 
Paul Tomblin, News Administrator Extraordinaire.  (pt@geovision.gvc.com)
I just administer the news, I don't make or state policy.
From: alizard@tweekco.uucp (A.Lizard)
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
Subject: Re: Question
Date: 16 Oct 92 10:17:33 GMT
Article-I.D.: tweekco.yRFqsB1w164w
Organization: Tweek-Com Systems, Moraga, CA

>       Well, I'm actually rather new myself, so maybe I'm not really the
> right person to answer this, but...
> I don't think it's possible for us mere mortals to do anything like that
> - the traffic would bog down the net. EMail should be enough for most
> purposes, and if not, there's always the phone.
>   
> >  ps if anyone knows where I can get some general documentation on internet/
> > usenet/telnet kind of stuff, please tell me where (I know how to use ftp
> >  Anonymous).
> 

While I'm also pretty new here, I do know that systems on the internet
often DO have the on-line chat feature between users logged into different
systems. I don't know if YOUR system supports it, ask your sysadmin
and he'll tell you to RTFM... READ THE F*CKING MANUAL. 

A.Lizard
one of the relatively new sysadmins at
Blue.Kludge.COM
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
From: rsrodger@wam.umd.edu (Robert Stephen Rodgers)
Subject: irc?
Organization: University of Maryland, College Park
Date: Sun, 11 Oct 1992 00:47:11 GMT

Is it possible to access the irc my maryland wam account?

(should probably be local--please excuse me)


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From: ted.jensen@spacebbs.com (Ted Jensen) 
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
Subject: Timo Salmi's messages.
Date: 9 Oct 92 08:54:00 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: SPACE BBS - Menlo Park, CA - 10 Lines + 4gB - 415-323-4193
Reply-To: ted.jensen@spacebbs.com (Ted Jensen) 



Some time back I posted an article stating that I was having
problems with my attempts at contacting an e-mail server at the
Garbo mirror on wuarchive.wustl.edu.  I was attempting this since
I assumed it was possible using this method to obtain a copy of
the prerecorded instructions cited in the paragraph often posted
here as a part of an article by Timo Salmi:

> "If you do not know how to go about getting this material, users
> are welcome to email me for the prerecorded garbo.uwasa.fi
> instructions (long, circa 29Kb).  North American users are
> referred to the Garbo mirror on wuarchive.wustl.edu."


As a result of my posting I received a number of messages from
others indicating that they had attempted to do the same thing I
had attempted, and had also failed.  They requested that should I
eventually find out how to contact the North American archive, I
should post an article here indicating same.

Well, I did eventually make contact by sending private e-mail to
"postmaster@wuarchive.wustl.edu".  A gentleman by the name of
Charlie Fineberg responded.  Since I wasn't too clear in my
original message to the archive, Mr. Fineberg could not be sure
just what I was asking.  However, his message did include the
following 2 paragraphs:
------------
  You may access the archives via anonymous FTP.  To use
  anonymous FTP, ftp wuarchive.wustl.edu and give a username of
  "anonymous" and use your e-mail address as the password.  For
  more information on how to use FTP please consult the
  documentation or your system manager; each system has a
  slightly different way of using FTP and we cannot be sure of
  how to advise you on the proper way to use FTP.


  I'm sorry, wuarchive doesn't have an e-mail server.  The only
  access methods that are currently offered are anonymous FTP and
  NFS.  There is an FTP-->e-mail server offered by the Digital
  Equipment Corp. at decwrl.dec.com.  For more information on how
  to use this server, send e-mail to ftpmail@decwrl.dec.com with
  a body part of "help".
----------
As evidenced by the above you can see that the archive does not
have an e-mail server which is why all of my attempts failed.  I
hope this information will help others who may have had the same
mis-understanding of Professor Salmi's standard message that I
had.  It would therefore appear that the only way of obtaining
the desired files from wuarchive is using FTP, i.e. one cannot
get there from here using e-mail.

If you are reading this Professor Salmi, you might want to
somehow clarify the content of your regularly posted paragraph to
make this fact clear to those of us who cannot FTP since we are
not tied directly into The Internet.

Hope this helps someone!  Ted Jensen  Redwood City, Calif.


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Newsgroups: cis.general,news.newusers.questions
From: fullmer@skink.cis.ohio-state.edu (mark alan fullmer)
Subject: Re: Help finding machines on a system.
Organization: The Ohio State University Dept. of Computer and Info. Science
Date: Sat, 10 Oct 1992 21:55:42 GMT

In article <9210101857.AA10738@toto.cis.ohio-state.edu> garlock@news.cis.ohio-state.edu (erin jon garlock) writes:
>
>I would like to know if there is a way to find out what machines are connected to any particular system.  

