From cvtstu.cvt.stuba.cs!sk2eu!hp4at!news.univie.ac.at!scsing.switch.ch!univ-lyon1.fr!ghost.dsi.unimi.it!batcomputer!caen!uwm.edu!cs.utexas.edu!utnut!torn!news.ccs.queensu.ca!qucis.queensu.ca!dalamb Thu Jun 24 09:09:30 1993 Newsgroups: soc.college,soc.net-people,soc.answers,news.answers Path: cvtstu.cvt.stuba.cs!sk2eu!hp4at!news.univie.ac.at!scsing.switch.ch!univ-lyon1.fr!ghost.dsi.unimi.it!batcomputer!caen!uwm.edu!cs.utexas.edu!utnut!torn!news.ccs.queensu.ca!qucis.queensu.ca!dalamb From: dalamb@qucis.queensu.ca (David Lamb) Subject: FAQ: College Email Addresses 1/3 [Monthly posting] Message-ID: Followup-To: poster Supersedes: Reply-To: dalamb@qucis.queensu.ca Organization: Computing & Information Science, Queen's University Date: Tue, 25 May 1993 12:10:09 GMT Approved: news-answers-request@MIT.Edu Expires: Thu, 8 Jul 1993 12:10:02 GMT Lines: 1213 Archive-name: mail/college-email/part1 Last-Modified: Sun Apr 25 17:11:41 1993 by David Lamb Version: 3.28 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 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 probably do not have any information about the site, and certainly do not have the time to answer the mail. 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 (host 130.15.1.100) in the 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@pit-manager.mit.edu" whose body contains send usenet/soc.college/Student_Email_Addresses A copy of this file may be found on the WAIS server at wais.cic.net, thanks to Edward Vielmetti (emv@msen.com, emv@cic.net). 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. ;;; ******************************** ;;; General Facilities ************* ;;; ******************************** There are several general facilities for locating an email address. We concentrate on those usable from the internet. o finger 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 @ replacing with the name of the appropriate machine, and 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. o whois/nicname Changed: Tue Feb 23 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 by SRI-NIC (Network Information Center at SRI International) for the given names. For example, nicname or whois or whois -h (e.g., whois -h stanford.edu ) 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 nic.ddn.mil 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: Tue Feb 23 1993 Most sites have an individual responsible for network and mail operations at the site, usually with the userid of 'postmaster'. So if you're having trouble with mail, first send mail to postmaster at your site, and if that fails, try sending it to postmaster at the destination site. Postmasters are usually very busy people, so try not to bother them much. Many postmasters will refuse to answer questions about user identification, for reasons of privacy. 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 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. ;;; ******************************** ;;; 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 ***************** ;;; ******************************** 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: 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. 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: See Columbia. 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 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.: 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. Mailing user@bu.edu is currently broken but should be fixed soon. CS: cs.bu.edu Undergrad CS: csa.bu.edu. Engineering: buenga.bu.edu (faculty/admin) In the fall (of 1992) BU will set up a nameserver on bu.edu. 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 MB , 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: Wed Mar 24 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. 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: Tue Mar 30 1993 Finger @cmu.edu to find people, but sent mail to the specific destination mentioned in the Finger entry. Eventually you should be able to mail @cmu.edu, too, but right now it doesn't always work. 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 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 bitnet.cc.cmu.edu (carnegie.bitnet) is the gateway to bitnet. 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: flast@cmcvx1.claremont.edu (VAX-VMS) 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 Apr 13 1993 Students, employees, alumni: flastname@VAX.CLARKU.EDU (up to 12 characters, unique in the first 8). postmaster@vax.clarku.edu is willing to be helpful in tracking usernames. Duplicate userids are resolved with a trailing digit. Some computer center staff use their first names. This address isn't fingerable. An ULTRIX machines, black.clarku.edu can also be used by anyone, but isn't used much. It is fingerable. Clarkson University: craft.camp.clarkson.edu _ALL lists 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): fmllll@news.cc.wm.edu 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: Undergrads, Grads: cunix{a,b,f}.cc.columbia.edu 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. The best way to finger them is name@cunix.cc.columbia.edu. CS Grads and Faculty: cs.columbia.edu (also, some cs undergrads) Astrophysics people can be found at cuphyd.phys.columbia.edu Also try: ctr.columbia.edu. This has EE faculty and students who are affiliated with the Center for Telecommunications Research. Law School (Students): student@lawmail.law.columbia.edu The students e-mail name is there lastname plus the first initial oftheir first name, so long as this is 8 characters or less. Otherwise it is their FML initials. Duplication is distinguished by appending a number, such as the graduation year. All faculty and staff are also located on lawmail.law.columbia.edu lawmail.law.columbia.edu currently does not respond to finger inquiries. Any questions regarding mail addressing should be directed to: postmaster@lawmail.law.columbia.edu General access questions can be sent to: culaw-cc@lawmail.law.columbia.edu which will reach the law school computer center operations desk. Mailing lists are serviced by listserv.law.columbia.edu Current lists served are: lawplacement issues relating to career oppurtunities calr computer aided legal research foreignlaw clerkship issues relating to federal clerkships oppurtunities legal-history death-penalty crimlaw-enforcement issues to criminal cases in the news conlaw constitutional law issues public-intlaw public intrest law eastern-europe privatizations issues in Eastern europe and legal reform Request to subscribe should be sent to: request-maillist@sparc-1.law.columbia.edu Some lists are restricted. 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): 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 1992, undergrads are no longer given CornellA or Vax5 accounts as they were in the past. Instead, incoming students are given "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. Many upperclassmen have not switched over to the new mail system. These students still use mail on cornella.cit.cornell.edu or vax5.cit.cornell.edu. Usernames on these systems are randomly generated 3 or 4 character IDs, which do not resemble real names. [Actually, they are an (unknown) hash function of the student's social security number.] Some upperclass who have network ids still only check mail on cornella and vax5. If they haven't set up autoforwarding, they will not receive mail sent to cornell.edu. Undergrads: crux1.cit.cornell.edu, crux2.cit.cornell.edu, crux3.cit.cornell.edu, vax5.cit.cornell.edu, cornella.cit.cornell.edu Faculty and staff may ask to have a 3-character username of their choice. Faculty are typically on cornella and staff on cornellc, but there are many exceptions. Faculty and administrators who use QuickMail can generally be found as first_last@qmrelay.mail.cornell.edu. Postmaster won't give out addresses. Administrators do not give out usernames over the phone. Students' street addresses and phone numbers, as well as voluntarily-supplied email addresses (faculty and staff only), can be looked up in CUINFO. Telnet to cornellc.cit.cornell.edu, port 300, and type DIRECT. AIX/370 folks: eagle.tc.cornell.edu CS: cs.cornell.edu, svax.cs.cornell.edu, cornellf.tc.cornell.edu, or theory.tc.cornell.edu (supercomputing center) EE: ee.cornell.edu Bitnet: cornella.bitnet, crnlvax5.bitnet, cornellc.bitnet (gateway). 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. 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 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 and faculty. Mail addressed to @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: Students, faculty, staff: FFFFFFFL@yang.earlham.edu Administration: FFFFFFFL@yin.earlham.edu Advanced computing students: FFFFFFFL@math.earlham.edu in the case of an 8-character first name, the userid is FFFFFFFF in the case of conflicts, the userid is FFFFFFLL, FFFFFLLL, etc. increasingly, are being assigned userid's in the format: xxyz@yang.earlham.edu, where xx is the first two letters of the first name, y is the middle initial, z is the last name initial. Information can be sought via E-Mail from opr@yang.earlham.edu opr can get you directory info, or user info. 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: Fri Feb 26 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 ): 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) faculty/staff: firstname.lastname@department.gatech.edu Also try: username@hydra.gatech.edu, Glassboro State College: 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 %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. 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. 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 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: Undergrads: flastname@hmcvax.claremont.edu or flllllll@jarthur.claremont.edu; in case of name conflicts more letters of firstname are used. hmcvax is more likely for class of '94 and before; jarthur for '95 and up. CS faculty: lastname@jarthur.claremont.edu Other faculty: lastname@hmcvax.claremont.edu Administration: flastname@hmcadm.claremont.edu finger fullname@jarthur.claremont.edu usually works, but users can change their fullnames to anything 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 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 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: fname_mi_lastname@iastate.edu 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. 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. 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. 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. 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 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: 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 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. Entries beginning with N may be found in the next posting (file .../college-email/faq2.text via anonymous FTP). ;;; *EOF* -- Software Technology Laboratory dalamb@qucis.queensu.ca (David Alex Lamb) Computing and Information Science phone: (613) 545-6067 Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada K7L 3N6 From cvtstu.cvt.stuba.cs!sk2eu!hp4at!news.univie.ac.at!paladin.american.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!gatech!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!utnut!torn!news.ccs.queensu.ca!qucis.queensu.ca!dalamb Thu Jun 24 09:09:30 1993 Newsgroups: soc.college,soc.net-people,soc.answers,news.answers Path: cvtstu.cvt.stuba.cs!sk2eu!hp4at!news.univie.ac.at!paladin.american.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!gatech!