HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: emv@msen.com (Edward Vielmetti)
Newsgroups: alt.internet.services
Subject: Re: Company name database?
Date: 3 Sep 92 18:28:10 GMT
Organization: Msen, Inc. -- Ann Arbor, Michigan
NNTP-Posting-Host: nigel.msen.com
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL3

mth@neptune.dsc.com (Michael T. Heins) writes:
: Does anyone know if there is a publicly accessable database of company names
: on the internet?  The desire would be to check new candidate company names
: for uniqueness within the US.

you can check whether a company is on the internet by searching the
"netfind" seed database.  telnet to "bruno.cs.colorado.edu", login
"netfind", or on the Msen gopher:
	Msen gopher (gopher.msen.com)
	 Finding people on the net
	  netfind

This is *not* an exhaustive search, but it's pretty cheap to do.  

For exhaustive searches I'm pretty well convinced that you'll need to go
to a commercial service.  If I read my Dialog guide right some
possibilities are
	Dun and Bradstreet (dialog file #515, Westlaw DEBD)
	Disclosure (dialog file #100, Westlaw DISCLOSURE)
	ONTAP Trademarkscan - Federal (dialog #296, Westlaw OTP-FIP-TM)
or hit your local business library for suggestions.

--
Edward Vielmetti, vice president for research, MSEN Inc. emv@msen.com
      MSEN Inc., 628 Brooks, Ann Arbor MI  48103 +1 313 998 4562
 A distributed system is one in which the failure of a computer you didn't
 even know existed can render your own computer unusable. (Leslie Lamport)
Newsgroups: alt.internet.services
From: qb7g6@fel.tno.nl (Maarten Landzaat)
Subject: What is WWW?
Organization: TNO Physics and Electronics Laboratory
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 11:18:29 GMT

In a review of book by some Internet guru (sorry, I forgot his name),
an internet service "WWW" (World Wide Web I believe) was mentioned.
It also mentioned it was a hypertext-like thing for all internet services.
Now that sounded interseting to me.
There was no more info. I couldn't find anything in "Zen & the art of internet".
I would very much like to know how to contact this WWW. Can anybody
enlighten me?
Thanks in advance!

-- 
Maarten J. Landzaat (analyst/programmer, bass player, Atari/midi freak)
BSO/Aerospace & Systems			Mail: Spuistraat 97
Email: maarten.landzaat@fel.tno.nl	      1012 SV  Amsterdam
Phone: +31 20 6266098			      The Netherlands
Xref: sparky alt.internet.services:607 alt.internet.access.wanted:299 comp.bbs.misc:733
From: greenie@drycas.club.cc.cmu.edu
Newsgroups: alt.internet.services,alt.internet.access.wanted,comp.bbs.misc
Subject: RISCnet announces PersonalSLIP
Date: 28 Aug 92 18:32:04 GMT
Organization: Carnegie Mellon Computer Club


RISCNET introduces PersonalSLIP

Users can now use their PC's to participate directly on the Internet as an 
Internet node.  By using any standard TCP/IP software package that supports 
SL/IP (many of which are free, public domain packages), users can call a 
Rhode Island telephone number and connect to RISCnet's main routers to 
become an Internet node.

Users can FTP and TELNET directly from their machine, and with the 
appropriate software can even send and receive electronic mail.

IP addresses are assigned semi-permanantly to customers coming online.  
Domain names can be filed for users for an additional fee.

PersonalSLIP is billed hourly, so you only pay for what you use.  As of
August 28th, 1992, the rates are as follows:

	PersonalSLIP usage:  $7.95/hr
	Domain Name Filing:  $35 one-time fee    (option)

At this time, charges are applied to a user's VISA and Mastercard directly.

RISCnet will also provide assistance in configuring software, and offers 
support for the free, public-domain TCP/IP package known as "KA9Q", which 
offers concurrent multiple TELNET and FTP sessions in it's own unique
multi-tasking environment.  KA9Q is an IBM PC MSDOS application which is 
also available for Amiga and Macintosh computers.

9600 baud or faster modems are recommended.

