HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: shibumi@net.bio.net (Kenton A. Hoover)
Newsgroups: alt.internet.services
Subject: Re: Financial market quoting service?
Date: 5 Nov 92 22:27:25 GMT
Reply-To: shibumi@net.bio.net
Organization: BIOSCI International Newsgroups for Biology

Tihan.Seale@launchpad.unc.edu (Tihan Seale) writes:
>Does anyone know of a service that quotes stock, options, or commodity
>prices that I can access via modem or the internet? I know about
>Compu$erve and the others, but I was hoping for something free or
>significantly cheaper since I hope to access the info daily so that I can
>paste it into a spreadsheet for analysis. It seems like there should be
>-something- out there with all the other information availabe through the
>internet. If you know of anything, please email me. 

Since the exchanges charge for this information, you will likely have to 
go to a pay service (like those listed above) or to Clarinet for the quote
information you desire.  Even your local newspaper pays a fee to the exchange
for permission to print whats on the stock page.

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Newsgroups: alt.internet.services,sci.environment
From: london@calypso.uucp (Larry London)
Subject: Re: Wanted: UNCED (Rio) documents
Organization: University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 00:44:13 GMT

In article <1992Nov4.191121.7464@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca> drake@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca (John Drake) writes:
>During the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development
>in Rio in June there was an ftp site offering some of the documentation.
>Does it still exist, or where could I now get this material?
The Biosphere Newsletter (BIOSPH-L listserver) recently posted
information on the ftp site with UNCED docs. I'll forward a copy of that
to you via e-mail.
There is a sustainable agriculture information site at:

FTP to sunsite.unc.edu
    docs are in /pub/docs/sustainable_agriculture
(I have several back issues of the Biosphere Newsletter
and will put other material realted to BIOSPH-L there)

OR - e-mail london@sunsite.unc.edu and I will send info on the site
and updated file list (you may request files from that list)

telnet to sunsite.unc.edu
login as: swais
enter terminal emulation (VT100 works fine)
wait 30 secs. for menu 
run WAIS keyword search of all docs at site


Newsgroups: alt.internet.services,ne.politics,alt.politics.elections
From: dougnews@access.digex.com (Doug Humphrey)
Subject: Re: Election finger post-mortem
Organization: Express Access Online Communications, Greenbelt, MD USA
Distribution: na
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 03:26:11 GMT

In article <BZS.92Nov4210135@ussr.std.com> bzs@ussr.std.com (Barry Shein) writes:
>
>From: adamg@world.std.com (Adam M Gaffin)
>>But in the end, it all seemed to work out well.  Barry Shein at the World
>>performed some magic on his system to reduce the load so that I could get
>>the results in and others could get them out.
>
>Magic? What I did to our finger server to keep up is probably illegal
>in most states and Puerto Rico. But it worked, brought the load down
>from over 200 (yes, two hundred) to around 25-30 most of the day/night
>which ain't great but hey, it's over, and we served (as Adam
>mentioned) around 50,000 requests.

Barry, thanks for a great public service.  We heard that you
were getting hit with a lot of requests, so we set up 

election@digex.com

and had that mirror what was in yours.  I am sure that we didn't 
do 50,000 requests (yow!) but we had a lot of DC area sites, and
of course our own user base, hitting it.  Anything to keep your 
load under 200 (I didn't know that it went that high!).

Again, thanks!

Doug
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Xref: sparky alt.internet.services:1465 can.general:5356
Newsgroups: alt.internet.services,can.general
Subject: Re: FREE worldwide network access in Canada??
From: kmcvay@oneb.almanac.bc.ca (Ken Mcvay)
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 92 20:22:49 GMT
Organization: The Old Frog's Almanac

In article <1du5fqINNne3@iskut.ucs.ubc.ca> twong@civil.ubc.ca (Thomas Wong) writes:

>In article <jstewart.721493440@cunews> jstewart@alfred.carleton.ca (John Stewart) writes:

>>I must emphasis that the Freenet is not intended to provide full Internet
>>access.  The goal is to provide a useful resource to the entire community
>>and so Internet access is limited to things which contribute to that goal.
>>Typically this would include electronic mail (to anywhere in the Internet),
>>Usenet news and limited telnet capability (generally only to other Freenet
>>systems).  Services like ftp are unlikely to be provided.