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!utnut!torn!news.ccs.queensu.ca!qucis.queensu.ca!dalamb From: dalamb@qucis.queensu.ca (David Lamb) Subject: FAQ: College Email Addresses 2/3 [Monthly posting] Message-ID: Followup-To: poster Supersedes: Reply-To: dalamb@qucis.queensu.ca Organization: Computing & Information Science, Queen's University References: Date: Tue, 25 May 1993 12:10:14 GMT Approved: news-answers-request@MIT.Edu Expires: Thu, 8 Jul 1993 12:10:02 GMT Lines: 1206 Archive-name: mail/college-email/part2 Last-Modified: Tue Apr 13 08:49:15 1993 by David Lamb Version: 3.28 This is the second third of the summary of how to find email addresses for undergraduate and graduate students, faculty and staff at various colleges and universities. ;;; ******************************** ;;; Email Database: N-T, U to Univ of ;;; ******************************** New Jersey Institute of Technology: Newark NJ 07021 CS PhD Studs: user@newark.njit.edu Grad Studs: user@hertz.njit.edu (ultrix), user@tesla.njit.edu (vms) New Mexico Institute Of Mining And Technology: Try finger name@nmt.edu or finger name@jupiter.nmt.edu. Jupiter is the main server; CS students generally have accounts on minos.nmt.edu. Accounts generally seem to be of the form FLLLLLLL. New Mexico State Univ.: Virtually all email addresses are of the form fllllll@nmsu.edu. Finger is not well supported. Mail to postmaster should help. (Also, if you have an account, there is a postmaster program.) New York University (NYU) Addresses for students at NYU are fml####@acfcluster.nyu.edu, where f, m, l are first, middle, last initials and #### are the last four digits of the social security number. All students and staff can get limited mail accounts by requesting them. Some users have nicknames: lastname, or lllllf, or lllllff. North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC: Whois server on gyro.cc.ncsu.edu also accepts requests via finger All whois entries have Snail addresses, some have e-mail. North Dakota Network This section describes how to find email addresses for students who attend Public Colleges and Universities in North Dakota. ND HECN PLAINS (@plains.bitnet) -or- (@plains.nodak.edu) This is a Unix system. All userids are given out according to last name or possibly a first initial added in front. You are able to finger these accounts. ND HECN CMS (@ndsuvm1.bitnet) -or- (@vm1.nodak.edu) This is a VM/SP (CMS) system. Userids are a bit more complicated here... The ND HECN (No-Dak Higher Education Computer Network) consists of the following schools.. Their 2-letter school code follows. Bismarck State College (BJ) North Dakota State University (NU) University of North Dakota (UD) Dickinson State College (DS) Williston State College (WS) Bottineau State College (BT) Lake Region Community College (LR) Valley City State College (VC) Mayville State College (MV) Minot State College (MN) State School of Science (SS) Userids given out prior to (approximately) August 1991 are assigned a userid according to the following: Userids are in the form of LL######. LL is the "School Code" (see above). The #'s are the first 6 digits of the user's NAID number. Userids given out after August 1991 are assigned according to last name, or with part of their first name in front if the account is already taken. They are trying to give you the same userid as your plain's id (if you have one). Also, people with the 'old id' can request to have their account renamed to the new format. You are able to finger accounts on ndsuvm1, but as of 02-26-92 student names are not yet available to finger. (It will tell you if the account at least exists tho). Faculty/Staff names are available to finger. Each college has an 'administrative' account with the form LL0ADMIN. (LL = School Code). I don't know if they will give out userids, but it's worth a try. UND School of Medicine: try First.Last@medicine.und.nodak.edu for staff and faculty; no student accounts as of Fall 1992. For help finding someone, try 'finger' or contact postmaster@medicine.und.nodak.edu Northeastern: The engineering postmaster is postmaster@nueng.coe.northeastern.edu. For other mail, try postmaster@northeastern.edu Northern Arizona University (Flagstaff, Arizona, USA) You can use any of the following ways to locate people at Northern Arizona University. If one doesn't work, try the next. NOTE: not everyone at NAU has an electronic mailbox. 1. finger PERSON@info.nau.edu where PERSON is any part of a person's name that you know. You may have to use quotes, as in: finger "Jane Doe"@info.nau.edu. This is a "white pages" style database. For more help on this system: finger @info.nau.edu 2. mail FIRSTNAME.LASTNAME@nau.edu where FIRSTNAME and LASTNAME are the person you're trying to reach. You may need to specify FIRSTNAME.MIDDLEINITIAL.LASTNAME 3. send mail to the site postmaster: mail postmaster@nau.edu Some subdomains have postmasters e.g. postmaster@cse.nau.edu for the Computer Science and Engineering department. Northwestern: Changed: Tue Feb 23 1993 General e-mail services are shared by casbah.acns.nwu.edu (129.105.113.52) and merle.acns.nwu.edu (129.105.113.57). Merle is in full production as of the beginning of 1993, although there are not yet that many accounts on it. This will change. Both Casbah and Merle support finger requests. If you have access to a PH electronic database client, you can use ns.nwu.edu for a ph-nameserver. Users must personally register an e-mail address in this database for a query to provide one -- it is not done automatically. If you do not have access to a PH client, the default PH-based address is where the default alias is f-lastname (first initial-last name). Many people choose to remove the hyphen or replace the default alias with their initials, or just about anything else. The default is a good thing to try, because if it fails for any reason, PH responds with fairly complete information, in plain english, including other possible aliases, if there is a conflict. Norwegian Institute of Technology: see University of Trondheim NCSU: Faculty/Staff: accounts on adm.csc.ncsu.edu. No specific naming convention for faculty accounts. Graduate Students: accounts on druid.csc.ncsu.edu. login names are gr-xxx where xxx are the initials of the person. However, using the person first or last name will also work. All engineers have accounts on eos.ncsu.edu Most undergraduate id's are fmllllll@eos.ncsu.edu College of textiles comp. center: fmllllll@unity.ncsu.edu Oakland University (Rochester, MI) Changed: Thu Mar 25 1993 Hosts: vela.acs.oakland.edu, argo.acs.oakland.edu Many departments maintain their own systems but their users usually have accounts on either vela or argo as well. Userids: Students: FMlastname Faculty: Lastname Finger: on vela, use any portion of the name. On argo, you can only finger the userid. Oberlin (Oberlin, Ohio): Changed: Tue Mar 30 1993 Many students and faculty have accounts on ocvaxa, which can be reached as ocvaxa.cc.oberlin.edu. Administrative staff members have accounts on ocvaxc, which can be reached as ocvaxc.cc.oberlin.edu. This is an internet-only site. Student User IDs are of the form: S+first & last initials + last 4 digits of the student ID (e.g. SDG1234) Faculty IDs are of the form: F + lastname. Best bet is to send mail to postmaster@ocvaxa.cc.oberlin.edu CS /faculty: occs.cs.oberlin.edu (student usernames are mostly last names, occasionally with a first initial to disambiguate; faculty and staff are generally 3 initials). You can also send mail to postmaster. Ohio State University: Faculty, Staff, Graduate students: flllllll@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu CS Students, Faculty and Staff: cis.ohio-state.edu, with username lastname, fllllll, llllll-f, fml, firstname or lllll-fm. Faculty and staff are mostly first or last name. Also, some students have their accounts aliased so that you can send mail/finger to lastname.#@osu.edu where # is required and is anything from 1 on up to infinity (these numbers can get very large for names like Smith, i.e. in the thousands). "whois -h osu.edu" and telneting to osu.edu should also work. Ohio University (Athens OH): CS (UNIX): fllll@oucsace.cs.ohiou.edu CS (VMS): oucsduce.cs.ohiou.edu EE (grad ): fllll@bobcat.ent.ohiou.edu, @redskins.ent.ohiou.edu Undergrads (class accounts): OUACCVMB.BITNET Faculty: OUACCVMA.BITNET Oklahoma State/Stillwater: userid@rsc.ceat.okstate.edu Oregon Graduate Institute of Science and Technology: Only Graduate Students. Their host, ogccse, is @cse.ogc.edu. This recently changed to cse.ogi.edu. Oregon State: CS: mist.cs.orst.edu, prism.cs.orst.edu Oxford University (Oxford, England): Changed: Sat Mar 27 1993 Telnet to info.ox.ac.uk, which presents you with an online information system, one of whose subsystems is an electronic mail directory showing all authorized users who are willing to be so listed. Host: vax.ox.ac.uk Penn State Univ.: Changed: Wed Mar 24 1993 Domain: psu.edu The Electronic Bulletin Board contains, among many other things, the entire student, staff, and faculty directory. To use EBB, connect to psuvm.psu.edu from an Internet-connected site using tn3270 (You can also telnet to cac3270.psu.edu if you do not have a 3270 emulator, but will have to supply a terminal type). After the initial logon screen appears, type the RETURN key and the screen will clear. Type "ebb" and hit RETURN, and you will get the top-level EBB menu, one item of which is "DIRECTORY". Typing "dir" and RETURN will select the university directory. The rest should be obvious, but for a couple of other points: EBB assumes you're using an IBM terminal, and displays help in the form of PF keys to move around, etc. A simple "+" serves to scroll ahead, and "-" moves backward. Typing the RETURN key alone will back up one level of menus, so typing RETURN repeatedly will ultimately close the connection. Computer Science: cs.psu.edu (UNIX), crayola.cs.psu.edu (Ultrix) Math: math.psu.edu Polytechnic University (New York) This is a listing for Brooklyn and Farmingdale Campuses Code System Name Comments ---- ----------- ---------------- F borg X galileo F W george Farmingdale F W gracie Farmingdale F icon F W ishara Brooklyn F pixel F Poly-TS Polytech Information Server F prism F pucatt F puscs X rabbit X stealth F spark F sprite F tasha Farmingdale F thermal1 X vacuum X vm F W worf Brooklyn X wri Legend: F = Fingerable X = Nonfingerable W = At login: prompt typing in 'who' will list parties logged on All system names end with ".poly.edu", e.g. 'finger @Poly-TS.poly.edu' Most login names begin with first initial then first seven character of last name. Most undergrad users would be on george, gracie, ishara, tasha and worf systems. Pomona College (Claremont, CA): Internet: fllllll@pomona.claremont.edu (bitnet flllll@pomona.bitnet) Usernames are the first character of the first name, followed by the full last name (John Doe would be JDOE). In case of conflicts, the middle initial is used between first and last name. (If JDOE already has an account, James A. Doe would be JADOE). Finger works. Portland State University (Portland, Oregon): Students: odin.cc.pdx.edu Princeton: Undergrads: phoenix.princeton.edu, pucc.princeton.edu (VM) pucc.bitnet. (Both phoenix and pucc are now fingerable.) CS Grad Studs/Faculty: cs.princeton.edu CogSci Lab: clarity.princeton.edu Math Dept: math.princeton.edu You can also try fingering at princeton.edu. Some people also have accounts on gauguin.princeton.edu Usernames are usually FMLLLLLL. Purdue: At Purdue, engineering students (undergrad/grad) have accounts on machines on the Engineering Computer Network (ECN). There are hundreds of machines, but the main ones are named according to a fairly discernible system, i.e. e?.ecn.purdue.edu = Electrical c?.ecn.purdue.edu = Civil k?.ecn.purdue.edu = Chemical g?.ecn.purdue.edu = Nuclear/Aero m?.ecn.purdue.edu = Mechanical p?.ecn.purdue.edu = Potter Library In each case, "?" is one of 'a', 'b', 'c', etc..check your local host tables or nameserver for a current list. Undergrads usually end up on the 'n' series of machines... en, mn, cn, and gn. Effective 10/16/90, mail to ecn hosts need only be labeled with the local domain. For example, user@ecn.purdue.edu. Mail sent there will automatically be forwarded to the users mailbox. Usernames on ecn machines are assigned according to user preferences. Try the usual (initials, fllllll, first name, last name, etc.). You can send mail to ecn.purdue.edu (which will forward it to the appropriate machine). Also, if your finger supports arguments, doing a 'finger -l lastname' will find people by name regardless of account. Other students (CS, math/stat, and science majors) usually have accounts on machines operated by the Purdue University Computing Center (PUCC). These machines are all in the ".cc.purdue.edu" subdomain. Many usernames are based on the user's last name and initials, but many still use three letter/number combinations which have nothing to do with the user's name. Computing center staff usernames are either a name chosen by the user, or a three-letter combination beginning with "a". Additionally, "finger" with a name argument will find all people with that name, so try "finger -l lastname". Students are found on the 'instructional' machines; the distribution of major courses is approximately like this: expert = low-level courses for non CS or EE majors, some CS courses sage = more low-level courses, first semester CS feserve = freshman engineering courses and some CS courses sonata = some Math and CS courses mentor = most other CS courses Students not in one of these courses may still have an account on one of these machines, since there are many smaller groups to which accounts are issued. Also, any Purdue student may obtain a student personal account on one of these machines. Research users are found scattered around all the PUCC machines, but mace, boiler, and j are the most likely places to find them. Staff can always be reached through 'staff' regardless of where they have their accounts. In addition to those, there is an IBM mainframe which is found on the Internet as vm.cc.purdue.edu or on BITNET as PURCCVM. It is used primarily by research users and Computer Technology majors. Some student personal accounts are also on this machine Usernames are either based on the person's real name or Xyyy where yyy is a 3-character PUCC ID. Graduate CS students are found on machines in the ".cs.purdue.edu" subdomain, including "arthur", "mordred", "merlin", and other machines named after characters from the Arthurian legends. Mail to cs.purdue.edu usually works. Veterinary students are found on machines in the ".vet.purdue.edu" subdomain; these machines are named after animals or other vet terms e.g. "dog", "goat", "pharm"...Agricultural/Agronomy Engineering students are found on machines in the ".acn.purdue.edu" subdomain; these include "harvest", "barn", etc...Some folks in chemistry can be found on machines in the ".chem.purdue.edu" subdomain; many of these are named after items from the Dr. Who series, e.g. "doctor", "tardis", "k9"...Some folks in psychology can be found on machines in the ".psych.purdue.edu" subdomain; these machines are named after Latin/South American countries, e.g. "peru", "brazil", "mexico", "panama"...Some folks in biology can be found on machines in the ".bio.purdue.edu" subdomain; some of these machines are named after Tolkien characters, e.g. "bilbo", "gollum"...Some folks in physics can be found on machines in the ".physics.purdue.edu" subdomain; these machines are named after physicists, e.g. "maxwell", "newton"... The Krannert School of Management is in the .mgmt subdomain, with hosts zeus and hera. Most management students will be found on a PUCC machine. Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada Faculty and staff: firstname.initial.lastname@queensu.ca. Unfortunately you have to spell the name exactly as in the Personnel records. This is an IBM mainframe machine with no Finger server. Computing and Information Science: finger x@qucis.queensu.ca, where x is lastname or firstname. Reed College: username@reed.edu, where username is of the form flllllll Rice: Changed: Wed Mar 24 1993 Finger username@rice.edu, where name is firstname or lastname. This is an online copy of the campus directory, giving surface address and phone number (not e-mail address) Owlnet accounts are provided for undergraduate and graduate engineers and natural science . Othergiven accounts when needed for a class, and then the accounts are deleted after the class is over. Try finger name@owlnet.rice.edu (GNU finger daemon). All students are given accounts on the rice mainframe computer, though off-campus access is still restricted for these accounts unless given permission. The address is @ricevm1.rice.edu and userid's are of the form fllll00, so John Smith is JSMIT00@ricevm1.rice.edu. Here's a small list of machines to try when searching for a user. Department machines are generally for MS/PhD graduate students, faculty, and staff. The OWLNET machines are used for classes. (Thus the user population on OWLNET machines consists primarily of undergraduates and graduate students in professional degree plans such as Master of Computer Science.) All the names given should have ".rice.edu" appended to them. Department Machine Names ========================================== ========================== Computer Science: titan, iapetus Electrical and Computer Engineering: mu, zeta, eta, kappa, tavi Geophysics: geophysics, hercule, typhoon Math: math1 Mathematical Sciences: masc1, masc6 Mechanical Engineering: caesar Office of Networking and Computer Systems: brazos, rio-grande RAVL (Rice Advanced Visualization Lab): comet, spanish, saffron RUF (Rice Unix Facility): kennel Space Physics and Astronomy spacsun (ID usually initials) spacvax (ID usually lastname) Statistics: stat1 Rensselaer Polytechnic Inst. (RPI): Department Machine or Domain Names ========================================== ========================== Computer Science: cs.rpi.edu Electrical and Computer Engineering: ecse.rpi.edu Mechanical Engineering: meche.rpi.edu Design Reseach Center: rdrc.rpi.edu Robotics Automation Lab: ral.rpi.edu Image Processing Lab: ipl.rpi.edu Center for Advanced Technology: cat.rpi.edu Integrated Electronic Arts Studio: iear.arts.rpi.edu Engineering Computing Services: vm.ecs.rpi.edu, vms.ecs.rpi.edu Rensselaer Computing System: rpi.edu Open to all students, faculty and staff. Userids are lllllf@rpi.edu with digits added to break ties. finger lastname@rpi.edu to verify userid only. but finger @rpi.edu doesn't yield any login information. Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT): ritvax.bitnet aaaXXXX@ritvax.isc.rit.edu, where aaa is users initials, XXXX is last 4 digits of Social Security Number (SSN) Computer Science: aaaXXXX@cs.rit.edu. Sometimes anaXXXX where n appears literally and means "no middle initial". Profs' accounts omit the XXXX. Rumour has it that some UNIX accounts on other machines within the rit.edu domain use just last 4 digits of SSN, but recent correspondents from RIT don't know of any such machines. Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology: Terre Haute, IN There are three major systems on which students are given accounts: - Academic VAXcluster: rosevc.rose-hulman.edu All students have accounts. - NeXT workstation network: nextwork.rose-hulman.edu All students have accounts. - CS department network: cs.rose-hulman.edu Any student can get an account upon request. Student usernames are consistent across the systems, in the form llllllfm. Mail addresses of the form: first.m.last@rose-hulman.edu are also accepted; mail is directed to a preferred address. Rutgers: Changed: Mon Feb 15 1993 Rutgers has a whitepages server, so you can do whois -h whitepages.rutgers.edu "fname lname" to find email addresses. If the user has an email address it will explicitly indicate "Email:". The "Userid" field is *NOT* an email address. (Note that not all people with email addresses have put them in the directory.) Other ways to find email addresses at Rutgers: There are many departmental machines, but these are a few common ones. Usernames are usually "llllllll" but some are "fllllll" etc. General Student: trident.usacs.rutgers.edu (New Bruns. undergrad), andromeda.rutgers.edu (Newark undergrad--all students), draco.rutgers.edu (Newark grad--all students) clam.rutgers.edu (Camden undergrad), * not all New Bruns undergrads have accounts CS: remus.rutgers.edu (undergrad), paul.rutgers.edu (grad), cs.rutgers.edu (faculty), pyrite.rutgers.edu (grad/fac) Math: gauss.rutgers.edu (undergrad), math.rutgers.edu (grad/fac), hilbert.rutgers.edu (fac), dimacs.rutgers.edu (fac) Engineering: pisces.rutgers.edu (ug), jove.rutgers.edu(g/fac), caip.rutgers.edu (g/fac) Student consultants: gandalf.rutgers.edu McCormick Hall residents: dorm.rutgers.edu Statistics: stat.rutgers.edu (fac) Physics: physics.rutgers.edu Systems Staff: klinzhai.rutgers.edu, cs.rutgers.edu, hardees.rutgers.edu, gandalf.rutgers.edu There is a machine, pilot.njin.net, which is available to any Faculty/Staff member at any New Jersey college by request. As such, using finger lastname@pilot.njin.net may be useful in finding someone at any of the non-Rutgers colleges in NJ. Saint Anselm College: Students, Faculty, Staff: anselm!username@dartmouth.edu Usernames are of the form flllllll, where f is the first letter of the first name and lllllll are the first seven letters of the last name. If a last name has less than 7 letters, the entire last name is used. Saint Anselm College is a UUCP client of dartvax, the Dartmouth College system. All news and email is fed via a data transmission made twice daily (1am and 1pm). San Diego State University: Faculty and Staff: flastname@sciences.sdsu.edu where f is the first initial followed by the last name. To access the campus phone directory: (1) whois -h sciences.sdsu.edu name where name is the last name of the person you want. (2) telnet to sciences.sdsu.edu and log in as whois telnet sciences.sdsu.edu SunOS UNIX (sciences) login: whois ***** College of Sciences Online Phone Directory ***** You may: * Enter a name the way you think it is spelled. * Enter '=' followed by the first part of a correctly spelled name. * Enter '+' followed by an E-mail address. * Enter '#' followed by a telephone number. * Enter '*' followed by any part of a name. * Enter '$' followed by a first name (sound alike) * Enter '!' followed by a first name. * Enter '?' or 'help' to display this message. * Enter ^D or a blank line to terminate. San Francisco State University: Created: Tue Apr 6 1993 Domain: sfsu.edu Santa Clara University: Students and faculty with accounts there, at least in some cases, may be reached as FLLLLLLL@scuacc.scu.edu, where FLLLLLLLL is the first initial and LLLLLLL is the last name (or perhaps the first n characters of the last name). The IP address for SCUACC.SCU.EDU is 129.210.8.1. You might want to contact the postmaster there for further information. The telephone number for the Acedemic Computer Center is 408/554-4082 Scripps College, Claremont, CA: Mail to: flast@scripps.claremont.edu (Novell network) Finger at: charon.claremont.edu (Charon mail server) Charon knows nothing about users unless they're logged in (and crashes regularly). Seattle University: Everybody (students and faculty) are on the same machine, @seattleu.edu Simon Fraser University: Changed: Mon Feb 15 1993 All students, staff and faculty have accounts on the campus computing network (CCN). The domain name is @sfu.ca. User information is available through an X.500 directory service, which can be accessed via the finger program: finger f_l@whistler.sfu.ca, where f is the first name and l is the last name. Computing Science and allied units also maintain a separate subdomain cs.sfu.ca (Centre for Systems Science). Users generally have the same accounts on this domain as they do on the CCN. Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY, 12866 (518) 584-5000 Internet domain name: skidmore.edu Bitnet node name: skidmore All e-mail is collected by scott.skidmore.edu (141.222.1.4) Usernames normally take the form first initial and first seven characters of the last name. You can also employ "fname.lname", giving the complete first and last names separated by a dot. Contact LDG@SCOTT.SKIDMORE.EDU for any delivery problems or other questions about the College. Smith College (Northampton, MA): Changed: Wed Mar 24 1993 Try flllllll@smith.smith.edu Sonoma State University: fname.lname@sonoma.edu Southwest Texas State University: cs and math faculty or grad students: @swtexas.bitnet (most user IDs are cs_lastname or ma_lastname) Stanford: Changed: Wed Mar 24 1993 Stanford has implemented a finger service for its whois database. Try "finger name@stanford.edu" first -- most students and lots of staff and faculty now have their e-mail addresses registered with this service. Name can be lastname, or for better results flllll or fmllllll. Alternatively, this service can be accessed via whois: whois -h stanford.edu name If that doesn't work, most students (and lots of staff and faculty) have accounts on leland.stanford.edu. The finger daemon on leland was turned off by December 1992; try its various clients: elaine0 through elaine53(.stanford.edu) A couple of other machines to try: CS (Grad and undergrad): xenon.stanford.edu Geology/Earth sciences: pangea.stanford.edu EE: sierra.stanford.edu Psychology: psych.stanford.edu St. John's University (Collegeville, MN): Created: Wed Mar 24 1993 Students: fmllllll%tiny@msus1.msus.edu St. Olaf College (Northfield, MN): UNIX accounts are created for all students upon their admission to the College. Not all faculty and staff have accounts yet, but we're working on that. General address form: lname@stolaf.edu Last name conflicts are usually resolved by adding first and/or middle initials to the end of the last name. Try fingering Lname@stolaf.edu (note the capital letter). Try using the St. Olaf Gopher information server at gopher.stolaf.edu. Phonebook information can be found under "St. Olaf Information". Try sending email to postmaster@stolaf.edu describing the person you're trying to contact. CSO phone book server at cso.stolaf.edu. SUNY/Alfred (Alfred, NY) (SUNY College of Technology at Alfred) Students and faculty: llllllfm@snyalfva.cc.alfredtech.edu (lastname, firstname, middlename, though middle name sometimes isn't used. SUNY/Binghamton: (Binghamton, NY) Changed: Sat Mar 27 1993 In order to contact someone at SUNY-Binghamton you'll have to give them a call; there is no way of figuring out a student's address given their name, as the mapping is random (sequential in the order people apply for accounts). Undergrads: bXNNNNN@HOSTNAME.cc.binghamton.edu where X is a letter depending on what year they got their account: 91/92: A 92/93: B(?); NNNNN are random digits, almost always starting with 0; HOSTNAME is either bingvaxa (VMS), bingsuns (SunOS), bingvmb (IBM), or bingtjw (IBM). Older userids are of the form vyNNNN@bingvaxa, and bgNNNN@bingvmb. Interested undergrads tend to have accounts on bingvaxa, though those in Math/CS classes will have accounts on bingsuns. An e-mail directory for some faculty and staff is available; telnet to bingvmb.cc.binghamton.edu DIAL VTAM ELIXIR Choose from menu. SUNY/Buffalo: Grads, Undergrads: username@ubvms.cc.buffalo.edu [finger not possible] Userids of the form VNNNXXXX where NNN are the first 3 digits of one's social security number, and XXXX are 4 alphanumerics representing the rest of the social security number. General Computing Center (students): username@acsu.buffalo.edu ubvms is a VAX, and most students had accounts there. Recently, however, more people are getting accounts on acsu, the Unix system. Engineering Students: username@eng.buffalo.edu EE Students: username@beatrix.eng.buffalo.edu CS Dept: username@cs.buffalo.edu (username@sunybcs.bitnet) The usernames for the acsu, cs (and possibly eng) seems to be formed by something appoximating the following rules: 1) If lastname is <=8 character, 1.1) if it does not already exist as a username, then username=lastname. (eg. smith) 1.2) else username is first initial + lastname (eg. jsmith) 2) If lastname is too long, and a middle initial exists, then username is initials (eg. jcs) 3) If lastname is too long but no middle initial exists, then username is the first 5 chars of the last name, a -, and then the initial. (eg. James Smithenson would be smith-j). The cs and acsu domains share mail alias files, so mail to a username at either cs.buffalo.edu or acsu.buffalo.edu will arrive at the user in the same mailbox. There are also geog (Geography), arch (Architecture) and med (Medicine) domains. SUNY/Canton students: llllllll@scanva.bitnet, also try @snycanva.bitnet SUNY/Geneseo students: fmlyy@geneseo.bitnet .. yy is graduation year I dont know about faculty, it might be on @snygenva.bitnet. SUNY/Potsdam students: llllllss@snypotvb.bitnet .. where ss are last 2 digits of SS# faculty: llllllfm@snypotva.bitnet SUNY/Stony Brook: Undergraduates: flllllll@ccvm.sunysb.edu (sbccvm.bitnet) flllllll@ccmail.sunysb.edu (sbccmail.bitnet) (servers ccsinc.bitnet and ccnova.bitnet) flllllll@ic.sunysb.edu (servers are libserv1, csserv1, csserv2, eeserv1; can't finger). CS Folks: cs.sunysb.edu (cs is an alias to the host sbcs) You can