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Subject: FAQ: College Email Addresses 2/3 [Monthly posting]
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This is the second third of the summary of how to find email addresses
for undergraduate and graduate students, faculty and staff at various
colleges and universities.

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New Jersey Institute of Technology:
    Newark NJ 07021
    CS PhD Studs: [e-mail]
    Grad Studs:   [e-mail] (ultrix), [e-mail] (vms)

New Mexico State Univ.:
    Virtually all email addresses are of the form
    [e-mail]. Finger is not well supported. Mail to
    postmaster should help. (Also, if you have an account, there
    is a postmaster program.)

North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC:
    Whois server on gyro.cc.ncsu.edu also accepts requests via finger
    All whois entries have Snail addresses, some have e-mail.

Northeastern:
    The engineering postmaster is [e-mail].
    For other mail, try [e-mail]

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
    [e-mail] 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: [e-mail]

Norwegian Institute of Technology:

    Students at the Norwegian Institute of Technology can be reached at
    @solan.unit.no, @siri.unit.no, @lise.unit.no.  Students usually have
    access to three different computer rooms with email machines - solan,
    siri and lise, of which solan is by far the more popular because of
    its convenient physical location on the campus.  Email sent to one
    room will not be available on another, so someone logging in on solan
    will not learn about new mail on lise or siri - UNLESS (s)he has set
    up his accounts on lise and siri to forward all mail to solan.  Most
    people probably don't know they can do this.

    The Norwegian Institute of Technology, aka NTH (Norges Tekniske
    Hoegskole) is part of the University of Trondheim (UNIT, which is in
    the domain name), but I believe NTH is the only part of the university
    with email access.  All students at NTH have the right to open an
    account on the the email machines, which are Unix based and are on the
    Internet, but this right is not very heavily advertized, so most
    people don't use the machines.

    Login names may be FLLLLLLL, LLLLLLLL, FFFFFFFF, FMLLLLLL, or (as in
    my case, because I have very common first and last names) MMMMMMMM.
    F=first name, M=middle name, L=last name.  The login name is maximum
    eight characters.  FLLLLLLL is probably the most common; MMMMMMMM and
    especially FMLLLLLL is probably quite rare.  LLLLLLLL and FFFFFFFFF
    may be used if the user's last or first names are not not very common,
    especially if they are foreign.

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 [e-mail]

    College of textiles comp. center: [e-mail]


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 [e-mail]

    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: [e-mail]
    CS Students, Faculty and Staff: cis.ohio-state.edu, with
    username lastname, fllllll, llllll-f, fml, firstname or lllll-fm.
    Faculty and staff are mostly first or last name.

    Also, some students have their accounts aliased so that
    you can send mail/finger to lastname.#@osu.edu
    where # is required and is anything from 1 on up to infinity
    (these numbers can get very large for names like Smith, i.e. in
    the thousands). "whois -h osu.edu" and telneting to osu.edu should
        also work.

Ohio University (Athens OH):
    CS (UNIX): [e-mail]
    CS (VMS): oucsduce.cs.ohiou.edu
    EE (grad students): [e-mail], @redskins.ent.ohiou.edu
    Undergrads (class accounts): OUACCVMB.BITNET
    Faculty: OUACCVMA.BITNET

Oklahoma State/Stillwater:
    [e-mail]

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.

Polytechnic University (New York)
    This is a listing for Brooklyn and Farmingdale Campuses
    Code    System Name             Comments
    ----    -----------             ----------------
    F       borg
    X       galileo
    F W     george                  Farmingdale
    F W     gracie                  Farmingdale
    F       icon
    F W     ishara                  Brooklyn
    F       pixel
    F       Poly-TS                 Polytech Information Server
    F       prism
    F       pucatt
    F       puscs
    X       rabbit
    X       stealth
    F       spark
    F       sprite
    F       tasha                   Farmingdale
    F       thermal1
    X       vacuum
    X       vm
    F W     worf                    Brooklyn
    X       wri
    Legend: F = Fingerable          X = Nonfingerable
        W = At login: prompt typing in 'who' will list parties logged on
    All system names end with ".poly.edu", e.g.  'finger @Poly-TS.poly.edu'
    Most login names begin with first initial then first seven character
      of last name.  Most undergrad users would be on george, gracie,
      ishara, tasha and worf systems.

