HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: sward+@CMU.EDU (David Reeve Sward)
Newsgroups: alt.bbs.internet,alt.bbs.lists.d,alt.bbs
Subject: Re: looking for bbs local to arlington, va (703)
Date: 20 Nov 92 12:44:15 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Sophomore, Math/Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA

Excerpts from netnews.alt.bbs: 19-Nov-92 looking for bbs local to ar..
by Lok C. Lew Yan Voon@bigw 
> hence, i thought maybe if i can locate a free bbs in that neighborhood
> which provides email access to the internet, that would solve my
> problem.

You can send/receive mail with any Fidonet node.  Here's one:

Sysop: John Decarlo
Node: 1:109/131
Name: No Tarmac Brewing
Phone: 703-525-3715
Location: Arlington, VA
Modem: 2400

To send mail to Internet, do this:

On the BBS, send matrix mail/netmail (terminology differs) to UUCP @ 1:109/401
Then on the first line, put

To: your.friend@their.internet.node.name

Skip a line and write the message as usual.

If you have any questions, send them to the Sysop (his setup may differ).
From: jyoung@terapin.com (Jeff Young)
Newsgroups: alt.bbs.internet
Subject: New Hampshire site?
Date: 23 Nov 92 03:18:54 GMT
Organization: BBS


   are there any bbs's in New Hampshire or northern Massachusetts with Usenet
access?   I'd like to be able to communicate with my cousin in NH..

JYoung@Terapin.com
From: HS99@music.mus.polymtl.ca (S. Guimont)
Newsgroups: alt.bbs.internet
Subject: Internet Relay Chat (IRC) protocol need
Date: 16 Nov 92 10:26:41 GMT
Organization: Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal

Hi!
    I need to know were I can find the IRC  (Internet Relay Chat)
Protocol. Thanks

S. Guimont
RDI - Research and Development Informatik
Bitnet   : hs99@polytec1.bitnet
Internet : hs99@music.mus.polymtl.ca
From: nathan.banks@hal9000.UUCP (Nathan Banks) 
Newsgroups: alt.bbs.internet
Subject: DOMAINS...
Date: 16 Nov 92 09:21:00 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: HAL 9000 BBS, (313)663-4173, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
Reply-To: nathan.banks@hal9000.UUCP (Nathan Banks) 

-> hal9000!seth.hutchins@cimage.com
->
-> If you would you could send me some mail so we can test it! Thanks
-> for the message though. What is your domain--? University of
-> Michigan? (guess, -- umich.edu-- what's the cc?)

I'll try to, but MTS doesn't seem to like any bang-paths at all (it may
freak on that hal9000!seth part)... As for domain, yes that is the
University of Michigan, and I'm not really sure what the cc part is...
---
 . Cam-Mail . WNET:The 4th Dimension (517)546-3948  Howell, Mi
         
Newsgroups: alt.bbs.internet
From: lggidden@eos.ncsu.edu (LARRY GRANT GIDDENS)
Subject: Is there anyway...
Originator: lggidden@c00150-100lez.eos.ncsu.edu
Reply-To: lggidden@eos.ncsu.edu (LARRY GRANT GIDDENS)
Organization: North Carolina State University, Project Eos
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 02:59:37 GMT


Is there anyway to send email from a unix address to a user on a WWIV board?
Or is there anyway that a user on a WWIV board can send mail to my unix
address?  Please reply..
From: waynec@netman.NoSubdomain.NoDomain (Wayne Clark)
Newsgroups: alt.bbs.internet
Subject: Re: REPOST: Scott Yanoff's Internet services list recent to 9/11/92
Date: 19 Nov 1992 18:11:51 GMT
Organization: Tektronix, Inc.,  Beaverton, OR
Distribution: world
Reply-To: waynec@tektronix.tek.com
NNTP-Posting-Host: netman.ens.tek.com

In article <1992Nov15.045900.19430@cas.org>, lwv26@cas.org (Larry W. Virden) writes:
|> You are right - I am wrong.  In a fit of blindness, I mis read your date
|> as a mm/dd/yy instead of a dd/mm/yy date.  I apologize.
|> -- 

    You were right the first time.  The repost even states 11 Sept as the date.
In case no one noticed, Scott posted a new one the same day.


