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- Newsgroups: alt.hackers
- Path: sparky!uunet!caen!destroyer!ubc-cs!hassan
- From: hassan@cs.ubc.ca (Moustafa M Hassan)
- Subject: unlimited news access
- Message-ID: <1992Sep1.193647.1347@cs.ubc.ca>
- Sender: usenet@cs.ubc.ca (Usenet News)
- Organization: Computer Science, University of B.C., Vancouver, B.C., Canada
- Date: Tue, 1 Sep 92 19:36:47 GMT
- Approved: fifi@amour.lyons.fr
- Lines: 31
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- Does anyone know of a site which allows unlimited news access? I used to
- do the following:
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- 'setenv NNTPSERVER news.cs.indiana.edu'
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- and then xrn would allow me unlimited read access to all groups. (rn wouldn't
- though, for some odd reason.) Now, however, I am told that I do not have
- permission to use this machine. Does anyone have another trick? Email is
- appreciated; posting the news server wouldn't be a great idea because everyone
- would use it, and then tech staff would probably monitor its use.
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- Any help is appreciated.
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- PS: Is it ethically acceptable for fellow-posters to alt.hackers to exchange
- posting methods? (By email, of course!). Obviously, I would expect to
- see an article posted by him before revealing my own method.
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- ObHack: Writing a program which can convert postscript files to unformatted
- text (for viewing on a vt100, etc.). Obviously, the program only works with
- text; it (hopefully) ignores graphics.
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- * Moustafa Hassan | *
- * hassan@cs.ubc.ca | Political correctness is a euphemism *
- * TEL/FAX: (604) 535-2826 | for intellectual stagnation. *
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