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Complete guide to college e- mail
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? Newsgroup: news.answers
? Message-ID: <[email protected]>
? Subject: FAQ: College Email Addresses 1/2 [Monthly posting]
Archive-name: college-email/part1
Last-Modified: Thu Mar 26 18:24:02 1992 by Mark Kantrowitz
Version: 3.17
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 [email protected]. 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 a.gp.cs.cmu.edu (or any
other CMU CS machine) in the directory /afs/cs.cmu.edu/user/mkant/Public/Email/
as the files college-email-1.text and college-email-2.text. Note that
you must cd to this directory in one fell swoop, as intermediate
directories are protected. Of course, if your site is running the
Andrew File System, you may access the file directly without using FTP.
You can also get the file by anonymous ftp from pit-manager.mit.edu
(18.172.1.27) in the file /pub/usenet/soc.college/Student_Email_Addresses,
or by sending a mail message to "[email protected]" with
the subject "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 ([email protected], [email protected]).
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.
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 <username>@<machinename>
replacing <machinename> with the name of the appropriate machine, and
<username> with the name of the person or the person's login ID.
For example,
% finger [email protected]
[CS.CMU.EDU]
[ Forwarding mkant as "[email protected]" ]
[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 [email protected]
[CS.CMU.EDU]
[ Forwarding Mark.Kantrowitz as "[email protected]" ]
% finger [email protected]
[CS.CMU.EDU]
[ Forwarding kantrowitz as "[email protected]" ]
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 my name (Mark Kantrowitz,
no middle initial) or "John C Smith", and a generic acronym for the
method (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
Whois is the DARPA Internet user name directory service. Do
whois help
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 <name>
whois <name>
whois -h <host> <names> (e.g., whois -h stanford.edu <names>)
This is only useful for people listed in the database.
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 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
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.
o /etc/hosts
Mail routing on the internet use to use a large file called
/etc/hosts to validate host names. This file contained information
regarding the known hosts on the network. Many sites have switched
to using the BIND name server for this purpose, so the file /etc/hosts
may be horribly out of date. On the other hand, some sites may use
/etc/hosts as a backup when the name server isn't running. Usually
sites will create the /etc/hosts file from the host data base maintained
at SRI-NIC; unfortunately, the SRI-NIC database is incomplete. In any
event, if you don't know the name of a machine at the university
your friend is at, you can try greping through /etc/hosts for the
university name or acronym to possibly come up with a likely for
the site.
o LISTSERV
If the person is subscribed to a mailing list through a LISTSERV server,
sending mail to the server with the line
WHOIS <name>
may catch the person. For example, [email protected]. This is an
unlikely option.
;;; ********************************
;;; Miscellaneous Notes ************
;;; ********************************
Addresses overseas tend to have their components reversed. For
example, @uk.ac.dund.mcs will work fine if you happen to be in
UK domain, but not in the US or the rest of the world. Use
@mcs.dund.ac.uk instead.
;;; ********************************
;;; Email Database *****************
;;; ********************************
Arizona State University:
Academic Machines: Grad, Undergrad
acvax.inre.asu.edu -- also asuacvax.bitnet -- finger works
asuvm.inre.asu.edu -- also asuacad.bitnet -- finger doesn't work
Usually all computer whizkids have accounts on either of these
machines.
USERNAMES are typically a followed by g for grad assistants/associates
u for undergrads, z and s for other grads followed by first letters
of first, middle and last names thus making up a 5 letter userid for
all academic machines.
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.
Ball State University:
University Computing Services: [email protected]
Some faculty and grad students have accounts on this machine.
CS: [email protected]
Barnard: See Columbia.
Bates College (Lewiston, Maine):
Students and Faculty: [email protected]
userids are of the form flllllll. Numbers are added to the end
of the userid in case of name conflicts.
Baylor College of Medicine:
The central mail server is bcm.tmc.edu and finger [email protected] will
get you any faculty or staff user that makes use of the central mail
facility. finger [email protected] 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
[email protected]
Boston Univ.:
Main campus system: buacca.bu.edu (buacca.bitnet) 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 ssspppc where
sss = school (or major if College of Liberal Arts)
(SMG - School of Management, POL - poli sci, etc.)
ppp = 3 characters of semi-random garbage
c = the letter 'c', indicating a Course account
Mail to [email protected] with "WHOIS whoever" will catch
anyone subscribed to a LISTSERV list (not many people).
Unix accounts: Mail or finger [email protected] or
[email protected]. Mailing [email protected] is currently broken.
CS: cs.bu.edu (bucs[ad1-9] and bu-cs all represent the same
system).
Undergrad CS: bucsf.bu.edu.
Engineering: buengc.bu.edu
Bowdoin:
fl*@bowdoin.bitnet, where f is the first initial, l* is the
lastname up to some number of characters.
