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From: dalamb@qucis.queensu.ca (David Lamb)
Subject: FAQ: College Email Addresses 1/3 [Monthly posting]
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This is a summary of how to find email addresses for undergraduate and
graduate students, faculty and staff at various colleges and universities. If
your university is not listed, send me a detailed description of how to find
email addresses there, in a format similar to what I have here, and I'll add
it to this list. Please mail ADDITIONS, CORRECTIONS, SUGGESTIONS, and OTHER
INFORMATION to me at
dalamb@qucis.queensu.ca.
I will *not* answer requests for help finding a specific address; if the
school is not listed in this posting, I do not have any information about the
site.
An updated version of this list is posted every once in a while to the
newsgroups soc.college, soc.net-people and news.answers. The version date for
this list is located at the top of the file. The list is also available via
anonymous ftp from ftp.qucis.queensu.ca in directory pub/dalamb/college-email
as the files faq1.text, faq2.text, and faq3.text. You can also get the file
by anonymous ftp from rtfm.mit.edu in the file
/pub/usenet/soc.college/Student_Email_Addresses, or by sending a mail message
to "archive-server@qucis.queensu.ca" with the subject
send dalamb/college-email
or by sending a message to "mail-server@rtfm.mit.edu" whose body contains
send usenet/soc.college/Student_Email_Addresses
After a discussion of general facilities for locating email addresses,
we present detailed information on locating the email addresses of
students, faculty and staff at various universities. As of Feb 1993 I've
started to tag entries with the date I last changed them, so you have some
clue as to how stale the information might be.
Disclaimer: Most universities have restrictions on the uses of
directory information. So don't use this info for commercial purposes
or whatnot without securing permission from the individual colleges
and universities.
- ************************************************************************
- SPECIAL NOTE: *
- Avoid public distribution of individuals' addresses *
- ************************************************************************
It is considered rude to widely distribute (e.g., in a Usenet posting)
anyone's E-mail address without prior consent, even if the address is publicly
available using one of the techniques described below or some other technique.
It might seem that having one's E-mail address listed in a publicly accessible
database is equivalent to distributing it, but this is not the case in
practice, for three primary reasons:
- Some people may not be aware that their addresses are available for others
to locate. For example, the majority of Usenet posters are unaware of the
database of Usenet E-mail mentioned in the "finding addresses" FAQ.
- When some effort is required to locate a person's address (e.g., using the
techniques described below), only people who have a specific reason to send
mail will go to the trouble. However, if the address is mentioned in a
Usenet posting read by thousands of people, no effort is required to obtain
it, and many more people will send mail. Most people with E-mail addresses
are not accustomed to receiving E-mail from strangers or large amounts of
E-mail, and they may not be happy if they do.
- As unwanted E-mail becomes more common, people will start to remove their
addresses from public databases, which means that it will become more
difficult to find people's addresses for legitimate reasons.
In summary, if you want to advertise someone's E-mail address, get his or her
permission before you do it. Besides, if you're going to advertise an
address, it's a good idea to make sure it works first, and writing to it for
permission is a good way to do that.
[adapted from the "How to find people's E-mail addresses" FAQ, maintained by
Jonathan Kamens, at the suggestion of Dan Hoey]
;;; ********************************
;;; General Facilities *************
;;; ********************************
There are several general facilities for locating an email address.
We concentrate on those usable from the internet.
o finger Changed: Thu Jul 1 1993
Finger is a user information lookup program that lists the login name,
full name, office location and phone number (if known), login time,
idle time, time mail was last read, and the contents of the .plan and
.project files from the home directory of current UNIX users. The
information listed varies from site to site, and not all sites allow
remote fingering. [Plan files are "sys$login:plan" on VMS systems.]
To use finger, simply call finger as follows
finger <username>@<machinename>
replacing <machinename> with the name of the appropriate machine, and
<username> with the name of the person or the person's login ID.
For example,
% finger mkant@cs.cmu.edu
[CS.CMU.EDU]
[ Forwarding mkant as "mkant+@a.gp.cs.cmu.edu" ]
[A.GP.CS.CMU.EDU]
Login name: mkant In real life: Mark Kantrowitz
Directory: /usr2/mkant Shell: /usr/cs/bin/csh
Last login Tue Apr 2 15:21 on ttyQ7 from LION.OZ.CS.CMU.EDU
No new mail, last read on Thu Apr 11 16:27
Notice how fingering my userid at the generic address forwarded the
request to the correct machine. Many universities are set up to do
forwarding in this manner, so that mail may be sent to the generic
address and is automatically forwarded to the maildrop on the machine
where the user receives his or her mail.
Fingering using last names or full names may work, depending on the
site:
% finger Mark.Kantrowitz@cs.cmu.edu
[CS.CMU.EDU]
[ Forwarding Mark.Kantrowitz as "mkant+@a.gp.cs.cmu.edu" ]
% finger kantrowitz@cs.cmu.edu
[CS.CMU.EDU]
[ Forwarding kantrowitz as "mkant+@a.gp.cs.cmu.edu" ]
Some sites with use an underscore (_) instead of a period (.) in the
full name (e.g., Mark_Kantrowitz), or require an extra period to
specify middle initials (Mark.X.Kantrowitz).
If fingering using the last name doesn't work, you can try sampling
various possibilities for userids. The following are some
possibilities. After the description of each possibility, I give
an example in square brackets with either the previous maintainer's name
(Mark Kantrowitz, no middle initial - his was longer than mine!) or "John C
Smith", and a generic acronym for the method, with f's for characters from
the firstname, m for the middle initial, and l's for characters from the
lastname; these acronyms will be used in the detailed listings section of
this file.
- Many UNIX sites limit userids to 8 characters, so try the
first 8 characters of the last name. [smith or kantrowi] llllllll
- If there are two people with the same last name, the first
initial (and possibly the middle initial as well) are appended
at the front of the name. [jsmith or jcsmith] flllllll fmllllll
- Try appending the initials at the end of the name. [smithj
or smithjc] lllllllf llllllfm
- Try the initials of the users name. [jcs] fml
Unfortunately, you cannot finger to bitnet addresses (unless they are also
on the internet).
o whois/nicname Changed: Tue Jun 29 1993
Whois is the internet user name directory service. Do
whois help
or
nicname -h
to get a help message. The whois and nicname programs will check
the database maintained at rs.internic.net (or nic.ddn.mil for U.S.
military sites) for the given names. For example,
nicname <name>
or
whois <name>
or
whois -h <host> <names>
where <host> is some site with a whois server. This is only useful for
people listed in the database. Many regional networks and some universities
maintain their own NICs.
