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         The Art of Technology Digest #2   Tuesday, August 4th, 1992

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[AoT Digest] Contents #2 (Tues, August 4th, 1992)

 Article 1: Gateway/WINDO Action Notice
 Article 2: PCBoard Systems Active on the Usenet
 Article 3: Jerusalem virus part 2 (CVP)
 Article 4: 2600 Announcement
 Article 5: Encrypted Communications
 Article 6: NNTP 1.6 Client Kit Released
 Article 7: Linux 0.97 Released
 Article 8: Bellcore/Purdue Software Reliability Workshop

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Date:     July 29, 1992
From:     [e-mail] (Chris Lewis)
Subject:  Article 1--Gateway/WINDO Action Notice


GATEWAY/WINDO Action Notice:

ALERT! ALERT! ALERT!

The Congress is running out of time to consider S. 2813, the GPO
Gateway to Government, and H.R. 2772, the GPO Wide Information
Network for Data Online (WINDO), legislation this year. These
bills would provide for single point on-line access to government
information through the Government Printing Office (GPO).

The House Committee on Administration and the Senate Committee on
Rules and Administration will likely meet to mark up these bills
before the scheduled August 13 congressional recess.

It is critical that members of these committees, and their
staffs, hear from supporters of the legislation over the next two
weeks if these bills are to pass the Congress this year.

Phone calls to members and their staff are most needed, but
written letters are appropriate as well.  All communication
should emphasize the need for expanded public access to federal
data bases and the simple and efficient good government approach
incorporated in these two bills.

Members of congress can be reached by phone through the Capitol
switchboard at 202/224-3121.  Mail to Senators should be
addressed:  The Honorable ______, U.S. Senate, Washington, DC
20510.  Mail to Congressmen/women should be addressed: The
Honorable _______, U.S. House of Representatives, Washington, DC
20515.

Members of the Committee on House Administration of the House of
Representatives are:

Charlie Rose, NC                   Bill Thomas, CA
Frank Annunzio, IL                 William Dickinson, AL
Joseph Gaydos, PA                  Newt Gingrich, GA
Leon Panetta, CA                   Pat Roberts, KS
Al Swift, WA                       Paul Gilmor, OH
Mary Rose Oakar, OH                James Walsh, NY
Bill Clay, MO                      Mickey Edwards, OK
Sam Gejdenson, CT                  Bob Livingston, LA
Joe Kolter, PA                     Bill Barrett, NE
Martin Frost, TX
Tom Manton, NY
Marty Russo, IL
Steny Hoyer, MD
Gerald Kleczka, WI
Dale Kildee, MI

Members of the Committee on Rules and Administration of the
Senate are:

Wendell Ford, KY                   Ted Stevens, AK
Claiborne Pell, RI                 Mark Hatfield, OR
Robert Bryd, WV                    Jesse Helms, NC
Daniel Inouye, HI                  John Warner, VA
Dennis DeConcini, AZ               Bob Dole, KS
Al Gore, TN                        Jake Garn, UT
Daniel Moynihan, NY                Mitch McConnell, KY
Christopher Dodd, CT
Brock Adams, WA


Note:  If you need copies of the legislation and a fact sheet,
send an email message to [e-mail].

[Moderator's note: The legislation and fact sheet mentioned above
are also available on the CPSR file server.  Send one of the following
to [e-mail], in the text of e-mail:

GET HR2772  BILL     (for the GPO WINDO bill)
GET S2813   BILL     (for the GPO Gateway to Government bill)
GET GATEWAY FACTS    (for the fact sheet about both bills)
                                                        -peh]
--
Chris Lewis                       voice:     202/387-8030
Director, Washington Office         fax:     [phone]
Taxpayer Assets Project        internet:     [e-mail]
P.O. Box 19367
Washington, DC  20036

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Subject: Article 2--PCBoard Systems Active on the Usenet
From: [e-mail] (Mike Batchelor)
Date: Sun, 26 Jul 92 20:54:31 PDT

Filename: pcb-net.lst
Last revised: 26 Jul 1992
By: Mike Batchelor <[e-mail]>

                PCBoard Systems Active on the Usenet
                ====================================

Send corrections and additions to [e-mail].  Please use the
format of this file as a template for your submission or correction.

