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From: [e-mail] (David Lamb)
Subject: FAQ: College Email Addresses 1/3 [Monthly posting]
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Last-Modified: Tue Dec 15 14:12:18 1992 by David Lamb
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This is a summary of how to find email addresses for undergraduate and
graduate students, faculty and staff at various colleges and universities. If
your university is not listed, send me a detailed description of how to find
email addresses there and I'll add it to this list. Please mail ADDITIONS,
CORRECTIONS, SUGGESTIONS, and OTHER INFORMATION to me at
    [e-mail].
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 (18.172.1.27) in
the file /pub/usenet/soc.college/Student_Email_Addresses, or by sending a mail
message to "[e-mail]" with the subject
    send dalamb/college-email
or by sending a message to "[e-mail]" 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 ([e-mail], [e-mail]).

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 *************
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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 [e-mail]
    [CS.CMU.EDU]

    [ Forwarding mkant as "[e-mail]" ]

    [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 [e-mail]
    [CS.CMU.EDU]
    [ Forwarding Mark.Kantrowitz as "[e-mail]" ]

    % finger [e-mail]
    [CS.CMU.EDU]
    [ Forwarding kantrowitz as "[e-mail]" ]
   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 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. 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  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, [e-mail]. 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 "[e-mail]" (without the quotes, of course).
   Internet mail incoming to America Online is trucated at 27 kilobytes.


;;; ********************************
;;; 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 *****************
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Amherst College:
    Students, Faculty, Staff: [e-mail]
    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 [e-mail]) 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):

    [e-mail]

    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.

Ball State University:
    University Computing Services: [e-mail]
    Some faculty and grad students have accounts on this machine.
    CS: [e-mail]

Barnard: See Columbia.

Bates College (Lewiston, Maine):
     Students and Faculty: [e-mail]
    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 [e-mail]

Baylor College of Medicine:

    The central mail server is bcm.tmc.edu and finger [e-mail] will
    get you any faculty or staff user that makes use of the central mail
    facility. finger [e-mail] 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
    [e-mail]

Birmingham-Southern College (Birmingham, AL):
    bsc835![e-mail] where userid are of the form
    flllllll. Postmaster is bsc835![e-mail].

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 [e-mail] or [e-mail].
        Mailing [e-mail] 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:
    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 [phone] , 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 [phone] 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
    [e-mail] for info.

    Graduate Students: binah.cc.brandeis.edu (brandeis.bitnet).
    Not all use them; write to [e-mail]
    for information. Userid is chosen by the student.  A few
    undergrads have binah accounts.

    DIRECTIONS to Brandeis can be had 24 hours at [phone].

Brown:
        You can send mail to [e-mail] 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:
    [e-mail] ([e-mail])
    The former is fingerable, unlike the .bitnet address. This
    machine is mostly used by undergrads.

Bucknell University:
    general: [e-mail]
    cs: [e-mail]
    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:
    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: calvin.edu
    Use 'finger [e-mail]' (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:    [e-mail] where "xxxx" is the standard
                        faculty abbrevation, often lastname

Carnegie Mellon University:
    Undergrad: andrew.cmu.edu
    Grad CS: cs.cmu.edu
    Grad Robotics: ri.cmu.edu
    ECE: ece.cmu.edu
    Mail sent to [e-mail] 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
    [e-mail].    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: [e-mail]
    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.

Catholic University of America
    [e-mail] (Internet)
    [e-mail] (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:
    [e-mail]    (VAX-VMS)

Clark College:
     [e-mail], or [e-mail].  Send
    mail to [e-mail] if you have difficulty.
    Note: this is not Clark University (clarku.edu).

Clark University:
    vax.clarku.edu and black.clarku.edu

Clarkson University:
     craft.camp.clarkson.edu    _ALL_ students are given an account
                on this machine.
     sun.soe.clarkson.edu       School of Engineering Sun server. A lot
                of students doing research have accounts
                on this machine.
     clvm.clarkson.edu          Administrative computer. Fairly isolated.
                Profs. and Admin. have accounts on this
                computer for things like class lists.
                (I'm not sure how much use this is because
                it seems that all you can do is find out
                if someone is logged in or not.)

     craft.camp and sun.soe are very usefull for finding students and
     many faculty also have accounts on these machines.

Clemson University:
    clemson.clemson.edu (VMS)
    Engineering: eng.clemson.edu

Cleveland State University:

    Engineering students with an account on the vax cluster may be reached
    at the following address: [e-mail], 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
    [e-mail].

Colby:
    [e-mail]
    You can figure username, firstname, or lastname.

College of William & Mary (Williamsburg, VA):
    [e-mail]

Colorado College:
    Students: [e-mail]
    Faculty: [e-mail].
    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 [e-mail].

    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): [e-mail]
           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:  [e-mail]
    General access questions can be sent to:
       [e-mail]
    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:
        [e-mail]
    Some lists are restricted.

Cornell College (Mount Vernon, Iowa)
    Most Usernames are FLLLLLL, some may be LLLLLL or FFFFFF.
    Mail to [e-mail]
    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
    [e-mail].  If the person's name is unique, mail can
    also be sent to [e-mail].