You can also get some of this information by telneting to rs.internic.net
and running whois and host there.
o Merit Network NetMail database
Allows one to find the appropriate bitnet, internet or uucp address
for a site given part of the address.
telnet hermes.merit.edu
At the "Which Host?" prompt, type netmailsites
then enter any part of the address you want.
o nslook/nslookup and hostq programs
Some sites have programs which will give you information about a host
given its name or IP address. Some such programs include nslook,
nslookup, and hostq.
o Netfind
Use a netfind client or server program to search for
name domain
where name is the last name of the individual and domain is the
domain name. You can use Netfind by telnet/rlogin to
bruno.cs.colorado.edu (use userid "netfind" with no password).
o gopher Changed: Wed Mar 24 1993
Gopher is an Internet-wide distributed document retrieval service. If your
site has a gopher client program, you can use it to access gopher servers
at other sites; domain X.edu might have a gopher server gopher.X.edu, but
there's no guarantee. One kind of document sites often place under gopher
is their phonebook. Most Gopher servers have pointers to a complete list
of ph servers used by all sorts of organizations. You can enter various
criteria, in an easy-to-use manner, and it will return the info that you
didn't give (if, of course, there are no more than 20 entries that match.
This is to prevent people getting mailing lists via the ph servers.)
o help/gripe/olc
If your site has consultants or facilities staff responsible for helping
users/fixing bugs/maintaining software, try sending them mail. Often
they will be able to help you. If you don't know how to contact these
people, ask someone in your department, or try sending mail to the
userid 'help'.
o postmaster Changed: Thu Jul 1 1993
Most sites have an individual responsible for network and mail operations
at the site, usually with the userid of 'postmaster'. These people are
usually very busy, so before bothering one of them, try telephoning the
person you are trying to reach. Long distance is expensive for you, but
less expensive, globally, than the postmaster's time. The one reasonable
exception is if you're sending mail and getting messages in response that
suggest some sort of mail system problem; you might report the problem
to postmaster at your own site, who may in turn contact postmaster at the
destination site.
Many postmasters will refuse to answer questions about user identification,
for reasons of privacy, though they may be willing to forward *your*
address so your intended recipient can write to you.
o /etc/hosts Changed: Mon Feb 15 1993
Mail routing on UNIX machines on the internet use to use a large file
called /etc/hosts to validate host names. We used to advise you to examine
this file to guess host names when all else fails - but that really isn't
useful anymore. Use one of the above methods instead.
o LISTSERV
If the person is subscribed to a mailing list through a LISTSERV server,
sending mail to the server with the line
WHOIS <name>
may catch the person. For example, listserv@buacca.bu.edu. This is an
unlikely option. It also does not work with all listserv implementations.
o Internet to America Online
Creating the Internet version of an America Online address requires that
you know the conversion rule. You ignore the case, remove the spaces, and
add "@aol.com" to the end of the address. Thus, an America Online address
"Jane Doe" becomes "janedoe@aol.com" (without the quotes, of course).
Internet mail incoming to America Online is trucated at 27 kilobytes.
o Internet to Prodigy Created: Mon Sep 6 1993
Around July 1993 there were rumours that Prodigy was beta-testing an
Internet gateway. We don't know if there would be any cost to Prodigy
users, but they need new software, called Mail Manager, and can sign up for
Internet access at JUMP INTERNET. Prodigy users would receive Internet mail
via the address format
abcd12a@prodigy.com
where "abcd12a" is the recipient's Prodigy user ID.
;;; ********************************
;;; Miscellaneous Notes ************
;;; ********************************
Addresses on the United Kingdon academic network (JANET) have their components
reversed. For example, @uk.ac.dund.mcs works on JANET, but in the rest of the
world use @mcs.dund.ac.uk instead.
;;; ********************************
;;; Email Database *****************
;;; ********************************
Abo Akademi University (Turku, Finland): Created: Mon Sep 6 1993
Host: finabo.abo.fi. Finger available.
Alfred University Created: Mon Sep 6 1993
(New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred)
Internet: bigvax.alfred.edu
Bitnet: ALFREDU or CERAMICS
Almost all students and faculty have email adresses in the form
lastnamefm, but exceptions abound. Connecting via telnet to
bigvax.alfred.edu and logging on as GENERAL will connect to the
GENERAL account, which supports username searches. Outside finger is
not supported.
Amherst College:
Students, Faculty, Staff: userid@amherst.edu
Usernames are of the form fmllllll (e.g., jqstudent), but
truncated to 12 letters instead of 8.
Amherst.edu has a finger daemon running, but it requires an exact
username match (i.e. finger lastname@amherst.edu) doesn't work, as a
rule. It's also worth trying usernames like flllllll in case the
person in question didn't register their middle initial with the
College.
Antioch College (Yellow Springs, OH):
Flastname@Antioc.Antioch.Edu
All students, faculty, administrators, staff, and alum who request
accounts can get them. Almost all follow First Initial lastname
setup. Offices, such as ADMISSIONS, COOP etc have alias accounts.
Best bet is to send mail to Postmaster or Laslow.
Arizona State University: Changed: Mon Sep 6 1993
Finger firstname.lastname@asu.edu; all persons (students or staff)
registered in ASU can be "finger"ed. Email addresses are unreliable
though since not everyone has started using accounts yet. But most
grads and computer/usenet literate undergrads do.
The engineering grads/ugrads are on enuxsa.eas.asu.edu. Most other
machine info should be available from netfind's seed database search.
Arizona State University:
Academic Machines: Grad, Undergrad
The phone book for ASU's Faculty/Students is available online
by telnetting (using the IBM's fullscreen interface using
tn3270) to asuvm.inre.asu.edu and logging on as HELLOASU. The
phone book has both email addresses for academic machines as
well as the phone nos. (602 is the area code for all of Arizona)
Engineering machines: Grad, Undergrad
enuxha.eas.asu.edu -- Unix -- can finger first/last names or userids
enuxva.eas.asu.edu -- Unix -- same as above
envmsa.eas.asu.edu -- VMS -- Only userid fingering works.
Usually csc and eee undergrads who use comps get accts on
enuxha and almost all grads have accts on enuxha which is the
most popular machine due to USENET.
Auburn University: (Auburn, AL)
Engineering: eng.auburn.edu
Other departments: ducvax.auburn.edu
Try fingering at waterman.eng.auburn.edu, lab1.eng.auburn.edu,
newton.eng.auburn.edu or netman.eng.auburn.edu.