This file may be requested from [e-mail] by sending the
command "GET pcb-net.lst" in the subject or body of the message.

Systems listed (18)
 [  acc1bbs     almac       bville      cccbbs      channel1    chaos       ]
 [  cutting     digund      ehbbs       execnet     factory     grapevine   ]
 [  madness     matrix      pcb         satalink    satlink     spacebbs    ]

$$ indicates subscription required
$- indicates subscription with free access option
-- indicates no charge for access

============ ==================== ================== =========== ========== ==
Telephone #s System               Location           Speed/Modem Hours      $$
============ ==================== ================== =========== ========== ==
205-323-2016 matrix.sbs.com       Birmingham,        up to 14400 24 hrs     $$
205 323-6016                      AL USA             V.32bis HST daily
BBS Name: The MATRIX  Gateway: uuPCB
Sysop & address: Rocky Rawlins <[e-mail]>
15 nodes, 5 gigabyte, 12 CDs online, over 60,000 PD files, over 40,000 adult
GIFS, echoing Ilink, Metronet, Throbnet, AfterDark and Internet. Home Support
System for Esterian Conquest and ASCENT.

============ ==================== ================== =========== ========== ==
212-274-8110 factory.com          New York           up to 14400 0600-0500  $$
212-274-8390                      NY USA             V.32bis     daily
212-274-8298                                         Hayes-V CSP
BBS Name: The Invention Factory  Gateway: uuPCB
BBS location: New York, NY USA
Sysop & address:  Michael Sussel <[e-mail]>
Full feed of Usenet newgroups.  Also carry full feed of Ilink.  Smartnet
e-mail as well.  Over seven gigabytes of shareware.  QwikMail and CamMail
doors.  The quiet bbs GIANT!

============ ==================== ================== =========== ========== ==
215-364-3324 satalink.com         Huntingdon Valley, up to 19200 24hrs      $$
                                  PA USA             V.32bis     daily
                                                     CSP PEP
BBS Name: Satalink Information Systems BBS  Gateway: uuPCB
Sysop & address: Ron Brandt <[e-mail]>
2.5 Gigs online, 1,500 Conferences from Ilink, RelayNet, Fidonet (1:273/203),
Smartnet, Usenet & Internet. 14 Lines, Home of Delaware Valley ComputerUser
& The 215 AREA BBS LIST. Visa/MC

============ ==================== ================== =========== ========== ==
310-494-8084 pcb.batpad.lgb.ca.us Long Beach,        2400-14400  0600-0500  --
                                  CA USA             V.32bis     daily
BBS Name: The Batchelor Pad PCBoard  Gateway: uuPCB
Sysop & address: Mike Batchelor <[e-mail]>
Full newsfeed, Rosemail & MarkMail QWK doors, [e-mail]
has QWK readers for Mac, Atari, Amiga, DOS, UNIX, CP/M, plus many UNIX utils
for PC's (also available on-line).  Waffle BBS 2nd node (by request only).

============ ==================== ================== =========== ========== ==
401-848-9069 madness.network23.com Middletown,       up to 14400 24 hrs     --
401-847-4902                      RI USA             V.32bis     daily
BBS Name: Terminal Madness BBS  Gateway: uuPCB
Sysop & address: Chris Mathis <[e-mail]>
Terminal Madness BBS, TWO High Speed Nodes!  14400 bps!  USENET!! CD-ROM with
over 11,000 files up for download! OVER 600 MEG! Door games, and QWK Door!
Multi node chat! Totaly FREE!

============ ==================== ================== =========== ========== ==
415-323-4193 spacebbs.com         Menlo Park,        up to 19200 24hrs      $-
415-323-4197                      CA USA             V.32bis HST daily
BBS Name: SPACE BBS  Gateway: uuPCB
Sysop & address: Owen Hawkins <[e-mail]>
10-Node PC Board BBS with 40,000+ files & GIFS plus several cd-roms including
PC-SIG.  Dailt WX and Stock market indicies, plus databases for Vendors,
Movies, etc.  60 Day free access.