>Ah, but email and Usenet access is the basic ingredients of network
>access that most people only need anyways, telnet being an extra even.
>With ftp, you can always download files via email or Usenet so it's not
>that important. Email and Usenet will keep most of us very happy
>already. And I applaud those who are really putting an effort to promote
>and advertise the benefits of networking by starting such a service.

Access to free email and UseNet is already available in Nanaimo, and has
been for some time, through our Waffle (XENIX) system. Ftp access would,
however, be a definite plus, given the bandwidth increase which inevitably
follows after users discover MBAS functions.

If the freenet project (here in Nanaimo) intends to provide full internet
access, I can only applaud, since it would cost _me_ over $700 a month to
provide that service through my system, while the local user base simply
wouldn't support that expense - if "government and industry" are willing to
foot the bill for the internet link, I'd be more than happy to provide the
system capability.

Were I to attempt collecting fees from my users (who number about 150 at
this point), the telephone company would most likely demand that I pay
commercial rates for my phone lines. That would increase my monthly costs
from about $90 to closer to $300, bringing the total internet access cost to
about a grand each month... slightly less than my income from UIC :-)


-- 
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     (604) 245-3205 (v32) (604) 245-4366 (2400x4) Waffle XENIX 1.64
Ladysmith, British Columbia, CANADA. kmcvay@oneb.almanac.bc.ca (Ken McVay)
                      Sssssssh.... Hard disk dying...
Newsgroups: alt.internet.services
From: dgm@ecsvax.uncecs.edu (Debby Morley)
Subject: Re: HELP!! Numeric Internet Addresses...
Summary: resolve IP#
Organization: UNC Educational Computing Service
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 17:40:20 GMT

In article <1dm1crINNd16@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu>, by785@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Robin Gibson) writes:
> 
> HELP!!!  The machine at my site apparently has no conversion capability
> when it comes to accepting ALPHABETIC versus NUMERIC addresses.  In
> other words, I must enter all telnet/ftp addresses in their NUMERIC
> formats because my machine doesn't recognize alphabetic ones.  I have
> inquired of my systems people about this and have yet to receive an
> answer.
> 
> Does anyone know of a source for finding the NUMERIC telnet/ftp
> addresses to various sites?  This is really getting me down...
> 
> 
> -- 
> Robin L. Gibson      gibson@email.ncsc.navy.mil
> Coastal Systems Station
> Panama City, FL  32407-5000

To find out a system's IP#, mail resolve@cs.widener.edu
In the body of the message put:  site address
Where address is the name of the system whose IP# you want resolved.
Newsgroups: alt.internet.services
From: dmiller@beta.tricity.wsu.edu (David L. Miller)
Subject: Internet services for Elementary Schools?
Organization: Washington State University Tri-Cities
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 92 20:22:05 GMT

A local elementary school would like to get access to the Internet (in
collaberation with our Educ program).  I know about the k12.* newsgroups.
I have also heard of something called KidsNet and National.geographic.net.

Any pointers to those or other services would be greatly appreciated.

-- 
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David L. Miller                       Internet: dmiller@beta.tricity.wsu.edu
Systems Programmer/Network Analyst      BITNET: MILLERD@WSUVM1
Washington State University Tri-Cities    UUCP: ...!yoda!dmiller
100 Sprout Road                          
Richland, WA 99352                       Phone: (509)375-9245
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From: miket@frog.CRDS.COM (Michael C Tiernan)
Newsgroups: alt.internet.services
Subject: Re: America Online Internet
Date: 6 Nov 92 15:10:33 GMT
Organization: Charles River Data Systems

neta@iat.holonet.net (Gregory Giagnocavo) writes:
>What threw me a t first is that to send to AOL, be sure you are suing
>their screen name EXACTLY.
>AOL lets people pick their own screen names, and they don't always relate
>them to yu EXACTLY. AOL even allows spaces between names, and this will
>throw off Internet mail. SO, if you AOL friend wants Tom Jones as his
>screen name (that is what it is called on AOL), then he shuld have another
>screen name (AOL allows you to have several , no extra charge). This other
>screen name would be such that it maintains integrity for Internet mail.
>tomjones or tom_jones. personally, I like em short tjones@aol.com
>
>That is all I can thnk of.

I can think of a couple of things Greg.  My name(s) on AOL are "M Tiernan"
and "BCS Mike".  If someone sends me mail, all they have to do is send
it to my screen name.  Yes, the spaces would screw up the handlers so
instead, you take out the spaces.  My addresses becomes
"mtiernan@aol.com" and "bcsmike@aol.com".  In your example, the user
wants "Tom Jones" for a user name.  Ok, he's now "tomjones@aol.com" just
as you showed it in your example.  So what's the problem?