Augustana College (Sioux Falls, SD) Created: Fri Oct 8 1993
user@inst.augie.edu
Student usernames are fmlastname
Faculty usernames are lastname
Australian Defence Force Academy (Canberra, Australia) Created: Thu Jul 1 1993
Faculty and staff: F.Lastname@ADFA.oz.au
Australian National University (ANU): Created: Mon Mar 22 1993
Canberra, Australia (Domain: anu.edu.au)
netfind: rlogin anu.anu.edu.au -l netfind
Academic Machines:
Grad, Staff userids fml### where ### is a group identifier.
huxley.anu.edu.au -- Unix -- finger on usernames only
coombs.anu.edu.au -- Unix -- GNU finger, allows first/last names
Undergrad: userds lllfxxxx, where xxxx is course name/unit number.
e.g. stuaca11 is A.Student doing Computer Science unit A11.
fac3.anu.edu.au -- Unix -- finger on usernames only
fac4.anu.edu.au -- Unix -- finger on usernames only
Computer Science:
boris.anu.edu.au -- Unix -- finger on usernames only
Ball State University:
University Computing Services: username@bsuvax1.bitnet
Some faculty and grad students have accounts on this machine.
CS: username@bsu-cs.bsu.edu
Barnard: Changed: Mon Sep 6 1993
Barnard College, affiliated with Columbia.
Students and staff get free accounts on a PC-based system running
cc:mail (no finger, gopher, etc.) There is no known way of looking
up addresses. They can also request accounts on Columbia's systems.
Students: LLLLLFFM@@barnard.columbia.edu (or
@smtplink.barnard.columbia.edu)
As of October 1993, Columbia will list Barnard directory information,
so mail to firstname.lastname@columbia.edu will probably reach Barnard
recipients.
Bates College (Lewiston, Maine):
Students and Faculty: userid@abacus.bates.edu
Userids are of the form flllllll. Numbers are added to the end
of the userid in case of name conflicts, e.g. asmith, asmith2, asmith3
If the name is unique you can use firstname.lastname@bates.edu
Baylor College of Medicine:
The central mail server is bcm.tmc.edu and finger user@bcm.tmc.edu will
get you any faculty or staff user that makes use of the central mail
facility. finger user@express.bcm.tmc.edu will get you any student that
makes use of the student email facility.
whois -h whois.bcm.tmc.edu gets you the on-line phone/address book.
This is directly tied to the BCM personnel database, so the information
is as accurate as possible.
Questions about these facilities should be directed to
postmaster@bcm.tmc.edu
Baylor University (Waco, TX): Changed: Mon Sep 6 1993
Computer Science and Engineering students: userid@bilbo.baylor.edu
Computer Science: gandalf.baylor.edu
Work-study students and journalism staff: baylor.edu
Bethune-Cookman College (Daytona Beach, FL): Created: Mon Sep 6 1993
Faculty, staff, students: username@cookman.edu
To learn a particular email name at the college, it is best to send to:
postmaster@cookman.edu
Birmingham-Southern College (Birmingham, AL):
bsc835!userid@uunet.uu.net where userid are of the form
flllllll. Postmaster is bsc835!jbaxter@uunet.uu.net.
Boston Univ.: Changed: Tue Jan 4 1994
Main campus system: acs.bu.edu. Everyone can get accounts on this
machine, but not everyone does. Call the person and ask (they may
never log on even if they have an account). Student Directory
617-353-3700, Faculty 617-353-2000. Usernames are any "socially
acceptable" 8-character name.
Unix accounts: Mail or finger user@bu.edu or first.last@bu.edu.
There is a ph name server at bu.edu; replace spaces in names with
dashes.
CS: cs.bu.edu
Undergrad CS: csa.bu.edu.
Engineering: buenga.bu.edu (faculty/admin)
Bowdoin: Changed: Mon Feb 15 1993
Studnets: fl*@polar.bowdoin.edu, where f is the first initial, l* is
the lastname up to 7 characters.
Administrative staff: @henry.bowdoin.edu. Mailboxes are fl* as above,
or last_first
Faculty: either of the above depending on personal preference.
Bradley University:
Faculty: bradley.bradley.edu
Students: buhub.bradley.edu, camelot.bradley.edu. Usernames are
chosen by the user and may be from three to eight characters long.
Heartland Freenet: heartland.bradley.edu Free use to the public, used
mostly by the Peoria public. Use login 'bbguest'. login names are
usually flllllll or fmllllll.
Chemistry: chem1.bradley.edu
CS: bucs1.bradley.edu, cssun1, cssun2
Physics: truth.bradley.edu
Physics: beauty.bradley.edu
Brandeis:
Undergraduates: pip.cc.brandeis.edu
Usernames on pip are of the form STXXYYYY where XX is
the year the student entered Brandeis and YYYY is the
student's campus mailbox number. Not all students use
their accounts, so check with the student before emailing.
US mail can be sent to
<Student Name>
MB <YYYY>, Brandeis University
PO Box 9110
Waltham, MA 02254-9110
For phone information: On-campus students can be reached by dialing an
automated "spell-the-name" server at +1 617 736 3000 , 24 hours a day,
or during business hours through the Brandeis operator at +1 617 736
2000. Off-campus students' numbers can be obtained through the campus
information booth at +1 617 736 4770 during business hours.
Some undergrads have accounts on a more advanced unix machine,
chaos.cs.brandeis.edu. Userids are chosen by the student; finger
{lastname}@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu or mail to
postmaster@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu for info.
Graduate Students: binah.cc.brandeis.edu (brandeis.bitnet).
Not all use them; write to postmaster@binah.cc.brandeis.edu
for information. Userid is chosen by the student. A few
undergrads have binah accounts.
DIRECTIONS to Brandeis can be had 24 hours at +1 617 736 4660.
Bridgewater State College (Bridgewater, MA) Created: Wed Mar 24 1993
Host: bsc.mass.edu
Brown:
You can send mail to Firstname_Lastname@Brown.Edu if the user
uses email and it will forward the mail to him or her. To find
out whether the user has an email address, finger their name
at brown.edu. This will return their preferred phone number,
address, and email address if they use it.
You can also try looking for undergrads on: brownvm.brown.edu
(brownvm.bitnet) Username is some random alphanumerics.
CS: cs.brown.edu (userids are usually initials)
Bryn Mawr College:
F_LLLLLLLLLL@cc.brynmawr.edu (F_LLLLLLLLLL@BRYNMAWR.BITNET)
The former is fingerable, unlike the .bitnet address. This
machine is mostly used by undergrads.
Bucknell University:
general: username@bucknell.edu
cs: username@pollux.bucknell.edu
usernames are typically last names, but if the last name is
4 letters or shorter, the first and middle initials are
tacked onto the front.
First initials are frequently used in usernames. The
first user with any given last name who gets an account gets just
his last name as the username. Every subsequent person with that name
gets a first initial and then middle initials are used.
Example:
username person
-------- ------
murray Betty Murray, switchboard operator
dmurray David Murray, senior
jmurray Jeff Murray, senior
jemurray Jonathan Murray, freshman
California Inst. of Tech: Changed: Thu Jul 1 1993
CCO MACHINES (undergrad/grad/general) CCO means campus computing org.