"Out of the frying pan (hardware), and into the fire (software)!"
Wayne Clark                     uucp:  uunet!tektronix!waynec
Enterprise Network Services     internet:  waynec@tektronix.TEK.COM
Tektronix, Inc.                 phone:  (503) 627-5364
From: sspotans@nyx.cs.du.edu (Shawn Spotanski)
Newsgroups: alt.bbs.internet
Subject: New Netter
Date: 15 Nov 92 19:25:48 GMT
Distribution: co
Organization: Nyx, Public Access Unix @ U. of Denver Math/CS dept.


 
I will be joining another Internet system in Colorado soon (as soon as I
get their phone number and my user id).  I would like to know some good
places I can telnet and/or ftp to.  I am also looking for general
information on what I can do on the net, as I am new to this.  Anyway, I
am going to be joining Colorado SuperNet.  Please send some information to
sspotans@nyx.cs.du.edu as I need it.  I would of sent this world, but I
didn't think the need was comparable to the costs, so please reply to the
address above.  Thank you!
 
Shawn Spotanski
Newsgroups: alt.bbs.internet
From: sbathkey@access.digex.com (Scott Bethke)
Subject: Re: How to set up a BBS?
Organization: Express Access Online Communications, Greenbelt, MD USA
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 03:35:41 GMT

In article <92327.051216DED110@psuvm.psu.edu> Dan the Man <DED110@psuvm.psu.edu> writes:
>     I'm stuck in the 814 area code, Erie, PA, and there are no internet
>accessable BBS's around (to my knowledge).  Being an overmotivated psychotic
>I just might set up my 386 as a BBS to alleviate this problem.  Can someone
>give me a rough, thumbnail sketch of just what I'd have to do to start this
>long and complicated process?  I'll probably end up running Linux and getting
>a 14.4K modem.  What other resources are usually needed, and what is my phone
>bill going to look like?
>
Hey Im stuck in a dead Area myself, and if you get mail as replies,
please, please foward copies to me.  Any info I get I will also foward to you.

>      What am I getting myself into??
>
Well I dont plan on carrying much in the way of newsgroups, so I figure
that if my news feed is < 2mb a day I can get by with 15Minutes, using
AT&T's reach out america's plan It would cost me about $52/month to get a
daily feed at 4am every morning., Im using a 14.4 V.32bis modem, so thats
how I can get by with a 15 min transfer.   Hope that helped any.


>Dan D'Ambrosio                     Avaliable for a limited time only at
>c/o John Mando                     DED110@PSUVM  or
>809 E. Grandview Blvd Apt. 204     DED110@psuvm.psu.edu
>Erie, PA  16504                    and fine stores....
>Home: (814) 825-9471

Scott Bethke
sbathkey@digex.com
Organization: Penn State University
Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1992 05:12:16 EST
From: Dan the Man <DED110@psuvm.psu.edu>
Newsgroups: alt.bbs.internet
Subject: How to set up a BBS?

     I'm stuck in the 814 area code, Erie, PA, and there are no internet
accessable BBS's around (to my knowledge).  Being an overmotivated psychotic
I just might set up my 386 as a BBS to alleviate this problem.  Can someone
give me a rough, thumbnail sketch of just what I'd have to do to start this
long and complicated process?  I'll probably end up running Linux and getting
a 14.4K modem.  What other resources are usually needed, and what is my phone
bill going to look like?

      What am I getting myself into??


Dan D'Ambrosio                     Avaliable for a limited time only at
c/o John Mando                     DED110@PSUVM  or
809 E. Grandview Blvd Apt. 204     DED110@psuvm.psu.edu
Erie, PA  16504                    and fine stores....
Home: (814) 825-9471
Newsgroups: alt.bbs.internet
From: neta@iat.holonet.net (Gregory Giagnocavo)
Subject: America Online Access
Organization: HoloNet (BBS: 510-704-1058)
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 10:52:47 GMT

Jim asked about America Online.. others have had recent questions...

America Online is a commercial service akin to compuerve, except much
nicer to use. Perhaps not as full featured as CompuServe but theyare
building rapidly.

You subscribe to AOL by paying a subscription fee of or use fee of $5.95
per hour. SIgn up kits are free. You dial in through a local access
number, (not a bbs numbr) 
America Online 703-448-8700
Vienna Virginia
(800) 227-6364
You get a free month when you ask for the kit, so it costs nothing to try
it out.
Good system.