also use the campus "white pages", whois -h sunysb.edu ... or try fingering at fllll@sunysb.edu Syracuse Univ.: CompSci Grads/Faculty: top.cis.syr.edu Many CompSci graduates and faculty have accounts on this machine; the usual username pattern is "lastname@top.cis.syr.edu" Some faculty and staff: SUADMIN.bitnet (suadmin.syr.edu) Other students and faculty: mailbox.syr.edu sunrise.syr.edu (VAX 8820/VMS) suvm.acs.syr.edu (IBM 3090/CMS) suvm.acs.syr.edu and sunrise.syr.edu are run by the SU Computing Services. Undergrads usually have accounts on sunrise (which is a VAX VMS cluster). Both hosts are on bitnet as suvm and sunrise. The pattern for all these hosts is: first-initial + middle-initial + as much of the last name as possible. White-Pages: "finger name@syr.edu" will search the online catalog white pages for a registered user that has his/her information public. Mutliple matches produces multiple output. "finger @syr.edu" for more details. The same information is available via a BITNET directory server (NSERVE@SUVM.BITNET), through PSI's X.500 project, and through whois -h syr.edu Phone Book: The Syracuse Phone book has the same e-mail addresses as are available in the White pages, but as it's only printed once a year they are usually out of date. Dialing (315) 443-1870 is campus information; if the userid exists in the phonebook, the people there will be happy to give it out. consult@mailbox.syr.edu -- If the username exists, and that person doesn't mind having it handed out, this userid will check into it beforehand and reply via mail. Swarthmore: All Students/Faculty/Staff: FLLLLLLN@cc.swarthmore.edu, where F is the user's first initial, and LLLLLL is the first six letters of their last name. A '1' (one) is appended in most cases, though for duplicates the number is incremented. To find people, send mail to postmaster. You can also finger people by their last name. CS: Usually, lastname@cs.swarthmore.edu Engineering: usually lastname@engin.swarthmore.edu [The following is the old info, which still holds for some people: All Students: xxxYY@swat.swarthmore.edu, where xxx is the student's initials, YY the year of graduation. In case of duplicates, extra "x" are added between the initials and year. If there are triplicates, they keep on adding x's. You can also use campus.swarthmore.edu (swarthmr.bitnet). If they have no middle name, use "_" instead of the middle initial. To find people, send mail to postmaster. Faculty and staff have usernames as their last names on campus.swarthmore.edu.] Texas A&M University: All can have an account on a VAX cluster, a heterogeneous set of UNIX boxes, or a VM/CMS machine. Probably less than 30% of the student body (40K ) takes advantage of this. The format of the usernames is FML#### where fml are the initials and #### is the last four digits of the SSN. If a student has no middle initial then '0' (Zero) is used. These domain is "tamu.edu" and the machine could be any of several choices like venus, rigel, summa, sigma, etc. General Unix: tamuts.tamu.edu, tamaix.tamu.edu, tamsun.tamu.edu General VAX/VMS: zeus.tamu.edu, venus.tamu.edu, summa.tamu.edu, sigma.tamu.edu, rigel.tamu.edu General VM/CMS: tamvm1.tamu.edu Finding addresses: Try fingering lastname@tamsun.tamu.edu or lastname@tamu.edu. (tamu.edu uses ph, the CSO Nameserver) The computer science department's domain is "cs.tamu.edu". The statistics dept is "stat.tamu.edu". The username format on these machines is usually fffffffl or flllllll. Some old accounts may have first names or last names only. The math department's domain is math.tamu.edu. There are about a million other departmental machines with varying names but I believe they are all in the form "xxx.tamu.edu". Trinity College (Hartford CT): Students, staff, and faculty: firstname.lastname@mail.trincoll.edu mail.trincoll.edu is currently equivalent to trincoll.edu Tufts University: tufts.edu, tufts.bitnet United States Air Force Academy Cadets: CDTnnnn@saturn.usafa.af.mil Computer science: host kirk.usafa.af.mil Finger works at both sites. Univ. of Aalborg: @iesd.auc.dk Univ. of Aarhus (Dennmark) Created: Wed Mar 24 1993 Computer Science: @daimi.aau.dk Univ. of Akron: Academic Machines: Faculty, Grad, Undergrad vax1.cc.uakron.edu (vax, so finger works) vm1.cc.uakron.edu (vms, so finger doesn't work) vm1 is also known as akronvm.bitnet Most students and faculty have accounts on either of these machines. Usernames are usually r1 for faculty, r2 for graduate students, and r3 for undergrads, followed by first, middle, and last initials. (If the student doesn't have a middle initial it is omitted.) Naming conflicts are resolved by adding a digit to the end of the userid (e.g., 1, 2, ... 9). for example: mine is r2sk9@vax1.cc.uakron.edu... Engineering Machines: Grad, undergrad file01.ecgf.uakron.edu (unix, but no fingering) file02.ecgf.uakron.edu (unix, but no fingering) Userid's normally begin with the first two letters of the person's major (el = electrical, me = mechanical) followed by 4 digits to make 6 digit userid. Undergrads are given id's of form bsxxxx. Math Department machines: Faculty, Grad, Undergrad vonneuman.cs.uakron.edu (unix and fingering works) Only math students or students enrolled in courses offered by math dept have accounts. finger works with first,lastnames or userid's. userid's for grads and faculty are by their last names. undergrads and class accounts begin with sun followed by three digits making 6 letter userid. Mechanical Engineering Machines: Grad,faculty Any grad engineering student can have an account. Finger doesn't work for these machines. starshine.mech.uakron.edu sunshine.mech.uakron.edu moonshine.mech.uakron.edu Userid's are first names. Univ. of Alabama at Huntsville: Domain: uah.edu asn.net (asnuah.asn.net) School of Engineering: xxx..x@ebs330.eb.uah.edu CS dept : xxx..x@uahcs2.cs.uah.edu Math dept: xxx.x@sun3.math.uah.edu Grad std/Research : xxx.x@asnuah.asn.net Univ. of Alabama at Tuscaloosa: Domain: ua.edu College of Engineering: flastname@buster.eng.ua.edu Seebeck Computing Center: flllllln@ua1vm.ua.edu, where n is 1 for an undergraduate, 3 for a graduate student, and black for faculty/staff Others: cs.ua.edu, asncray.asc.edu etc. Help: postmaster@ua1vm.ua.edu Univ. of Alaska Bitnet: username@alaska.bitnet Internet: username@acadO.alaska.edu Usernames are of the form CTFMLN where: C=Campus A is U of A Anchorage D is for Kodiak College F is for U of A Fairbanks I is for Kenai Peninsula College J is for U of A Southeast (in Juneau) K is for U of A Southeast (Ketchikan branch) P is for Mat-Su College (in Palmer) T is for U of A Southeast (Sitka branch) V is for Prince William Sound Community College (in Valdez) T is for usage type. S is for an undergraduate student T is for a graduate student F is for faculty N is for staff. X is for consultants FML is the initials of first, middle, and last names, respectively. N is a number, and is only given (and then it starts from one) if there are more than one person at the same school with the same status and initials O is the computer that the person is on. 1 is Southeast and affiliated schools (don't know C letters for them) 2 is Anchorage and its affiliates (Kodiak, Kenai, Mat-Su, and Prince William Sound) 3 is Fairbanks and affiliates However, a person with enough access can use other campus' computers. Univ. of Arizona: Historically computer access at the UA had been limited to students, faculty and staff who had either a job, or a class which required a computer. Recently the Unix Users Group at the University of Arizona began providing General Access Systems for no charge to UA students. The machines are configured from donated, loaned and retired equipment and managed by volunteer effort. As a volunteer effort, there is not time to respond to postmaster requests for usernames so please do not send address requests to the postmaster. Use the finger utility instead; it will respond to "real name" requests (in the following "gas" means "gas.uug.arizona.edu"): finger -l kennedy@gas gotobed@gas |grep "Login name:" Login name: bjk In real life: Brian J. Kennedy Login name: kennedys In real life: Steven A Kennedy Login name: jgotobed In real life: Joe Gotobed While we are attempting to support a rational username policy, it is not foolproof as this example shows. If the finger info returns nothing, the person has no account on these systems. Due to limited disk capacity, ( < 1Mb per account) the usage is limited primarily to internet news, telnet, ftp and email. There are currently about 500 and a capacity of about 3,000 accounts. While accounts are currently limited to students, we expect to provide access to the general staff & faculty sometime in the spring of 1993. There are nearly a hundred subdomains at the University, each with their own access policies, username assignments and email schemes. If the finger utility does not reveal the address of a friend, a phone call to them asking for their address is probably the most efficient way to discover it. Many faculty and staff are on ccit.arizona.edu. If someone tells you they are on "cosy" or "icosy," forget it; you can't send mail to them (although they can send mail to you). Undergrads in Computer Science are on caslon.cs.arizona.edu. Undergrads in Engineering are on a cluster of Suns; try evax2.engr.arizona.edu. Grad students and Faculty are usually given accounts on their department/college systems. Try math.arizona.edu; physics.arizona.edu; mis.arizona.edu; cs.arizona.edu, etc. In the School of Business, you can try FirstinitialLastname (e.g. RReagan) @bpa.arizona.edu with very good success. If FirstinitialLastname is ambiguous, a username might be LastnameFirstinitial instead. (Main site was mis.arizona.edu until late 1992). On BITNET send mail to username@arizbpa.bitnet Arizona.EDU is the campus mail gateway, but only those who ask get aliases on Arizona.EDU. You could try last-name@Arizona.EDU if you suspect the person you want uses EMAIL a lot. Univ. of Atlanta: @auc.UUCP Univ. of British Columbia (Vancouver, BC, Canada) Domain ubc.ca. Public accounts might be on unixg.ubc.ca. Computer Science is cs.ubc.ca University of Calgary General (Students/Faculty): @acs.ucalgary.ca CS students/faculty: @cpsc.ucalgary.ca for all faculty, staff, grads, undergrads - often last name, or first name, or initials. or last name followed by initials. Univ. of California/Berkeley: Changed: Tue Apr 13 1993 Undergraduates in General: uclink.berkeley.edu or ocf.berkeley.edu Faculty, staff, and graduate students can also get accounts on ocf.berkeley.edu. Undergrad CS/EE, 1st Year Grad: cory.berkeley.edu (This is for undergrad juniors and seniors and first year graduate students. Most other graduate students have their own workstations. For freshmen and sophomores, one must look for a class account or ocf public cluster. Undergrads now have to pay for accounts on cory, so fewer people will be using it.) First Year Graduate CS students: try cory.berkeley.edu or xcssun.berkeley.edu. antipodes.berkeley.edu CS Faculty, Grads, Staff: cs.berkeley.edu (aliases mail address) CS Grad Students: snake.cs.berkeley.edu. Good systems to try are (all .cs.berkeley.edu or .berkeley.edu) sprite, harmony, sequoia, larch, robotics, postgres, and ginger. tenet.icsi.berkeley.edu also has some CS grad students on it. Many machines in the department are now foo.cs.berkeley.edu, but not all are. EE Faculty: esvax, ic, cad, or a workstation Janus will be going away soon, as will ucbarpa. Many csgrads will have mail aliases on cs.berkeley.edu, which will eventually support finger. Systems to try for grad students are (all .berkeley.edu): sprite, harmony, sequoia, yew, larch, robotics, postgres, and ginger. Soon, these will be moved into the cs.berkeley.edu subdomain instead of berkeley.edu subdomain (ie, you'd finger @sprite.cs.berkeley.edu). This will happen soon, but hasn't happened yet. Names for the above accounts are usually, but not always, combinations of the user's real first, middle and last names and/or initials. However, finger will search the "real name" field as well as the account name. There are many class accounts (which all students get). These are found on web.berkeley.edu,bard.berkeley.edu, and xcssun.berkeley.edu. zooey, buddy, franny, and seymour too, except they're being retired. Danube, amazon, congo, po, and volga and a cluster of stars (named after stars) are supposed to be the replacements. web and buddy hold classes that freshmen and sophomores often take. seymour and franny are often used for classes for business majors. Class account usernames are typically cnnn-mxx or ennn-mxx, where 'c' or 'e' denotes CS or EE, nnn is the course number, m is the section number (not always used), and xx are two letters. Statistics class accounts are of the form s#xxxx, where # is the class number and xxxx is some string of alphabetic characters. These accounts live on gandalf.berkeley.edu. Statistics cluster computers are named after Tolkien characters. qal.berkeley.edu is used for courses in "practical computer use" (taught by the anthropology department). Account names are 193xxx, where xxx is the last name of the user. Math (Graduate and Faculty): math.berkeley.edu Stat Department: stat.berkeley.edu Physics Grads and Undergrads: physics.berkeley.edu Mech. E Profs & Grads: euler.berkeley.edu, tycho.berkeley.edu Public Cluster (some undergrads): ocf.berkeley.edu School of Education: soe.berkeley.edu Other machines to try: ucbvax.berkeley.edu garnet.berkeley.edu and violet.berkeley.edu are the most likely place for a pay-for-use account. Some departments maintain accounts on these machines for faculty, though, so these machines are