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 'guest'.
Chemistry: chem1.bradley.edu
CS: bucs1.bradley.edu, cssun1, cssun2
Physics: truth.bradley.edu
Physics: beauty.bradley.edu
Brandeis:
Undergraduates: pip.cc.brandeis.edu
Usernames on pip are of the form STXXYYYY where XX is
the year the student entered Brandeis and YYYY is the
student's campus mailbox number. Not all students use
their accounts, so check with the student before emailing.
US mail can be sent to
<Student Name>
MB <YYYY>, Brandeis University
PO Box 9110
Waltham, MA 02254-9110
For phone information: On-campus students can be reached by dialing an
automated "spell-the-name" server at +1 617 736 3000 , 24 hours a day,
or during business hours through the Brandeis operator at +1 617 736
2000. Off-campus students' numbers can be obtained through the campus
information booth at +1 617 736 4770 during business hours.
Some undergrads have accounts on a more advanced unix machine,
chaos.cs.brandeis.edu. Userids are chosen by the student; finger
{lastname}@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu or mail to
[email protected] for info.
Graduate Students: binah.cc.brandeis.edu (brandeis.bitnet).
Not all use them; write to [email protected]
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.
Brown:
Undergrads: brownvm.brown.edu (brownvm.bitnet) Username is
some random alphanumerics.
CS: cs.brown.edu
Bryn Mawr College:
[email protected] ([email protected])
The former is fingerable, unlike the .bitnet address. This
machine is mostly used by undergrads.
Bucknell University:
[email protected]
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.
California Inst. of Tech:
CCO MACHINES (undergrad/grad/general) CCO means campus computing org.
Unix:
tybalt.caltech.edu: also called tybalt.cco.caltech.edu or
truebalt. There are about 15 machines on this cluster of
Suns/NeXTs. The mail server is actually called
cobalt.caltech.edu or cobalt.cco.caltech.edu (either one
works). All of these are equally good.
VMS: Juliet.caltech.edu. Also romeo,hamlet,iago,portia.
These are all the same vax cluster.
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:
students: student #s 000000-099999 -> [email protected]
student #s 100000- -> [email protected]
faculty/staff: [email protected] where "xxxx" is the standard
faculty abbrevation.
Computer Science students will usually be on
"ursa.calvin.edu" or "ucpsc.calvin.edu".
Carnegie Mellon University:
Undergrad: andrew.cmu.edu
Grad CS: cs.cmu.edu
Grad Robotics: ri.cmu.edu
ECE: ece.cmu.edu
Mail sent to Fname.[email protected] works, even if the name
is slightly misspelled. Andrew usernames are two initials followed
by two random characters. Mail to CS/RI may be sent to
Fname.[email protected]. CS/RI usernames are arbitrary names selected
by the user. If you wish to send to the username, add a + at
the end of the name: [email protected]
bitnet.cc.cmu.edu (carnegie.bitnet) is the gateway to bitnet.
The CMU.EDU domain name has now been enabled for use of the new
campus-wide mail/finger service.
Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland:
po.cwru.edu is the post office. Every student and professor
has access to email through this machine. (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
computer lab. The user ids on that machine are the full last
name, for the most part. (Mainly CS and EE's on this machine.)
If a student is in the dorms, they have their own internet
number, so you can FTP to their PC. Such machines are named
b#####.student.cwru.edu where # is some digit.
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
Clark College:
firstname.[email protected], or [email protected]. Send
mail to [email protected] if you have difficulty.
Note: this is not Clark University (clarku.edu).
Clark University:
vax.clarku.edu and black.clarku.edu
Colby:
[email protected]
You can figure username, firstname, or lastname.
College of William & Mary (Williamsburg, VA):
[email protected]
Colorado College:
Students: F_LLLLLLLL%[email protected]
Faculty: FLLLLLL%[email protected].
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 [email protected].
CS Grads and Faculty: cs.columbia.edu (also, some cs undergrads)
Also try: ctr.columbia.edu. This has EE faculty and students who
are affiliated with the Center for Telecommunications Research.
Cornell:
Undergrads: vax5.cit.cornell.edu, cornella.cit.cornell.edu
Anyone associated with Cornell full-time can get CIT accounts
(CIT is the campus-wide computing facility). Not everybody does
so, and accounts are only activated when people first log on to
that machine. Everybody gets an account on the VMS machine vax5,
and on one of the 370s, cornella and cornellc. Students and
faculty are typically on cornella and staff on cornellc, but
there are many exceptions.
Postmaster won't give out addresses.
Try: @cs.cornell.edu, @svax.cs.cornell.edu, cornellf.tc.cornell.edu
or @theory.tc.cornell.edu (supercomputing center) for CS people.
@eagle.tc.cornell.edu for AIX/370 folks.