Unix: mail to username@cco.caltech.edu
VMS: Juliet.caltech.edu. Also romeo,hamlet,iago,portia.
These are all the same vax cluster.
Try "whois -h finger.caltech.edu name" to find user names, or telnet
to info.caltech.edu
Undergrad Computer Science (also used by a lot of people who don't fit
this discription. a fairly well used cluster. HP Bobcats running
Unix). through.ugcs.caltech.edu (aka through.caltech.edu) is the
server. Also, with the same endings: within, above, from, toward,
around, beyond, over, betwixt, inside, near, besides, beneath,
opposite, behind, amongst, atop, astride, against.....,
vex,heckle,irk,harry,grate,bullyrag,plague,torment, molest, and
badger (the irc server).
CS department (grad/undergrad/fac...not that well used).
csvax.cs.caltech.edu (runs unix).
California Polytechnic State Univ./San Luis Obispo (Cal Poly, SLO):
polyslo.CalPoly.edu
California State University/Chico: csuchico.edu
California State University/Sacramento: csus.edu
Calvin College: calvin.edu
Use 'finger name@calvin.edu' (eg firstname or lastname) to find
addresses, since userids include parts of student numbers, so are
hard to guess.
Students: flllllnn (first intitial, first 5 of last name,
last 2 digits of student number; except lastnames starting with
Dutch prefixes Van Vander Vande etc., where just the v and first 4
letters of second part of lastname. Thus Henk Vander Bos, #123456,
becomes hvbos56, Al Shoemaker, #987654, becomes ashoem54)
(formerly s0###### where ###### is the student id number)
Faculty/staff: xxxx@calvin.edu where "xxxx" is the standard
faculty abbrevation, often lastname
Cambridge University (Cambridge, England): Created: Sat Mar 27 1993
Telnet to info.cam.ac.uk and log in as "info"; you then get an online
information system about Cambridge, which according to rumour can
help you find people (though I got lost in a maze of twisty
hypertext when I tried it).
Carnegie Mellon University: Changed: Mon Aug 23 1993
Finger @cmu.edu to find people.
All undergraduate students and some faculty, staff, and graduate
students: Mail sent to Fname.MI.Lname@andrew.cmu.edu works, even if
the name is slightly misspelled. Andrew usernames are two initials
followed by two random characters. Usernames are arbitrary; to send
to the username, add a + at the end of the name: mkant+@cs.cmu.edu.
If you try an ambiguous name, you'll get mail back with a list of
matches.
CS Grad: cs.cmu.edu
ECE: ece.cmu.edu
Mathematics: math.cmu.edu
Psychology: psy.cmu.edu
Robotics Grad: ri.cmu.edu. Mail to CS/RI may be sent to
Fname.Lname@cs.cmu.edu.
Statistics: stat.cmu.edu
Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland: Changed: Wed Mar 24 1993
Use 'whois -h whois.cwru.edu' to find usernames. It supports
substring and soundex searches. If there is a * beside an address,
it has not been activated.
po.cwru.edu is the post office. Every student, professor, and staff
member has access to email through this machine, as do alumni who
activated their accounts while students. (Not everybody activates
their account, however.) User ids are of the form fml##, where ## is
a number, probably less than 30. The number is omitted if equal to
1. If there's no middle initial, m is an 'x'.
skybridge.scl.cwru.edu is the server for the undergraduate Unix lab.
The user ids on that machine are the full last name, for the most
part. (Mainly Computer Engineering and EE's on this machine.)
You can also search the Cleveland Freenet user list for CWRU people
by any part of the name; telnet to freenet-in-a.cwru.edu, choose
"Visitor", "Explore the system" and at the prompt, "go directory"
CS/computer engineering majors may have accounts on the CS cluster;
finger any part of the name @alpha.ces.cwru.edu. Userids are
usually full last name.
EE majors and those in related courses may have accounts on the EE
HP/UX cluster; finger @snowhite.eeap.cwru.edu. Userids are usually
the first six letters of the last name.
Catholic University of America
username@cua.edu (Internet)
username@cua.bitnet (BITNet)
All usernames are limited to 12 characters. For students, names are 2
digits followed by lastname. For faculty and staff, usernames are the
last name, occasionally with the first initial tacked on at the end.
City University of New York (CUNY):
cunyvm.bitnet
Userids:
Students: A99SC
Faculty: AAASC
Liasons: LIASC
Where A is any letter from A to Z
Where 9 is any number from 1 to 9
And SC is the initals for the college within City University.
For example: HC - Hunter College
QC - Queens College
BC - Brooklyn College
SI - College of Staten Island
LG - Laguardia Community College
BB - Bernard Baruch College.
YC - York College
Claremont McKenna College (Claremont, CA) Changed: Sat Jul 3 1993
finger flllllll@cmcvax.claremont.edu
Clark College:
firstname.lastname@clark.edu, or userid@clark.edu. Send
mail to postmaster@clark.edu if you have difficulty.
Note: this is not Clark University (clarku.edu).
Clark University: Changed: Tue Jun 29 1993
Students, employees, alumni: flastname@VAX.CLARKU.EDU (up to 12
characters, unique in the first 8). Duplicate userids are resolved
with a trailing digit. This address isn't fingerable.
postmaster@vax.clarku.edu is willing to be helpful in tracking
usernames.
An ULTRIX machines, black.clarku.edu can also be used by anyone.
It is fingerable.
Clarkson University:
craft.camp.clarkson.edu _ALL_ students are given an account
on this machine.
sun.soe.clarkson.edu School of Engineering Sun server. A lot
of students doing research have accounts
on this machine.
clvm.clarkson.edu Administrative computer. Fairly isolated.
Profs. and Admin. have accounts on this
computer for things like class lists.
(I'm not sure how much use this is because
it seems that all you can do is find out
if someone is logged in or not.)
craft.camp and sun.soe are very usefull for finding students and
many faculty also have accounts on these machines.
Clemson University:
clemson.clemson.edu (VMS)
Engineering: eng.clemson.edu
Cleveland State University: Changed: Mon Feb 15 1993
CIS faculty may be reached at lastname@cis.csuohio.edu.
Engineering students with an account on the vax cluster may be reached
at the following address: xxx9999@csvaxd.csuohio.edu, where xxx is the
first three letters of their last name and 9999 is the last four
digits of their social security number.
A possible person to ask for help might be Linda Herrington at
linda@csvaxd.csuohio.edu.
Colby:
f_m_lastname@colby.edu
You can figure username, firstname, or lastname.