the place to try for faculty affiliated with departments that have no real computing facilities. Almost anyone on campus can pay for an account on these machines. Some of the class accounts are also on congo. Generally addresses for the first semester classes are: CS 60A - c60a-__@danube CS 3 - c3-1a__@amazon or c3-1b__@congo School administration has set up the computer uclink.berkeley.edu, for staff or students who want an account (they can keep it for the time that they are there). It's supposedly on a pilot program, but many students are getting accounts there. Also, people can look for staff people on whois.berkeley.edu. postmaster@nettlesome.berkeley.edu should be considered as a last choice when looking from someone electronically. Univ. of California/Davis: @ucdavis.edu -- works if you know their account name userids are of the form fmlllll. @clover.ucdavis.edu -- works for anyone in the CS department whois -h ucdavis.edu CS: First.Last@cs.ucdavis.edu Engineering/CS: First.Last@ee.ucdavis.edu or First.Last@eecs.ucdavis.edu Univ. of California/Irvine: CS Undergrads: bonnie.ics.uci.edu Mail sometimes restricted; policy has changed several times. Userid usually FLLLLLLL (8 char max); sometimes FFFFFFFL. CS Grads/Staff/Faculty: ics.uci.edu Faculty userids are usually their last names, sometimes initials, a few firstname only. Grads usually FLLLLLLL, some lastname only. Staff sometimes firstname, sometimes lastname. Other departments: mostly grads; userids usually lastname. Biology dept: sanger.bio.uci.edu EE: balboa.eng.uci.edu Physics dept: skid.ps.uci.edu Social sciences: ss.uci.edu Try fingering fname-lname@XX.uci.edu (for XX=ics,sanger.bio, etc.) There are two types of accunts on orion.oac.uci.edu: (1) Staff in the Office of Academic Computing (2) Students Staff userids on orion are usually FLLLLLLL, 8 char max. The student accounts on orion are different, though. Any student can get an orion account, but not a lot do. The userids for these accounts are seven characters as follows: first "ea", then two characters representing major and grad vs. undergrad status, respectively, (e.g., i = information & computer science, u = undergrad), then three random digits. Non-staff orion users tend to use their accounts infrequently because of usage limits. Univ. of California/Los Angeles (UCLA): CS: @cs.ucla.edu @oahu.cs.ucla.edu MATH: @math.ucla.edu, @sonia.math.ucla.edu, @oak.math.ucla.edu (graduate students, staff, faculty) EE grads & faculty: ee.ucla.edu (network of RTs and SUNs running unix. Each machine has the name of a famous engineer: watt.ee.ucla.edu, joule.ee.ucla.edu, etc) Usernames vary; try fname, lastname,... AGSM: @agsm.ucla.edu @uclagsm (Anderson Graduate School of Management) All of students , staffs and faculty have their user ID. User ID: FLLLLLLL (max 8 characters) Class Accounts: pic.ucla.edu (PIC = program in computing) These get cleared every quarter. Account names are usually the course number followed by three letters chosen by the student. If you finger @laguna.pic.ucla.edu, you get more detailed info, such as when the user last logged on, etc. Engineering: seas.ucla.edu This is a server for a network for the school of engineering and applied sciences. Any engineering graduate student can get an account on it, and many undergrads have accounts on it for classes. This machine has access to USENET. Anybody: oac.ucla.edu An IBM 3090. Anyone in UCLA can get an open access account on this to send mail, etc. Account names on this machine are terribly cryptic (such as IZZYR33). Univ. of California/Santa Cruz: Undergrads: ucscb.ucsc.edu Other hosts include ucsc{c-e,o}.ucsc.edu, ucscvm.ucsc.edu, etc. All these hosts (except for ucscb) are on bitnet as the first part of their domain name. A new host, cats.ucsc.edu, has been added as the mail address for UCSC's version of Athena. Users can be fingered by username, first name, or last name. Undergrads, grads, faculty, and some staff may have accounts on cats. Users choose their own IDs, so you must use finger to get an account name. As of late fall 1992, the name space of cats and ucscb have been merged, so that almost all students have the same userid on both systems. However, there are (and will likely always be) separate accounts on the 2 systmes that use the same name - so there will remain differences between mailing to SomeAddress@cats and SomeAddress@ucscb. Univ. of California/San Diego (UCSD): The primary mail gateway is ucsd.edu. This machine also has a smart finger program, which will look up names that sound similar to the one you fingered. Just "finger name@ucsd.edu". Most usernames are the initial of the first name followed by the last name, truncated to 8 characters, ie. "jfowler@ucsd.edu", but this is not always the case (because most people don't like their names truncated). Machine sdcc13 houses the student personal accounts at present, but mail to ucsd.edu will reach (almost) everyone on sdcc13.ucsd.edu. If the person is a graduate student, faculty member, or staff member try: weber (social sciences), cogsci (guess), bend (linguistics), crl (some developmental psychology people). Many, many other machines house course, faculty, staff, and research accounts. Your best bet is to look the name up at ucsd.edu. Univ. of Central Florida (Orlando) CS dept: only grad students are given accounts. finger lastname@eola.cs.ucf.edu Engineering: finger initials@apocalypse.engr.ucf.edu General: ucf1vm.cc.ucf.edu. (A bitnet node, so you cannot finger) Univ. of Chicago: Undergraduates: midway.uchicago.edu (formerly tank.uchicago.edu) (midway.uchicago.edu serves as a mail server for machines named quads.uchicago.edu and ellis.uchicago.edu. When midway refuses connections, finger at quad or ellis.) Grads and faculty may also be on quads and ellis. CS Grads: gargoyle.uchicago.edu Math: zaphod.uchicago.edu Education: paideia.uchicago.edu Chemistry: pico.uchicago.edu Astronomy: oddjob.uchicago.edu (finger lastname) Social sciences (Economics, History, Sociology, Political Science): cicero.spc.uchicago.edu [also accepts 'finger'] Also Try: uchep.uchicago.edu Many researchers have accounts on rainbow.uchicago.edu, in addition to having accounts on their own workstations. The University of Chicago now (fall91) runs the ph mail system, so sending mail to finitial-lastname@uchicago.edu will work if they've entered a real mailbox into their ph entry. In case of name conflict, add additional initials beyond the first. Questions should be directed to advisor@midway.uchicago.edu. Unfortunately few people bother to input their e-mail addresses. Univ. of Chile (Universidad de Chile) (in Santiago, Chile, South America): Mathematics and Physical Sciences Campus (includes engineering) All students that ask for an account can get one on araucaria: araucaria.cec.uchile.cl (Sun 690MP), uchcecvm.bitnet (IBM 390) All that have a class involving computers get an account on: cipres.cec.uchile.cl (Sun 690MP) Professors, researchers, and research assistents: tamarugo.cec.uchile.cl (Sun 690MP) Computer Science (Departamento Ciencia de la Computacion) All Computer Science students and professors have an account on: dcc.uchile.cl (Sun 4/470) Professors, researchers, and grad students of Computer Science tortel.dcc.uchile.cl (Sun SS II) For more information access the gopher server (using normal gopher access or telnet/rlogin with login name "gopher") on tortel. Univ. of Colorado/Boulder: Changed: Tue Feb 23 1993 Finger name@colorado.edu, where name is lastname, firstname, or firstname-lastname. At the upper right of the directory information is a username and machine; their address is then username@machine.colorado.edu Telnet to directory.colorado.edu, using username "directory". This lets you access the online phonebook/email address book. Univ. of Connecticut: uconn.edu userid@nicky.uconn.edu CS Undergrads: ug1.eng1.uconn.edu CS Grads and Faculty: cse1.cse.uconn.edu CS Research and Grads: sparc0.brc.uconn.edu Univ. of Copenhagen (Dennmark): Created: Wed Mar 24 1993 Computer Science: @ling.cphling.dk Entries beginning with Univ. of D may be found in the next posting (file .../college-email/faq3.text via anonymous FTP). ;;; *EOF* -- Software Technology Laboratory dalamb@qucis.queensu.ca (David Alex Lamb) Computing and Information Science phone: (613) 545-6067 Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada K7L 3N6 From cvtstu.cvt.stuba.cs!sk2eu!hp4at!news.univie.ac.at!paladin.american.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!gatech!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!utnut!torn!news.ccs.queensu.ca!qucis.queensu.ca!dalamb Thu Jun 24 09:09:31 1993 Newsgroups: soc.college,soc.net-people,soc.answers,news.answers Path: cvtstu.cvt.stuba.cs!sk2eu!hp4at!news.univie.ac.at!paladin.american.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!gatech!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!utnut!torn!news.ccs.queensu.ca!qucis.queensu.ca!dalamb From: dalamb@qucis.queensu.ca (David Lamb) Subject: FAQ: College Email Addresses 3/3 [Monthly posting] Message-ID: Followup-To: poster Supersedes: Reply-To: dalamb@qucis.queensu.ca Organization: Computing & Information Science, Queen's University References: Date: Tue, 25 May 1993 12:10:21 GMT Approved: news-answers-request@MIT.Edu Expires: Thu, 8 Jul 1993 12:10:02 GMT Lines: 1085 Archive-name: mail/college-email/part3 Last-Modified: Tue Apr 6 13:08:31 1993 by David Lamb Version: 3.28 This is the last third of the summary of how to find email addresses for undergraduate and graduate students, faculty and staff at various colleges and universities. ;;; ******************************** ;;; Email Database: U-Z ************ ;;; ******************************** Univ. of Dayton (Ohio): School of Engineering: udecc.engr.udayton.edu CPS: udcps3.cps.udayton.edu General: udavxb.oca.udayton.edu Univ. of Delaware: All undergraduate , graduate students and faculty have accounts on the university system. ine iStatll ne wou FFSU'afterost anct ct cnitialomaits E (ETn mare:l.edu and ravel.udel.edu, but these are redundant because they share accounts and files with FFSms. The login name is a random 5-digit number until the user changes it, then it is whatever the user picks. Fingering last names will work to find the login name, but since there are thousands of accounts, it may produce an overload of information. The College of Marine Studies maintains a computer system. Students and faculty have accounts with login names of their choosing on several computers, such as earthview.cms.udel.edu mingming.cmafteroETndu chester.cms.uost ancedu There are several other sparcstations around but they share accounts with the ones named above. Univ. of Florida (Gainesville, FL): Finger lastname@wasp.eng.ufl.edu. Contains complete listings for people in the College of Engineering, and some listings for people in other departments. Univ. of Houston (Houston, Texas) Changed: Mon Feb 15 1993 Host: cs.uh.edu.: All graduate students, staff, and faculty in the CS dept. have accounts on cs.uh.edu. Undergrads have accounts on either menudo.uh.edu (Unix) or jetson.uh.edu (VAX). Try "finger lastname@cs.uh.edu" for information on graduate students, staff, or faculty. Use "finger lastname@menudo.uh.edu" or "finger lastname@jetson.uh.edu" for undergrads. Anonymous ftp host: beethoven.cs.uh.edu (129.7.5.180) Undergraduate and graduate information can be found under pub/gradinfo. To request for information and/or application forms, send name and address to gradinfo@cs.uh.edu Univ. of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign: Changed: Wed Mar 24 1993 In general, finger name@uiuc.edu, where name can be firstname, lastname, or firstname-lastname. Also try whois -h uiuc.edu CS: try mail to lastname@cs.uiuc.edu or flastname@cs.uiuc.edu Campus: try f-lastname@uiuc.edu and firstname-lastname@uiuc.edu. It is usually possible to send mail to f-lastname@uiuc.edu or firstname-lastname@uiuc.edu. If that fails, you will get a message which tells you why the email could not be sent. Student Accounts: As of Fall 1992: ux4.cso.uicc.edu (those entering before then have accounts on uxa.cso.uiuc.edu) Every freshman gets an account on this machine. Usernames are usually flastname (old accounts were the user's three initials, followed by five random characters.) Math (Grads, Faculty, Staff): lastname@math.uiuc.edu Classes: ux1.cso.uiuc.edu, hendrix.ece.uiuc.edu (Purely instructional. 