HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: harris@proline.cs.unc.edu (Trey Harris)
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
Subject: Re: thanks...my next question is...
Date: 29 Sep 92 01:22:56 GMT
Organization: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

In article <92272.154051U58855@uicvm.uic.edu> U58855@uicvm.uic.edu writes:
>Now I have another question that I haven't seen addressed in this group (or in
>fact, any other) - is there a way to post anonymously, without your user id
>number appearing in the post?

My first question is, why would you wish to do such a thing?  Consider
carefully; I would wonder at your wishing to make an opinion known
without wishing your name to go with it.

I think it is generally best to post with your name.  However, there
are notable exceptions, and with these it is possible to post
anonymously.  If you are wishing to post to soc.motss or soc.bi (two
groups where, unfortunately, posting is often misinterpreted as a
statement about the poster's sexual orientation), there are people who
will sometimes post for you; read the FAQs to find out who these
people are.

There are also some (rather unreliable) methods to manually alter your
From: header.  The advantage to using another person as a screen,
however, is that these people will often send mail replies back to
you.

If you are considering posting something that is nothing more than a
joke (say, to one of the alt.sex.* groups), I can only say this:
DON'T.  This is not what the Usenet is for.  Countless people think it
will be "fun" to post a message that makes someone else look stupid.
Believe me, it simply gets others angry.  People HAVE been removed
from net access, or worse, been stripped of an account, because they
made a false posting.

The short answer to your question is: yes, there are ways to post
anonymously.  But I admonish you to THINK before doing so.

Trey Harris
--Stranger in a Strange Thread!
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
From: davison@borland.com (Wayne Davison)
Subject: Re: Some random trn questions...
Organization: Borland International
Date: Sat, 3 Oct 1992 17:29:29 GMT

chpetk@gdr.bath.ac.uk (Toby Kelsey) wrote:
> Using trn:
> (i) How do you skip directly to the last page of a long article?

This isn't possible at the moment.

> (ii) After reading some articles in a newsgroup, how do you
> get back to the _first_ page of the trn view of that group
> without quitting and restarting?

I assume you're talking about the thread selector.  Pressing 'h' will
show you the help page that tells you about the '^' command, which goes
to the first page of the threads.

> (iii) How do you list articles in order of posting date?

You modify the source and send me a copy.  :-)

> (iv) I do /fredbloggs/h:j at article level but not all of that
> users posts are killed, so how do I do it properly?

This only searches forward from the current article.  Either do this
command from the thread selector (which searches all articles in the group)
or first go to the top of the group with a '^'.
-- 
Wayne Davison
davison@borland.com
From: alizard@tweekco.uucp (A.Lizard)
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
Subject: Re: CompuServe and Intern
Date: 6 Oct 92 07:30:11 GMT
Organization: Tweek-Com Systems, Moraga, CA

Here's an excerpt from NETGUIDE
#F internet
#T compuserve
#R 71234,567
#I send to '71234.567@compuserve.com'
#I   Ordinary Compuserve account IDs are pairs of octal numbers
 
As to your assertion that postmaster at your site doesn't have
the address of everyone on the Internet, neither does anyone else
with the possible exception of the NSA. No one expects it to. In
any case, the only POSTMASTER I have ever contacted at Compuserve
is the "Electronic Postmaster", the autoreply referred to by you
that says that if you don't have the Compuserve address for your
addressee, that Compuserve is not going to help you find it.
 
Have you ever tried to send mail to Compuserve from the Internet
yourself? (try POSTMASTER@compuserve.com ... then try any
compuserve address using the syntax from NETGUIDE.)
 
Post your C-serve address or send it to me and I will demonstrate
that the mode of addressing I and the NETGUIDE recommends works.
In the meantime, I'll send mail to Compuserve users in the way I
am accustomed to do.
 
In the meantime, has anyone ever actually tried to send E-mail to
Compuserve via the procedure recommended by Sam? (of course, it
may well be that this argument is because I'm using Waffle and
the systems he uses actually will not handle the format I'm
using. Anything is possible, one Internet access point I use
won't even accept bang path addresses.)
 
 
>12345,678,
>then address your message within INTERNET "TO:12345.678&compuserve.com".
 