Greg
NetPower Resource Guide to Online Services
National Education & Technology Alliance
neta@holonet.net
460 page guide inc. free online time to some systems, discounts and free
sign up to compuserve and free 30 Internet e-mail account. All for $35.00
incl shipping.
toll free 800 457 9112
Box 6051,  Lanc.  PA 17603
Fax 717 898 9837
mastercard, visa accepted. Purchase orders from institutions.
Thank you.


Newsgroups: alt.bbs.internet
From: flower@donald.etdesg.trw.com (Rick Flower)
Subject: Re: j: Re: WWIVnet?
Organization: TRW Inc., Redondo Beach, CA
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 92 18:29:09 GMT

Actually, there is a program out that can connect up WWIVnet to the
internet.. I don't recall the name, but I know that it has been around
for well over a year.. I know because I've downloaded it before...  I
used to run a board under WWIVnet (I know the guy that wrote WWIV /
WWIVnet)..  WWIVnet is somewhat based into geographical areas -- similar
to the internet and usually a single large hub is used to pass mail/news
between two distant locations.  From there, it is distributed to any
local nodes, etc...  It also has the capability to automatically reroute
to some degree using routing control messages, etc..  Not too bad as a
first stab at networking if you ask me!

-- Rick
From: xugang@hpsgm2.sgp.hp.com (Gang XU)
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 06:30:00 GMT
Subject: Help : how to set up a internet connection
Organization: HP Singapore Notes-Server
Newsgroups: alt.bbs.internet

HELP!

The problem is :

There is a network A which connects to CNPAC( A public PSN based on X.25 in
P.R China ). But the CNPAC has no connection to Internet. Now the owner 
of the network A wants to connect their network to internet. But they 
have no ideas about how to do this. ( e.g. How to apply a domain, through
which gateways they can access internet, etc. )

If someone can give me some instruction about how to set up the internet
connection, I'd be most appreciative.

Thanx in advance.

Xu Gang




Newsgroups: alt.bbs.internet
From: luke@seanews.akita.com (James Luther Toole)
Subject: America Online access
Organization: SEANEWS - Seattle Public Access News + Mail
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 09:25:42 GMT

hi, I was wondering if anybody knows a local BBS that I can call (via 
modem of course) that can get me access to America Online I'm living in 
Seattle Wa. USA area code (206) and would appreciate any help.

--
[] SEANEWS [] Seattle Public Access Usenet News + Mail [] +1 206 747 NEWS []
luke@seanews.akita.com
Newsgroups: alt.bbs.internet
From: klaus@cscns.com (Klaus Dimmler)
Subject: Re: How to set up a BBS?
Organization: Community_News_Service
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL3
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 14:15:50 GMT

CNS has an 800 service where you can connect to an internet site for $9.50
per hour. That includes connect charges as well as communication charges.
I would suppose that you would want to connect to the Internet via uucp.
If so, your bill would depend on how frequently you poll for mail, and how
much data you transmit collecting newsgroups, if any.
 
You can call the CNS voice number for more info: 719-592-1240.

From: Susan Mernit <smernit@pandora.sf.ca.us >
Date: 20 Nov 92 6:33:00
Subject: Re:  Why no women ???
Newsgroups: alt.bbs.internet


I am joining this late, but want to put my two cents in. Guys, your
point of view about who is out there is squewed by the lists you
subscribe to. I agree, there are fewer women reading the wais-talk
or alt. bbs lists, but hey, that is just one fraction of the online
universe!
Take a look at kidsnetm kidlink, or many of the listserv lists
that focus on non-computer software/hardware/programming issues and
you will see a hefty representation of women--up t0 70% on some
lists. Conclusion: who is out there online reflects their profession
or interests and the gender biases in that field. It is IMPOSSIBLE
to make generalizations about online usage, internet and newsgroup
access, etc. by just generalizing from a few lists.
Susan Mernit, editor, writer, and born-again techie

Newsgroups: alt.bbs.internet
From: hunsberg@ucsu.Colorado.EDU (Bryan Hunsberger)
Subject: Groups--Jimmy Carter
Summary: How to make a new group?
Keywords: groups, carter
Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 04:13:29 GMT

Hey guys!  I have a question for anyone who can answer me.
How do I make a new group?  I'm interested in starting a group
devoted to talking about Jimmy Carter.  Would anyone be interested?
Will anyone tell me how to do it?