EE: @ee.cornell.edu
Bitnet: cornella.bitnet, crnlvax5.bitnet, cornellc.bitnet (gateway).
Username was previously their initials.
As of Fall 1990, usernames are now randomly generated 4
character IDs, which do not resemble real names at all.
Faculty and staff may ask to have a 3-character id of their choice.
[Actually, they are an (unknown) hash function of the
student's social security number.]
Since they have no online email address directory (or
published hardcopy list, for that matter), and the
administrators do not give out usernames over the phone, it
is virtually impossible to reach someone via email unless
you talk to them in person first. So your only bet is to call
the Cornell Registrar at 607-255-4232, ask for the person's
street address, and write them a letter.
People can be looked up, including voluntarily-supplied email
addresses (except for students) on CUINFO: telnet to
cornellc.cit.cornell.edu, port 300.
Cornell College (Mount Vernon, Iowa)
Most Usernames are FLLLLLL, some may be LLLLLL or FFFFFF.
Mail to [email protected]
Finger: CS: turing.csc.cornell-iowa.edu
Others: hera.acn.cornell-iowa.edu
zeus.acn.cornell-iowa.edu
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 [email protected].
Dartmouth:
Send mail to fname.[email protected] (or fname.mi.lname if
it is a very common name). If the name is ambiguous, you might
want to finger fname.[email protected] 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
[email protected]. 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.
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#
Duke:
Undergrads, Grads, and many Faculty/Staff:
The mail server is hercules.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.
dukemvs.bitnet (dukemvs.ac.duke.edu) is the bitnet
gateway.
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
Earlham:
Students: [email protected] (or earlham.bitnet)
Administration: [email protected] (or earlham.bitnet)
Usernames are of the form LLLLLLF.
Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech):
All Users (faculty/staff/students): prism.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.
CS Dept (Faculty, staff, PhD students): gatech.edu, boa.gatech.edu
Usernames:
students: gtXXXXy (example: gt6953b)
XXXX = last 4 digits of Campus PO Box
y = A-E to make it unique (PO Boxes are shared, blaa)
faculty/staff: first and last initial with numeric suffix to make
it unique. (example: sh12)
Accounts issued by other departments have different conventions,
but users typically set up the appropriate forwarding addresses.
Also try: [email protected],
prism's postmaster will look up addresses so long as it does
not become an onerous task.
Most faculty and researchers have accounts on
gtri01.gatech.edu (gtri01.bitnet), with usernames of up to 8
characters of the format fllllll.
Glassboro State College:
Faculty: gboro.glassboro.edu; userid is last name.
Students: some on gboro.glassboro.edu, most accessible
via <username>%[email protected]. Student
usernames are last name, with first initial added to
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., [email protected]
or [email protected]
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 [email protected] asking for help.
Haverford:
Students: acc.haverford.edu
Harvard:
Undergrads: @husc9.harvard.edu, @husc9.uucp
Also try: husc{2,3,4,6,7,8,9,11}, harvard.harvard.edu.
Username is lastname, with a number appended in case of duplicates.
During Summer '90, Harvard moved most undergrad and grad
accounts to husc9 instead of husc4.
Harvard now has a mail server, so fingering at
husc.harvard.edu seems to work.
All Harvard Medical School students now have accounts on
student.med.harvard.edu. The system is realitvely new,
however, and the number who actually use them at this time
appears to be small. The usernames are of the form
[email protected].
Harvey Mudd, Claremont CA:
Undergrads: [email protected]
[email protected]
Indiana University:
Faculty, Staff, Students: [email protected] Usernames
are portions of the person's real name. 8 characters, usually
the last name plus maybe a few initials.
Student/Staff VAX/VMS machines: (main nodes)
gold.ucs.indiana.edu, aqua.ucs.indiana.edu,
jade.ucs.indiana.edu, amber.ucs.indiana.edu,
rose.ucs.indiana.edu
silver.ucs.indiana.edu -- Unix, All students ( mostly CS undergrads)
copper.ucs.indiana.edu -- These two are VAXen running Ultrix
(UNIX) They're student machines.
bronze.ucs.indiana.edu -- This is DEC RISC (Not a VAX)
running Ultrix. Staff only...
iuvax.cs.indiana.edu -- Unix, CS students ( mostly grad students
and faculty )
The email address of any student, faculty, or staff member at Indiana
can be found out by doing a "finger [email protected]" or
"whois -h indiana.edu lastname"
Type "finger [email protected]" or "whois -h indiana.edu help" for
more information about the service.
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.
Kalamazoo College:
[email protected]
Kansas State Univ.:
VM/SP (soon to be VM/XA)
------------------------
ksuvm.ksu.edu All students, faculty, and staff. This is by
far the most popular machine.