>All the ususal rules apply, of course.  The TO, etc. must be in
>the first line, the first character position, and there must be a
>blank line after the TO line.  CIS members can send mail back to
>you in INTERNET, but I forget the specific syntax.
 
The specific syntax from Compuserve to Internet is:
#F compuserve
#T internet
#R user@domain
#I send to '>INTERNET:user@domain' (only from CompuServe users)
 
A.Lizard
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From: dmaluso@MtHolyoke.edu (Diane Maluso)
Subject: TN3270 emulator HELP
Organization: Mount Holyoke College
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1992 12:18:13 GMT
From: "richard velez" <richard.velez@execnet.com>
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
Subject: ftp ??
Date: 25 Sep 92 16:41:48 EST
Reply-To: "richard velez" <richard.velez@execnet.com>
Distribution: news
Organization: Executive Networks Information

I will like to know, what do I have to do, in order to receive a file or
text file ??, whats the command, is there a info text on a listserv, that
I could request a help file on FTP. Thanks.

 Richard.Velez@ExecNet.Com
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From: ts@uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi)
Subject: Re: 2 questions
Organization: University of Vaasa, Finland
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 1992 07:41:44 GMT

In article <4OCT199212240230@sscvx1.ssc.gov> dlittle@sscvx1.ssc.gov (DENNIS LITTLE) writes:
>I've had Usenet access for quite some time, but until recently haven't had
>Internet access and have a few questions.  Firstly, how do you go about
>starting an anonymous FTP (ie, what id/password combination and correct
>commands when logged in) and second, I know what a FAQ is but I'm not sure
>how to go about getting them... Where do I look, are the e-mailed or FTP'ed etc.

If you read some FTP site's instructions (I send out ours on an
email request from the user) and the Frequently Asked Questions
collection, you'll have had your answers and much more:

115799 Sep 20 08:35 garbo.uwasa.fi:/pc/ts/tsfaq30.zip

"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.  Australian users are referred to the
archie.au mirror.  For the Asian users there is the NCTUCCCA.edu.tw
mirror.  The mirrors may lag occasionally, or might not have all the
files.  If you do not receive my reply within five days, please ask
your own site's system manager to construct a returnable mail path
for you". 

..................................................................
Prof. Timo Salmi
Moderating at garbo.uwasa.fi anonymous FTP archives 128.214.87.1
Faculty of Accounting & Industrial Management; University of Vaasa
Internet: ts@uwasa.fi Bitnet: salmi@finfun   ; SF-65101, Finland
From: cathy@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Catherine T Vojtas)
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
Subject: internet->infonet, bluesnet, IBMlink?
Summary: Can I e-mail to someone one infonet, etc...?
Keywords: infonet ibmlink bluesnet
Date: 28 Sep 92 05:31:41 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana

Can I, through internet, send e-mail to someone on infonet,
Blue Cross & Blue Shield's "bluesnet", or IBMlink?

If so, how can I find an address?  I tried Knowbot to no avail, as
well as Netfind.

Someone help!!!

-cathy

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University of Illinois at U-C
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From: twpierce@unix.amherst.edu (Tim Pierce)
Subject: Re: How do I access a certain newsgroup?
Organization: Amherst College, Amherst MA
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1992 00:57:34 GMT

In article <1992Sep30.121704.59301@cc.usu.edu> slgmj@cc.usu.edu writes:

>Help.   I'm a new user and new to the state. (Utah) When I first entered NEWS,
>I recieved a tremendous list of Newsgroups. When it finished scrolling, my list
>of newsgroups to choose from had narrowed to about 10.  I was wondering how I
>go about accessing a newsgroup?  (Specifically "Alt.bbs.lists")

What newsreader are you using?
What operating system?
Have you tried "man" or "help"?
Have you called user services?  No, you didn't.  Go back and do that.