Thanks!

Bryan Hunsberger

Email @ hunsberg@ucsu.colorado.edu
From: v120qldp@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu (JAY WALKER)
Newsgroups: alt.bbs.internet
Subject: j: Re: j: Re: WWIVnet?
Date: 17 Nov 92 23:45:00 GMT
Organization: University at Buffalo
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41

In article <2B0939F6.1298@deneva.sdd.trw.com>, flower@donald.etdesg.trw.com (Rick Flower) writes...
>Actually, there is a program out that can connect up WWIVnet to the
>internet.. I don't recall the name, but I know that it has been around
>for well over a year..

WWCP is its name.  More specifically, it is a WWIV <-> Waffle program.  

There is also a new program used to bring FidoNet to a WWIV board called
WWIVgate.  I'm working on setting that up myself.  

>WWIVnet is somewhat based into geographical areas -- similar
>to the internet and usually a single large hub is used to pass mail/news
                               ^^^^^^
Single?  There are quite a few large hubs.  Most of them are designed to be
hubs and the others are just regular boards with many connections.

>between two distant locations.  From there, it is distributed to any
>local nodes, etc...  

Yep.  It's really an excellent system.  I'm only four hops away from the
author's board in Southern California, and am only three hops away via IceNET.
I only have to wait two or three days for a piece of mail I send him.

>It also has the capability to automatically reroute to some degree using 
>routing control messages, etc..  Not too bad as a first stab at networking if 
>you ask me!

That is a nice feature.  I don't fully understand why it was left out of the
latest version of the networking software, but it is being re-written in. 

There's been a pretty big argument brewing in WWIVLink over the cost factors. 
The processor they wrote for themselves can implement the cost factors, but it
can't handle the huge influx of new systems that the latest version brought. 
Most people are upset because the update system isn't working while a few
others don't want to switch to the author's version which doesn't use the cost
factors.

All in all, it may seem to the outsider rather silly to see three WWIV net
addresses in my .sig, but all three networks are unique in and of themselves.


   WWIVnet 1@7659 | IceNET 1@7659 | WWIVLink 1@17659 | SysOp:  Disaster Area
   v120qldp@ubvms.cc.buffalo.edu | 14400 v.32bis * 9600 v.32 | (716)683-6657

 If you've done six impossible things today, why not top it off by calling DA?
Newsgroups: alt.bbs.internet
From: carlos@dorsai.com (Carlos Dominguez)
Subject: gribbit
Organization: The Dorsai Embassy, New York's Computer Consulate. +1.718.729.5018
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 20:35:41 GMT

test post. please ignore

      _/_/_/                                             _/
     _/                        _/                       _/
    _/       _/_/_/   _/_/_/  _/     _/_/_/  _/_/_/    _/
   _/       _/  _/   _/      _/    _/   _/  _/        _/
  _/       _/_/_/   _/      _/    _/   _/  _/_/_     _/ 
 _/       _/  _/   _/      _/    _/   _/      _/        FIDO 1:278/706
_/_/_/   _/  _/   _/     _/_/_/ _/_/_/   _/_/_/    _/   RIME ATLWIN

e-mail/ carlos@dorsai.com or carlos@phantom.com or carlos@infoserv.com
Newsgroups: alt.bbs.internet
From: dhesi@rahul.net (Rahul Dhesi)
Subject: Re: REPOST: Scott Yanoff's Internet services list recent to 9/11/92
Organization: a2i network
Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1992 21:56:56 GMT

In <By4rGz.9vn@ddsw1.mcs.com> dattier@ddsw1.mcs.com (DWT) writes:

>Today is 11/22/92, or 11-22-92, or 22.11.92, or 22.XI.92, or 22 XI 92, but
>it is nowise 22/11/92.

Actually in many parts of the world 11/22/92 *is* correctly written as
22/11/92 (or is it the other way around?).

The only two unambiguous formats are of the form

     1992/11/22		yyyy/mm/dd
     22-Nov-1992	dd-month-yyyy	(slashes will work too)

Relying on slashes versus dashes for disambiguation is dangerous.

Greek digits can help but:

     22.ii.92		can be misread as 22.11.92
     22.vi.92		can offend emacs users
-- 
Rahul Dhesi <dhesi@rahul.net>
also:  dhesi@cirrus.com
From: S.M.Hanson@newcastle.ac.uk (S.M. Hanson)
Newsgroups: alt.bbs.internet
Subject: Compuserve access in U.K.
Date: 23 Nov 92 12:33:54 GMT
Organization: Computing Laboratory, U of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK NE1 7RU.