Someone should probably ask why first, but...

If by system you really mean a domain name, use nslookup or dig to do a 
zone transfer.  eg: dig @authoritative-server domain axfr.

--
mark
maf+@osu.edu
From: murtaugh@math.orst.edu (Paul Murtaugh)
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
Subject: wrong return address
Date: 15 Oct 92 16:49:34 GMT
Article-I.D.: news.Bw69Eu.Gr0
Organization: Oregon State University Math Department

When I post from here (murtaugh@stat.orst.edu), replies to my post
go to murtaugh@math.orst.edu, where I don't have an account.  So the
replies bounce.  Is there a way for me to fix this, or do I have to
bug my system administrator?  Thanks.
-Paul

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From: 6500rick@ucsbuxa.ucsb.edu (Richard J. Bessey)
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
Subject: Re: Quanti persone leggano news???
Date: 14 Oct 92 04:38:30 GMT
Article-I.D.: ucsbcsl.6046


Chi vuole sapere?
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
Subject: UUENCODE and UUDECODE...
From: tasdevil@netlink.cts.com (Adam Spragg)
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 92 15:22:23 PDT
Organization: NetLink Online Communications, San Diego CA

I have seen many files that are labelled as something that has been 
UUENCODED...  I assume that this encoding allows the file to be sent as 
text through standard Email, or posted, etc.  How is it UUDECODED?  Is 
there a file that does this?  Where could I find that file?  Is it PD?
Thanks in advance

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From: joewhite@ut-emx.uucp (Joe Carl White)
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
Subject: .hqx
Date: 9 Oct 92 23:09:37 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: The University of Texas at Austin

I am on a 4.3 BSD UNIX system, and I would like to know how to get .hqx files
from the mainframe onto my Mac so that I can use them.  I connect with
Zterm or Kermit, depending on where I am.

thanks!

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Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
From: king@rtsg.mot.com (Steven King, Software Archaeologist)
Subject: Re: Quanti persone leggano news???
Reply-To: king@rtsg.mot.com
Organization: Motorola Inc., Cellular Infrastructure Group
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1992 11:53:57 GMT

robert.clifford@EMCB.CC.UTAH.EDU (ROBERT LEE CLIFFORD) publicly declared:
>     I just wanted to know how many people read news everyday?

Twelve.  Thirteen if you count Fred, but he only reads
alt.sex.aluminum.baseball.bat and we generally don't talk to him much.

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You don't know how much you don't know until you       |      Steven King
know a lot.                                            |   Motorola Cellular
                                       (Nick Holland)  |   king@rtsg.mot.com
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
From: king@rtsg.mot.com (Steven King, Software Archaeologist)
Subject: Re: I am looking for....
Reply-To: king@rtsg.mot.com
Organization: Motorola Inc., Cellular Infrastructure Group
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1992 12:33:49 GMT

Richard.de.Mos@p21.f112.n100.z60.wlink.nl (Richard de Mos) publicly declared:
>I am looking a newsgroup on accountancy, auditing and administraion.
>
>I posted this message about a week ago. I did not get any anwsers, my uplink
>lost some messages so please reply again if you will, peferably NOT by personal
>mail because that is not well at the moment.
>
>I have list of about 600 newsgroups and i did not find anything about the
>subject, if there is a group I can ask my uplink to pass it trough to me.

I looked for "finance" instead of "accountancy" and came up with the
following list:

  clari.biz.finance           Finance, currency, Corporate finance. (Moderated)
  clari.biz.finance.earnings  Earnings & dividend reports. (Moderated)
  clari.biz.finance.personal  Personal investing & finance. (Moderated)
  clari.biz.finance.services  Banks and financial industries. (Moderated)

Being a computer geek rather than a finance geek, I'll leave it to your
discretion as to whether or not these fit what you're looking for.  I
searched the following articles, which is probably the same as you've
already checked:

  List of Active Newsgroups
  Alternative Newsgroup Hierarchies       (found it in this one)
  Regional Newsgroup Hierarchies
  Publicly Accessible Mailing Lists

These are under the Clarinet hierarchy, which is a commercial for-pay
service.  Here's the blurb:

  ClariNet
  --------
  The ClariNet hierarchy consists of newsgroups gatewayed from
  commercial news services and other ``official'' sources.  A feed of
  the ClariNet groups requires payment of a fee and execution of a
  license.  More information may be obtained by sending mail to
  "info@clarinet.com".

Hope this helps!