Unix
----
matt.ksu.ksu.edu All students and faculty.
phobos.cis.ksu.edu CS undergrads.
deimos.cis.ksu.edu CS grads.
ksuvax1.cis.ksu.edu CS grads and faculty.
harris.cis.ksu.edu CS grads and faculty.
eecea.eece.ksu.edu EE grads and faculty.
depot.cis.ksu.edu CS grads, faculty, and staff.
harris.cis.ksu.edu CS undergrads.
(phobos, deimos, and ksuvax1 are going away soon.)
math.ksu.edu Math staff, faculty, grads, and some undergrads.
Lehigh University:
Undergrads: [email protected]
Help with specific userids can be obtained from
[email protected].
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 [email protected], 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.
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:
[email protected]
username is typically of the form lllllllf.
MIT:
Finger [email protected] 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
[email protected] 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
and some graduate students.
MITVMA.MIT.EDU is the gateway to bitnet.
Michigan State Univ.:
@frith.egr.msu.edu @eecae.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:
[email protected] ([email protected])
where "user" is usually the last name, but is often some other
combination of first name, initials, etc to provide uniqueness
throughout the college.
In Addition, CPS students and faculty can receive mail at
[email protected]
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.
[email protected] [email protected]
and also the Convex
[email protected]
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): [email protected]
Faculty/Students (Mankato State Univ.): [email protected]
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)
Mt Holyoke College:
[email protected].edu
New Jersey Institute of Technology:
Newark NJ 07021
CS PhD Studs: [email protected]
Grad Studs: [email protected] (ultrix), [email protected] (vms)
New Mexico State Univ.:
Virtually all email addresses are of the form
[email protected]. Finger is not well supported. Mail to
postmaster should help. (Also, if you have an account, there
is a postmaster program.)
Northeastern:
The engineering postmaster is [email protected].northeastern.edu.
For other mail, try [email protected]
Northwestern:
Undergrads: formerly nuacc.acns.nwu.edu (nuacc.bitnet).
Username is lastname.
Campus mail is being moved over to casbah.acns.nwu.edu, and
all new accounts will be created on this machine. Mail sent to
[email protected] should reach the person if they
have an account. You can also telnet to casbah [129.105.113.52],
logging in as "ph" and use "query NAME" to find out information
about NAME.
Tech grad students: [email protected]
Notre Dame:
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.
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 [email protected]
College of textiles comp. center: [email protected]
Oberlin:
Many students and faculty have accounts on ocvax{a,b}, which
can be reached as oberlin.bitnet and ocvaxa.cc.oberlin.edu.
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 [email protected]
CS students/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: [email protected].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" should also work.
Ohio University (Athens OH):
CS (UNIX): fllll@oucsace.cs.ohiou.edu
CS (VMS): oucsduce.cs.ohiou.edu
EE (grad students): [email protected], @redskins.ent.ohiou.edu
Undergrads (class accounts): OUACCVMB.BITNET
Faculty: OUACCVMA.BITNET
Oklahoma State/Stillwater:
[email protected].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
Penn State Univ.:
Undergrads: psuvm.psu.edu (psuvm.bitnet)
Engineering Computer Lab: @psuhcx.psu.edu
Most of the Engineering Computer Lab accounts are on the VAXCluster
PSUECL.bitnet (or ecl.psu.edu).
PSUVM doesn't support finger, but they do have a Bitnet server
that will return a username for a given name (or vice versa). To use,
send an interactive message HELP to IDSERVER@PSUVM
psuvax1.bitnet (dba psuvax1.cs.psu.edu, psuvax1.uucp) is their
bitnet<-->uucp gateway.
The Electronic Bulletin Board contains, among many other
things, the entire student, staff, and faculty directory.
To use EBB, one connects to psuvm.psu.edu from an
Internet-connected site using tn3270. After the initial logon
screen appears, type the RETURN key and the screen will clear.
Type "ebb" and hit RETURN, and the user will be presented with
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.
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, [email protected].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
mentor = most other CS courses
Students not in one of these courses may still have an account on
one of these three machines, since there are many smaller groups
to which accounts are issued.
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. 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.
Reed College:
[email protected], where username is of the form flllllll
Rice:
Mail may be sent to <username>@rice.edu. Note that you can't
finger this machine. Rice students now have off-campus
electronic access (email, netnews), so long as it is for
educational purposes only.
Owlnet accounts are provided for undergraduate and graduate engineers.
Non-engineers are given accounts when needed for a class, and then
the accounts are deleted after the class is over. A general address
for these accounts is @owlnet.rice.edu.
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 [email protected].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.)