-- 
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\  / twpierce@unix.amherst.edu /  penis envy is here and it's now and it's
 \/ (BITnet: TWPIERCE@AMHERST) /  all around you." -- Neal C. Wickham
From: miner@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
Subject: What is PKZipFix?
Date: 5 Oct 92 20:53:47 CDT
Organization: University of Kansas Academic Computing Services

Anybody know what PKZipFix is and/or an ftp or telnet source where I
can get it?  (I've tried Simtel20; they have a good compress file but
they don't have PKZipFix)  TIA

*- Ken <miner@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu>* 


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From: king@rtsg.mot.com (Steven King, Software Archaeologist)
Subject: Re: ftpmail@decwrl.dec.com
Reply-To: king@rtsg.mot.com
Organization: Motorola Inc., Cellular Infrastructure Group
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1992 15:13:38 GMT

bryan%uhura1@uunet.uu.net publicly declared:
>If you pay for connection time, and you're going to be using ftpmail
>regularly, I'd suggest using btoa.  Files encoded using btoa are
>significantly smaller than uuencoded files.

I just ran a comparison.  Of 130 compressed text files (assembler
listings) averaging 40-45 Kbytes each, btoa encoding was about 8%
smaller than uuencoding the same file.  Smaller yes, but not
significantly so (in my opinion).  But then, I don't pay for connect
time...

If you were to download an approximately 1 Mbyte file at 2400 baud,
btoa would save you 6 minutes over uuencode.  However, if you decoded
it and downloaded a compressed (or zip'd, or arj'd, or lha'd, or zoo'd,
or...) binary instead of text you'd save just gobs o' time.  :-)

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From: ropella@engcon.marshall.ltv.com (GEROPELLA)
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
Subject: ftpmail@decwrl.dec.com
Date: 29 Sep 92 13:14:14 GMT
Reply-To: ropella@engcon.UUCP (GEROPELLA)
Organization: LTV MEG, Dallas, TX



Ok.  The finding-sources archive helped me get a program.
However, now that I have it (i.e. something in ascii that
I can't decipher), I don't know what to do with it.  
What I did was ask ftpmail to send me a copy of 
ImageMaker2.0.tar.Z from export.lcs.mit.edu.  And I now
have it.  

I tried %uncompress, tar tvf, and uudecode, but they all 
fail.  The first line in the file is "xtboa begin"  or
"xbtoa begin" (I can't remember which).  Can anyone 
tell me what to do?

Thanks.

glen e. ropella                                |
Operations Analyst                             |The Historian always looks
ropella@engcon.marshall.ltv.com                |backward; eventually, he
engcon!ropella@uunet.uu.net                    |begins to believe backward.
engcon!plato!ropella@uunet.uu.net              |       -Friedrich Nietzche
engcon!gemini!ropella%plato.decnet@uunet.uu.net|

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From: av5410@sjfc.UUCP (Alex Villamil)
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
Subject: Where can I get pkware for unix?
Date: 30 Sep 92 01:23:03 GMT
Reply-To: av5410@sjfc.UUCP (Alex Villamil)
Distribution: usa
Organization: Saint John Fisher College, Rochester, NY

Is there an ftp site?

Or, can someone please post the code?

Thanks,
Alex

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Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
Subject: testing please ignore
From: system@fallout.lonestar.org
Date: 29 Sep 92 08:47:38 CST
Organization: DECUS DFWLUG BBS *Dallas*TX*

Testing please ignore

Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
From: art@wvus.org (Art Nicolaysen)
Subject: Re: Computer book advice wanted...
Reply-To: art@wvus.org (Art Nicolaysen)
Organization: World Vision U.S.
Date: Fri, 02 Oct 92 01:18:29 GMT

ai118@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Rich Zidonis) writes:
>
>In a previous article, sstrong@kean.ucs.mun.ca () says:
>
>>Can someone point me to some good nonfiction computer type books.  I am 
>>interested in stories/biographies(sp?)/etc...
>>The ones I have are:
>>
>>The Cukoo's Egg     By Stoll (sorry about the spelling...)
>>Accendental Empires  By Cringley  (again spelling ...)
>>Hard Drive           By _I forget!_
>>The Whole Internet   (Still on order ...)
>>
>>Another book I have read is 'A few Good Men from UNIVAC' but I have lost 
>>the book.
>>
>>These are the types of books I like.  Does anyone have any sugestions on 
>>my next purchase.  New books are ok but I like the old ones also.
>>
>>BTW (If anyone has one to sell drop me some email with the title, condition,
>> and a brief summary)
>>Thanks.
>>Steve Strong
>
>
>I enjoyed the following:  "The Soul of a New Machine," by Tracy Kidder
>
>In the realm of fiction, the absolute best I've read is:  "The
>Adolescence of P-1."  I don't recall the author, but the book is much, 
>much fun -- especially for a net user.
>
>-- 
>RAZ     ai118@cleveland.freenet.edu