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You don't know how much you don't know until you       |      Steven King
know a lot.                                            |   Motorola Cellular
                                       (Nick Holland)  |   king@rtsg.mot.com
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
From: mesm@netcom.com (Mary E. S. Morris)
Subject: Re: Whole Internet User's
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1992 15:24:55 GMT

todd.paulus%theweb@meaddata.com (Todd Paulus) writes:
: 
: LDG.Just received a copy yesterday.  It looks very good, but I've not
:    .really had the time to do more than flip through the pages.
: 
: LDG.In article <19nt47INNsn2@network.ucsd.edu> bjones@weber.ucsd.edu (Bruce Jone
:    .rites:
:    .>Has anyone seen/received a copy of this book?  I ordered and paid
:    .>for one at the San Antonion Usenix but haven't seen it yet (and it
:    .>was supposed to be out by Sept 10).
:    .>
:    .>Waiting ... waiting ... waiting ... (and not very patiently! :-)
:    .>
: I have received my copy, after less than a week's wait...well, maybe it
: was 10 days, but whose counting!  Haven't read it, yet, but have
: started.  It looks pretty complete.  For $27 including shipping, I can't
: complain.

I got radical and called O`Reilly's themselves and ordered the book,
next day delivery. Impatient...



: 
: Regards,
: Todd
: 
: ---
:  . OLX 2.2 . If a computer crashes in the woods, does it make a noise?
:          

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From: harris@morisot.cs.unc.edu (Trey Harris)
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
Subject: Re: Other Unix boards?
Date: 12 Oct 92 04:15:19 GMT
Organization: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

In article <1992Oct07.210938.12937@r-node.gts.org> cjlee@r-node.gts.org (Jack Lee) writes:
>Although this is a great Unix board, I'd like to know if there are other
>free-of-charge Unix boards in Toronto.  E-mail reply would be nice.


8-O

My goodness!  I'm...speechless!

I've never heard the USENET described quite like..._this_ before.
Or perhaps you are speaking of the R-node system that seems to be
your point of origin?

As I seem to be wont to remind, the USENET is a distributed network.
As such, it cannot be properly pinned down as Toronto or Vancouver or
Washington or Bangkok or Moscow.  It is all of these, and more.  At
the same time, though, whether you are in any of these places, you
will see )basically( the same thing.

(I say basically because depending where you are, things may reach you
more quickly, and, in addition, some articles are tagged to only
propogate so far and then stop.  For example, if I tag an article to
only be distributed in the USA, you would not receive it.  However, if
I were to distribute it to North America or the world, you would
receive it.)

If you were talking about your pubax unix system, I apologize, I
misunderstood your question.

Trey Harris
--Stranger in a Strange Thread!

Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
From: sridhar@enuxhb.eas.asu.edu (Sridhar Venkataraman)
Subject: Re: Rn: How can I change the my return adress (From:-field)?
Reply-To: sridhar@asuvax.eas.asu.edu (Sridhar Venkataraman)
Organization: Arizona State University, Tempe AZ
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1992 21:15:59 GMT

bgitv@TV32 (Baard Grimsmo)
writes on news.newusers.questions:

)Therefore I want my return address to be Bard.Grimsmo@termo.unit.no
)(or bgitv@termo.unit.no)

You can use this with the Reply-To: header. Check out the REPLYTO
environmental variable setting in the rn/Pnews/Rnmail man pages.

)Rn gives me the name bgitv@TV32
)This address is not known to the mail system!

I am guessing that your mini-inews was not configured properly. 
Here is an extract from the README file of mini-inews ...

----------
If it doesn't find a From: or Path: line, it inserts them, in the
default format

	From: login@hostname.DOMAIN (Full_name)
Path: hostname!login

where DOMAIN is a #define in ../common/conf.h, and should be changed
to reflect your system.  A good choice is "UUCP" if you are not a
member of the Internet.  "Full_name" understands the & hack in
password files. If "HIDDENNET" is defined in ../common/conf.h,
DOMAIN is used as the complete host name, and the format used is

	From: login@DOMAIN (Full_name)
Path: login

     "hostname" is figured out by what you've #defined in ../common/conf.h.
If you have defined GHNAME, it uses the gethostname() call.
If you've defined UUNAME, it figured it out from the file
/etc/uucpname.  Finally, if neither is defined it gets it from
/usr/include/whoami.h.  If you have GHNAME defined and your
gethostname() returns your fully-qualified Internet name,
undefine DOMAIN.
----------

)I have intalled rn with:
)1. domain name: termo.unit.no
)2. site name: termo.unit.no (site name of return)

In your case, you would want to define HIDDENNET.