1 semester accounts on this machine.) Faculty: some are on on ux1.cso.uiuc.edu Engineering: coewl.cen.uiuc.edu; finger isn't supported. Electrical engineering faculty: ece.uiuc.edu From BITNET, it is possible to get information about any student by executing the command TELL PHSERVE AT UIUCVMD firstname lastname RETURN ALL. Univ. of Illinois/Chicago: uicvm.cc.uic.edu (userids of the form Uxxxxx) Univ. of Iowa (Iowa City, IA): Changed: Wed Mar 24 1993 Finger name@uiowa.edu, or telnet toomai.isca.uiowa.edu and enter "go phone" to use the Uiowa phone book. Engineers - on the Apollo ring: fmlastname@icaen.uiowa.edu Others - @weeg.uiowa.edu Univ. of Kansas: Student Accounts: kuhub.cc.ukans.edu Most user ID's are their last names (first 6 letters). Univ. of Kentucky: The WHOIS server at UK maintains user databases for the following Kentucky universities: University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY University of Louisville, Louisville, KY Morehead State University, Morehead, KY Murray State University, Murray, KY Transylvania University, Lexington, KY Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green, KY Eastern Kentucky University, Richmond, KY Northern Kentucky University, Highland Heights, KY SENDING COMMANDS TO WHOIS ========================= If you have BITNET access, you can query the WHOIS server interactively, using the TELL command. For instance: TELL WHOIS AT UKCC WHOIS FOOBLE or TELL WHOIS AT UKCC GUESS AT NKU BOOGLE If you don't have access to BITNET, you can query the WHOIS server via electronic mail. Send your email to whois@ukcc.uky.edu, and place your commands in the body (NOT the Subject line) of the message. The HELP command will send you back a full list of commands. UNLV: Student Accounts: redrock.nevada.edu uns-helios.nevada.edu is used by some students, but may be changing into a research machine. Univ. of Louisville: @ULKYVX.BITNET Univ. of Maine: Campus mainframe: username@maine.bitnet CS Faculty and Students: userid@gandalf.umcs.maine.edu Univ. of Maryland: Changed: Wed Mar 24 1993 Employees (faculty and staff): Finger name@umail.umd.edu. Names are usually flnumber or firstname_LASTNAME (e.g. sh127 or Simon_HAWKIN) All students (grad and undergrad) may request an account on wam.umd.edu (Workstations At Maryland). All undergrads (and probably graduate students too) may request accounts on eng.umd.edu; most engineering graduate students have accounts there, but so do non-engineering s. Finger using the lastname at these hosts. CS Faculty/Staff/Graduate Students: cs.umd.edu; sometimes umiacs.umd.edu or cfar.umd.edu telnet info.umd.edu and login as lookup for faculty/staff E-mail directory. Campus has universal faculty/staff E-mail on info.umd.edu (aka umail.umd.edu). Whois and finger do not work off campus for this computer, though. If you know the name, try firstname_lastname@umail.umd.edu. Univ. of Massachusetts/Amherst: Students/Faculty: first.{mi.}last@student.umass.edu (This is on the CDC Cyber NOS/VE system.) Another common format is first.{mi.}last@saturn.ucc.umass.edu. Saturn is the name of the computer. Many people, especially faculty, have a departmental abbreviation in place of "student" or "saturn.ucc". Graduate CS students: cs.umass.edu Username is person's lastname. Intro CS courses: S#######@tethys.ucc.umass.edu, where ####### is a 7-digit student number. Engineering: {fi}lastname@ecs.umass.edu. Names defaults to last name, but may include the first initial if the last name is not unique. Student directory service: (413)-545-1515 for finding a phone number. Univ. of Massachusetts/Lowell: All CS students and University UNIX users are generally addressable as flllllll@cs.ulowell.edu. Adjustments are made for conflicts such as adding the middle initial after the first, or adding additional letters from the first name. Not all automatically get accounts on the VMS system, but if they do they can be addressed as llllllf@woods.ulowell.edu. Finger works on this machine, but isn't very informative. If there is a name conflict, they will add letters from the first name or numeric digits (1, 2, etc.) until it is unique. Univ. of Michigan: The best place to try to find an e-mail address for a faculty, students, and staff at U-M is via the X.500 White Pages service. There are many ways in which this can be accessed, but one easy way is through finger (finger firstname.lastname@umich.edu). (The X.500 Directory also contains business addresses, business phone numbers, titles, and home addresses and phone numbers in the case where the person has granted such permission.) If the person has registered an e-mail address, it will appear; if the person has not, follow the advice of the X.500 server and try fingering the person at um.cc.umich.edu (the mainframe), caen.engin.umich.edu (the College of Engineering mail hub), or med.umich.edu (the Medical Campus mail hub). People with accounts on um.cc.umich.edu also have a Bitnet address: USERxxx@UMICHUM.BITNET where 'xxxx' is the person's account on the mainframe. A database of U of Michigan student and faculty phone numbers and addresses (not email addresses, just phones) is available through the "gopher" server running at gopher.uis.itd.umich.edu port 70, also available via telnet to gopher.micro.umn.edu (login: gopher) in the "Other gophers" menu or the "phone books" menu. This gopher phone number database has been changed to access X.500. Grad students in EECS get accounts on eecs.umich.edu. (The specific machine names are dip and zip, but eecs forwards appropriately.) Usernames are either lastname, or of the form Fname_Lname. 313- ann arbor info 764-1817 998-7999 If all else fails, you can always mail the request to the U-M postmaster at postmaster@umich.edu. Alternately: telnet to 35.1.48.149 35.1.48.150 or hermes.merit.edu press return until you get a "Which Host?" prompt type FINGER UM NAME to get finger information for NAME Univ. of Minnesota: Changed: Mon Feb 15 1993 In general, try fingering fname.mname.lname@umn.edu. CS Grad students: @cs.umn.edu. General policy is "last name as account name, plus first and middle initials if that's not unique", but there *are* exceptions. Undergrads in technical majors will have temporary accounts on staff.tc.umn.edu or vx.cis.umn.edu. The account names are serialized so aren't useful in finding out names. Recently (as of late 1992) most class accounts are on mermaid.micro.umn.edu, and are named. All Twin Cities campus students have e-mail on student.tc.umn.edu, whether they know it or not. Chemistry (faculty, staff, grads): lname@chemsun.chem.umn.edu The login is usually the person's last name, although there are some exceptions. Statistics: umnstat.stat.umn.edu. Userid varies; use finger. Univ. of Missouri/Rolla: cs.umr.edu Univ. of Missouri/St. Louis: CS: arch.umsl.edu This machine isn't fingerable, but its address info is available by fingering at aber.umsl.edu. Undergrads: clemens.umsl.edu, twain.umsl.edu The id can be obtained by fingering either of these machines using the last name of the student. Univ. of Montreal: Changed: Mon Feb 15 1993 General: username@ere.umontreal.ca Usernames are typically last names (maximum = 8 letters). Univ. of Nebraska at Omaha: Undergraduate Students and Faculty: zeus.unomaha.edu (unoma1.bitnet) Main academic VAX running VMS. All computer science students receive academic accounts of the form CCXXX where CC is a 2-character class code and XXX is a number from 000 (usually the instructor) up to 999 (usually smaller than 050 in practice). These accounts are reset each semester Permanent accounts are also on Zeus, usually a last name or nickname. Permanent student accounts are of the form ZAXXX for unaffiliated students, or organizational forms like ACMXXX and IEEEXXX for members of their respective student organizations. Any undergraduate student who asks nicely can get a ZA account, or an organizational account if they are a member. Graduate Students and Faculty: odin.unomaha.edu Main campus Unix workstation (running DEC Ultrix) Finger by login ID (usually some form of the name) or by proper name. Any graduate student or senior undergrad pursuing an academic project can get an Odin account. Math/CS Students and Faculty: unocss.unomaha.edu (not fingerable) UNO Chapter of the Association for Computing Machinery: acm.unomaha.edu All members have accounts, usually some form of the name (not fingerable, this computer is also the former unocss.unomaha.edu in case you haven't guessed). Polite mail to postmaster@acm.unomaha.edu may yield information about an ACM member or math/CS student. Univ. of Nebraska at Lincoln: Engineering: engvms.unl.edu Computing Staff and some students: crcvms.unl.edu CS students: cse.unl.edu All students above the classification of sophomore have name accounts on cse.unl.edu (first initial appended to the last name) but you can also finger the machine. Univ. of New Brunswick: (Fredericton, NB, Canada) Computing Services: csd.unb.ca All students are automatically given MUSIC accounts on the VM service and can send and receive mail, however, there is at present no easy way to determine the MUSIC id knowing the name of the student. Depending on course requirements, students may also have accounts on the MVS or UNIX systems. Requests for non-student userids can be sent to our on-line directory server. Send mail to Directry@UNB.Ca, If the 1st non-blank line of the mail is Help or Find name, the name will be searched and the results mailed back to the address in the From: field of the mail. The server is bilingual (English/French) and will also respond to the commands Aide or Recherche name. MVS machine: unbmvs1.csd.UNB.ca VM machine: unbvm1.csd.UNB.ca UNIX machine: jupiter.sun.csd.UNB.ca (finger works) Univ. of New Hampshire: General university users: unhh.unh.edu (same as hilbert.unh.edu). User names, both student and staff, are generally of the form F_LAST where F is the person's first initial and LAST is the person's last name. CS class accounts and undergrad CS: kepler.unh.edu. User names are usually the person's initials (sometimes postfixed by a 3 digit course number for intro classes). Grad CS and Faculty: cs.unh.edu. With only a few exceptions, all logins are the person's initials. Univ. of New Mexico Try finger lastname@carina.unm.edu. User names are usually of the form FLLLLLLL (8 characters max). Accounts may be on many different hosts within unm.edu but the finger database on carina seems to know where all the accounts are. If carina is unavailable try vesta. Univ. of New Orleans Created: Tue Mar 30 1993 Faculty Accounts: fml@uni.edu Student Accounts: Initials followed by 2 letter name of department, e.g. fmlEE@uno.edu Class Accounts: Two letters signifying department that issued account, 6 numbers or letters signifying a unique id and then the four digits of the class e.g. EE_123tt2551 Univ. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill: Changed: Tue Apr 13 1993 General: Firstname_Lastname@unc.edu. In case of conflict try Firstname_M_Lastname@unc.edu. The UNC BBS is Firstname.Lastname@launchpad.unc.edu CS: All CS students get an account on the network of workstations. The login is usually just the first 8 characters of the student's last name. Name conflicts are usually resolved by appending the first initial and/or the middle initial to the last name. Mail may be sent to username@cs.unc.edu. You may finger both by userid and real name at cs.unc.edu. Faculty and Staff: One can get an email address from the online phonebook. telnet to info.oit.unc.edu login as info follow the menus to Campus Directory Medical School: students, staff, and faculty. Finger name@who.med.unc.edu OR send mail to request@med.unc.edu asking for the address. Once you find the login name, send mail to login@med.unc.edu Univ. of North Carolina at Charlotte: userid@mosaic.uncc.edu Userids are of the form fmlastname. Univ. of North Dakota: see North Dakota Network Univ. of North Florida CS undergrads, grads, faculty: flast@unf6.cis.unf.edu, where last may be limited to 6-8 characters. Information Science undergrads: unf1vm.cis.unf.edu. Unfortunately names are assigned randomly, so it's nearly impossible to guess unless you already have contact with someone. Others generally don't have accounts unless they ask for them. Univ. of Northern Iowa. Created: Tue Mar 30 1993 Finger username@uni.edu Univ. of Notre Dame: The University of Notre Dame now supports full name human readable e-mail addresses, such as John.Q.Student.1@nd.edu. All members of the Notre Dame community have e-mail addresses on nd.edu; however, at this time (June, 1992) the vast majority of them are "uninitialized". This means the user has not specifically told the server how to deliver e-mail to this user, so e-mail to this user will fail. All members of the Notre Dame community also have userids in our AFS file space. Userids in this file space tend to be of the form flllllll or flllllln. Some users who use the AFS file system might not have initialized their entries on the nd.edu name server; conversely, many community members who can receive mail via nd.edu ignore their AFS userids. Notre Dame also has many other central and departmental computer systems which can send and receive e-mail. As more and more users initialize their nameserver accounts there will be less need to remember these specific local systems and userids. However, for the time being, they are often the best addresses for some members of the Notre Dame community. All students are given accounts on darwin.cc.nd.edu, but not all students use them. Usernames are of the form flllllll. In case of name conflicts, numbers are added to the end to disambiguate. Questions can be sent to info@nd.edu. Univ. of Oklahoma/Norman: flllllll@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu Univ. of Oregon: CS Grads and Faculty: @cs.uoregon.edu CS Undergrads/CIE: @cie.uoregon.edu (this is only for CS undergrads subscribing to the campus information exchange) Others?: fmlast@oregon.uoregon.edu for those with email accounts U-mail: first.middle.last@oregon.uoregon.edu for those without email. Such letters are printed out with a cover sheet and delivered through the normal campus mail system (graduate students, staff, and faculty only -- undergrads do not have on-campus addresses). Univ. of Oslo (Norway) Created: Wed Mar 24 1993 Department of Informatics: userid@ifi.uio.no Faculty and staff mailboxes may be f.lastname or firstname.lastname or f.m.lastname Univ. of Pennsylvania: Changed: Wed Mar 24 1993 Undergrad engineering, SEAS course accounts: eniac.seas.upenn.edu Undergrad/Grad Business: wharton.upenn.edu (all business students can get an account if they want one) Lastname plus two number identification string (arbitrary) Grad CS: grad1.cis.upenn.edu CS faculty/staff: central.cis.upenn.edu Medical School: lastname_f@a1.mscf.upenn.edu. Medical , biomed grad students, and some faculty have accounts on this system. Undergrad