NOTE: 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
Math: math1
Mathematical Sciences: masc1, masc6
Mechanical Engineering: caesar
Statistics: stat1
Office of Networking and Computer Systems: brazos, uncle-bens
OWLNET: great-horned, marsh, snowy,
pygmy, great-gray
RIT (Rochester Inst. of Tech):
ritvax.bitnet
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 [email protected] with digits added to break ties.
finger [email protected] to verify userid only.
but finger @rpi.edu doesn't yield any login information.
Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT):
[email protected]
aaa= users initials
XXXX= last 4 digits of user's Social Security number
Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology: Terre Haute, IN
RoseVC.Rose-Hulman.Edu [137.112.4.2]
This is the DEC VAX where most students have accounts. A
typical username is of the form llllllfm.
Rutgers:
Rutgers now (as of December 1991) has a whitepages server, so
you can do whois -h whitepages.rutgers.edu "fname lname" to
find email addresses.
CS faculty: cs.rutgers.edu (alias aramis.rutgers.edu)
CS grad studs: paul.rutgers.edu
CS undergrad: remus.rutgers.edu
CS Systems Staff: cs.rutgers.edu, klinzhai.rutgers.edu,
hardees.rutgers.edu
Engineering: zodiac.rutgers.edu, cancer.rutgers.edu, pisces.rutgers.edu
Zodiac is an alias for the pisces/cancer vax-cluster. Many engineering
grad students have accounts on caip.rutgers.edu or jove.rutgers.edu.
First and second year engineering students occasionally get
accounts on this vax cluster.
Math: math.rutgers.edu, hilbert.rutgers.edu, fermat, newton, euler
Other machines: elbereth.rutgers.edu, dorm.rutgers.edu (The latter
for students who live in one particular dormitory.)
Usernames are fml or llllll or fllllll or fmllllll or sometimes
something else entirely.
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 [email protected] may be useful in finding
someone at any of the non-Rutgers colleges in NJ.
Seattle University:
Everybody (students and faculty) are on the same machine,
@seattleu.edu
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 [email protected] for any delivery problems or other
questions about the College.
Smith: smith.smith.edu
Sonoma State University: fname.[email protected]
Southwest Texas State University:
cs and math faculty or grad students: @swtexas.bitnet
(most user IDs are cs_lastname or ma_lastname)
Stanford:
Undergrads: Most students have accounts on leland.stanford.edu
Some students have accounts on popserver, which is dedicated
to email. Their usernames can be fingered at angelo.stanford.edu.
Your best bet is to finger using the person's last name, as
students may choose any username. (Leland is not fingerable.)
[The following service has not yet been implemented at
Stanford, as of 10-23-91. --mark
You can also try fingering [email protected]. This uses
the whois server on argus.stanford.edu. (Also try flllll or
llllll, depending on how common the name is.) This info isn't
updated as often as it should be; students (including
undergrads) can update their own email addresses, but few know
how to or care. ]
To use finger service at Stanford, you must already know a person's
e-mail address. To find out someone's e-mail address, use whois
service. Issue the command
> whois -h stanford.edu <last_name, full_name, unique_id,
telephone_number, or e-mail_address if
you know that but want other info.>
SUNY/Buffalo:
Grads, Undergrads: [email protected] [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): [email protected]
ubvms is a VAX, and most students had accounts there.
Recently, however, more people are getting accounts on acsu,
the Unix system.
Engineering Students: [email protected]
EE Students: [email protected]
CS Dept: [email protected] ([email protected])
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/Stony Brook:
Undergraduates: [email protected] (sbccvm.bitnet)
[email protected] (sbccmail.bitnet)
(servers ccsinc.bitnet and ccnova.bitnet)
[email protected] (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 [email protected]
Syracuse Univ.:
+CompSci Grads/Faculty: host: top.cis.syr.edu
Many CompSci graduates and faculty have accounts on this
machine; the username pattern is "[email protected]" in
most cases.
+Faculty possibility:
host: SUAIS.bitnet
Syracuse Academic Information System. This is where the majority
of faculty and staff have accounts. There is, however, very
little along the lines of naming conventions. Try "lastname +
first initial of first name" as the possible username.
+Other students and faculty:
host: rodan.acs.syr.edu (Sun4/490/UNIX)
mothra.cns.syr.edu (Sun4 Cluster/UNIX)
sunrise.acs.syr.edu (VAX 8820/VMS)
suvm.acs.syr.edu (IBM 3090/CMS)
suvm.acs.syr.edu and sunrise.acs.syr.edu are run by the SU
Academic Computing Center and undergrads usually have accounts
on sunrise (which is a VAX VMS cluster). Both hosts are on
bitnet as suvm and sunrise.
The pattern for usernames is as follows for all of these hosts.
first-initial + middle-initial + as much of the last name as
possible.
+White-Pages: "finger [email protected]" 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.
+Phone Book: The Syracuse Phone book oftentimes has usernames
in it as well. Dialing (315) 443-1870 is campus information,
if the userid exists in the phonebook, the people there will
be happy to give it out.