If only to say you have it, go out and get "The New Hacker's
Dictionary", Eris S. Raymond, ed.  (MIT Press, 1991, ISBN
0-262-68069-6, price $10.95 (cheap)).  This is the published version 
of the Jargon File.  Not as boring as you would suppose.  Includes
some sagas and yarns, but not as in depth as "Hard Drive" or "Soul of
a New Machine".

Steve, you might want to start up a "My favorite computer tales"
thread over in alt.folklore.computers.  These guys will spout plenty
of personal yarns, but ask about published stuff.

Art

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From: alizard@tweekco.uucp (A.Lizard)
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
Subject: Re: CompuServe and Intern
Date: 5 Oct 92 10:54:18 GMT
Organization: Tweek-Com Systems, Moraga, CA

>however, I do know that CIS does not provide ACCESS to INTERNET, but you
>CAN address a message to a specific address in INTERNET.  I have
>communicated with CIS members more than once.  If you have someone's CIS
>address, e.g. 12345,678, then address your message within INTERNET "TO:
>12345.678&compuserve.com".  All the ususal rules apply, of course.  The
>TO, etc. must be in the first line, the first character position, and
>there must be a blank line after the TO line.  CIS members can send mail
>back to you in INTERNET, but I forget the specific syntax.
 
To address mail to Compuserve from Internet, you address it:
 
12345,678 (compuserve userID)
 
12345.678@Compuserve.com
     ^
period instead of comma
 
Note that there is no TO: and there is no & , just a conventional
user@domain format address.
 
I am a little surprised that mail addressed in the format Todd is
using made it to Compuserve. Maybe there's something exotic in
mail aliasing at his site... but I am CERTAIN my address version
is workable, I use it on a daily basis.
 
Compuserve to Internet:
>INTERNET:user@domain
 
That's the whole story. You MUST have the address of your party,
POSTMASTER is as useless as I find the rest of the CompuServe
organization.
 
A.Lizard
non-CompuServe user
(Todd IS right about CompuServe, though)
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
From: mesm@netcom.com (Mary E. S. Morris)
Subject: Re: Computer book advice wanted...
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1992 03:45:15 GMT

ai118@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Rich Zidonis) writes:
: 
: In a previous article, sstrong@kean.ucs.mun.ca () says:
: 
: >Can someone point me to some good nonfiction computer type books.  I am 
: >interested in stories/biographies(sp?)/etc...
: >The ones I have are:
: >
: >The Cukoo's Egg     By Stoll (sorry about the spelling...)
: >Accendental Empires  By Cringley  (again spelling ...)
: >Hard Drive           By _I forget!_
: >The Whole Internet   (Still on order ...)
: >
: I enjoyed the following:  "The Soul of a New Machine," by Tracy Kidder
: 
: In the realm of fiction, the absolute best I've read is:  "The
: Adolescence of P-1."  I don't recall the author, but the book is much, 
: much fun -- especially for a net user.
: 
I second the Adolesence of P1. What about Hackers by Steven Levy. I 
like that one. There is also Cyberpunk - Author not remembered.

If you liked Accidental Empires you might like some of the books
about computer companies.  Sunburst
is about Sun. There is one about Highway something in Massachusettes.
That one is about companies like Dec that were started around the MIT,
area. There are also 2 about Apple, one is by Sculley and the other
I think is by Jobs or a ghhost writer for him...
Mary E. S. Morris    |  The future exists first in imagination, then
mesm@netcom.COM      |  in will, then in reality. -- Galivan Burwell
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Netcom - Online Communication Services San Jose, CA
From: todd.paulus%theweb@meaddata.com (Todd Paulus) 
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
Subject: Re: Whole Internet User's
Date: 4 Oct 92 13:32:00 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: The Web BBS 1-513-436-9011 6 Lines 1200 News groups 50,000 files!
Reply-To: todd.paulus%theweb@meaddata.com (Todd Paulus) 

LDG.Newsgroups: news.admin,news.newusers.questions,alt.internet.services
   .From: ldg@scott.skidmore.edu (Leo D. Geoffrion)
   .Subject: Re: Whole Internet User's Guide????
   .Message-ID: <1992Sep23.003212.8391@scott.skidmore.edu>
   .Keywords: vapor-text?
   .Date: Wed, 23 Sep 1992 00:32:12 GMT

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:
   .>
   .>             The Whole Internet User's Guide and Catalog
   .>                             By Ed Krol
   .>                        O'Reilly and Associates>
   .>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.