Arts&Science: @sas.upenn.edu Try whois -h whois.upenn.edu lname, or whois -h whois.upenn.edu ? for help. Univ. of Pittsburgh: Students get their choice of Unix or VMS accounts, addressed as user@unix.cis.pitt.edu and user@vms.cis.pitt.edu, respectively. Student user names are of the form fmlst, where fml are their initials and "st" stands for "student". To finger the VMS accounts you must finger at vm1.cis.pitt.edu or vm2.cis.pitt.edu. Mail addressed to user@cis.pitt.edu won't be rejected, but doesn't seem to be readable for the user's VMS account. Computer Science : cs.pitt.edu Electrical Eng : ee.pitt.edu Library & Info Science : lis.pitt.edu Medical School : med.pitt.edu Univ. of Rochester: Undergraduate, Student Staff, and a few others: uhura.cc.rochester.edu (fingerd has been re-enabled on uhura, but will be permanently disabled if finger attacks resume) All incoming now receive accounts on uhura - but whether they use them is another matter. Graduate CS: cs.rochester.edu Class Accounts, Faculty, and Graduate: troi.cc.rochester.edu Psychology: prodigal.psych.rochester.edu Anyone _who does not already have an account on another machine lists can also get an account on db1.cc.rochester.edu (vax). Whois server: whois -h db1.cc.rochester.edu Gives phone but not email for most faculty and staff at the University of Rochester and Strong Memorial Hospital. Userids are set up as follows: (Where xxxx is a 4 letter code based on your name, yyy is a 3 character random code and DPCRN is DePartment, Course Reference Number) xxxx_ltd: Standard account before August 1992; anyone can get one flnnnx: Standard accounts for incoming students and all new limited accounts. (fl initials, nnn a number, x a letter) xxxx_ss: Student Staff xxxx_eng: Some english accounts xxxx: Usually system staff or administrators yyydpcrn: Class accounts (I.E. aa1CS100 would be a computer science 100 class account, aa1eg150 would be English 150, etc...) Anyone who has an account on db1 can also mail/post from the following hosts: db{2,3,4,5,6,7}.cc.rochester.edu Univ. of Saskatchewan: Whois server available on access.usask.ca. Not a definitive list. Undergraduates generally do not have mail access and are not registered with the whois server. Other queries should be addressed to postmaster@sask.usask.ca. Univ. of Scranton, (Scranton, PA): All students are entitled to free accounts, many students don't use them. Generally, all math, CS, engineering, accounting and psychology majors use VAX accounts. Fingering by first and last names works. Students: fmlxx@jaguar.uofs.edu where f is first initial, m is middle initial and l is last initial, and XX is a number usually between 1 and 20, but sometimes hosts. hosts. hlastname@jaguar.uofs.edu lastname is sometimes followed by a number but usually not. Univ. of South Carolina (Columbia, SC): Graduate CS : usceast.cs.scarolina.edu,calvin.cs.scarolina.edu Graduate ECE: charlie.ece.scarolina.edu Univ. of Southern California: General: usc.edu Undergrad: aludra.usc.edu nunki.usc.edu usc.edu girtab.usc.edu phakt.usc.edu Graduate: pollux.usc.edu chaph.usc.edu Robotics: iris.usc.edu Faculty: pollux.usc.edu Computing Staff: skat.usc.edu Others: merlin.usc.edu and castor.usc.edu Univ. of Southern Mississippi: Created: Wed Mar 24 1993 Try finger lastname@whale.st.usm.edu All students have an account on USMCP6.BITNET but many don't know it. The student must make a special request to use bitnet mail and there is no way to tell if he/she has been so set up. This machine is soon to acquire TCP/IP software, which may then provide finger. Univ. of Southwestern Louisiana: The entire campus population has the option to participate in electronic mail. One system is reserved for campus communications, but users can recieve mail directly at other machines without participating in the centralized system. Name look-up: telnet usl.edu -or- telnet bss.usl.edu login as user "motd" select terminal type - type dumb exists if you must! select motd program - "mail-directory" for name search - n enter partial name then use "f" and "b" to flip pages second column is user mail address enter "a" or "c" to end program Sending mail: mail to address abc1234@usl.edu accounts typically are initials and last four digits of university ID # Users can also have easy to remember aliases setup, ask when you make contact. Users receiving mail at usl.edu may forward their mail to a machine they use more often, you will be notified after 24 hours if usl.edu can not forward the mail to its destination. Users who do not participate in the centralized mail system can have independant mail address on campus. Typically locations are ... CS/CE Grads: gator.cacs.usl.edu, swamp@cacs.usl.edu CE Grads: a2fay.cacs.usl.edu Undergrads & other grads: ucs.usl.edu, ea.usl.edu Univ. of Texas/Austin: Student/Faculty/Staff: walt.cc.utexas.edu, happy.cc.utexas.edu (these are NFS Sun2's). Class Accounts: ix1.cc.utexas.edu, ix2.cc.utexas.edu, emx.utexas.edu CS: cs.utexas.edu ECE Research Group: unga-gw.ece.utexas.edu, ece.utexas.edu Chemical Engineering (Grads, Faculty): che.utexas.edu The University of Texas at Austin maintains an online database which contains, among other things, a Faculty/Staff/Student directory. Telnet to utcat.utexas.edu to log on, hit a couple of returns, and just follow the prompt to get to the directory. Univ. of Texas/Dallas: Changed: Tue Feb 23 1993 fllllll@utdallas.edu finger @utdallas.edu lists all the matching full names and the corresponding user ids. For more information about most of the graduate students (irrespetive of major), staff and professors, use: finger @apache.utdallas.edu Univ. of Texas/San Antonio: Student/Faculty/Staff: lonestar.utsa.edu CS: ringer.cs.utsa.edu Usernames are typically first initial last name except for faculty usernames on ringer which are last name only. Univ. of Toronto: (Toronto, Ontario, Canada) The University has two domains: toronto.edu and utoronto.ca. Generally, undergraduates are not given free accounts unless if they are in Engineering or Computer Science. Undergraduates that do research with any of the departments listed below will usually get an e-mail account. Fingering is available in almost every site. Astronomy Department: astro.utoronto.ca Botany Department: botany.utoronto.ca Chemistry Department: alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca Computer Science Department: cs.utoronto.ca Computer Systems Research Institute: csri.utoronto.ca C.S. Undergrads (Computing Disciplines Facility): cdf.utoronto.ca Engineering Computing Facility: ecf.utoronto.ca Geography Department: geog.utoronto.ca Geophysics Department: mantle.physics.utoronto.ca Geology Department: geology.utoronto.ca Library and Information Science: flis.utoronto.ca Mechanical Engineering: me.utoronto.ca Mathematics Department: math.utoronto.ca Pharmacy/Medicine: phm.utoronto.ca, med.utoronto.ca Physics Department: physics.utoronto.ca Psychology Department: psych.utoronto.ca Scarborough College: scar.utoronto.ca Statistics Graduates and Professors: utstat.utoronto.ca Zoology: zoo.utoronto.ca Univ. of Trondheim (Norway): Changed: Wed Mar 24 1993 Students at the University of Trondheim can be reached at the following mail adresses: NTH (Norw. Inst of Techn.) : userid@solan.unit.no AVH (Coll. of Arts and Science) firstname.lastname@avh.unit.no A postmaster service exists at both sites. Employees and students at AVH can also be found in the EAN Directory Service. The Norwegian Institute of Technology, aka NTH (Norges Tekniske Hoegskole). All students at NTH have the right to open an account on the the email machines, but this right is not very heavily advertized, so most people don't use the machines. Login names may be FLLLLLLL, LLLLLLLL, FFFFFFFF, FMLLLLLL, or (for people with very common first and last names) MMMMMMMM (8 characters maximum). FLLLLLLL is probably the most common; MMMMMMMM and especially FMLLLLLL is probably quite rare. LLLLLLLL and FFFFFFFFF may be used if the user's last or first names are not not very common, especially if they are foreign. NTH Department of Computer Systems and Telematics: @idt.unit.no Univ. of Turku (Turku, Finland): Created: Tue Apr 6 1993 Finger firstname.lastname@utu.fi, or "anyname*"@utu.fi Gopher server: gopher.utu.fi Postal address: University of Turku, FIN-20500 Turku General questions: utu.kysymykset.sekalaiset@utu.fi University telephone exchange: +358 21 633 51 Computing centre operators: +358 21 633 5928 Computing centre office time (GMT +2) help line: +358 21 633 6000 Univ. of the Pacific: @madvax.uop.edu, @uop.uop.edu Usernames are a name and an initial (in any order) or just a name (i.e., Joe Smith could be jsmith, joes, or joe). Contact postmaster for help with finding someone. Univ. of Ulm (Ulm, Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany): Main campus system: rzmain.rz.uni-ulm.de. Everyone can get accounts on this VAX-cluster, but not everyone does. Students: S_lastname@rzmain.rz.uni-ulm.de Other: Lastname@rzmain.rz.uni-ulm.de Contact address: system@rzmain.rz.uni-ulm.de Computer Science: Undergraduates: login@pcpool1.informatik.uni-ulm.de; login names consists of maximal 6 letters of the last name and the first and last letter of the first name, e.g. muellehs for Hans Mueller Contact address: patzel@informatik.uni-ulm.de Graduate Students and Faculty: lastname@informatik.uni-ulm.de Neuroinformatik: lastname@neuro.informatik.uni-ulm.de Mathematics: Undergraduates: CFLLLLLL@colossix.mathematik.uni-ulm.de: C represents the course (P: Programmieren, S: Software, W: Wahlpflicht, F: Fan), F the first letter of the first name, and LLLLLL up to six letters of the last name Graduate Students and Faculty: lastname@mathematik.uni-ulm.de and firstname.lastname@mathematik.uni-ulm.de; finger lastname@laborix.mathematik.uni-ulm.de is possible Contact address: borchert@mathematik.uni-ulm.de Botanical Science: Contact address: hoppe@rzmain.rz.uni-ulm.de School of Medical Documentation: Students: logins are owned by groups of two students each: FFFFSSSS@smdmv2.klinik.uni-ulm.de, FFFF represents the first four letters of the first member and SSSS of the second member of a group finger lastname@smdmv2.klinik.uni-ulm.de is supported Contact address: smd@smd.klinik.uni-ulm.de Univ. of Utah: For accounts being managed by the University of Utah Computer Center, and any accounts that the department have turned in to the center, the directory is on PH.CC.UTAH.EDU and is accessible via the internet PH protocol. It is also accessible via the GOPHER program and it's related protocols. A limited version is availiable via the finger server at PH.CC.UTAH.EDU It is from this directory that the printed e-mail directory is made. CS Graduate Students: asylum.utah.edu CS Undergraduate Students: peruvian.utah.edu Pre-majors: cadehp0.eng.utah.edu CS Department: cs.utah.edu is the cs department main machine, for faculty, staff, and grads. Lots of departments have machines: [Very incomplete list] Elec. Eng.: ee.utah.edu Mathematics: math.utah.edu Physics: physics.utah.edu Chemistry: chemistry.utah.edu Chem. Eng.: che.utah.edu Mech. Eng.: mech.utah.edu Civ. Eng.: civil.utah.edu Biology: biology.utah.edu Mining: mines.utah.edu postmaster@xanadu.cc.utah.edu is the postmaster for more than half of the email accounts on campus, but not any cs machines. postmaster@cs.utah.edu is postmaster for CS machines postmaster@m.cc.utah.edu is postmaster for most unassigned students postmaster@science.utah.edu is postmaster for College of Science Machines. postmaster@cc.utah.edu gets most unassigned departments. postmaster@m.cc.utah.edu gets most unassigned . postmaster@cave.cc.utah.edu gets cavers and most imaginary users. The medical center handles their own stuff separately, but they often appear in the online directory at ph.cc.utah.edu Univ. of Vermont: There are two main computing organizations on campus: UCS (University Computing Services) and EMBA-CF (Division of Engineering, Mathematics, and Business Administration, Computer Facility). As a general rule, people with accounts at EMBA-CF do not bother to obtain accounts at UCS. UVM's domain name is `uvm.edu', and sub-domains are not generally used. Most of the UVM network has most TCP ports blocked off, but one machine, emily.uvm.edu, can serve as a gateway for, for example, the finger program, (i.e., finger someone@somehost@emily.uvm.edu.) UCS has three main machines: uvmvax.uvm.edu (UVMVAX.BITNET), uvmvm.uvm.edu (UVMVM.BITNET), and UVMADMIN.BITNET. Accounts on UVMVAX (a VMS system) are generally of the form Lastname_F; accounts on UVMVM and UVMADMIN don't seem to follow any particular scheme, but Lastname and LastnameF seem to be popular. Many UCS staff people use their initials. UVMVAX supports unspecified finger only; UVMVM doesn't support finger at all. EMBA-CF supports computing for the departments of Math/Stat, Business Administration, CS/EE, and Civil/Mechanical Engineering, as well as the administration of the College of Engineering and Mathematics; all students, faculty, and staff in the Division are entitled to an account, although many students do not bother to get a non-class account. Sometimes, other people may be given accounts on EMBA-CF machines. EMBA-CF has three separate mail-spool servers, and users are free to forward their mail to whichever one they happen to prefer; these machines are uvm-gen.uvm.edu, hal.uvm.edu, and trantor.uvm.edu. uvm-gen is also known as just plain UVM.EDU, and most faculty and staff with accounts at EMBA-CF have a alias of the form Firstname{.M}.Lastname installed at uvm-gen. All other users, except for class and staff accounts, are assigned by last name, with a numeric suffix in case of