[email protected] -- 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.
logiclab.syr.edu is for mathematical logic and logic
programming grads/faculty.
Swarthmore:
All Students/Faculty/Staff: [email protected].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, [email protected].edu
[The following is the old info, which still holds for some people:
All Students: [email protected].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 students 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 students) 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 [email protected] or [email protected].
(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: VAX1.TRINCOLL.EDU (trincc.vax.bitnet)
Ths is a VMS machine, but it supports finger.
Tufts University:
tufts.edu, tufts.bitnet
Entries beginning with U may be found in the next posting
(college-email-2.text).
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Archive-name: college-email/part2
Last-Modified: Thu Mar 26 18:24:02 1992 by Mark Kantrowitz
Version: 3.17
This is the second half of the summary of how to find email addresses
for undergraduate and graduate students, faculty and staff at various
colleges and universities.
;;; ********************************
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Univ. of Aalborg: @iesd.auc.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 [email protected]...
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: [email protected]
CS dept : [email protected]
Math dept: [email protected]
Grad std/Research : [email protected]
Univ. of Arizona:
Undergraduates are not routinely given computer accounts. If an
undergrad has an account, it is almost certainly a single-semester one
on the cluster ccit.arizona.edu for a specific class. The username is
in the format:
Lxxxxyyyy
L= first letter of last name
xxxx = last four digits of student ID number (usually SSN)
yyyy = last four digits of course sequence number
This cluster is also known as "ivax" and "rvax," depending on who you
talk to. These are actually nodes in the larger cluster.
Ccit.arizona.edu serves all those who don't have their own computers,
which is almost everyone. If you're looking for someone who's an
undergrad, send polite mail to [email protected]. You MUST
know their first and last names, the college they're in, and whether
they're a grad or undergrad. They forward that message to the
customer accounts office, which calls the user, and asks if it's ok to
give out their username. So using the phone is better.
Many faculty and staff are also 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; ask root.
Undergrads in Engineering are on a cluster of Suns; ask
[email protected].
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 (i.e.,
RReagan) @mis.arizona.edu with very good success.
Arizona.EDU is the campus mail gateway, but only those who ask get
aliases on Arizona.EDU. You could try [email protected] if you
suspect the person you want uses EMAIL a lot. However,
[email protected] is an unusually helpful person, and extremely
polite mail sent to him may result in an answer.
Univ. of Atlanta: @auc.UUCP
Univ. of California/Berkeley: Many different accounts on many machines.
Undergraduates in General: 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: ucbarpa.berkeley.edu
EE Faculty: janus.berkeley.edu, 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, 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
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 <name>
Univ. of California/Irvine:
CS Undergrads: bonnie.ics.uci.edu
CS Grads/Staff/Faculty: ics.uci.edu
EE: orion.uci.edu
Userid usually FLLLLLLL (8 char max); sometimes FFFFFFFL.
Faculty userids are usually their last names.
Try fingering [email protected]
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.
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 [email protected]".
Most usernames are the initial of the first name followed by the
last name, truncated to 8 characters, ie. "[email protected]", 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 Chicago:
The University of Chicago now (fall91) runs the ph mail
system, so sending mail to [email protected] 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 [email protected].
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)
CS Grads: gargoyle.uchicago.edu
Math: zaphod.uchicago.edu
Education: paideia.uchicago.edu
Chemistry: pico.uchicago.edu
Also Try: uchep.uchicago.edu
Univ. of Colorado/Boulder:
tramp.colorado.edu, colorado.edu.
Univ. of Connecticut:
uconn.edu
[email protected]
CS Undergrads: ug1.eng1.uconn.edu
CS Grads and Faculty: cse1.cse.uconn.edu
CS Research and Grads: sparc0.brc.uconn.edu
Univ. of Dayton (Ohio):
School of Engineering: udecc.engr.udayton.edu
CPS: udcps3.cps.udayton.edu
General: udavxb.oca.udayton.edu
Univ. of Florida (Gainesville, FL):
Finger [email protected]. Contains complete listings
for people in the College of Engineering, and some listings
for people in other departments.
Univ. of Illinois, Champ.:
CS: mail to [email protected] or [email protected]
should work.
Campus: mail to [email protected] and [email protected]
usually works.
Student Accounts: uxa.cso.uiuc.edu Every freshman gets an
account on this machine. Usernames are usually the user's
three initials, followed by five random characters.
CS/Grad Stud Research: m.cs.uiuc.edu (Encore Multimax)
Classes: ux1.cso.uiuc.edu, hendrix.ece.uiuc.edu
(Purely instructional. 1 semester accounts on this machine.)
Faculty: are mostly on ux1.cso.uiuc.edu
whois -h uiuc.edu <names>
It is usually possible to send mail to [email protected] or
[email protected]. If that fails, you will get a
message which tells you why the email could not be sent.