For more information or details, or to sign up for RISCnet's PersonalSLIP,
call (401) 885-6855 or send electronic mail with your questions to
info@ids.net.
From: dmiller@elli.une.edu.au (David Miller)
Newsgroups: alt.internet.services
Subject: Re: Radio Free Europe
Date: 29 Aug 92 05:20:29 GMT
Organization: University of New England - Northern Rivers (Lismore)


In "alt.internet.services", pgiltner@epas wrote:-
>Recently a friend asked me about a bit of info he had heard whereby
>one can receive Radio Free Europe & Radio Liberty daily updates. He
>mentioned that his info had said one ought to mail to--
>
>        rferl-daily-report-request@rferl.org
>
>However, this bounces back as useless. I've tried a few variations,
>but with no luck. Anyone have any idea?

I tried the address given and it bounced from Germany.  Same for 
report-request@rferl.org.

You might want to send a message to the admin contact noted below,
and see what you hear.  Pls post what you find out.

telnet nic.ddn.mil whois
Trying 192.112.36.5...
Connected to nic.ddn.mil.
Escape character is '^]'.
rferl.org
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, Inc. (RFERL-DOM)
   Oettingenstr. 67 am Englischen Garten
     8000 Munich 22
     Federal Republic of Germany

   Domain Name: RFERL.ORG

   Administrative Contact:
      Pell, Eugene  (GP185)  PellE@RFERL.ORG
      +49 89 2102 3300
   Technical Contact, Zone Contact:
      Mallett, Nigel  (NM254)  Mallettn@RFERL.ORG
      +49 89 2102 3723

   Record last updated on 06-Jul-92.

   Domain servers in listed order:

   MUVAXA.RFERL.ORG  192.135.216.2
   NOC.SURA.NET   192.80.214.100
   MUVAXE.RFERL.ORG  192.135.216.6


To see this host record with registered users, repeat the command with
a star ('*') before the name; or, use '%' to show JUST the registered users.
Connection closed by foreign host.
507 dmiller:alsvid> 
-- 
David M Miller                   "Just because they're yelling at you
PO Box 695                       doesn't mean you are wrong".
Hornsby NSW 2077, Australia      --  Ritchie Garcia, baseball umpire
Internet: dmiller@elli.une.edu.au / C$: 100032,341 / GE: D.MILLER3@GENIE
From: chavey@jalapeno.cs.wisc.edu (Darrah Chavey)
Newsgroups: alt.internet.services
Subject: Re: Commercial nodes:  Advice, please
Date: 27 Aug 92 03:03:14 GMT
Organization: Beloit College, Beloit, Wisc.

In article <1992Aug22.200802.15522@ux1.cts.eiu.edu> cfejm@ux1.cts.eiu.edu (John Miller) writes:
>
>What's the procedure for a company to get a node established?  
>
>John Miller
>Music Theory
>Eastern Illinois University

According to the NIC database, the administrative contact for the .com
(commercial) domain is:

   Domain Name: COM
   Administrative Contact, Technical Contact, Zone Contact:
      Government Systems, Inc.  (HOSTMASTER)  HOSTMASTER@NIC.DDN.MIL
      (800) 365-3642 (703) 802-4535
From: heinlein@matt.ksu.ksu.edu (The tired one)
Newsgroups: alt.internet.services
Subject: Re: Commercial nodes: Advice, please
Date: 26 Aug 1992 07:00:53 -0500
Organization: Kansas State University
NNTP-Posting-Host: matt.ksu.ksu.edu

cfejm@ux1.cts.eiu.edu (John Miller) writes:


>Hi All,

>I've noticed that address suffixes are edu, mil, and com.  These, I
>presume, are "educational", "military", and "commercial".  What's the
>procedure for a company to get a node established?  A for-profit, but
>educational publisher (mine) has approached me about information.  They'd
>like an internet association, and I promised to try and find out. 

>Can anyone help?