collision. Staff accounts for work-study employees are usually of the form operfml. Class accounts are of the form ddNNNfml, where dd is the department (cs,ce,me,ee,ma,st,ba) and NNN is the class number; in case of collision, the class number or middle initial may be changed. There are two sub-domains: msg.uvm.edu belongs to Mach Systems Group, a group of graduate students involved porting operating systems (most notably, Mach 2.5 and 3.0) to local hardware; and med.uvm.edu belongs to the UVM School of Medicine, which is not very well networked as yet. Univ. of Virginia: More or less all students, faculty, and staff can have accounts that at least receive mail, but most people don't ever bother to get or use an account. People in the School of Engineering are most likely to be accessible via e-mail. The school's primary connections are Internet links to SURAnet (local NSF Regional network), but there is also a single BITNET link. Almost any user can be located using the Internet standard whois program and the whois database that is kept on the system named: whois.virginia.edu You can also try fingering lname@virginia.edu. Univ. of Washington, Seattle: Changed: Wed Mar 24 1993 CS Grads and Faculty: lastname@cs.washington.edu Most folks are on carson.u.washington.edu or stein.u.washington.edu. Usernames can be anything. Mail sent via u.washington.edu should forward to the appropriate account. CS students, grads, and faculty can generally be looked up by last name at cs.washington.edu; if not, try june.cs.washington.edu for grads and faculty, and wolf.cs.washington.edu for undergrads. Univ. of Waterloo, Ontario: Userids are of of the form + (e.g. mbmulroney, ghwbush), and may be any length (for most machines; some still restrict them to 8 characters. Mail servers send you back a list of possible userids if the one you tried doesn't match any known user. Math/CS undergraduates: undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca CS graduate students: neumann.uwaterloo.ca CS and Math Graduate Students: violet.uwaterloo.ca and jeeves.uwaterloo.ca CS faculty may be found on one or more of the primary machines {watdragon, maytag, watcgl, daisy, jeeves, grand, poppy, vlsi, watmsg, math, watserv1}.uwaterloo.ca (tnitialolots more) Engineering undergraduate students: userid usually of form + or +, at one of {chemical, civil, electrical, mechanical}.watstar.uwaterloo.ca Also try @1302 and @108 for chemical, civil, electrical and mechanical engineering -- these are used mainly for lower-year students from all engineering departments. Systems Design Engineering: watnow.uwaterloo.ca Physics : physics.watstar.uwaterloo.ca. Art Students: artspas.watstar.uwaterloo.ca. Univ. of Western Ontario, London, Ontario: Changed: Tue Mar 30 1993 Computing and Communications Services operates a campus directory service as well as a campus E-mail forwarding service. This covers all of the faculty and staff listed in the campus telephone directory as well as many students. Registration is voluntary but for faculty and staff is reasonably complete and accurate. % whois -h whois.uwo.ca name eg. whois -h whois.uwo.ca smith eg. whois -h whois.uwo.ca j.smith eg. whois -h whois.uwo.ca john.smith The mail forwarding service works for common names as well: % mail common-name@uwo.ca eg. mail smith@uwo.ca eg. mail j.smith@uwo.ca eg. mail john.smith@uwo.ca Mail will either be forwarded to the user with that common name, or if the name is not unique, you will receive a returned message listing all users with that common name. Univ. of Wisconsin/La Crosse: username@uwlax.edu Usernames are arbitrary. Try fingering by the lastname. Univ. of Wisconsin/Madison: Phone book server (staff only): finger lname@wisc.edu CS: cs.wisc.edu Engineering: cae.wisc.edu Undergrads: Class accounts based on first and last name, @garfield.cs.wisc.edu. For other departments, you can sometimes guess the hostname from the department name. Thus: meteor.wisc.edu for Meteorology, math.wisc.edu for Mathematics. Univ. of Wisconsin - Milwaukee: Many students - csd4.csd.uwm.edu, convex.csd.uwm.edu EE ugrad and grad - ee.uwm.edu CS grad - point.cs.uwm.edu CS fac - blatz.cs.uwm.edu Students taking Comp Sci Classes: miller.cs.uwm.edu In fact if you finger cs.uwm.edu you get: Computer Science users at UWM are normally on workstations or other backbone computing machines. To locate a faculty member, graduate student or undergraduate student, you can use the finger program. The finger program can help you locate a user who is known to the CS machines at UWM. To locate a user do finger person-X@cs.uwm.edu Where X=F|f if the person is a CS faculty member X=G|g if the person is a CS grad student X=U|u if the person is a CS undergraduate student X=E|e if the person is an Engineering student X=O|o Other University machines(Just some of them!) Undergraduates are for the most part on miller.cs.uwm.edu. Graduate students are usually on cvax.cs.uwm.edu. To get a complete list of cs-faculty, finger csfac@cs.uwm.edu. Univ. of Wisconsin - River Falls: uwrf.bitnet University of Wyoming (Laramie, WY) Created: Mon Mar 22 1993 The main computer on which every student/faculty/ employee can have an account on (if they wish) is CORRAL.UWYO.EDU (a vaxcluster made up of OUTLAW.UWYO.EDU or POSSE.UWYO.EDU) The username is completely unpredictable (totally at the choice of the user). Finger at corral or posse. The graduate Cosci students often have an account on RODEO.UWYO.EDU with the same username as on CORRAL. The engineering students all have accounts on DS1.UWYO.EDU. Most incoming freshman these days will get an account on our Vax (Corral) because it looks like the freshman orientation class requires it. Utah State University: cc.usu.edu - This is the MAIN VAX. A Vax 6510 that is usually the system that everyone uses for most purposes. Our usenet news is on this computer as well as other utilities. This is also the system that is a bitnet node (USU). So mail can be sent to usu.bitnet as well. mua.usu.edu - This is our Micro-VAX that is running ultrix. Because this is the popular domain for TinyTALK and TinyFUGUE programs, the active Gamers use this system. You can finger both systems, the account names are given in a random fashion that consists of a five letter code. The first two letters usually denoting whether the user is a student or a faculty member. SL__ lists account belong to students and FA__ accounts belong to faculty members. The easiest way to locate a user is to send mail to OPERATOR@cc.usu.edu or, if your system supports the bitnet SEND command, use SEND OPERATOR@USU and ask them to look up the name for you. Vanderbilt University: Engineering faculty and grad students: @vuse.vanderbilt.edu (most user IDs are the three initials) Undergrads and other grad students: @ctrvax.vanderbilt.edu Most user IDs are llllllfm (8 chars max). You can't finger on this VAX cluster; try sending mail to userserv@ctrvax.vanderbilt.edu; you should get a response within a business day or so. Vassar: Changed: Wed Mar 24 1993 Students: FFLastname@vaxsar.vassar.edu. (Formerly FMLLLLLLLLLL). Every student is given a VAX account, but few actually activate them (by asking for a password). Faculty: Faculty must request an account in order to get it, but most of those who have accounts use them. Recent faculty usernames are of the same form as students; previously they were lastnames followed by enough letters of the first name to ensure uniqueness. Their accounts are also on vaxsar.vassar.edu. Fingering with the username or the lastname will usually work. Virginia Tech: Computer Science students at Virginia Tech (aka VPI or VPI&SU for Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, normally just Virginia Tech, though) can be found at: EE: vtccts1.cc.vt.edu, eddie.ee.vt.edu CS: csugrad.cs.vt.edu Undergraduates: userid@csugrad.cs.vt.edu Graduate Students: userid@csgrad.cs.vt.edu userid@vtopus.cs.vt.edu There is account on ne SSI Mail account. If a person has an SSI Mail account it will be: firstInitialLastName@vtssi.vt.edu. It is common for undergrad (especially non-CS) to get an SSI Mail account rather than a CSU account because it doesn't cost any money. Wake Forest University: llllllfm@wfunet.wfu.edu Washington University, St. Louis MO: Changed: Sat Mar 27 1993 Arts&Sciences undergrads: fmllllll@pear.wustl.edu or @artsci.wustl.edu Undergrad Engineers: All have accounts on cec1.wustl.edu and cec2.wustl.edu (cec2.uucp). Userids are the user's three initials followed by a single digit for disambiguating name conflicts. If there is no name conflict, the extra digit is a 1. Fingering from outside the university sometimes works. Also, some computer science students have accounts on wucs1, and anyone can have an account on maria. On these machines, the user chooses his/her own login name to be enabled. Usernames for engineering faculty are just their three initials. Other Undergrads: Try wugold.bitnet Wayne State University, Detroit MI All students in the University, regardless of their major or college can have access to an account. Engineering: ss0.eng.wayne.edu (or nova, or ece, or any solar planet, e.g. sun, venus, ...) CS: jupiter.cs.wayne.edu, zeus.cs.wayne.edu These machines support finger. Most other students' accounts are on wu.cc.wayne.edu; try 'finger partial-name@wu.cc.wayne.edu' to find information about anyone with "partial-name" in their name. Wellesley College (Wellesley, Massachusetts) FLastname#@lucy.wellesley.edu, where F is first initial, and digit # is used only to disambiguate (e.g. JSMITH1). Finger not accepted from remote sites. Faculty names never get the #. Wesleyan: Accounts are on eagle.wesleyan.edu. The username is of the form FLname, where F is the first initial and Lname is the lastname of the individual. West Chester University: Users (at least undergraduates, if not others) are given accounts on a machine whose name is the same as the first letter of their last name. Usernames are of the form fllllll. So John Doe would be jdoe%d%wcu@isn.wcupa.edu. Send mail to postmaster@isn.wcupa.edu if you have questions. West Point, the United States Military Academy Host names are of the form usmaX.usma.edu, for X from 1 to 18. Try 'finger lastname@host', starting with usma18 (since lower-numbered machines tend to refuse a finger connection). Actual mailboxes for cadets are of the form xYNNNNCC where x is the letter x, Y is last digit of graduating year (e.g. 6 for 1996), NNNN is a student ID code, and CC is company (letter-digit, e.g. D4). Western Montana College Try f_llllllll@wmc.edu. This site has no finger server. Address: 710 S. Pacific, Dillon, MT 59725 Wheaton College: UUCP: tellab5!wheaton!fmllllll Whitman College (Walla Walla, WA): Created: Wed Mar 24 1993 LLLLLLLL@marcus.whitman.edu works for faculty and students. The node does support finger. Widener University: General: First.Last@cyber.widener.edu (it may also need a middle initial) CS: lastname@cs.widener.edu Willamette University, Salem OR: userid is (e.g. ksmith) up to 8 characters all students, faculty and staff @willamette.edu Williams College: Changed: Tue Apr 6 1993 Students: Firstname.M.Lastname@williams.edu, possibly with _N (N a number) to disambiguate. Usernames *used to be* YYFML (YY = year, F = first initial, M = middle initial, L = last initial); these can still be found by fingering @bigbird.cc.williams.edu Williams' postmaster will not give out user ids to outside requests. Worcester Polytechnic Institute: @wpi.wpi.edu Yale: Changed: Wed Mar 24 1993 Fingering name@directory.yale.edu will give you all Unix people's email addresses, as well as their phone numbers. Finger Finger@directory.yale.edu for further directions. Grad CS, Undergrad CS: lastname-firstname@cs.yale.edu (yalecs.bitnet) Undergrad Accounts (plus faculty & grad students in many non-CS Graduate School depts.): YALEVM: (about 10% of students): finger LLLFFFM@yalevm.ycc.yale.edu (or LLLFFFM@yalevm.bitnet). Users can also request custom names. Mail queries can go to consult@yalevm.bitnet or postmaster@cs.yale.edu, as appropriate. MINERVA: (about 85% of ): host minverva.cis.yale.edu. Students choose login names, so there is no rule. Many use or or or ... try every combination you can think of. If this doesn't work, the following way to find the MINERVA login name, and then to use it when fingering <@minerva.cis.yale.edu> should do: finger will give you (after one or two trials) the MINERVA login name. QUICKMAIL: . Medical School: yalemed.bitnet York University (Toronto, Ontario) Changed: Mon Feb 15 1993 Try ``finger name@yorku.ca'' using first name, last name and probable userid. Also try ``whois -h horton.yorku.ca name'', also with first and last names. The faculty and staff phone book is available on gopher from gopher.yorku.ca and experimentally by ph from the same machine. About 1/3 of the faculty and staff have email, and perhaps 1/8 of the students. Faculty, Staff: userid@yorku.ca or userid@faculty.yorku.ca Userids are often first-initial last-name, but do vary. Student userids do not follow a simple pattern. Students with email are on ariel,yorku.ca (computer science), glade.yorku.ca (cs and part-time students), writer.yorku.ca (computer aided writing centre) and calumet.yorku.ca. Most of these clusters are fingerable. Questions can be sent to postmaster@yorku.ca; they're not too useful when searching for students, as there is no student phonebook. However ``whois -h horton.yorku.ca name'' discovers many student adresses. ======= ;;; *EOF* -- Software Technology Laboratory dalamb@qucis.queensu.ca (David Alex Lamb) Computing and Information Science phone: (613) 545-6067 Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada K7L 3N6