Regards,
Todd

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Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
From: fullerto@mostaccioli.cis.ohio-state.edu (timothy dwight fullerton)
Subject: mail between Internet and Prodigy
Organization: The Ohio State University Dept. of Computer and Info. Science
Distribution: na
Date: Sat, 26 Sep 1992 22:58:53 GMT


	The topic is pretty self explanatory. Is it possible to mail from
Internet to Prodigy and vice versa. If so, how?

		Tim.
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
From: andy@nff.ncl.Omron.Co.Jp (Andy Krantz)
Subject: Re: Where are the far east subscribers?
Reply-To: andy@nff.ncl.omron.co.jp
Organization: Omron Computer Systems R&D Labs 
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1992 00:23:17 GMT

In article <1992Sep28.182249.11723@zip.eecs.umich.edu>, schuette@quip.eecs.umich.edu (R. Wade Schuette) writes:
> I've noticed surprisingly few messages posted to the news from
> the far east.   Is there access to this from Tokyo and Singapore
> and Seoul, or am I reading the wrong groups, or is my uncalibrated
> sense correct that a disproportionately small number of messages 
> are from , say, Japan.  Or do they read but not post?  Anyone know?

Lurk, lurk. :-)

Although I am not considered from the Far East I do presently live here.

In Japan (and elsewhere) the fj.* groups have a lot of traffic. It helps
though if you have a terminal that can read Kanji since that is what most of
the postings are in.

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 Phone: +81-75-951-5111 x3691 FAX: 956-7403\ gaijin. I understand nobody and 
 OMRON Corp., Computer Systems R&D Labs    / nobody understand me. How could
 Shimokaiinji, Nagaokakyo Kyoto, 617 Japan/   I possibly speak for company?
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
From: bell@cs.tamu.edu (Will Bell)
Subject: Re: mail between Internet and Prodigy
Organization: Texas A&M University, College Station, TX
Distribution: na
Date: Sun, 27 Sep 1992 06:34:56 GMT

In article <1992Sep27.001857.7562@hubcap.clemson.edu> jtbell@hubcap.clemson.edu (Jon Bell) writes:
>
>"...the Prodigy service will be adding E-mail access to the Internet in the
>near future.  There's no word yet as to when the connection will be opened..."

Someone posted to misc.consumers about this topic.  I believe the target
date was November.  I do know for sure that there will be an additional
charge for this access/gateway.

>That's all I know.

Same here :)

WBB

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From: twpierce@unix.amherst.edu (Tim Pierce)
Subject: Re: MST3K newsgroup?
Organization: Amherst College, Amherst MA
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1992 23:49:29 GMT

In article <1992Sep28.201949.1378@Princeton.EDU> mgflax@ernie.Princeton.EDU (Marshall G. Flax) writes:
>In article <1a72noINNfs5@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> bm560@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Thomas D. Salyers) writes:
>>
>>    I heard recently that there was a newsgroup devoted to 
>>Mystery Science Theater 3000, but I can't seem to find it. 
>
>alt.fan.mst3k
>
>Not all sites recieve all groups.

Some of them even alias alt.fan.mst3k to alt.tv.mst3k. :-)

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From: ianst@qdpii.comp.qdpi.oz.au (Ian Staples)
Subject: Re: UUCP
Organization: Qld Dept Primary Industries
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1992 07:49:50 GMT

In article <1992Sep28.232028.8646@socrates.umd.edu> collins@socrates.umd.edu (Jim C) writes:
>I've been doing this for a long time, but still don't know;
>How do you use UUCP? Is it like ftp? Whats a sample
>command line for transferring remote files to my site??

I haven't been doing this for long.  But UUUP is a mystery to me too.
So I second Jim's request for guidance.


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