============ ==================== ================== =========== ========== ==
416-283-0114 bville.gts.org       Toronto,           up to 14400 24 hrs     $$
416-283-6059 r-node.gts.org!bville Ontario, Canada   V.32bis HST daily
BBS Name: Baudeville BBS  Gateway: uuPCB
Sysop & address: Ian Evans <[e-mail]>
Over 2000 conferences (1200+ newsgroups), 1.3 gig of files, RIME, Intelec,
Medianet, Nanet, City2City, Throbnet, Echonet, Fidonet (1:250/304), Usenet.

============ ==================== ================== =========== ========== ==
501-985-0059 chaos.lrk.ar.us      Jacksonville,      up to 14400 24 hrs     --
                                  AR USA             HST         daily
BBS Name: The Courts of Chaos  Gateway: uuPCB
Sysop & address: Dave Williams <[e-mail]>
PCBoard 14.5, CD-ROM, technically oriented, RIME, Internet, Throbnet, Markmail
QWK door, no subscriptions or fees, full access on first call

============ ==================== ================== =========== ========== ==
501-753-8121 grapevine.lrk.ar.us  N. Little Rock,    up to 14400 24 hrs     $-
501-791-0124                      AR USA             V.32bis HST daily
                                                     CSP
BBS Name: The GrapeVine / Ferret Face BBS  Gateway: uuPCB
Sysop & address: Jim Wenzel <[e-mail]>
3.2 gigs hard drive, 3 cd-roms,  3 .qwk doors, online store, RIME, ThrobNet,
MediaNet, FORTHNET and UseNet, IBM, AMIGA, large programming area, huge adult
area. over 30,000 files online.

============ ==================== ================== =========== ========== ==
513-752-1055 cccbbs.uucp          Batavia,           up to 14400 24hrs      $$
513-752-8248 uceng.uc.edu!cccbbs  OH USA             V.32bis HST daily
BBS Name: Cincinnati Computer Connection  Gateway: uuPCB
Sysop & address: Bob Emerson <cccbbs![e-mail]>
5 Gigs Adult areas with 1000's of Gifs.  Many online games.  Usenet access.
13 nodes and more coming soon!!

============ ==================== ================== =========== ========== ==
617-354-8873 channel1.com         Cambridge,         up to 19200 24 hrs     $$
617-354-5776 uunet.uu.net!channel1 MA USA            V.32bis HST daily
617-354-3137 uupsi.com!channel1                      CSP PEP MIC
BBS Name: Channel 1  Gateway: PCB/Usenet Gateway from Sparkware & uuPCB
Sysop & address: Brian Miller/Tess Heder <[e-mail]>
85 lines; hi-speed LAN; 12 gigs HD; 2500 conferences; 75 online games;
RIME/ILink/Smartnet echonets; Internet mail; full USENET newsfeed; 75,000
IBM/Mac/Amiga/Unix files; online shopping, etc

============ ==================== ================== =========== ========== ==
713-466-1525 cutting.hou.tx.us    Houston,           up to 14400 24 hrs     --
                                  TX USA             V.32bis HST daily
BBS Name: The Cutting Edge  Gateway: uuPCB
Sysop & address: David Bonds <[e-mail]>
City2City and TexasNet networks, 300 megs, two sysops, Markmail and QMail doors
for QWKs, over 100 Usenet areas

============ ==================== ================== =========== ========== ==
713-997-7575 ehbbs.hou.tx.us      Houston, TX USA    up to 14400 24hrs      $$
713-997-7576 uunet!nuchat!ehbbs   TX USA             V.32bis HST daily
                                  (Soon changing!)
BBS Name: Ed Hopper's BBS  Gateway: uuPCB
Sysop & address:  Ed Hopper <[e-mail]>
Home board for uuPCB.  Markmail and Rosemail QWK Doors, CD ROM's for
additional 660 MB of shareware.  ILink, U'NI-net/US networks plus Usenet.