Pomona College (Claremont, CA):
    Internet: [e-mail] (bitnet [e-mail])

        Usernames are the first character of the first name, followed
    by the full last name (John Doe would be JDOE).  In case of conflicts,
    the middle initial is used between first and last name. (If JDOE
    already has an account, James A. Doe would be JADOE).  Finger works.


Portland State University (Portland, Oregon):
    Students: odin.cc.pdx.edu

Princeton:
    Undergrads: phoenix.princeton.edu, pucc.princeton.edu (VM)
    pucc.bitnet. (Both phoenix and pucc are now fingerable.)
    CS Grad Studs/Faculty: cs.princeton.edu
    CogSci Lab: clarity.princeton.edu
    Math Dept: math.princeton.edu

    You can also try fingering at princeton.edu.

    Some people also have accounts on gauguin.princeton.edu

    Usernames are usually FMLLLLLL.

Purdue:
    At Purdue, engineering students (undergrad/grad) have accounts
    on machines on the Engineering Computer Network (ECN).  There
    are hundreds of machines, but the main ones are named according
    to a fairly discernible system, i.e.

    e?.ecn.purdue.edu = Electrical    c?.ecn.purdue.edu = Civil
    k?.ecn.purdue.edu = Chemical    g?.ecn.purdue.edu = Nuclear/Aero
    m?.ecn.purdue.edu = Mechanical    p?.ecn.purdue.edu = Potter Library

    In each case, "?" is one of 'a', 'b', 'c', etc..check your
    local host tables or nameserver for a current list.
    Undergrads usually end up on the 'n' series of machines... en,
    mn, cn, and gn.

    Effective 10/16/90, mail to ecn hosts need only be labeled
    with the local domain. For example, [e-mail]. Mail
    sent there will automatically be forwarded to the users mailbox.

    Usernames on ecn machines are assigned according to user
    preferences. Try the usual (initials, fllllll, first name,
    last name, etc.). You can send mail to ecn.purdue.edu (which
    will forward it to the appropriate machine). Also, if your
    finger supports arguments, doing a 'finger -l lastname' will
    find people by name regardless of account.

        Other students (CS, math/stat, and science majors) usually have
        accounts on machines operated by the Purdue University Computing
        Center (PUCC).  These machines are all in the ".cc.purdue.edu"
        subdomain.  Many usernames are based on the user's last name and
        initials, but many still use three letter/number combinations which
        have nothing to do with the user's name.  Computing center staff
        usernames are either a name chosen by the user, or a three-letter
        combination beginning with "a".  Additionally, "finger" with a
        name argument will find all people with that name, so try
        "finger -l lastname".

    Students are found on the 'instructional' machines; the
    distribution of major courses is approximately like this:

    expert  = low-level courses for non CS or EE majors, some CS courses
    sage    = more low-level courses, first semester CS
    feserve = freshman engineering courses and some CS courses
    sonata  = some Math and CS courses
    mentor  = most other CS courses

    Students not in one of these courses may still have an account on
    one of these machines, since there are many smaller groups to
    which accounts are issued.  Also, any Purdue student may obtain
    a student personal account on one of these machines.

    Research users are found scattered around all the PUCC
    machines, but mace, boiler, and j are the most likely places
    to find them. Staff can always be reached through 'staff'
    regardless of where they have their accounts.

    In addition to those, there is an IBM mainframe which is found
    on the Internet as vm.cc.purdue.edu or on BITNET as PURCCVM.
    It is used primarily by research users and Computer Technology
    majors.  Some student personal accounts are also on this machine
    Usernames are either based on the person's real name or Xyyy
    where yyy is a 3-character PUCC ID.

