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Topics of the day:
1. FTPMail, Agora, etc. statistics
2. Free NNTP Server For Specific Newsgroup
3. How to access dejanews newsgroups via email only (2)
4. How to read news ? (2)
5. ** REAL virus alert!**
6. viewing of html file retrieved with e-mai
7. Free NNTP Server For Specific Newsgroup X-no-archive:yes
8. Y2K nonsense
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Date: Sat, 20 Feb 1999 06:01:10 GMT
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Date: Sat, 20 Feb 1999 09:29:44 EDT
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Free NNTP Server For Specific Newsgroup
Hi,
How can i find a free nntp server that carries a specific newsgroup ?
I exam the following url but that didn't work.
http://www.jammed.com/newzbot-cgi-bin/group-search.pl?group=XXX
Thanks.
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Date: Sat, 20 Feb 1999 17:29:51 +0800
From: yqh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How to access dejanews newsgroups via email only
>To get the postings from a group:
>http://www.dejanews.com/group/GROUP_NAME
>
>e.g. http://www.dejanews.com/group/comp.lang.perl.misc
>
>To post, I reccomend using mail2news instead. "...To post to group
>alt.test, for instance, you can send mail to:
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>where YYYYMMDD is the current date (year, month, day)."
Thanks, Stephen,
I tried as what you told above, but a new problem. The dejanews server
sent the follwing message:
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Sorry, there are no new messages in comp.simulation
You can:
1. Read another group:
* = forums with unread messages
You are currently not subscribed to any groups
2. [5]Mark all articles as unread in comp.simulation
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How to get subscribed to a newsgroups via mail only? Any further
suggestions?
Quanhuan Ye
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Date: Sat, 20 Feb 1999 16:58:30 +0700
From: Nguyen Ho Nhat Khoa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: How to read news ?
Dear Mr Benjamin,
I had just sent a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
How do I read news from it ?
Khoa.
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Date: Sat, 20 Feb 1999 15:16:17 -0500
From: Stephen Benjamin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How to access dejanews newsgroups via email only
-----Original Message-----
From: yqh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Saturday, February 20, 1999 12:38 PM
Subject: Re: How to access dejanews newsgroups via email only
<SNIP>
>Thanks, Stephen,
>I tried as what you told above, but a new problem. The dejanews
server
>sent the follwing message:
>---------------------------------------------
> Sorry, there are no new messages in comp.simulation
>
> You can:
> 1. Read another group:
> * = forums with unread messages
>
> You are currently not subscribed to any groups
> 2. [5]Mark all articles as unread in comp.simulation
>---------------------------------------------
I sent a request and got it fine. I don't know why it isn't working
for you.
>How to get subscribed to a newsgroups via mail only? Any further
>suggestions?
You can't. You might want to look into reference.com though. I never
found it to be helpful, but you might.
http://www.reference.com/
--
Stephen Benjamin
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Date: Sat, 20 Feb 1999 15:20:21 -0500
From: Stephen Benjamin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How to read news ?
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From: Nguyen Ho Nhat Khoa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Saturday, February 20, 1999 12:38 PM
Subject: How to read news ?
>Dear Mr Benjamin,
>
>I had just sent a message to
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>How do I read news from it ?
You don't. If you looked at my message, you would see that I wrote in
regards to mail2news "To post to group alt.test...". That message you
sent *sends* a message to the group alt.test. To read newsgroups, use
dejanews and request this address:
http://www.dejanews.com/group/alt.test
Replace "alt.test" with the group of your choice.
Stephen Benjamin
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Date: Sat, 20 Feb 1999 13:06:14 PST
From: "T.Shook/ InfNet" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: ** REAL virus alert!**
RECIEVED THIS THRU THE MAIL..
T. Shook
Infnet
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>>Date: 02/20 2:36 AM
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>> Date: Fri, 19 Feb 1999 12:41:43 -0500 (EST)
>> From: ONElist Tech Support <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> Subject: Virus Alert
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Hello,
Recently there have been several reports of a virus being passed
through lists in attachments. The virus, called Happy99, modifies
infected computers so that they spread the virus to other computers
through email attachments.
For more information on this particular virus, and how to remove it,
visit the following web page:
>http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/happy99.worm.html
This is a good time to remind people that, in general, they should not
open email attachments or run programs from people they do not know.
That is how this and other viruses are spread.
Thanks,
The ONElist Team
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Date: Sat, 20 Feb 1999 21:38:46 GMT
From: Adrian Moisei <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: viewing of html file retrieved with e-mai
>Gerry Boyd -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Date: Sat, 20 Feb 1999 07:28:23 +0700
>From: Andi Siregar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: viewing of html file retrieved with e-mail
>MIME-Version: 1.0
>Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII
>Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
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> Hi,
>
> Does anyone know how to view a web pages whis are retrieved by e-mail?
> And I hve taken this file by using the source command. I have tried
> the explorer but it won't work.
>
> Are these files supposed to be uudecoded first?
> If yes, where to find the program.
>
> Andi..
You should select the code from your e-mail first using Ctrl C command.
After that you create a new file (TXT) and insert the copyed text into the
file.
Save the file. Now rename it to >something.HTML.<. Now you can view
the file using a browser. BE CAREFUL ---- THE HTML PAGE FROM YOUR E-MAIL
BEGINS WHERE THE <HTML> TAG IS, SO, YOU SHOULD COPY IT FROM THERE.
If you want to receive web pages as attachments try TSOURCE on a www4mail
server.
<adrian moisei>
Web Page Designer
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Date: Sat, 20 Feb 1999 16:11:27 PST
From: Lucian Skyeclathde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Free NNTP Server For Specific Newsgroup X-no-archive:yes
>From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sat Feb 20 09:23:53 1999
>Approved-By: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Date: Sat, 20 Feb 1999 09:29:44 EDT
>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
>How can i find a free nntp server that carries a specific newsgroup ?
>I exam the following url but that didn't work.
>
>http://www.jammed.com/newzbot-cgi-bin/group-search.pl?group=XXX
>
Dear Kazemi:
Well, what you've shown above is *almost* correct.
Simply substitute the name of the newsgroup that interests you in place
of XXX. Then you'll receive your list of servers.
Sincerely,
Lucian Skyeclathde
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Date: Sat, 20 Feb 1999 17:54:00 -5
From: HOWARD KARTEN <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Y2K nonsense
Regarding all this stuff we've been seeing all over about
the Y2K problem:
a good deal of it arises because reporters and editors
misunderstand what they are told by the people they
interview to obtain information. These misunderstandings
arise because reporters--like the rest of us--can be stupid
and lazy at times. Another contributing cause is that
media folk tend to be technophobes who are always looking
for the dark side of any story involving technology.
One good example can be found in the TIME Magazine stories
that appeared about Y2K problems around 1/16/99. The main
story quoted a number of individuals who were concerned
about or making preparations for Y2K problems. The
overwhelming majority of the folks interviewed were
Southern, rural, and/or fundamentalist Christians--a
phenomenon the reporter failed to notice. In a second
story about "how it all came to be", the reporter badly
garbled some information he'd been given. (Interested
parties: go back and read that stuff; pay particular
attention to the nonsense the reporter writes about the
"picture clause" in Cobol!)
Another good example is the stuff that's appeared more
recently regarding 9/9/99. Some reporters have said
something like "some programmers used nines to end their
programs". As a former programmer I understand what the
reporter is trying to say--but do you think they
understand, or that John Q. Public will understand?
The bottom line is, don't pay too much attention to the
nonsense you hear in the media. If you want more accurate
information, find a programmer (preferably an older
programmer who worked on mainframes years ago) and ask that
person.
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