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:
Engineers - on the Apollo ring
- @icaen.uiowa.edu
- First Inital Middle Initial Last Name
Others - @weeg.uiowa.edu
Univ. of Kansas:
Student Accounts: kuhub.cc.ukans.edu
Most user ID's are their last names (first 6 letters).
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 Department: username@alpine.umcs.maine.edu
CS faculty and students: [email protected].edu
Univ. of Maryland:
Finger lastname or firstname at wam.umd.edu or cs.umd.edu.
All undergraduates may request an account on the wam
(Workstations At Maryland) host at no charge. You can also
trying fingering at eng.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
[email protected].
Univ. of Massachusetts/Amherst:
Students/Faculty: first.{mi.}[email protected] (This is
on the CDC Cyber NOS/VE system.) Another common format is
first.{mi.}[email protected]. 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}[email protected]. 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 [email protected]. Adjustments are made
for conflicts such as adding the middle initial after the
first, or adding additional letters from the first name.
Not all students automatically get accounts on the VMS system,
but if they do they can be addressed as [email protected].
Finger does not work on this machine. 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:
All students can get accounts on ub.cc.umich.edu, but it is
not a unix environment (its MTS), so send mail to postmaster.
This has been "fixed" so that it can now (11/90) handle
finger. Student accounts are generally
firstname.[email protected] or @um.cc.umich.edu.
(Try fingering at ubmts.cc.umich.edu for these users. The
bitnet mail address is umichub.bitnet. You can also try
firstname_lastname.) The UB server will be merged into the UM
server soon.
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 <return> NAME <return>
to get finger information for NAME
A database of U of Michigan student phone numbers (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.
Engineers get accounts on an apollo ring (caen.engin.umich.edu).
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
Also try fingering at [email protected].
Univ. of Minnesota:
CS Grad StudsL: umn-cs.cs.umn.edu Username is same as the
student's last name.
Undergrads in technical majors will have temporary accounts on
ux.acss.umn.edu, vx.acss.umn.edu, or ca.acss.umn.edu, for classes.
Chemistry (faculty, staff, grads): [email protected]
The login is usually the person's last name, although there
are some exceptions.
Try fingering [email protected].
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 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 [email protected]
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 [email protected], 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 North Carolina at Chapel Hill:
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 [email protected]. 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 128.109.157.1
login as info
follow the menus to Campus Directory
OR
telnet to 128.109.157.150
a couple of returns
at '#' prompt type info
follow menus to Campus Directory
Medical School: students, staff, and faculty.
finger name@boone.med.unc.edu
finger [email protected]
(They alternate each incoming year between the 2 servers to
parcel out disk space better, so fingering @med.unc.edu won't
work. However, once you know the user id, send mail to
[email protected].)
Univ. of Notre Dame:
Every student gets an account on the AFS system (mainly Sparcs
with some others thrown in). All account names are
[email protected]
In case of name clashing, a 1, 2 etc. is tagged on to the end
So, james doe and john doe would have accounts like this
james: jdoe
john: jdoe1
All the computers are UNIX systems, so finger works like a
charm.
The university database resides on nd.edu, and you can access
it via finger:
finger [email protected], or
finger "firstname lastname"@nd.edu
Univ. of Oklahoma/Norman:
[email protected]
Univ. of Oregon:
CS Grads and Faculty: <username>@cs.uoregon.edu
CS Undergrads/CIE: <username>@cie.uoregon.edu (this is only
for CS undergrads subscribing to the campus information
exchange)
Others?: [email protected] for those with email accounts
U-mail: first.middle.[email protected] 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 Pennsylvania:
All students (grad/undergrad): 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: eniac.seas.upenn.edu, grad1.cis.upenn.edu,
grasp.cis.upenn.edu, linc.cis.upenn.edu,
graphics.cis.upenn.edu, dsl.cis.upenn.edu
CS faculty/staff: central.cis.upenn.edu
Medical School: [email protected]
Medical students, biomed grad students, and some faculty
have accounts on this system.
Other depts: pender.ee.upenn.edu
Administrative: moore.seas.upenn.edu
Also try: @ellison.cis.upenn.edu, @tucker.cis.upenn.edu
(these are suns in a public lab, but they don't handle mail.)
Try fingering [email protected].
Univ. of Pittsburgh:
Students get their choice of Unix or VMS accounts, addressed
as [email protected] and [email protected],
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 [email protected] 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:
Undergrad: uhura.cc.rochester.edu
Graduate CS: cs.rochester.edu
Students can also get an account on db1.cc.rochester.edu (vax).
Faculty are also on uhura.cc.rochester.edu and db1.cc.rochester.edu.