>Thanks in advance,

>John

>-- 
>John Miller
>Music Theory
>Eastern Illinois University


I, also, would like the same above information.... i do not regularly
read this newsgroup however, so all replys to me should be made to

heinlein@matt.ksu.ksu.edu

thank you.
-- 
Gee, I finally made a .sig file. Isn't it grand?
Chris Green is way cool. :)   My idols are camels.  OH! You wanted sarcasm,
well, just go read my .plan then. :)  - Mike Monthey heinlein@matt
Newsgroups: alt.internet.services
From: nagle@netcom.com (John Nagle)
Subject: Re: Minitel in USA
Date: Sun, 30 Aug 92 02:43:42 GMT
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 

svp@po.CWRU.Edu (Scott V. Pasternak) writes:
>Minitel is available in the USA by Minitel Services in NewYork with Many
>local dialup numbers.  You may receive the software to connect by finding
>it at an archie site "minitel.zip" or directly from the company.  (I have
>seen it available for FTP..)  There is a charge (from 11 cents-a few dollars
>each minute for services in france), but there is no limit to what it can do..
>(the software emulates a Minitel terminal)..
>You may also maintain a Minitel terminal for use if you live in the San
>Francisco Bay area...
>Registration is simple (online w/ credit card) an you can use it on the
>first call.. (not the French Services, those require your verbal/written
>permission...)

      I've been a Minitel Services subscriber for several years.  The
system works quite well, but the available services in the US are rather
lame.  Access to the French services works well, and if you speak French,
you may find them quite interesting.  The French services are many
and well-used; some messageries have 200 people on-line at a time.
US-based services are lucky to have a dozen on at once.  You can access
the French phone directory, but not the US one, although there is now
an online Yellow Pages for the NYNEX area.

      Minitel Services itself doesn't provide any content; it's just
a communications service provider and billing service.  You connect
to a service provider via the Minitel net, and go on from there.
This thing was invented by French Telecom, and it's very phone-like.

      Few services make any real use of the graphic capabilities of
the Minitel system.  Typically each service has a cute sign-on graphic,
and maybe a few decorative figures here and there, but very little use
is made of the graphic facilities beyond that.  Users can't draw, of
course.

      There's been little change in the service offerings in the last
three years.  The thing seems stagnant.

     					John Nagle
From: emv@ilium.troy.msen.com (Edward Vielmetti)
Newsgroups: alt.internet.services
Subject: Re: What is WWW?
Date: 28 Aug 92 14:27:33 GMT
Organization: TMC & Associates, Troy, MI

In article <1992Aug28.111829.20856@fel.tno.nl> qb7g6@fel.tno.nl (Maarten Landzaat) writes:
>In a review of book by some Internet guru (sorry, I forgot his name),
>an internet service "WWW" (World Wide Web I believe) was mentioned.
>It also mentioned it was a hypertext-like thing for all internet services.

Scott Yanoff's "Special Internet Services" list has a couple of pointers
to World Wide Web.  See info.cern.ch:/pub/WWW/ for the software, and
there's a link to it in the following part of gopher space
   Msen gopher (gopher.msen.com)
    Lots of interesting things
     Special Internet Services (from Scott Yanoff)
      World Wide Web // EIES Interface

--Ed
Newsgroups: alt.internet.services
From: stp@controls.ccd.harris.com (Stephen T. Pierce)
Subject: Re: email to compuserve
Originator: stp@rs2
Organization: Harris Controls
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 20:02:42 GMT


In article <twlnpgc.adamsr@netcom.com>, adamsr@netcom.com (Rick Adams) writes:
|> Thus spake producer@maple.circa.ufl.edu: 
|> 
|> >i know this subjject has been kicked around just recently, and if this is 
|> >a FAQ, i apologise. But, how do i send mail to a compuserve acct??
|> 
|> 	For Compuserve:
  {stuff deleted}

  Also
	For Delphi:
		username@delphi.com

    Steve Pierce
From: mccoy@gothamcity.jsc.nasa.gov (Daniel J. McCoy)
Newsgroups: alt.internet.services
Subject: Re: What does this number mean?
Date: 28 Aug 1992 13:56:43 GMT
Reply-To: mccoy@gothamcity.jsc.nasa.gov
Organization: Loral Space Information Systems

In article 28284@jupiter.sun.csd.unb.ca, jhunter@mta.ca (John Hunter) writes:
|>Hello,
|>
|>I'm fairly new to the internet and have a simple question.
|>
|>If I'm attempting to telnet to machine.domain ####
|>                                              ^^^^
|>                                         What's this for?
|>
|>Thanks in advance,
|>-John 


Read the man file.  That's the port number you are connecting to.