>Greg
>National Education & Technology Alliance
>publishers of NetPower Resource Guide BBS & Internet  460 pagess
>more info neta@holonet.net

Nice to see someone taking up the glove and speading the knowlege.

Maybe this thing with mailing to AOL could be an article for your
newsletter.
-- 
<< MCT >>  Michael C Tiernan. - GEnie:M.Tiernan - AOL:M Tiernan/BCS Mike 
UUCP = alfalfa!pro-angmar!m.tiernan OR miket@frog.UUCP
      It's too bad that it takes almost half of our life
	to realize that it was a "Do-It-Yourself" project.
Newsgroups: alt.internet.services
From: rusty@infonode.ingr.com (Rusty Wiginton)
Subject: Cleveland Freenet
Organization: Intergraph Corporation, Huntsville, AL.
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 15:43:54 GMT

	Not to rehash old news, but due to the load that's on
	freenet-in-a.cwru.edu (and b and c) I have not logged
	on for a while. Now, it seems that it either no longer
	exist (dig cannot find anything related) or the name
	has changed. Could someone with information about this
	e-mail me (rusty@wyle.wyle.ingr.com) with the new
	internet address or domain name? Thanks in advance.
-- 
                                      Rusty Wiginton (205)730-2378
                                      (UUCP) uunet!ingr!wyle!rusty
                                      (Internet)rusty@wyle.wyle.ingr.com
Newsgroups: alt.internet.services
From: heiko@Harpo.Chemie.FU-Berlin.DE (Heiko Schlichting)
Subject: Re: Internet services in Frankfurt
Organization: Free University of Berlin, Dept. of Chemistry
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 23:55:31 GMT

saake@netcom.com (Mark Saake) writes:

>Does anyone out there know of anyone offering internet connectivity in
>Frankfurt Germany?

Contacts:

for Frankfurt/Main: postmaster@rhein-main.de
for Frankfurt/Oder: postmaster@in-berlin.de

Both can offer access for private persons only. Contact the German
EUnet (postmaster@germany.eu.net) for commercial access.

Heiko
-- 
Heiko Schlichting                     | Freie Universitaet Berlin
heiko@groucho.chemie.fu-berlin.de     | Institut fuer Kristallographie
From: slt6s@cc.usu.edu
Newsgroups: alt.internet.services
Subject: Prodigy<>Internet Mail again
Date: 6 Nov 92 12:02:44 MDT
Organization: Utah State University

I realize the Prodigy thing has probably been beaten to death on here but I'd
like to know if there has been any progress on a prodigy<>internet mail
gateway.  Information would be greatly appreciated.

Chevan Nanayakkara
slt6s@cc.usu.edu
From: pete@ohm.york.ac.uk (Pete French)
Newsgroups: alt.internet.services
Subject: Re: Satellite Weather Pictures
Date: 10 Nov 92 15:04:28 GMT
Organization: Electronics Department, University of York, UK

From article <1992Nov6.100445.16638@aston.ac.uk>, by frostmd@uhura.aston.ac.uk (MD FROST):
> 
> Also if you know of anywhere where I can get weather pictures (preferably
> European ones) then please let me know.
> 

UK/European/world pictures ar available on cumulus.met.ed.ac.uk in images/gifs
They are updated daily.

-bat.

{is it my imagination, or do I answer this question here at least twice a week,
 can somebody start up a FAQ for stuff like this? (no, im not volunteering) }

-- 
-Pete French. (the -bat. )    -+
Adaptive Systems Engineering   |
                               +- Tuktusiuriagatigitqingnapinngitkyptinnga!
From: jim@sytex.com (Jim Arnold)
Newsgroups: alt.internet.services
Subject: E-Mail service to India
Date: Thu, 05 Nov 92 21:57:48 EST
Organization: Sytex Communications, Arlington V.A. * node 1

A couple of friends and I are in the process of setting up an
e-mail service to India.  Actually the service will be partly e-mail
and partly surface mail (to those persons in India who do not have
access to a computer).  Right now we have a link between US and 
Bombay that we are beginning to test.  