    Graduate CS students are found on machines in the ".cs.purdue.edu"
    subdomain, including "arthur", "mordred", "merlin", and other
    machines named after characters from the Arthurian legends.
    Mail to cs.purdue.edu usually works.

    Veterinary students are found on machines in the ".vet.purdue.edu"
    subdomain; these machines are named after animals or other vet
    terms e.g. "dog", "goat", "pharm"...Agricultural/Agronomy Engineering
    students are found on machines in the ".acn.purdue.edu" subdomain;
    these include "harvest", "barn", etc...Some folks in chemistry
    can be found on machines in the ".chem.purdue.edu" subdomain;
    many of these are named after items from the Dr. Who series,
    e.g. "doctor", "tardis", "k9"...Some folks in psychology can be
    found on machines in the ".psych.purdue.edu" subdomain; these
    machines are named after Latin/South American countries,
    e.g. "peru", "brazil", "mexico", "panama"...Some folks in
    biology can be found on machines in the ".bio.purdue.edu" subdomain;
    some of these machines are named after Tolkien characters,
    e.g. "bilbo", "gollum"...Some folks in physics can be found on
    machines in the ".physics.purdue.edu" subdomain; these machines
    are named after physicists, e.g. "maxwell", "newton"... The
    Krannert School of Management is in the .mgmt subdomain, with
    hosts zeus and hera. Most management students will be found on
    a PUCC machine.

Reed College:
    [e-mail], 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 [e-mail].

   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

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 [e-mail] with digits added to break ties.
   finger [e-mail] to verify userid only.
   but finger  @rpi.edu doesn't yield any login information.

Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT):
    ritvax.bitnet
    [e-mail], where aaa is users initials, XXXX is last 4
      digits of Social Security Number (SSN)
    Computer Science: [e-mail].  Sometimes anaXXXX where
       n appears literally and means "no middle initial".  Profs'
       accounts omit the XXXX.
    Rumour has it that some UNIX accounts on other machines within
    the rit.edu domain use just last 4 digits of SSN, but recent
    correspondents from RIT don't know of any such machines.

Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology: Terre Haute, IN
        There are three major systems on which students are given accounts:
          - Academic VAXcluster: rosevc.rose-hulman.edu
                All students have accounts.
          - NeXT workstation network: nextwork.rose-hulman.edu
                All students have accounts.
          - CS department network: cs.rose-hulman.edu
                Any student can get an account upon request.
        Student usernames are consistent across the systems, in the form
        llllllfm.  Mail addresses of the form: [e-mail]
        are also accepted; mail is directed to a preferred address.

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 [e-mail] may be useful in finding
    someone at any of the non-Rutgers colleges in NJ.

San Diego State University:
    Faculty and Staff:  [e-mail] where f is the
    first initial followed by the last name.

    To access the campus phone directory:
    (1) whois -h sciences.sdsu.edu name
        where name is the last name of the person you want.

    (2) telnet to sciences.sdsu.edu and log in as whois
        telnet sciences.sdsu.edu
        SunOS UNIX (sciences)
        login: whois

             ***** College of Sciences Online Phone Directory *****
        You may:
          *  Enter a name the way you think it is spelled.
          *  Enter '=' followed by the first part of a correctly
             spelled name.
          *  Enter '+' followed by an E-mail address.
          *  Enter '#' followed by a telephone number.
          *  Enter '*' followed by any part of a name.
          *  Enter '$' followed by a first name (sound alike)
          *  Enter '!' followed by a first name.
          *  Enter '?' or 'help' to display this message.
          *  Enter ^D or a blank line to terminate.

Santa Clara University:

    Students and faculty with accounts there, at least in some cases, may
    be reached as [e-mail], where FLLLLLLLL is the first
    initial and LLLLLLL is the last name (or perhaps the first n
    characters of the last name).

    The IP address for SCUACC.SCU.EDU is 129.210.8.1.