============ ==================== ================== =========== ========== ==
812-941-9427 digund.com           (none given),      up to 14400 24 hrs     $$
             digund.uucp          IN USA             V.32bis     daily
             [e-mail]
BBS Name: Digital Underground  Gateway: uuPCB
Sysop & address: Chris Nalley <[e-mail]>
Fidonet node 1:2320/150, 1.5 GIG, Generally Private system.

============ ==================== ================== =========== ========== ==
914-654-1981 [e-mail]     New Rochelle,      up to 14400 24 hrs     --
914-654-0721                      NY USA             V.32bis HST daily
BBS Name: Advanced Computer Concepts BBS  Gateway: uuPCB
Sysop & address: Skip Ross  <[e-mail]>
Offering Qmail door, no file ratios, no charges for newsgroups or message
bases. Everything is free at ACC BBS, no hidden charges!

============ ==================== ================== =========== ========== ==
914-667-4567 execnet.com          Mount Vernon,      up to 14400 24 hrs     $$
914-667-4066                      NT USA             V.32bis HST daily
BBS Name: The Executive Network Information System
Gateway: PCB/Usenet Gateway from Sparkware
Sysop & address: Andy Keeves <[e-mail]>
International Hub of ILink(sm); Technical Databases; 50,000+ files available;
voice support; full newsfeed; outbound fax gateway; daily news publications;
1992 Olympic coverage

============ ==================== ================== =========== ========== ==
+44          almac.co.uk          Grangemouth,       up to 14400 24 hrs     $$
324-665371                        Scotland           V.32bis HST daily
                                                     CSP
BBS Name: Almac BBS  Gateway: PCB/Usenet Gateway from Sparkware
Sysop & address: Alastair McIntyre <[e-mail]>
Also echo ILink & RIME.  Use Qmail .qwk Mail Door. 2.5Gbytes of files.
Subscription only. 45.00 for 1 hour per day and 75.00 for 2 hours.  One annual
fee.  On-Line Sales Door, etc

============ ==================== ================== =========== ========== ==
+54        [e-mail] Buenos Aires,      up to 14400 2000-1200  $$
1-52-1057   well.sf.ca.us!satlink Argentina          V.32bis     (24 hrs soon)
BBS Name: SatLink Communications / Turbo-BBS  Gateway: uuPCB
Sysop & address: Horacio Stolovitzky <[e-mail]>
                 Claudio Vidal <[e-mail]>
Running on a 486 DX2, 1 Giga + CD ROM, QWK doors/FidoNet/SmartNet/Osla

===========
End of list

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From: [e-mail] (Robert Slade)
Subject: Article 3--Jerusalem virus part 2 (CVP)
Date: 23 Jul 92 23:50:00 GMT

HISVIR4.CVP   920714

                   The "Jerusalem" virus - part 2

The history of the Jerusalem virus is every bit as convoluted as its
functionality and family.  The naming alone is a fairly bizarre tale.
As mentioned before, it was originally called the Israeli virus.
Although considered unfair by some, it was fairly natural as the
virus had both been discovered and reported from Israel.  (Although
the virus was reported to slow down systems that were infected, it
seems to have been the "continual growth" of EXE files which led to
the detection of the virus.)  In an effort to avoid anti-semitism, it
was referred to by its "infective length" of 1813 bytes.  For COM
files.  For EXE files it was 1808 bytes.  Sometimes.  It varies
because of the requirement that the header of an EXE file is
divisible by 16.  (All quite clear?)

One of the early infections was found to be in an office belonging to
the Israeli Defence Forces.  This fact was reported in an Associated
Press article, and, of course, made much of.  It also gave rise to
another alias, the I.D.F. virus.