College of William & Mary (Williamsburg, VA): Changed: Mon Sep 6 1993
Most students and professors seem to have mailing addresses in the
form fmllll@mail.wm.edu. As use of this machine is very restricted
(basically only mail), people may prefer other addresses over this one
(especially grad students in the sciences). Some staff also seem to
have accounts.
Colorado College: Changed: Wed Mar 24 1993
Students: F_LLLLLLLL@ccnode.colorado.edu
Faculty: FLLLLLL@ccnode.colorado.edu.
This does not support finger since it is not a real internet node.
Columbia: Changed: Mon Sep 6 1993
firstname.lastname@columbia.edu; you may right-truncate either name.
If you pick something ambiguous, you'll get a reply with a list of
matches.
Directory service is available via gopher or telnet to
columbianet.columbia.edu. This includes all hosts at Columbia
subject to the information being reported by the manager of each
system. Note, students have the right to withhold directory
information and in that case you will not find them. Barnard
College names should be available by October 1993. Teachers College
and Union Theological do not (yet) provide student information for
this directory, though Teachers' College should do so soon.
Finger @columbia.edu for last login on any of the new cluster of
hosts. Some problems with this finger are being ironed out.
Law students have accounts on lawmail.law.columbia.edu, which has had
delivery problems during 1993.
Columbia students [only] can get free accounts. Anybody affiliated
with Columbia, Barnard, and Teachers College can pay for an account
which has less limitations than the free ones.
Cornell College (Mount Vernon, Iowa)
Most Usernames are FLLLLLL, some may be LLLLLL or FFFFFF.
Mail to username@cornell-iowa.edu
Finger: CS: turing.csc.cornell-iowa.edu
Others: hera.acn.cornell-iowa.edu
zeus.acn.cornell-iowa.edu
Cornell University (Ithaca, New York): Changed: Tue Aug 3 1993
Anyone associated with Cornell full-time can get a CIT account
(CIT manages the computing facilities on campus). Not everybody
does so.
As off fall 1993, everyone gets "network ids", which consist of first,
middle and last initials, plus a number. Mail should be sent to
network_id@cornell.edu. If the person's name is unique, mail can also
be sent to firstname.lastname@cornell.edu.
Email addresses can be searched by using finger on qi.cornell.edu.
Use variations such as finger lastname@qi.cornell.edu or
finger "firstname lastname"@qi.cornell.edu.
Names are available via gopher (server gopher-hole.cit.cornell.edu).
Some people choose to add information such as street addresses, phone
and FAX numbers, nicknames, and so on.
The CIT HelpDesk at helpdesk@cornell.edu (607/255-8990) is willing to
help find e-mail addresses.
Dakota State University (Madison, SD):
finger dsuvax.dsu.edu for electronic mail addresses for any
member of the faculty, staff, or student body. Addresses
are typically the first seven characters of the person's last
name plus the first character of the person's first name.
Please address questions to postmaster@dsuvax.dsu.edu.
Dalhousie University (Halifax, NS, Canada) Created: Mon Jul 5 1993
username@ac.dal.ca --(VAX)
username@ug.ac.dal.ca --VAX undergrad
username@cs.dal.ca --(UNIX)
Dartmouth:
Send mail to fname.lname@dartmouth.edu (or fname.mi.lname if
it is a very common name). If the name is ambiguous, you might
want to finger fname.mi.lname@dartmouth.edu for info about
exact mail address. Dartmouth.Edu resolves all mail through
the Dartmouth Name Directory, which stores preferred email
addresses for all students, faculty, and staff members.
If the name is unique, you can even send mail to
name@dartmouth.edu. Most undergrads have accounts on
mac.dartmouth.edu. Students who don't use any email address
get the automatic default, @hinman.dartmouth.edu, which
prints out the email and drops it into campus mail.
Dickinson College (Carlisle, PA): Created: Wed Mar 24 1993
Addresses at Dickinson College are of the following format:
username@dickinson.edu for example, postmaster@dickinson.edu
username@dickinsn.bitnet postmaster@dickinsn.bitnet
Usernames are typically the lastname (truncated at 8 characters)
suffixed with the first few letters of the firstname when needed for
uniqueness.
Examples: Username Person
-------- ------
jackson Joe Jackson
jacksonb Bill Jackson
jacksobo Bob Jackson
Drake University:
Host acad.drake.edu. 'finger' works but unfortunately userids don't
closely correspond to names and you can't 'finger part-of-name' to
guess the userid.
Drew University (Madison, NJ):
All students, faculty, and staff have accounts on drew.drew.edu
(drew.bitnet). Whether they use them is another matter. Account
names are usually of the form flllllll. In case of name collision,
try fmllllll or fllllll#
Drexel University
General Computing Services: userid@duvm.ocs.drexel.edu
consultant's desk telephone 215.895.2698
Math and Computer Science : userid@mcs.drexel.edu
where userid is of the form <prefix>fllllll; the prefix is u for
undergraduate, g for graduate, or t for temporary.
Duke: Changed: Wed Mar 24 1993
Finger name@wp.duke.edu (IP address 128.109.140.14)
Duke University Computer Assist Center provides general use accounts
for most students and faculty. Mail addressed to
<user>@acpub.duke.edu should be forwarded to the appropriate account
on any of the Academic Computing hosts. Computer Science is
cs.duke.edu. Math is math.duke.edu; physics.duke.edu and
law.duke.edu also exist (along with lots of other departmental
domains.) There is also a BITNET site (dukemvs.ac.duke.edu or
dukemvs.BITNET)
Account names are NOT standardized on any of the systems.
Math profs are probably {initials}@math.duke.edu
Physics profs are probably {initials}@physics.duke.edu
Duke Law School is under the address charon.law.duke.edu, which is
fingerable, but student.law.duke.edu seems to be the better mailing
address. Usernames can be hard to discover;
postmaster@faculty.law.duke.edu has volunteered to forward mail to
Law School faculty and staff, and suggests
postmaster@student.law.duke.edu might be willing to do the same for
students.
Finger
Undergrads, Grads, and many Faculty/Staff:
The mail server is bacchus.acpub.duke.edu. Mail to other machines
will get forwarded to it. For usernames, people are allowed to
select their own. However, the Engineering school has taken to
setting up accounts for its students, grads, and ugrads, and uses
initials (fml) with possibly a number in case of name conflict.
Everyone else could have anything as their userid, though people are
encouraged to use their first initial and last name.
Bitnet gateway: dukemvs.bitnet (dukemvs.ac.duke.edu)
Math profs are probably {initials}@math.duke.edu
Physics profs are probably {initials}@physics.duke.edu
Other machines: cs.duke.edu, egr.duke.edu, psych.duke.edu
Duke Law School is under the address charon.law.duke.edu, which is
fingerable, but student.law.duke.edu seems to be the better mailing
address. Usernames can be hard to discover;
postmaster@faculty.law.duke.edu has volunteered to forward mail to
Law School faculty and staff, and suggest
postmaster@student.law.duke.edu might be willing to do the same for
students.