)However rn always gives me the adress bgitv@TV32. Can I change this?
)Help will be much appreciated!

Try seeking help from your news server's administrator if you need
more help.

)Bard Grimsmo

Sridhar.
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From: mesm@netcom.com (Mary E. S. Morris)
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
Subject: Re: how to view the posted gif pictures
Date: 7 Oct 92 15:31:35 GMT
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest)

D14YC@CUNYVM.BITNET () writes:
: To whom it may concern,
: I am a newcomer to this enviroment.  Hopefully you will be able to help me.
: Recently when I looking through the articles, a few of them were encoded
: GIF files.  My need is to find out how do I decode those pictures?
: I also would like to know how to acces the necessary files and commands?
: any response is appreciated.
:                                  Anxiously waiting
:                                  The New comer

Gif is a data format for storing the data in pictures. You do not
decode this information, you use a program that will directly display
GIF images. Check archie for GIF viewer programs.
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mesm@netcom.COM      |  in will, then in reality. -- Galivan Burwell
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From: bz302@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Vince Pirat)
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
Subject: Access to newsgroup clari.canada.* ??
Date: 7 Oct 1992 11:09:18 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio (USA)
NNTP-Posting-Host: hela.ins.cwru.edu


                Hello,

I wonder if there's any chance of getting access to the newsgroup
clari.canada.*  (Not accessible from CFN at the moment).

                                Vince.

Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
From: kevinn@kpc.com (Kevin Nguyen)
Subject: Need help on XRn
Organization: Kubota Pacific Computer Inc, Santa Clara, CA
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1992 21:52:22 GMT


Hi Netters,

I am trying to configure the "Xmh" on the SUN, and I am using Motif.  I have the following questions:

1. How do I configure the xrn path, the default is "Path: balsa!kevinn", I want
   it to be "Path kevinn@kpc.com"
2. How do I configure the xrn "From" "kevinn@balsa.Berkeley.EDU (Kevin Nguyen)" 
   to "From: "kevinn@kpc.com (Kevin Nguyen)"
3. I can't Post News from the xrn, everytime I try to post it give me the 
   following message "Subject is missing". But I entered the subject and
   it still say "missing Subject"




Thanks in Advance.

Kevin Nguyen

-- 

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Internet E-mail kevinn@kpc.com		uucp E-mail kpc.com!kevinn
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
From: king@rtsg.mot.com (Steven King, Software Archaeologist)
Subject: Re: Description of all groups?
Reply-To: king@rtsg.mot.com
Organization: Motorola Inc., Cellular Infrastructure Group
Distribution: news
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1992 11:47:07 GMT

marlene@cubenet.sub.org (Ika Geers) publicly declared:
>Where can I get a short Description of all newsgroups?
>I didn't find one in news.lists.

Then it's probably expired already at your site.  They're periodically
posted in:

    news.lists
    news.groups
    news.announce.newusers
    news.announce.newgroups
    news.answers

Look for these subjects:

    List of Active Newsgroups           (posted by Gene Spafford)
    Alternative Newsgroup Hierarchies   (posted by Gene Spafford)
    Regional Newsgroup Hierarchies      (posted by Andrew Partan)
    Publicly Accessible Mailing Lists   (posted by Stephanie da Silva)

These are all surely archived somewhere, but I'm afraid I don't know at
which sites.  Since the files are rather large, I'm not willing to mail
them out to anyone.  That and I don't want to answer a deluge of
inquiries from people who could get them through other channels.
Sorry.

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You don't know how much you don't know until you       |      Steven King
know a lot.                                            |   Motorola Cellular
                                       (Nick Holland)  |   king@rtsg.mot.com
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
From: axolotl@socs.uts.edu.au (Iain Sinclair)
Subject: Re: SOMEONE IN AUSTRALIA
Reply-To: axolotl@socs.uts.edu.au
Organization: University of Technology, Sydney
Date: 14 Oct 92 07:22:04 GMT

tomazi@smop.fr.mugnet.org (Georges A. Tomazi) writes:
 >Post your article in the newsgroup "soc.culture.australian".

Please don't.  Post it in soc.net-people instead.


-- 
 Iain Sinclair    axolotl@socs.uts.edu.au
From: HAGERS@QUCDN.QueensU.CA
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
Subject: Star trek newsgroup
Date: 9 Oct 92 17:33:43 GMT
Organization: Queen's University at Kingston

I there a newsgroup for Star Trek?
If so, how do I subscribe to it?
Thanks in advance, I am completely lost!