Psychology: prodigal.psych.rochester.edu
Whois server: whois -h db1.cc.rochester.edu <name>
Gives phone but not email for most people.
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 [email protected].
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 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 <CR>
enter partial name then <CR>
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 [email protected]
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, [email protected]
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
Univ. of Texas/Dallas: [email protected]
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 the Pacific:
@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 Utah:
Undergrad/cs: ug.utah.edu
CS: cs.utah.edu
Also try: hell.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@[email protected].)
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 [email protected].
Univ. of Washington, Seattle:
CS Grads and Faculty: [email protected]
Most folks are on milton.u.washington.edu, which is the same as
u.washington.edu. Usernames can be anything. Mail sent via
u.washington.edu will 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 <initials>+<surname> (e.g. mbmulroney, ghwbush),
and may be up to 12 characters long. Some machines still
restrict the userids to 8 characters.
Note that waterloo.edu is the same as uwaterloo.ca.
Math/CS undergraduates: descartes.waterloo.edu
CS graduate students: neumann.waterloo.edu
CS and Math Graduate Students: violet.waterloo.edu and jeeves.waterloo.edu
CS faculty may be found on one or more of
{watdragon, water, maytag, watcgl, daisy, watfun, grand,
vlsi, watmsg, watmath, watserv1}.waterloo.edu
Engineering undergraduate students: userid of form
<surname>+<initials> or <initials>+<surname>, at one of
{chemical, civil, electrical, mechanical}.watstar.waterloo.edu
Physics students: physics.watstar.waterloo.edu.
Univ. of Wisconsin/La Crosse:
[email protected]
Usernames are arbitrary. Try fingering by the lastname.
Univ. of Wisconsin/Madison:
Phone book server (staff only): finger [email protected]
CS: cs.wisc.edu
Undergrads: Class accounts based on first and last name,
@garfield.cs.wisc.edu.
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 [email protected]
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 [email protected].
Univ. of Wisconsin - River Falls:
uwrf.bitnet
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___ account belong to students and FA___
accounts belong to faculty members. The easiest way to locate
a user is to send mail to [email protected] or, if your
system supports the bitnet SEND command, use SEND OPERATOR@USU
and ask them to look up the name for you.
Vassar:
Students: [email protected]. (Every student is given
a VAX account, but few actually use them.)
Faculty: Faculty must request an account in order to get it,
but most of those who have accounts use them. Faculty
usernames are 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.
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 lllllllf (8 chars max);
can't finger on this VAX cluster though)
Wake Forest University:
[email protected]
Washington University, St. Louis MO:
Undergrad Engineers: All have accounts on cec1.wustl.edu and
cec2.wustl.edu (cec2.uucp). Usernames are composed of a person's first,
middle, and last initials plus the last four digits of their
social security number. Fingering from outside the university
has been disabled, but try it anyway, since it sometimes seems
to be enabled. Usernames for engineering faculty are just
their three initials. (As of 17-NOV-91, userids are now 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 students have accounts on maria
and wucs1. On these machines, the user chooses his/her own
login name.)
Other Undergrads: Try wugold.bitnet
Also try: wucs1.wustl.edu, maria.wustl.edu
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%[email protected]. Send mail
to [email protected] if you have questions.
Widener University:
General: [email protected] (it may also need a
middle initial)
CS: [email protected]
Willamette University, Salem OR:
userid is <first initial><lastname> (e.g. ksmith)
up to 8 characters
all students, faculty and staff
<userid>@willamette.edu
Williams College:
williams.bitnet. Username is YYFML (YY = year, F = first
initial, M = middle initial, L = last initial). Some usernames
have a _C postpended (YYFML_C).
I believe this machine is vax.cc.williams.edu.
Williams' postmaster will not give out user ids to outside
requests.
Worcester Polytechnic Institute:
@wpi.wpi.edu
Yale:
Fingering [email protected].edu will give you all Unix
people's email addresses, as well as their phone numbers.
Grad CS, Undergrad CS: [email protected].edu
(yalecs.bitnet)
Undergrad Accounts (plus faculty & grad students in many
non-CS Graduate School depts.): [email protected].edu
(or [email protected]). LLL is the first 3 letters of the
last name, FFF is the first 3 letters of the first name, and
M is the middle initial. Users can also request custom names.
Mail queries can go to [email protected] or
[email protected].edu, as appropriate. Some non-CS undergrads
can be reached at [email protected].edu.
Medical School: yalemed.bitnet
;;; ********************************
;;; 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.
They are: 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.
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From: [email protected] (Mark Kantrowitz)
Newsgroups: soc.college,soc.net-people,news.answers
Subject: FAQ: College Email Addresses 2/2 [Monthly posting]
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
Date: 7 Apr 92 04:18:40 GMT
Expires: Thu, 21 May 92 04:18:30 GMT
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