When the virus was first discovered, it was strongly felt that it had
been circulating prior to November of 1987.  The "payload" of file
deletion on Friday the 13th gave rise to conjecture as to why the
logic bomb had not "gone off" on Friday, November 13th, 1987.
(Subsequent analysis has shown that the virus will activate the
payload only if the year is not 1987.)  The next following "Friday
the 13th" was May 13th, 1988.  Since the last day that Palestine
existed as a nation was May 13th, 1948 it was felt that this might
have been an act of political terrorism.  This led to another alias,
the PLO virus.  (The fact that Israel celebrates its holidays
according to the Jewish calendar, and that the independence
celebrations were slated for three weeks before May 13th in 1988 were
disregarded.  The internal structure of the virus, and the existence
of the sURIV viral programs seems to indicate that any political
correspondence is merely coincidence.)

Yet another alias is "sUMsDos", based upon text found in the virus
code itself.  This was, on occasion, corrupted to "sumDOS".

The name "Jerusalem" has gained ascendancy, possibly due to the
McAfee SCAN program identification.  (He certainly must be
responsible for the "B" designation for the "original" version.)  Of
course, the great number of variants have not helped any.  Because a
number of the variants are very closely based upon each others code,
the signatures for one variant will often match another, thus
generating even more naming confusion.  This confusion is not unique
to the Jerusalem family, of course, and is an ongoing concern in the
virus research community.

copyright Robert M. Slade, 1992   HISVIR4.CVP   920714

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Vancouver      [e-mail]         | "The client interface
Institute for  [e-mail]      |  is the boundary of
Research into  [e-mail]         |  trustworthiness."
User           [e-mail]         |    - Tony Buckland, UBC
Security       Canada V7K 2G6           |

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From: [e-mail] (real: from 2600 Magazine)
Date: Sun, 2 Aug 1992 14:18:41 1992
Subject: Article 4--2600 Announcement

The summer issue of 2600 has been released. Subscribers should
have it no later than the early part of next week. Included
within is the latest on Bellcore's lawsuit threat against us,
as well as a complete guide to the different kinds of
telephone signalling systems used throughout the world
(written by a real heavyweight in the phone phreak world),
a review of the Dutch demon dialer, a tutorial on "portable
hacking", tips on defeating call return (*69), a guide to
voice mail hacking, plus letters, news updates, revelations
of an interesting nature (more Bellcore stuff) plus a whole
lot more.

On Friday, August 7th, we'll be having meetings in six American
cities. We expect all of these meetings to continue on a
monthly basis. Please spread the word. NEW YORK: Citicorp
Center (between Lexington and 3rd) downstairs in the lobby
by the payphones. Payphone numbers: 212-223-9011, 212-223-8927,
212-308-8044, 212-308-8162. WASHINGTON DC: Pentagon City mall.
CHICAGO: Century Mall, 2828 Clark St, lower level, by the
payphones. Payphone numbers: 312-929-2695, 2875, 2685, 2994,
3287. ST. LOUIS: At the Galleria, Highway 40 and Brentwood,
lower level, food court area, by the theaters. LOS ANGELES: At
the Union Station, corner of Macy St. and Alameda. Inside main
entrance by bank of phones. Payphone numbers: 213-972-9358, 9388,
9506, 9519, 9520, 213-625-9923, 9924, 213-614-9849, 9872,
9918, 9926. SAN FRANCISCO: 4 Embarcadero Plaza (inside).
Payphone numbers: 415-398-9803,4,5,6.

There is no agenda at a 2600 meeting, no formalities of any
kind, no dress code (except maybe in St. Louis), and no
constraints other than common sense. People generally get
together, trade information, meet people, look for feds, and
do whatever else comes to mind (all legally, of course).
Each meeting runs approximately from 5 pm to 8 pm local time
on the first Friday of the month. Anyone wanting to organize
a meeting in another city should contact 2600 at our office:
[phone].

Our voice mail system is now a voice bulletin board system
every night beginning at 11 pm Eastern time. You can reach
it at 0700-751-2600 through AT&T. If you're using another
long distance carrier, preface that number with 10288.
It costs 15 cents a minute and all of the money goes to AT&T.
Whoopee.

Permission is hereby granted to repost this message with
the intention of spreading news of the above.