Earlham: Changed: Tue Jun 29 1993
Students, faculty, staff: userid@yang.earlham.edu
Administration: userid@yin.earlham.edu
Advanced computing students: userid@math.earlham.edu
Users added up to 8/92 have userid FFFFFFFL.
-in the case of an 8-character first name, the userid is FFFFFFFF
-in the case of conflicts, the userid is FFFFFFLL, FFFFFLLL, etc.
Users added after 8/92 have userid LLLLLFF.
Information can be sought via E-Mail from opr@yang.earlham.edu.
Opr can get get you directory info, user info, gossip or GPAs.
Ecole des Mines de Paris: Created: Tue Mar 30 1993
Mail to nnlastname@cc.ensmp.fr, where nn is their year of entry.
Emory University (Atlanta, GA): Changed: Wed Mar 24 1993
Use 'finger name@emory.edu' (name = first, last or login).
Florida Atlantic University Changed: Mon Feb 15 1993
The local ACM chapter runs cybernet.cse.fau.edu, on which everyone can
get accounts, and many FAU students (and some faculty) use it.
Florida State University Changed: Wed Mar 24 1993
A very low percentage of students and faculty outside the science
departments have accounts of any kind. Those that do are spread out
on many servers with the fsu.edu domain. Most new non-science
accounts are being created on garnet.acns.fsu.edu, though few
students (or even faculty) are aware that they could get an account.
To find addresses, if you have a gopher client program, do
gopher gopher.fsu.edu
and select the 'Phonebooks (People and Organizations)' menu entry,
then the 'Quick search of FSU directory (PH)' within that menu.
Other alternatives include:
1: email whitepages@wp.fsu.edu with the words
whois "name"
in the subject line, with no message body
2: whois -h mailer.fsu.edu "name"
Gallaudet University (for the Deaf), Washington, DC 20002
GALLUA.GALLAUDET.EDU a VAX/VMS machine. Student usernames typically start
with 11, 12, 13 or 14, with 11 being the most common.
The rest of the username is first initial last name.
Faculty and staff are typically first initial, middle
initial, last name. The node is also reachable as
GALLUA.BITNET.
GALLUX.GALLAUDET.EDU a VAX/Ultrix (UNIX) machine. Not nearly as many users
on this machine. Name conventions are the same as for
GALLUA.
Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech): Changed: Tue Jun 29 1993
All Users: prism.gatech.edu (aka hydra.gatech.edu)
Prism is a Yellow Pages/Mail domain to which all students, faculty
and staff have access through accounts issued by the computer
center. A number of users, especially faculty and graduate students
in Computer Science, have access to departmental resources which are
not part of the Prism domain. They may get their mail there, though
typically people use prism as their main mail drop and forward it
from there to their home systems.
All faculty and staff are also reachable as
firstname.lastname@group.gatech.edu
where group is usually the name of the college, school, center, etc.
Current groups include: aerospace, alumni, arch, atdc, audit, berc,
biology, bks, business, carnegie, cc (college of computing), cds,
ce, che, chemistry, coe, conted, coop, cos, crt, eas, econ, ee, erc,
facilities, grad, gstrf, gtaa, gtrc, gtri, health, history, housing,
iac, inta, intprog, ipst, irp, isye, lcc, library, marc, math, vpea,
vpss, ymca.
CS Dept (Faculty, staff, PhD students): boa.gatech.edu,
firstname.lastname@cc.gatech.edu. (cc = College of Computing)
Usernames:
students: gtXXXXy (example: gt6953b), where XXXX = last 4 digits
of Campus PO Box, y = A-E to make it unique (PO Boxes are shared).
Also gtdNNNy, where NNN is a unique number.
faculty/staff: firstname.lastname@department.gatech.edu
Also try: username@hydra.gatech.edu,
Glassboro State College: Changed: Tue Aug 3 1993
renamed to Rowan State College in 1993.
Below is a list of computers and who uses them. For help, send mail
to postmaster on whichever one seems the most appropriate. If you're
not sure, send it to postmaster@saturn.glassboro.edu. For those with
access to gopher you can find current email info on our server. It
includes most of the electronic mail addresses on campus.
heroes.glassboro.edu administrative departments
secretaries
some faculty
saturn.glassboro.edu Academic Computing
students
faculty
elan.glassboro.edu all School of Business faculty
students
irp.glassboro.edu Institutional Research and Planning
gboro.glassboro.edu Computer Science faculty
students
Most students are accessible via <username>%saturn.dnet@glassboro.edu.
Student usernames are last name, with first initial added to the end if
needed.
Note that you cannot finger glassboro.edu at present,
but should be able to by July or August 1991.
Grand Valley State University (Allendale, MI) Created: Tue Jun 29 1993
Faculty, Staff: userid@gvsu.edu
Students in general do not have email access.
Usernames are of the form lllllllf (e.g., jqstudent), truncated to 8
letters.
Gvsu.edu does not have a finger daemon running.
Computer Science students *may* be reachable at
userid@beech.mcs.gvsu.edu, where userid is of the form llllllll,
with lllllllf for name collisions.
Grinnell College, Iowa:
Addresses at Grinnell College are of the following format:
username@nodename e.g., POSTMASTER@GRIN1.bitnet
or POSTMASTER@GRIN2.bitnet
Usernames are typically the first 8 letters of the person's last name,
frequently with the first initial or first and middle added at the end
(e.g., WILLIAMS, MILLERM, JOHNSOAS). As a result, it would be
difficult to guess someone's username. The nodename is GRIN1.bitnet
for all students and faculty; GRIN2.bitnet is for administrative
staff. If you do not know the address of someone at Grinnell,
please send a message to POSTMASTER@GRIN1.bitnet asking for help.
Grinnell College now has an Internet connection - ac.grin.edu.
Gustavus Adolphus College (St. Peter, MN) Created: Wed Mar 24 1993
Finger at llllllll@gacvx1.gac.edu for vax accounts, or
fmllllll@nic.gac.edu for Unix accounts.
Hamilton College (Clinton, NY) Changed: Mon Jul 5 1993
Students, Faculty & Staff: flllllll@itsmail1.hamilton.edu
Hampshire College (Amherst, MA):
username@hamp.hampshire.edu, where username is of the form fllllll
Haverford:
Students: acc.haverford.edu
Harvard: Changed: Wed Mar 24 1993
Employees: flllllll@harvard.edu and firstname_lastname@harvard.edu
Finger @husc.harvard.edu to find mail destinations.
husc{8,9,10,11}.harvard.edu are Unix machines, which is what most
people use for e-mail. husc{3,4,6,7,12}.harvard.edu are VMS
machines, used a bit for mail, but more for application server for
the MAC/PC networks, etc.