---
Daniel J. McCoy           |=| Loral Space Information Systems
NASA Mail Code PT4        |=| TEL: (713)483-0950
NASA/Johnson Space Center |=| FAX: (713)244-5698
Houston, Texas 77058      |=| mccoy@gothamcity.jsc.nasa.gov
Newsgroups: alt.internet.services
From: remcor@sci.kun.nl (Remco Rutten)
Subject: Re: Country code suffixes list.
Organization: University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 11:35:42 GMT

In <34514@hoptoad.uucp> brendan@cygnus.com (Brendan Kehoe) writes:

>Actually, it's already done.  It's an ISO standard (3166).  (They're
>the ones that made them up.)  It's on relay.cs.toronto.edu in /info.

>The full list is also an appendix to the second edition of ``Zen and
>the Art of the Internet: A Beginner's Guide'', ISBN 0-13-010778-6. :)

Another suggestion: you can get a list of these country-codes including 
type of connections now available (like BITNET, Internet, UUCP, OSI).
It's called International Connectivity by Lawrence H. Landweber.
I find it very interesting.
You can retrieve the list by sending GET CONNECT TABLE in the first line
of an e-mail message to a LISTSERV-address. Well, i know it works for
listserv@nic.surfnet.nl
Maybe there are also other ways to get this list (ftp ?). I'd like to know
that very much !!!

Remco Rutten
University of Nijmegen
Netherlands 
e-mail to: r.rutten@uci.kun.nl

>Brendan
>--
>Brendan Kehoe                                               brendan@cygnus.com
>Cygnus Support, Palo Alto, CA                                  +1 415 322 3811
>                       Oooh! A handsome stranger! And me, without my shoes on.
>                                     --The Princess, The Emperor's New Clothes
From: greenie@drycas.club.cc.cmu.edu
Newsgroups: alt.internet.services
Subject: Re: commercial use of Internet
Date: 29 Aug 92 15:37:41 GMT
Organization: Carnegie Mellon Computer Club

In article <sheth.714954829@walnut.cs.scarolina.edu>, sheth@cs.scarolina.edu (Vipul Arun Sheth) writes:
>>For instance, you can provide dial-up IP access for a fee. A student
>>researcher using said access for educational purposes would be allowed
>>to access the NSFnet. A CEO using the same service to communicate
>>daily bookings figures with regional offices would not be allowed
>>to access the NSFnet. In both cases, the IP provider is the same.
> 
> What about the people who post job listings, for sale ads etc on the net
> ? are they making commercial use ? what about the postings in this group
> itself on services provided for a fee ? 

YOU'RE talking about the USENET, which is a message network.. and isn't
entirely the same thing is TCP/IP traffic...

Andy
From: emv@msen.com (Edward Vielmetti)
Newsgroups: alt.internet.services
Subject: Re: Welcome to alt.internet.services
Date: 4 Sep 1992 07:34:37 -0400
Organization: Msen, Inc. -- Ann Arbor, Michigan
NNTP-Posting-Host: nigel.msen.com
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL3

If you are interested in alt.internet.services, you're probably also
interested in comp.archives.

Comp.archives is a project to clip and save announcements of new stuff on
the net, primarily files available for anonymous FTP, but also new gopher
servers and new WAIS servers.  It's been running since 1989 or so. 

The collected postings from comp.archives runs about 10,000 articles. 
Fortunately you can search through the whole lot of them with a WAIS
server that's running on several sites (one at Oregon State, another in
Germany; check the wais directory of servers for details).