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From: [e-mail] (Dana Paxson)
Subject: Article 5--Encrypted Communications
Date: 29 Jul 92 16:20:06 GMT

In general, I think laws making encrypted communications illegal
are wasteful, stupid and oppressive, for the following reasons:

1)    They would be a violation of free speech rights.
2)    They would be a waste of time and effort, since
    determining violation can be impossible.

3)    They would be a further waste of time and effort,
    since such laws are impossible to enforce.

4)    They would allow a government to apply enforcement
    selectively, singling out a few (for arbitrary
    reasons) and prosecuting them under the vague
    suspicion that some communication contained en-
    crypted matter.

Point 1) seems self-evident to me.

Regarding Points 2) - 4):

A few examples and demonstrations come to mind.  One of the
most interesting and illuminating is the old 'Bacon cipher'
controversy:  the notion that Shakespeare's folios contained
subtle typeface variations that amounted to an encipherment
of text written by Francis Bacon, text which indicated that
Bacon was actually the author of the Shakespeare plays.

As I remember it, there was a heated scholarly controversy
over this idea for many years, which had all the earmarks of
crankdom making an assault on basic literary understanding.
Both sides of the debate attracted large numbers of followers.
It was all put to rest (at least from a scientific point of
view) when one researcher who understood cryptography quite
well managed to demonstrate that by reading the supposed
typeface variations in different ways and supplying some
additional overlays or adjustments of data (which the pro-
Bacon people said was necessary to read the hidden text), he
could make Shakespeare's folio produce any hidden text he
wanted it to!

Admittedly the cryptographic methods assumed by the pro-Bacon
group were faulty, and modern cryptanalysts would not make
the mistake of inserting a text-decryption overlay that in
effect would be inserting the encrypted message they wanted
to find.  Any astute analyst would spot this immediately.
The trouble is that not everyone involved in trying to make
determinations of violation of anti-encryption law is quali-
fied either to avoid making such an analytical error or to
catch one being made.  And this statement makes no assump-
tion of malice.  What if malice IS the motive?

So perhaps someone might count the characters in each line in
this posting, convert the counts to characters with some
simple arithmetic function, apply some transformation (either
transposition or substitution, with some arbitrary key) and
decide that I am a dangerous subversive because of the resul-
ting "content" emerging from this process.  There is in fact
no such content.

Another such someone might profess to have found another
message of mine which, when used as a key, produces a plain-
text from selected words in this message.  Between selecting
another message, and selecting the words, they could put
any concealed text in my message that they wanted to find.

Behind all this is the greasy odor of pseudoscience.  Once
a pseudoscientist sets mind on getting a result, all evidence
leads to it.  Or, as one wag put it, "When the theory does not
agree with the facts, the facts must be disposed of."  Mix
the pseudoscientists with the oppressive or manipulative
politicians, and the results can be explosive.

It is a dangerous farce.  It could be worse law.

Turning to the other end of things, can any REAL concealed
ciphertext be detected?  The answer is, simply, no.  The
reason, strangely enough, is virtually the same as the reason
that the Bacon-cipher people thought they had succeeded.
All the correspondents need to do is to establish two entirely
independent communications pathways, sending the apparent
plaintext message over one channel, and a key for extracting
other messages from it over the other.  Unless a cryptanalyst
has access to both channels, no encrypted message sent on one
channel can be decrypted if the encryption was done with a
key based on a one-time pad (a once-used series of characters
or values) sent over the other channel.  The Bacon-cipher
people did this unwittingly when they created the data
overlays, which amounted to the key.

The channels need not occupy the same medium, nor the same
place or time.  A private conversation can serve as one
channel, and the public network(s) the other.  So if I wanted
to plant an encrypted message in this message, I would only
have to set up a key to produce it, and send the key via let-
ter, radio, telephone, carrier pigeon, whisper, etc. to the
intended recipients of the hidden message.  If I took care
with that communication, no one would have a clue.

And I could make this message contain two entirely contra-
dictory encryptions for two different recipients, just by
sending them different keys.