Undergrads: @husc.harvard.edu, @husc9.uucp
Username is lastname or flllllll or fmllllll, with a number appended
in case of duplicates.
Center for Astrophysics: @cfa.harvard.edu
All Harvard Medical School students now have accounts on
student.med.harvard.edu. The system is relatively new, however, and
the number who actually use them now appears to be small. The
usernames are of the form fllllll@student.med.harvard.edu. This is a
distributed PC system, and users are not fingerable.
Harvard Law School students may have accounts on
hulaw{1,2}.harvard.edu. These machines are fingerable, but usernames
must be matched exactly to be found.
Harvey Mudd, Claremont CA: Changed: Mon Jul 5 1993
Undergrads:
flllllllllll@hmcvax.claremont.edu Class of 1992-1994
flllllll@jarthur.claremont.edu Class of 1995-1996
flllllll@fenris.claremont.edu If not at above...
CS faculty: lastname@jarthur.claremont.edu
Other faculty: lastname@hmcvax.claremont.edu
Administration: flastname@hmcadm.claremont.edu
finger partialname@jarthur.claremont.edu usually works, showing all
matches, but users can change their names to anything
Helsinki School of Economics & Business Administration
(Helsinki, Finland) Created: Mon Sep 6 1993
Host: kyyppari.hkkk.fi. Finger available.
Helsinki Univ. of Technology (Helsinki, Finland): Created: Mon Sep 6 1993
Students: vipunen.hut.fi
Staff: hila.hut.fi
Finger with first or last name. Gopher server: gopher.tky.hut.fi
Hiram College (Hiram, OH) Created: Mon Sep 6 1993
All are userid@hirama.hiram.edu where userid is of the form lll..llfm,
up to a 12 character maximum.
Hope College (Holland, Michigan) Created: Fri Oct 8 1993
Students (VAX): LFxxxxyy@hope.cit.hope.edu, where L = Last initial,
F = First initial, xxxx = Last four digits of Social Security
number, yy = Last two digits of expected graduation year
Faculty (VAX): Lastname@hope.cit.hope.edu
Computer Science (UNIX): Lastname@cs.hope.edu
Idaho State University: Created: Tue Apr 6 1993
Faculty, Staff: userid@isu.edu
Students: userid@cwis.isu.edu
userid is of the form llllffff (in the case of conflicts the last
letter may be changed to a number)
All faculty and staff may receive accounts upon request. Students may
receive accounts upon payment of a small computer use fee.
Accounts are also available through several departments, but there is
no standard way to determine names.
Finger daemon is running on cwis and the mail-hub, but many of the
mail-hub addresses are just aliases which will not be returned by
the finger daemon.
Illinois Institute of Technology: Changed: Wed Mar 24 1993
Domain IIT.EDU has servers on iitmax.iit.edu and karl.iit.edu.
Student usernames are llllfff. One correspondent said: "try
lastname@IITVAX1.BITNET@UICVM.UIC.EDU"
Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy Created: Mon Jul 5 1993
Students: Finger @imsasun.imsa.edu. About 75% of the community have
accounts. Users pick their own IDs. Alumni may keep their accounts.
Faculty, staff, administration: Firstname.Lastname@qm.imsa.edu. This
is an unfingerable QuickMail setup.
Illinois State University (Bloomington, Illinois)
FMLastname@ilstu.edu. Most students do not have internet access.
Finger works.
Indiana University:
Faculty, Staff, Students: username@ucs.indiana.edu
Usernames are portions of the person's real name. 8 characters,
usually the last name plus maybe a few initials.
Student/Staff VAX/VMS machines: (main nodes)
gold.ucs.indiana.edu, aqua.ucs.indiana.edu,
jade.ucs.indiana.edu, amber.ucs.indiana.edu,
rose.ucs.indiana.edu
silver.ucs.indiana.edu -- Unix, All students ( mostly CS undergrads)
copper.ucs.indiana.edu -- These two are VAXen running Ultrix
(UNIX) They're student machines.
bronze.ucs.indiana.edu -- This is DEC RISC (Not a VAX)
running Ultrix. Staff only...
iuvax.cs.indiana.edu -- Unix, CS students ( mostly grad students
and faculty )
The email address of any student, faculty, or staff member at Indiana
can be found out by doing a
"finger lastname@indiana.edu" or
"whois -h indiana.edu lastname" or
"whois -h iugate.ucs.indiana.edu lastname"
Type "finger help@indiana.edu" or "whois -h indiana.edu help" for
more information about the service.
Instituto Tecnologico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey (ITESM):
Students: mtecv2.mty.itesm.mx (vax machine)
academ01.mty.itesm.mx (RS/6000)
Userids begin with BL plus the id number of the
student, i.e., bl205102.
Every student can ask for an account on the vax machine. There
are other computing facilities as well.
Iowa State University: Changed: Fri Oct 8 1993
Finger name@iastate.edu, where name can be username, firstname, or
lastname.
Johns Hopkins:
Accounts are located on
jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu
jhuvms.hcf.jhu.edu
jhuvm.hcf.jhu.edu
All are on bitnet.
The default userid is of the form lllll_fm or llllll_f. However,
students may choose whatever userid they wish, which can be just
about anything.
Kalamazoo College:
fllllll@kzoo.edu
Kansas State Univ.: Changed: Mon Feb 15 1993
VM/XA: ksuvm.ksu.edu. All students, faculty, and staff. This is by
far the most popular machine.
KSUVM has a homebrewed finger server that allows you to search
for KSU students, faculty, and staff. Usage is
"finger lastname,firstname@ksuvm.ksu.edu"
This does a fuzzy lookup so you don't have to get the spelling exact
and returns the KSUVM userid (if any) plus name, address, phone
number, major (if student), and classification. If you know the
KSUVM userid you can look that up with
"finger userid-xxx@ksuvm.ksu.edu"
(where "xxx" is the userid you want to find).
Unix:
matt.ksu.ksu.edu All students, faculty, and staff.
depot.cis.ksu.edu CS faculty, staff, and grads.
cygnus.cis.ksu.edu CS undergrads.
eece.ksu.edu EE grads and faculty.
math.ksu.edu Math staff, faculty, grads, and some undergrads.
Kenyon College:
username@kenyon.edu
Username is usually the last name, sometimes with initials
tacked onto the end.
Lappeenranta Univ. of Technology: Created: Mon Sep 6 1993
(Lappeenranta, Finland)
Host: lut.fi. Finger available.