--Ed

Newsgroups: alt.internet.services
From: jns@ace.nas.nasa.gov (John N. Stewart)
Subject: [andrew] Hurricane Andrew -- GIFS?
Organization: NAS, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 92 23:45:43 GMT
Distribution: usa




I sadly forgot to save the GIFs of Andrew as it moved over into the
Pacific -- and there were some really interesting photographs at UIUC.
Could someone direct me to a site which has them per-chance?

Many thanx...
--
John Stewart (Ace)
CSS/DSS
NASA Ames Research Center
(415) 604-4345
From: adamsr@netcom.com (Rick Adams)
Newsgroups: alt.internet.services
Subject: Re: BigFun
Date: 2 Sep 92 18:10:27 GMT
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest)

Thus spake drw@euclid.mit.edu (Dale R. Worley): 

>Only if the cost is too high for them to bear.  Almost everybody pays
>for their telephone, but this isn't a practical problem for more than
>a tiny percentage of people.
>
	True. But if the fees are that nominal, the cost of
collecting/administering them on the small scale  under discussion would
prohibit their use. 

	In addition, a real problem wiould exist in terms of arranging
access. Since most users would be connected to a different academic
institution from that offering the service,  some (such as myself) forced to
pay for commercial access since our colleges are on bitnet versus Internet
(all offers of a free shell account on an academic machine cordially
accepted :-)), it would be almost impossible to implement such a program
without either having excessive fees (there are graduate students such as
myself supporting families on $8500/yr FA incomes - we can't AFFORD the fees
which would result), or limiting access to on-campus students only.

>But is that "the principles of Internet", really?  I would say the
>principles of the Internet are (or should be) the development and
>deployment of wide-scale computer networking into everyday life.  The
>present non-commercial Internet is a primitive test-bed, much like the
>early private telephone networks.  The telephone only reached real
>usefulness for the human race when it became a utility that could (and
>was) used by everybody.  (For a long time, "ubiquitous service" (as it
>was called) was an explicit goal of AT&T.)  For the Internet to
>fulfill its promise, it has to shed its abhorrence of money-grubbing
>capitalists and become available to the Real World.
>
	Eventually, widespread computing WILL be available to everyone - in
fact the commercial networks such as GEnie which offer extensive services at
reasonable rates insure that. And, ultimately the Internet as well will be
accessible as well - thanks to services such as netcom. But until then, the
economies of scale which would permit such services as we have been
discussing to be economical simply don't exist.

	Perhaps more importantly, however, is the fact that we are
discussing information services at public Universities. If ANYTHING should
be available free to the academic community (or, for that matter, to the
public) it is such educational resources! Promoting education and research
is the primary function of NSF, and the reason it is funded. If THESE
applications are not covered by that definition - and therefore eligible for
funding if necessary - they what good is the NSF?

-- 
    rick.adams on GEnie   /|\        You are right from your side,        
     adamsr@netcom.com  /  |  \        And I am right from mine.          
    adamsr@irie.ais.org \ /|\ /  We're both just one too many mornings,   
   adamsr@norwich.bitnet  \|/  And a thousand miles behind. (c Bob Dylan)
From: cb705@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Jason K. Green)
Newsgroups: alt.internet.services
Subject: Telephone Directories?
Date: 3 Sep 1992 04:11:29 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
Reply-To: cb705@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Jason K. Green)
NNTP-Posting-Host: hela.ins.cwru.edu




Does anyone know if there are any telephone directories on line?
(Not electronic-address directories)


-- 
Jason K. Green
cb705@cleveland.freenet.edu - Cleveland Freenet
jkg4286@hobbes.NebrWesleyan.edu - Nebraska Wesleyan University
From: lobaugh@a.chem.upenn.edu (John Lobaugh)
Newsgroups: alt.internet.services
Subject: Re: Getting Supercomputer Time?
Date: 4 Sep 92 14:43:13 GMT
Organization: University of Pennsylvania