Does anyone know of a telnet site in the U.K. to compuserve?  Any help would be appreciated.

Scott Hanson                        |  Internet   :  S.M.Hanson@newcastle.ac.uk
University of                       |  Compuserve :  100111,3201@Compuserve.COM
Newcastle Upon Tyne                 |  
       
We don't care about the clothes you wear
It's the size of your heart, not the length of your hair  - S.T.#
From: abhalla@infopls.chi.il.us (Arun Bhalla)
Newsgroups: alt.bbs.internet
Subject: Address for AMD/National Semiconductor
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 92 17:37:45 CST
Organization: INFOPLUS support, Wheeling, IL

What is the Internet address for AMD    or National Semiconductor ???
I have a family friend who works there, in Utah.

Arun Bhalla

**************************************************************************
*  Arun Bhalla  *     Star Trek, FS4, Simcity, PCs, BBSs, reading, etc.  *
* Write me for  *   And other multiple interests!!!                      *
* my BBS #      * Prodigy: VXWF62B   Internet: abhalla@oaknet.chi.il.us  *
*               *                              abhalla@infopls.chi.il.us *
**************************************************************************
From: 6500alh@ucsbuxa.ucsb.edu (Archie Holmes)
Newsgroups: alt.bbs.internet
Subject: Internet Access in Area Code 512
Date: 17 Nov 92 05:43:11 GMT
Distribution: alt

I am trying to find out if there is a BBS in the 512 area code
with internet access.  Please email since I rarley read this
group.  Thanks in advance.

Archie Holmes
holmes@nemesis.ucsb.edu
From: flanagann@ul.ie
Newsgroups: alt.bbs.internet
Subject: BNR ottawa email address
Date: 23 Nov 92 11:09:39 GMT
Organization: University of Limerick, Ireland



Hi,

 I'am trying to find out the email address for someone
 working in bell northern research labs in ottawa, canada.

 Any pointers welcome.

 Dr. Colin Flanagan, Dept ECE, University of Limerick, Ireland.
From: Jim.Poon@f169.n700.z6.fidonet.org (Jim Poon)
Newsgroups: alt.bbs.internet
Subject: Hello
Date: 23 Nov 1992 11:22:27 -0600
Organization: UTexas Mail-to-News Gateway
NNTP-Posting-Host: cs.utexas.edu


Hello, pls reply me if u got this.
This is just a test.


 * Origin: * SA#5-Clipper/City Board 14,400bps * (6:700/169)
--  
uucp: uunet!m2xenix!puddle!6!700!169!Jim.Poon
Internet: Jim.Poon@f169.n700.z6.fidonet.org
From: pozar@kumr.lns.com (Tim Pozar)
Newsgroups: alt.bbs.internet
Subject: Re: Internet connections (was: Re: Free Interne<>odem Madness)
Date: 17 Nov 92 18:09:02 GMT
Organization: Late Night Software (San Francisco)

zeta%tcscs@idss.nwa.com (Gregory Youngblood) writes:
>cooper@cbnewsg.cb.att.com (Ralph 'Hairy' Moonen) writes:
>> However, here the 9600 baud means that the speed of this
>> connection is approx. 9600 bits/sec. which is way
>> to slow to be able to transport a complete feed. SLIP is nice for mail &
>> telnet, but unless you are content with only 10 groups, SLIP is unsuitable
>> for Netnews. (Unless, you can afford a 38.4 Kbaud modem with MNP5 and LAP-M
>> stuff etc.)
>
>I'm curious.  Why only 10 groups or so?  Is there some way the traffic is
>handled differently so that it is less efficient over SLIP than with UUCP?

News over UUCP is usually compressed.  News over NNTP (Internet) is
sent as text.

If you have a V.32bis/V.42bis modem as your Internet link you can take a
pretty large feed.  First your basic signaling speed is 14.4Kb/s. With
V.42bis compression that tends to bump it up to about 25Kb/s (real time
tests with USENET postings).  You aren't going to get that magical 4X
speed using TCP/IP over these links.  CSLIP helps a bit, but mainly with
telnet (interactive, low byte count) sessions.