LaSalle University (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
Host hp800.lasalle.edu
Faculty, Staff, and student staff: use last name, eg. jones (llllllll)
Course accounts: xnnn0mmm or xnnnamm, where x is 1-letter course name
(e.g. c for computer science), nnn is 3 digit course id, 0 or a is
entered exactly as shown, and mmm or mm is the student's individual
number within the course)
Incoming finger (from the Internet) does not yet work.
Lehigh University:
Undergrads: username@lehigh.edu (ns1.cc.lehigh.edu)
Help with specific userids can be obtained from
lucc@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu.
Lehigh has installed "white pages" server on lehigh.edu.
Fingering for a person's first or last name (case insensitive)
at lehigh.edu will return all relavant user info (email
address, full name etc.)
Lenoir-Rhyne College (Hickory, NC 28603):
E-mail address is username@alice.lrc.edu or Username@mike.lrc.edu.
Louisiana State University (Baton Rouge):
CS: csvax.csc.lsu.edu
EE: max.ee.lsu.edu
SNCC (S/m Network Comp Center): lsu500.sncc.lsu.edu
Macalester College (Saint Paul):
Every student and faculty member has an account on the college's VAX
system. Many students have additional accounts on departmental
machines. These instructions are for finding someone on the VAX.
Finger userid@macalstr.edu, where userid is of the form
flllllll for students, and lname for faculty. Numbers are added
to the end of the userid in case of name conflicts.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT):
Finger name@mit.edu for info about the person and mail
address. This is the same info that's used to create the
MIT phonebook, so it is as accurate. (One can finger
help@mit.edu for instructions in using this service.)
All students and faculty may get an account from Project
Athena. Their mail address will be @athena.mit.edu, even
though athena is a distributed workstation environment.
Finger @ai.mit.edu for AI graduate students, faculty, and
some undergrads. Also try @media-lab.mit.edu
(= media-lab.media.mit.edu) for the MIT Media Lab.
Try @lcs.mit.edu for Laboratory of Computer Science faculty, staff,
and students.
Also, MIT math professors can be found on math.mit.edu (a.k.a.
bourbaki.mit.edu; however, this information is already accessible
from fingering mit.edu information.
MITVMA.MIT.EDU is the gateway to bitnet.
McGill University:
Computer Science profs, grads, and ugrads have mail forwarded from
login_name@cs.mcgill.ca to the correct machine. Currently all
profs have their accounts on opus.cs.mcgill.ca, and grads and
undergraduates have accounts on binkley.cs.mcgill.ca.
Memphis State University:
Undergrads: memstvx1.memst.edu (memstvx1.bitnet)
memstvx1 is a VAX connected to both internet and bitnet,
and also serves as the domain name server for memst.edu
While it does support Finger, it only reports users
currently logged on.
All instructional account usernames are dependent on the
course title (e.g. MATH1234567 would be an account
for a Math class)
Grads and Staff accounts are usually First_InitialLastname
e.g. JSMITH for John Smith (but there are exceptions)
Some departments have their own machines, but the majority of
accounts are on the VAX.
Merrimack College: (inquiries to postmaster@merrimack.edu welcome)
Faculty: except in extraordinary circumstances lastname@merrimack.edu
Undergrads: Aliases exist for most students as
First.MI.Last@merrimack.edu
REAL ids are usually lastnamefirstinitial@merrimack.edu with dups
getting lastfirstinitmiddleinit@merrimack.edu
For example:
Jane A. Smith -> jane.a.smith and smithj@merrimack.edu
Joe L. Smith -> joe.l.smith and smithjl@merrimack.edu
Millsaps College:
All faculty, staff, and students are userid@okra01.millsaps.edu.
Userid is produced from first five letters of last name, first two
initials - merged without spaces. In case of no middle initial,
nothing is used. In case of name conflicts, numbers are added to
the end to produce unique userid's.
Michigan State Univ.:
@frith.egr.msu.edu @eecae.ee.msu.edu, @kira.ee.msu.edu
@cpsin.cps.msu.edu @cpsvax.cps.msu.edu
All college of Engineering students and faculty (includes CPS
students) that have requested an account will have the address:
user@egr.msu.edu (user@msuegr.bitnet)
where "user" is usually the last name, but is often some other
combination of first name, initials, etc to provide uniqueness
throughout the college.
In Addition, CPS students and faculty can receive mail at
user@cps.msu.edu
with the rules for "user" being the same as above. As far as I know,
the same user-id is used on both "egr.msu.edu" and "cps.msu.edu".
General EMAIL accounts are available on Computer Center machines,
usually the IBM3090.
user@ibm.cl.msu.edu user@msu.bitnet
and also the Convex
user@convex.cl.msu.edu
I don't know what the rules are for determining user IDs for Computer
Center machines.
MSU Information is (517) 355-1855.
Michigan Technological University: Created: Mon Sep 6 1993
Use gopher at mtu.edu to find addresses, which are often
fmlastname@mtu.edu.
Also possible: fmllllll@mtus5.cts.mtu.edu; finger does not work on
this machine.
Michigan Technological University:
mtus5.cts.mtu.edu or mtus5.bitnet
most students have accounts with the format FMLASTNA
First initial-Middle initial-LASTNAMe (8 letters total)
finger does not work on these machines.
Minnesota State University System:
Faculty (all campuses): userid@msus1.bitnet
Faculty/Students (Mankato State Univ.): userid@vax1.mankato.msus.edu
Mississippi State univ. Mail in the form fml#@ra.msstate.edu or
fml#@isis.msstate.edu.. The Number will normally range
1 and 4, it stands for the student number (First one with
given set of initials to apply for internet access)
Mount Allison Univ. (Sackville, NB, Canada) Changed: Fri Oct 8 1993
Mail username@mta.ca, where username is usually flastname, or
fmlastname in the case of conflicts.
Gopher service: gopher.mta.ca
Mount Allison provides access to a Campus E-Mail address list and
phone book via their info system. Telnet to Macc2.mta.ca and login
as info. Select the campus phone book option from the menu that
appears. The info system can perform searches from that point on.
Mount Holyoke College:
"mhc." may be omitted:
a. flllllll@mhc.mtholyoke.edu
b. fmllllll@mhc.mtholyoke.edu
c. llllllll@mhc.mtholyoke.edu
Mount Royal:
mtroyal.ab.ca
Student's userids are of the form llllll#### where # are the
first four digits of the student id. Staff userids are of the
form flastname.
Muskingum College (New Concord, Ohio) Created: Mon Sep 6 1993
Mail to userid@muskingum.edu. As of fall 1992 userids are usually
flastname; previously ff_lastname, possibly with a trailing 1. The
finger server just shows who is logged in; POSTMASTER@muskingum.edu is
willing to handle inquiries.
Entries beginning with N may be found in the next posting
(file .../college-email/faq2.text via anonymous FTP).
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