If anybody is interested in being in the "guinea pig" group of beta
testers, send me mail, and I'll tell you where we stand at this moment.

jim


---
jim@sytex.com
Sytex Communications, Arlington VA (703) 358-9022
From: blackwlf@blackwlf.gwinnett.com (BlackWolf's Den Sysop)
Newsgroups: alt.internet.services
Subject: Re: Financial market quoting service?
Date: Fri, 06 Nov 92 21:37:25 EST
Reply-To: blackwlf@blackwlf.gwinnett.com (BlackWolf's Den Sysop)
Organization: BlackWolf's Den BBS (404)642-9933 v.32bis v.42bis

Tihan.Seale@launchpad.unc.edu (Tihan Seale) writes:

> 
> Does anyone know of a service that quotes stock, options, or commodity
> prices that I can access via modem or the internet? I know about
> Compu$erve and the others, but I was hoping for something free or
> significantly cheaper since I hope to access the info daily so that I can
> paste it into a spreadsheet for analysis. It seems like there should be
> -something- out there with all the other information availabe through the
> internet. If you know of anything, please email me. 
> 
> TIHAN.SEALE@BBS.OIT.UNC.EDU Thanks. 
> 
> 
> 
> --
>    The opinions expressed are not necessarily those of the University of
>      North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the Campus Office for Information
>         Technology, or the Experimental Bulletin Board Service.
>            internet:  laUNChpad.unc.edu or 152.2.22.80

Prodigy is $12.95/month with no hourly fees like CI$
must have a DOS machine though...

--
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Usenet Newsgroups and Internet Email
BlackWlf@BlackWlf.Gwinnett.Com
Newsgroups: alt.internet.services
From: pickerig@eee.bham.ac.uk (Mr. G. Pickering)
Subject: Re: Automatic FTP get?
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 22:59:42 GMT
Organization: The University of Birmingham, England
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]

Thank you all for your posting and mail. I have used the following
format in a script:

	#!/bin/csh
	ftp some.place<<EOF
	# ftp commands
	EOF
	# rest of script.

Plus of course setting .netrc to auto-login as anonomous to the ftp site.

Thanks,
        Guy.

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+--------------------------------+-----------------------------------------+
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| E-MAIL: G.PICKERING@uk.ac.bham | University of Birmingham,               |
| Tel: (021) 414 4340            | Edgbaston, Birmingham. B15 2TT.         |
+--------------------------------+-----------------------------------------+
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+--------------------------------+-----------------------------------------+


Newsgroups: alt.internet.services
From: tpaquette@ita.lgc.com (Trevor Paquette)
Subject: Re: Free Worldwide access network in Canada ??
Organization: Landmark/ITA Inverse Theory and Applications
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 14:29:05 GMT


   I know this doesn't belong here.. but I have to reply to this to set the
 record straight..


In article <721630014.11821@zooid.guild.org> silver.e@zooid.guild.org (Eric Silver) writes:

> A few typos took place in my last posted article;
> The corrected version is below;

> This makes perfect elegant sense! Everyone in Canada knows that Victoria,
> Ninamo B.C., and Ottawa are the computing technical hubs of Canada! Just
> imagine, after Mother Gov and Lord Of the Loon the great Muldoon, gets
> involved, hell we in the Toronto boonies might as well go back to quill
> pens and carrier pidgeons. Only in Canada, would about 37% of the 
> taxpayers, and 80% of Canada's business (located within a 100 kilometer 
> radius of Toronto) pay to have a national network that is setup, starting 
> in another province or even worse, in Ottawa! I'm convinced, that people 
> get exactly what they deserve when they're the ones who elect governments 
> in the first place! But, then again, Canada is the only country in the world 
> that has a RODENT as its national symbol!

> Eric Silver - York, Upper Canada.

> York is Toronto for all youse people :-)

  Excuse me??? 80% of Canada business is not in Toronto!

 Between Vancouver, Calgary (ALL of the MAJOR oil/gas companies are here),
 and Montreal, Toronto might have 30%.


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Newsgroups: alt.internet.services
From: kibo@world.std.com (James "Kibo" Parry)
Subject: Re: Election finger post-mortem
Organization: Two rooms filled with typography, in downtown Boston
Distribution: na
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 04:51:39 GMT

In article <FRANL.92Nov5174802@draco.centerline.com> franl@centerline.com (Fran Litterio) writes:
>csquared@coos.dartmouth.edu (C Squared) writes:
>
>> adamg@world.std.com (Adam M Gaffin) writes:
>
>> > Bill Clinton, Dem 43,688,671 - 43 percent
>> > George Bush, GOP (i) 38,109,410 - 37 percent
>
>> These numbers can't be complete.  I know for a fact that this line should be
>> here somewhere:
>> 
>>   James "Kibo" Parry, Oth at least 1 - at least 0 percent (I voted for him)
>
>If you didn't include his current mailing address and correct full
>name along with your write-in vote, your vote was discarded by your
>local election officials.