As an aside, this is how some people who tell fortunes or
interpret holy scriptures make a living.  I'm not referring
to honest students of scripture or human nature, only to the
folks with an axe to grind or money to be made.  Such people
can be extremely dismissive of scientific argument and
evidence.


Hoping my recollections of the Bacon cipher controversy are
basically accurate,

Dana Paxson
Network Applications Systems Group
Northern Telecom
97 Humboldt Street
Rochester, New York  14609

[e-mail]

1 716 654-2588

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From: Stan Olan Barber <[e-mail]>
Subject: Article 6--NNTP 1.6 CLIENT KIT RELEASED
Date: 3 Aug 1992 06:30:26 GMT

The NNTP Client tool kit has been released. This kit contains the nntp
client routines that can be used to link into news reader and news posting
software. This client kit has been tested with a number of unix systems
as well as three IBM-PC TCP/IP stacks (Lan WorkPlace for DOS, PC-NFS and
PC/TCP).

There are two files in the kit. You can get them from lib.tmc.edu
via anonymous ftp in /public/nntp1.6/client or from bcm.tmc.edu in
/nntpclnt. They can also be retreived by sending mail to the archive server
address "[e-mail]" with the following body in the message:

send nntpclnt kit1
send nntpclnt kit2

Send bugs and comments to "[e-mail]"

--
Stan           internet: [e-mail]         Director, Networking
Olan           uucp: rutgers!bcm!sob             and Systems Support
Barber         Opinions expressed are only mine. Baylor College of Medicine

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From: Linus Benedict Torvalds <[e-mail]>
Date: Sun Aug  2 01:33
Subject: Article 7--Linux 0.97 Released

finger [e-mail]
[kruuna.Helsinki.FI]

                   Free UNIX for the 386
The current version of linux is a 0.97, released 92.08.01.  There is a
0.96 rootdisk that should be used with the new versions: it fixes a lot
of things with the old rootdisks and contains more programs due to the
shared libraries.
0.97 supports X11r5 and the new gcc-2.1 (and newer) libraries with
multiple shared libs - as well as any old binaries (except the 0.12
version of gdb which used the older ptrace() interface).  0.96c also
contains support for debugging (core-dumping and attach/detach) as well
as profiling (use gcc-2.2.2 for the profiling code)
Linux can be gotten by anonymous ftp from 'nic.funet.fi' (128.214.6.100)
in the directory '/pub/OS/Linux'.  This directory structure contains all
the linux OS- and library-sources, and enough binaries to get going.  To
install linux you still need to know something about unices: it's
relatively straightforward to install, but the documentation sucks raw
eggs, and people with no previous unix experience are going to get very
confused.
There are now a lot of other sites keeping linux archives. Some of them
are:
    tsx-11.mit.edu (18.172.1.2):
        directory /pub/linux
    banjo.concert.net (192.101.21.6):
        directory /pub/Linux
    yagi.ecei.tohoku.ac.jp (130.34.222.67)

(and many additional sites: there are now sites in the uk, japan etc
that carry linux, but I have lost count)
There is also a mailing list set up '[e-mail]'.
To join, mail a request to '[e-mail]'.
It's no use mailing me: I have no actual contact with the mailing-list
(other than being on it, naturally).
There is also a newsgroup that contain linux-related questions and
information: comp.os.linux.
Mail me for more info:
        Linus Torvalds ([e-mail])
        Pietarinkatu 2 A 2
        00140 Helsinki
        Finland
0.97 has these major new things relative to 0.96
 - select() through the VFS routines
 - easily installable IRQ's
 - bus-mouse driver
 - msdos filesystem (alpha)
 - extended filesystem (alpha)
 - serial line changes (faster, changeable irq's etc)
 - dynamic buffer-cache
 - new and improved SCSI drivers

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From: [e-mail] (Bob Horgan)
Subject: Article 8--Bellcore/Purdue Software Reliability Workshop
Date: 1 Aug 92 00:01:58 GMT
Expires: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 07:00:00 GMT

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

Second Workshop on
ISSUES IN SOFTWARE RELIABILITY ESTIMATION

October 12-13, 1992
Bellcore, Livingston, N. J., USA

THEME: Software Reliability in the Telecommunications Industry
Sponsored by:     Software Engineering Research Center, Department of
Computer Sciences, Purdue University and Bellcore.