Currently I am taking about 150 newsgroups.  I know other sites using
V.32bis/V.42bis modems taking a pretty full feed, and their line is not
maxed out.

         Tim

-- 
Internet: pozar@kumr.lns.com               FidoNet:  Tim Pozar @ 1:125/555
UUCP:     ...!uunet!kumr.lns.com!pozar
Snail:    Tim Pozar / KKSF / 77 Maiden Lane / San Francisco CA 94108 / USA
Voice:    +1 415 788 2022
Newsgroups: alt.bbs.internet
From: kamchar@ibm.cl.msu.edu
Subject: Re: LOD Technical Journal
Organization: Michigan State University
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 92 23:11:14 GMT

In article <1992Nov06.151721.13966@gold.sub.org>  
Frank.Mueller@bbs.gold.sub.org (Frank Mueller) writes:
> Can anyone tell me how to obtain issues of the 'LOD Technical Journal'
> ....?
> -
> Thanks in advance.
Probly from the FTP site at FTP.EFF.ORG .  Or the shadow at  
WUARCHIVE.WUSTL.EDU
Newsgroups: alt.bbs.internet
From: dattier@ddsw1.mcs.com (DWT)
Subject: Re: REPOST: Scott Yanoff's Internet services list recent to 9/11/92
Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1992 18:31:46 GMT
Organization: Contributor Account at ddsw1, Chicago, Illinois  60657

In <1egld7INNt75@newz.ens.tek.com> waynec@tektronix.tek.com (Wayne Clark)
cites an article by Larry Virden that I did not read in the original,
addressed to I know not whom:

| In article <1992Nov15.045900.19430@cas.org>, lwv26@cas.org (Larry W.
| Virden) writes:
| |> You are right - I am wrong.  In a fit of blindness, I mis read your date
| |> as a mm/dd/yy instead of a dd/mm/yy date.  I apologize.

I wish to heck that people would follow conventions in expressing dates:
dd.mm.yy[yy] with periods or dd mm yy[yy] with spaces but mm/dd/yy[yy] with
slashes or mm-dd-yy[yy] with hyphens.  Anyone using slashes to write dd/mm/yy
during the first twelve days of a month is asking for problems.

Today is 11/22/92, or 11-22-92, or 22.11.92, or 22.XI.92, or 22 XI 92, but
it is nowise 22/11/92.

David W. Tamkin   Box 59297   Northtown Station, Illinois  60659-0297
dattier@ddsw1.mcs.com    CompuServe: 73720,1570    MCI Mail: 426-1818
Newsgroups: alt.bbs.internet
From: kholland@hydra.unm.edu (Kiernan Holland)
Subject: Re: REPOST: Scott Yanoff's Internet services list recent to 9/11/92
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 92 18:33:21 GMT
Organization: University of New Mexico, Albuquerque

In article <1992Nov23.081723.11897@rdg.dec.com> cockburn@edieng.enet.dec.com (Craig Cockburn) writes:
>
>
>it is: dd-mmm-yyyy, where the month is written in letters.
>
>    i.e. 23-Nov-1992
>
>Is that acceptable to everyone?

Ya it would be acceptable to computer illiterate secretaries, but it is hard to 
write programs to sort dates using that format. 

I'm all for dd/mm/yy since it is the only logical format and 
it is easier to handle programming-wise. Now, 
I am american and I do have to use the mm/dd/yy format (otherwise
none else would know what the heck I mean). Probably 
the best format would be to specify the format before 
typing it. Like this

US mm/dd/yy
EU dd/mm/yy
UA dd/mm/yyyy

US - United States (and related users of the format)
EU - Europe (and related users of the format)
UA - Unambiguous Format.(sp?)
From: amg@hernix.org (Alan M. Gindlesperger)
Newsgroups: alt.bbs.internet
Subject: Re: j: Re: j: Re: WWIVnet?
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 21:24:28 GMT
Organization: Michael A. Herman Software
NNTP-Posting-Host: skybridge.scl.cwru.edu

In article <BxvwMx.5t2@acsu.buffalo.edu> v120qldp@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu (JAY WALKER) writes:
>There is also a new program used to bring FidoNet to a WWIV board called
>WWIVgate.  I'm working on setting that up myself.  
I gotta ask you.  How do you configure the FidoNET for like Poll sites 'n stuff?

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Alan Gindlesperger (A real col guy)