That's a Massachusetts law, silly.  It varies on a state-by-state basis.

								-- K.

Newsgroups: alt.internet.services
From: norlin@midway.ecn.uoknor.edu (Norman Lin)
Subject: Re: Automatic FTP get?
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 16:13:46 GMT
Organization: Engineering Computer Network, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, USA

pete@ohm.york.ac.uk (Pete French) writes:

>From article <BxLu3H.F1z@cs.dal.ca>, by franklin@ug.cs.dal.ca (Steve Franklin):
>> In article <1992Nov12.121426.9495@ohm.york.ac.uk> I wrote
--> I patched a version of ftp so that
-->it automatically logs in as anonymous.. 
] Why would you ever do this? Unless you're on Vax of course... Otherwise I
] suppose you know about the value of a .netrc?

>seemed easier to do it by patching the source at the time. Saves having to
>fart around putting lots of machines into a .netrc

Actually, what I've done is write a shell script that searches for the machine
I specify on the ftp command line in my .netrc file.  If it doesn't find it
in there, it adds it into the netrc file, then invokes /usr/ucb/ftp as
normal.  With the updated .netrc, login is then automatic.

The advantage (to me) of doing this over a "default" entry in the .netrc
file is that I get an interesting automatic log of ftp sites I've connected
to.  It's also useful when I think, "Oh, shoot, what's that ftp site I
first connected to a few days ago and pulled down that neat utility?  Its
name had an n and an x in it, but I can't remember it."  I just do tail -20
.netrc to see the last 20 sites I connected to, and usually I'll
find the site I wanted immediately.

Norman
norlin@mailhost.ecn.uoknor.edu
Newsgroups: alt.internet.services
From: jgraham@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu (the End)
Subject: Internet to America On-line ??
Organization: Indiana University
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 05:55:40 GMT


Is this possible ? I would like to grab some info that I know is bieng posted
to the technical support section of America On-line.

Thanks

Please E-mail: jgraham@bio.indiana.edu

y
Newsgroups: alt.internet.services
From: James.Gorak <James.Gorak@mixcom.mixcom.com>
Subject: Re: MCI <-> Internet
Organization: Milwaukee Internet Xchange BBS, Milwaukee, WI U.S.A.
Distribution: usa
Date: Sun, 08 Nov 1992 19:22:19 GMT

In <1992Nov8.021756.17217@ultb.isc.rit.edu> ohs3013@ritvax.isc.rit.edu (osama satti) writes:

>Hi netters,
>    Can anybody tell me how can I access users of MCI mail through the Internet ??

Get the MCI Mail ID number of the person you want to send mail to. It is a 7
digit number i.e. 123-4567. Address mail to the ID number@mcimail.com. i.e.
1234567@mcimail.com.

Another way is to send to the MCI Mail subscriber's login ID which is usually
but not always, their 1st initial and last name, i.e. Tom Mix is TMix. Address
mail to the login ID@mcimail.com. This works as long as there is not more than
one person using the same login ID.

Another way is to send to the MCI Mail subscriber's formal name (as registered
with MCI Mail), i.e. Address mail for Tom Mix to Tom_Mix@mcimail.com. This 
works as long as there is not more than one MCI Mail subscriber registered
with the same formal name.

Jim Gorak   3935974@mcimail.com
-- 
James.Gorak@mixcom.com
From: ohs3013@ritvax.isc.rit.edu (osama satti)
Newsgroups: alt.internet.services
Subject: MCI <-> Internet
Date: 8 Nov 92 02:17:56 GMT
Reply-To: ohs3013@ritvax.isc.rit.edu
Organization: Rochester Institute of Technology

Hi netters,
    Can anybody tell me how can I access users of MCI mail through the Internet ??

Please E-mail me at ohs3013@ritvax.isc.rit.edu

thanx in advance.
-osama
Newsgroups: alt.internet.services
Subject: How to get current Nielsen ratings?
From: dgong@zeus.calpoly.edu (Fraggle)
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 06:42:21 GMT
Organization: California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo

Does anyone know of a internet service that will let me know of the
current Nielsen ratings?
Newsgroups: alt.internet.services