DESCRIPTION:
This is a sequel to the highly successful workshop held in 1991.
The theme of last year's workshop was the relationship between software
testing methods and the theory and practice of software reliability
estimation.  This year we focus that theme on issues pertinent to the
telecommunications industry.  Presentations will address a wide range
of issues emphasizing testing and reliability in the telecommunications
Industry.  Participants will consist of invited speakers and representatives
from industry and academia.  Among appropriate topics for submissions are:
    - special reliability concerns in telecommunications,
    - the relation of software testing and reliability estimation,
    - the relation of software architecture and reliability estimation,
    - field performance data and reliability estimation,
    - software churn and reliability estimation,
    - industrial experience with the use of reliability estimation,
    - empirical validation of reliability models,
    - data collection issues in reliability estimation, and
    - other novel approaches to reliability modeling and reliability
    estimation.


All submissions (consisting of full papers or extended abstracts)
will be collected and printed as workshop proceedings.  For papers that
have been published elsewhere or for which the copyright has
been already released, it will be the responsibility of the author(s) to
obtain the necessary permissions before their submission could be included
in the proceedings.  One panel of experts in reliability and testing will
discuss the current issues in the area.

Alfred V. Aho of Bellcore and John D. Musa of At&T Bell Laboratories
will give invited talks.


Please submit five (5) copies of full papers or extended abstracts
in English by September 3, 1992 to:

Bob Horgan                              Aditya P. Mathur
Bellcore, MRE 2E-362                    Software Engineering Research Center
445 South St.                           Purdue University
P.O. Box 1910                           W. Lafayette, IN 47907
Morristown, NJ 07962-1910               apm.cs.purdue.edu   [phone]
[e-mail]   [phone]

Organizing Committee:

Bob Horgan, Bellcore (co-chair)
Aditya P. Mathur, Purdue (co-chair)
Vernon Rego, Purdue  (co-chair)
John Healy, Bellcore
Wendell Jones, Bell Northern
Sid Dalal, Bellcore
Ming-yee Lai, Bellcore
Veena Mendiratta, AT&T Bell Labs
Nozer Singpurwalla, George Washington
John Spragins, Clemson
Mark Yang, University of Florida


Important Dates and Details:

-  September 3, 1992  -  992  -  Completed papers due
-  September 21, 1992  -  Authors notification
-  Registration fee: $100 ($50 for students)
-  Registration fee due:  October 1, 1992.
-  For information and registration contact Aditya Mathur or Bob Horgan
   at the foregoing addresses.
-  Total attendance will be limited to 75.
-  Purdue University is an equal access/equal opportunity institution.

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Purdue University/Bellcore
ISSUES IN SOFTWARE RELIABILITY ESTIMATION
OCTOBER 12-13, 1992


First contact Aditya Mathur or Bob Horgan at the foregoing addresses
then mail the information indicated below with check to:

     Continuing Education Business Office
     Purdue University
     1586 Stewart Center, Room 110
     West Lafayette, IN 47907-1586

Please Register the following (print or type):

Name: _____________________

Title: _____________________

Affiliation: _____________________________

Address: _____________________________

City, State, Zip: _____________________________

Phone: ____________________

Fax:   ____________________

EMail: ____________________

Fees: Regular $100/each; Student: $50/each
      Make checks payable in U.S. dollars to Purdue University
Registration Deadlines: October 1, 1992

*Lodging and meals (other than lunches and breaks) are not included
in the fee.  Suggested hotels are:

Marriott Courtyard in East Hanover
157 Rt 10 East
Whippany, NJ
201-887-8700

Ramada Inn East Hanover
130 Rt 10 West
Whippany, NJ
201 386-5622

Parsippany Hilton
1 Hilton Court
Parsippany, NJ
201-267-7373

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