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Grex Internet Item 39: Lots of news (and maybe a movie channel?)
Entered by carl on Tue Mar 22 00:20:17 UTC 1994:

There's a new electronic magazine about the Internet, called "Internaut."
We have a pointer to the current edition in the "Bookshelf" area and
under "What's New on the Internet?"

Volume one issue one is currently available.

It has an interesting article about cable internet (sort of like cable
tv--that's a scary thought ;-).  That might be something we might
want to consider if the technology is available and the price is right.
It involves a modem to send requests out and a cable connection to
receive data.  This would be ideal for our usenet news and (maybe)
for ftp and http.

Can you see Grex getting wired for cable?

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#1 of 11 by rcurl on Tue Aug 29 18:31:03 1995:

Might as well use this item for something.....speaking of "Lots of news":
I've been watching ITD (UM) add a few thousand newsgroups. While I
recognize prefixes like rec., alt., sci., and some others, there are
many more that I don't. Some seem to be state abbreviations, but I'm
not sure. Here is a recent bunch: can anyone tell me what they stand
for?

cl, ucb, fido7, nz, su, tnn, fj, pdaxs, git, ucsb, tw, ont, uw, umn,
co, finet, iij, bln, prg, zer.

#2 of 11 by robh on Tue Aug 29 22:48:45 1995:

I've been getting the same thing from the U of M School of Engineering
feed I use.  Here are the ones I know:

ucb     Universirt of California - Berkeley
fido7   Almost certainly a Fidonet-gated group
nz      New Zealand
su      Probably "Soviet Union", the domain still used by Russia
fj      Fiji
ucsb    University of California - Santa Barbara
ont     Ontario?
umn     University of Minnesota?
uw      University of W???

#3 of 11 by rcurl on Wed Aug 30 06:04:14 1995:

Yes, I've tried guessing some of them too (co=colorado?). cl and zer
are German: zer might be Zermatt, but cl? [You say, join them and
ask? You must be kidding...] Where is the master directory?

#4 of 11 by robh on Wed Aug 30 10:10:07 1995:

*Is* there a master directory?  >8)

#5 of 11 by remmers on Wed Aug 30 12:31:31 1995:

  Sure, just mail user services at Usenet, Inc. and they'll send
  you one.  :)

#6 of 11 by rcurl on Wed Aug 30 17:58:59 1995:

Really 8^? What's the address...

#7 of 11 by remmers on Thu Aug 31 00:30:24 1995:

  Well, that is the problem...

#8 of 11 by rcurl on Fri Sep 8 16:40:47 1995:

For the edification and/or entertainment of anyone that is not watching
5000+ new newsgroups scan by on the UM ITD server, here is a sampling of
what you are missing. This has been edited *slightly* for compactness. I
also biased the sample, by starting with a newsgroup concerning what the
media think is the sole subject on the internet. 

Newsgroup alt.sex.watersports not in .newsrc -- subscribe? [ynYN]
Newsgroup cl.europa.allgemein not in .newsrc -- subscribe? [ynYN]
Newsgroup rec.arts.comics.elfquest not in .newsrc -- subscribe? [ynYN]
Newsgroup um.test not in .newsrc -- subscribe? [ynYN]
Newsgroup cl.energie.diskussion not in .newsrc -- subscribe? [ynYN]
Newsgroup fj.rec.marine not in .newsrc -- subscribe? [ynYN]
Newsgroup ba.personals not in .newsrc -- subscribe? [ynYN]
Newsgroup tw.bbs.netnews not in .newsrc -- subscribe? [ynYN]
Newsgroup su.class.cs342 not in .newsrc -- subscribe? [ynYN]
Newsgroup finet.helsinki.hoas not in .newsrc -- subscribe? [ynYN]
Newsgroup finet.freenet.tyoryhmat.yhteydet not in .newsrc -- subscribe? [ynYN]
Newsgroup srg.ticker not in .newsrc -- subscribe? [ynYN]

I can't believe I've scanned pushing 5000 of those - and missed the two
newsgroups that I had requested to be added (before I knew that one
does not request - one just gets dumped on). There is absolutely no
logic or order in these listings, and as indicated earlier, no way to
search a newsgroup list. It is a Tower of Babel.

#9 of 11 by robh on Sat Sep 9 00:22:41 1995:

For those who don't parlais the vous, "watersports"
is the euphemism for sexual acts involving urination.

Yes, I do know people stranger than myself.  >8)

#10 of 11 by rcurl on Sat Sep 9 05:57:10 1995:

*I* didn't know *that*.

#11 of 11 by n8nxf on Mon Sep 11 16:17:21 1995:

Shouldn't that be "urialsports"?

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