    Email addresses can be searched by using finger on qi.cornell.edu.
    Use variations such as  finger [e-mail]    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 students 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 [e-mail].

    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 [e-mail].

Dartmouth:
    Send mail to [e-mail] (or fname.mi.lname if
    it is a very common name). If the name is ambiguous, you might
    want to finger [e-mail] 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
    [e-mail]. 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.

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: [e-mail]
      consultant's desk telephone [phone]
      Math and Computer Science : [e-mail]
             where userid is of the form <prefix>fllllll; the prefix is u for
      undergraduate, g for graduate, or t for temporary.

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.
    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;
      [e-mail] has volunteered to forward mail to
      Law School faculty and staff, and suggest
      [e-mail] might be willing to do the same for
      students.

Earlham:
    Students, faculty, staff:    [e-mail]
    Administration:              [e-mail]
    Advanced computing students: [e-mail]
      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, students are being assigned userid's in the format:
        [e-mail], 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 [e-mail]
    opr can get you directory info, or user info.

Florida State University
    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 a student or faculty member, two systems have been set up.
    Unfortunately, neither is working all the time and neither correctly
    locates all accounts.
      1: email [e-mail] with the words
        whois "name"
         in the subject line, with no message body
      2: whois -h mailer.cc.fsu.edu "name"
    Other than these two methods, it's very difficult to track someone
    down unless you know which server they're on (there are more than 50
    of them).

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):
    All Users (faculty/staff/students): 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.

    CS Dept (Faculty, staff, PhD students): gatech.edu, boa.gatech.edu
    [e-mail]. (cc = College of Computing)

    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: [e-mail],

    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:

    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 [e-mail]. For those with
    access to gopher you can find current email info on our server. It
    includes most of the electronic mail addresses on campus.


    heroes.glassboro.edu        administrative departments
                                secretaries
                                some faculty

    saturn.glassboro.edu        Academic Computing
                                students
                                faculty

    elan.glassboro.edu          all School of Business faculty
                                students

    irp.glassboro.edu           Institutional Research and Planning

    gboro.glassboro.edu         Computer Science faculty
                                students

    Most students are accessible via <username>[e-mail].
    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., [e-mail]
                                  or  [e-mail]

    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 [e-mail] asking for help.

    Grinnell College now has an Internet connection - ac.grin.edu.

Hampshire College (Amherst, MA):
    [e-mail], where username is of the form fllllll

Haverford:
    Students: acc.haverford.edu

Harvard:
    Undergrads: @husc.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 relatively new,
    however, and the number who actually use them at this time
    appears to be small.  The usernames are of the form
    [e-mail]. 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: [e-mail] or
        [e-mail]; 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: [e-mail]
    Other faculty: [e-mail]
    Administration: [e-mail]
    finger [e-mail] usually works, but users
        can change their fullnames to anything

Illinois Institute of Technology
    Domain IIT.EDU has servers on iitmax.iit.edu and karl.iit.edu.    So far
    no one from there has volunteered how to deduce user names.  One
    correspondent said: "try [e-mail]@UICVM.UIC.EDU"

Illinois State University (Bloomington, Illinois)
    [e-mail].  Most students do not have internet access.
    Finger works.

Indiana University:

    Faculty, Staff, Students: [e-mail]
    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 [e-mail]" or
        "whois -h indiana.edu lastname" or
        "whois -h iugate.ucs.indiana.edu lastname"
    Type "finger [e-mail]" 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:    [e-mail]

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:
    [e-mail]

Kansas State Univ.:

    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,[e-mail]"
    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 [e-mail]"
    (where "xxx" is the userid you want to look up).

    Unix
    ----
    matt.ksu.ksu.edu      All students and faculty.
    depot.cis.ksu.edu      CS faculty, staff, and grads.
    cygnus.cis.ksu.edu      CS undergrads.
    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.

Kenyon College:
    [e-mail]
    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: [e-mail] (ns1.cc.lehigh.edu)
    Help with specific userids can be obtained from
    [e-mail].

    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 [e-mail] or [e-mail].


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 [e-mail], 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
     [e-mail] 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 [e-mail] welcome)
    Faculty: except in extraordinary circumstances [e-mail]
    Undergrads: Aliases exist for most students as
    [e-mail]
    REAL ids are usually [e-mail] with dups
    getting [e-mail]
    For example:
    Jane A. Smith    -> jane.a.smith and [e-mail]
    Joe L. Smith    -> joe.l.smith and [e-mail]

Millsaps College:
        All faculty, staff, and students are [e-mail].
        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 [e-mail] 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
    [e-mail] 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:
        [e-mail] ([e-mail])
    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
        [e-mail]
    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.
       [e-mail] [e-mail]
    and also the Convex
       [e-mail]
    I don't know what the rules are for determining user IDs for Computer
    Center machines.

    MSU Information is [phone].


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): [e-mail]
    Faculty/Students (Mankato State Univ.): [e-mail]

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.  [e-mail]
        b.  [e-mail]
        c.  [e-mail]

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).

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