In article <0wkny7q.nagle@netcom.com> nagle@netcom.com (John Nagle) writes:
>rtravsky@news.uwyo.edu (Rich Travsky) writes:
>>One of the things our site will be looking at in the future is
>>helping our reserachers gain or help to gain supercomputer time.
>>I have the Internet Resource Guide's section on supercomputers
>>but would like to know if anyone has any tips to offer on the
>>matter.
>
>      If you don't have enough clout to get at least 1% of a supercomputer,
>you're probably better off getting a high-end workstation (100 MIPS or
>above) and doing it there, rather than waiting in line for a tiny fraction
>of the big machine.  Silicon Graphics, HP, and Sun all have products
>in that class, and the prices are getting quite reasonable.  
>
>					John Nagle

I disagree. Time at the Pittsburgh Supercomputer Facility is 
notoriously easy to get. It is perhaps one of the easisest grant
to apply for. Also I'm not sure what you mean by "waiting in line"?
If your grant application is approved you can submit to the appropriate 
queue on the cray. The job gets executed in the order it was submitted to 
the queue. As far as I know no individual has priority over another in terms
of getting a job run. It is true that the turn around time is very slow.
Jobs can sit in queues for several days waiting to be run. So it maybe
faster just to run it on your workstation.


-- 
John Lobaugh lobaugh@a.chem.upenn.edu   This message was made with only
100% recycled phosphor and electrons. 
 
Newsgroups: alt.internet.services
From: s0558191@titan.ucc.umass.edu (Chris Belanger)
Subject: Architecture (not computer!) newsgroups
Organization: University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Distribution: usa
Date: Tue, 25 Aug 1992 21:51:29 GMT

Does anyone know of any newsgroups, mailing list, or anything else
which deals with architectural topics? I know that there are some
very computerized schools out there with architecture departments but
have found nothing on Internet. Any suggestions, tips etc will be very 
helpful. Thanks!

chris
Xref: sparky alt.internet.services:591 comp.mail.misc:2823
From: kep@calmasd.Prime.COM (Patteaswaran)
Newsgroups: alt.internet.services,comp.mail.misc
Subject: Mailing from Internet to X.400 ...
Keywords: X.400, Internet, address, ..
Date: 28 Aug 92 01:12:06 GMT
Followup-To: poster
Distribution: usa
Organization: Computervision, San Diego, CA


Hi Network Gurus,

I want to know if there is a reliable way of sending mail from an
Internet site to an X.400 mail site.

I have a problem in this.
The address I want to send the mail to is :
	SN=RANGA
	GI=SRIRANGA
	OR=SGCCPL
	ADMD=VSNB
	C=IN

The above address is in India.

The ADMD I have mentioned there seems to be having connectivity to
MCImail and ATTmail and so the mail address I use for the above 
from Internet is :
	SN=RANGA%GI=SRIRANGA%OR=SGCCPL%VSNB@mcimail.com

In fact, I have successfully sent 1 mail to the same address before and 
I have received 2 mails from the person at that address. He only has X.400 
mailing facility.

The problem is, when I now try to send a mail to the same address,  I am
not able to get it across.  I am attaching the delivery notice from
POSTMASTER@mcimail.com at the end of this post.

Can someone shed some light on this issue please. I am mainly interested in 
sending mails across to this particular site in India though. Is mcimail the 
only route or are there other ways to send this mail to them? 

Please e-mail your responses.

Thanks in advance,
Easwaran
kep@calmasd.prime.com

Copy of the delivery notice I received from POSTMASTER@mcimail.com
--------------------------------------------------
DELIVERY NOTICE

Referencing:  Message id:  63920826045536/0003765414NA1EM
              Subject:  Hi ...
              Posted:  Wed Aug 26, 1992  4:55 am  GMT 


Your Message To:  SN=RANGA
                  EMS:  VSNB
                  MBX:  SN=RANGA
                  MBX:  GI=SRIRANGA
                  MBX:  OR=SGCCPL


could not be delivered to this recipient.

Reason:  Unable to transfer.
Diagnostic:  Label in address not known to MCI Mail.
This non-delivery notice generated:  Wed Aug 26, 1992  4:54 am  GMT 
--------------------------------------------------

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Disclaimer : I speak up for myself and not for my employer.

Easwaran
kep@calmasd.prime.com
San Diego
CA
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