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Subject: Changes to Answers to Frequently Asked Questions
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Date: Mon, 1-Dec-86 00:24:06 EST
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*** old/questions.n	Sat Nov  1 16:43:24 1986
--- src/questions.n	Sat Nov 29 18:36:28 1986
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! Approved: spaf@gatech.CSNET
  
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  Expires: 40days
! Approved: spaf@gatech.EDU
  
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  Original-from: jerry@eagle.UUCP (Jerry Schwarz)
! [Most recent change: 31 October 1986 by weemba@brahms.berkeley.edu]
  
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  Original-from: jerry@eagle.UUCP (Jerry Schwarz)
! [Most recent change: 29 November 1986 by weemba@brahms.berkeley.edu]
  
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  and warning about the inevitable consequence of asking others.  If you
! don't like my answers let me know and I may include revisions in future
! versions of this note.
  
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  and warning about the inevitable consequence of asking others.  If you
! don't like these answers let spaf@gatech.edu know.
  
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!      These questions belong in net.news.config if anywhere, but in fact
       your best bet is usually to phone somebody at "foo" to find out.
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!      These questions belong in news.config if anywhere, but in fact
       your best bet is usually to phone somebody at "foo" to find out.
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!  7.  How do I decrypt jokes in net.jokes?
  
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!  7.  How do I decrypt jokes in rec.humor?
  
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       letter is replaced by the letter 13 farther along in the alphabet
!      (cycling around at the end).  Most systems have a built in command
       to decrypt such articles; readnews has the "D" command, rn has the
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       letter is replaced by the letter 13 farther along in the alphabet
!      (cycling around at the end).  Most systems have a built-in command
       to decrypt such articles; readnews has the "D" command, rn has the
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! 11.  net.unix-wizards: How do I remove files with non-ascii
       characters in their names?
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! 11.  comp.unix.wizards: How do I remove files with non-ascii
       characters in their names?
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! 12.  net.unix-wizards: There is a bug in the way UNIX handles
       protection for programs that run suid.
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! 12.  comp.unix.wizards: There is a bug in the way UNIX handles
       protection for programs that run suid.
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       soc.women, more heat than light is generated when it is brought
!      up.  Since the newsgroup talk.abortion has been created, all
!      abortion-related discussion should take place there.
  
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       soc.women, more heat than light is generated when it is brought
!      up.  All abortion-related discussion should take place in the
!      newsgroup talk.abortion.  If your site administrators have chosen
!      not to receive this group, you should respect this and not post
!      articles about abortion at all.
  
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! 15.  sci.space.shuttle: Shouldn't this group be merged with sci.space?
  
       No.  sci.space.shuttle is for timely news bulletins.  sci.space is for
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! 15.  soc.singles and elsewhere:  What does HASA stand for?
  
+      Nobody knows.  HASA apparently stands for Hedonistic Asti-Spumante
+      Alliance.  There are renegades, not to be believed under any
+      circumstances, who claim it actually stands for the Heathen and
+      Atheistic SCUM Alliance.  It can also mean a few other fanciful and
+      amusing things, any of which should be judged in context.  
+ 
+ 16.  sci.space.shuttle: Shouldn't this group be merged with sci.space?
+ 
       No.  sci.space.shuttle is for timely news bulletins.  sci.space is for
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! 16.  How do I use the "Distribution" feature?
  
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! 17.  How do I use the "Distribution" feature?
  
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       replies is different, depending on where you are, but at Bell Labs
!      in Murray Hill, New Jersey, possibilities include:
! 	mh3bc1	local to this machine
  	mh	Bell Labs, Murray Hill Branch
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       replies is different, depending on where you are, but at Bell Labs
!      in Murray Hill, New Jersey, possibilities include (for example):
! 	local	local to this machine
  	mh	Bell Labs, Murray Hill Branch
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  	na	Everywhere in North America
! 	net	Everywhere on Usenet in the world (same as "world")
  
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  	na	Everywhere in North America
! 	world	Everywhere on Usenet in the world 
  
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! 17.  Why do some people put funny lines ("bug killers") at the beginning
       of their articles?
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! 18.  Why do some people put funny lines ("bug killers") at the beginning
       of their articles?
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! 18.  What is the address or phone number of the "foo" company?
  
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! 19.  What is the address or phone number of the "foo" company?
  
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! 19.  What is the origin of the name "grep"?
  
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! 20.  What is the origin of the name "grep"?
  
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! 20.  How do I get from BITNET to UUCP, ARPA to BITNET, JANET etc etc.?
  
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! 21.  How do I get from BITNET to UUCP, ARPA to BITNET, JANET etc etc.?
  
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! 21.  Didn't Indiana once pass a law saying pi == 3 ?
  
!      Indiana House Bill #246 was introduced on 18 January 1897,
!      referred to the Committee on Canals 'midst general cheerfulness'.
!      It is so mathematically incomprehensible that no single value of
!      pi is determinable from its text.  It was passed by the state
!      House on 5 February, but indefinitely tabled by the state Senate,
!      thanks to the fortuitious presense of a Purdue professor of
!      mathematics who was there on other business.
  
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! 22.  Didn't some state once pass a law setting pi equal to 3 ?
  
!      Indiana House Bill #246 was introduced on 18 January 1897, and
!      referred to the Committee on Canals "midst general cheerfulness."
!      The text states, "the ratio of the diameter and circumference is
!      as five-fourths to four", which makes pi 3.2 (not 3), but there
!      are internal contradictions in the bill as well as contradictions
!      with reality.  The author was a mathematical crank.  The bill was
!      passed by the state House on 5 February, but indefinitely tabled
!      by the state Senate, in part thanks to the fortuitious presence
!      on other business of a Purdue professor of mathematics.