    You might want to contact the postmaster there for further
    information.  The telephone number for the Acedemic Computer Center is
    408/554-4082

Scripps College, Claremont, CA:
        Mail to: [e-mail]    (Novell network)
    Finger at: charon.claremont.edu        (Charon mail server)
    Charon knows nothing about users unless they're logged in (and
    crashes regularly).

Seattle University:
    Everybody (students and faculty) are on the same machine,
    @seattleu.edu

Simon Fraser University
    Computer Science: @cs.sfu.ca
    Campus Wide: @sfu.ca

Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY, 12866   [phone]
  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 [e-mail] for any delivery problems or other
  questions about the College.

Smith: smith.smith.edu

Sonoma State University: [e-mail]

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 [e-mail]. 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.>


St. Olaf College (Northfield, MN):

     UNIX accounts are created for all students upon their admission to the
     College.  Not all faculty and staff have accounts yet, but we're
     working on that.

    General address form:    [e-mail]
    Last name conflicts are usually resolved by adding first
    and/or middle initials to the end of the last name.

    Try fingering [e-mail] (note the capital letter).

    Try using the St. Olaf Gopher information server at gopher.stolaf.edu.
    Phonebook information can be found under "St. Olaf Information".

    Try sending email to [e-mail] describing the
    person you're trying to contact.

    CSO phone book server at cso.stolaf.edu.

SUNY/Alfred (Alfred, NY)
    (SUNY College of Technology at Alfred)
    Students and faculty: [e-mail]
       (lastname, firstname, middlename, though middle name sometimes
        isn't used.

SUNY/Binghamton: (Binghamton, NY)

    In order to contact someone at SUNY-Binghamton you'll have to
    give them a call; there is no way of figuring out a student's
    address given their name, as the mapping is random (sequential
    in the order people apply for accounts).

    Undergrads: [e-mail] where X is a
        letter depending on what year they got their account:
        91/92: A 92/93: B(?); NNNNN are random digits, almost
        always starting with 0; HOSTNAME is either bingvaxa
        (VMS), bingvaxu (Unix), bingsuns (SunOS), bingvmb
        (IBM), or bingtjw (IBM).  Older userids are of the
        form vyNNNN@bingvaxa, vuNNNN@bingvaxu, and
        bgNNNN@bingvmb.

    Interested undergrads tend to have accounts on bingvaxa,
    though those in Math/CS classes will have accounts on
    bingsuns.

    An e-mail directory for some faculty and staff is available;
    telnet to bingvmb.cc.binghamton.edu
    DIAL VTAM
    ELIXIR
    Choose from menu.

SUNY/Buffalo:
    Grads, Undergrads: [e-mail] [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): [e-mail]

    ubvms is a VAX, and most students had accounts there.
    Recently, however, more people are getting accounts on acsu,
    the Unix system.

    Engineering Students: [e-mail]
    EE Students: [e-mail]
    CS Dept: [e-mail] ([e-mail])

    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: [e-mail] (sbccvm.bitnet)
                [e-mail] (sbccmail.bitnet)
            (servers ccsinc.bitnet and ccnova.bitnet)
            [e-mail] (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 [e-mail]

Syracuse Univ.:
         CompSci Grads/Faculty: top.cis.syr.edu
             Many CompSci graduates and faculty have accounts on this
             machine; the usual username pattern is "[e-mail]"
    Some faculty and staff:
       SUADMIN.bitnet (suadmin.syr.edu)
         Other students and faculty:
              mailbox.syr.edu
            sunrise.syr.edu (VAX 8820/VMS)
            suvm.acs.syr.edu    (IBM 3090/CMS)
    suvm.acs.syr.edu and sunrise.syr.edu are run by the SU Computing
      Services. Undergrads usually have accounts on sunrise (which is a
      VAX VMS cluster). Both hosts are on bitnet as suvm and sunrise.
          The pattern for all these hosts is: first-initial + middle-initial +
      as much of the last name as possible.

         White-Pages: "finger [e-mail]" will search the online catalog
      white pages for a registered user that has his/her information public.
      Mutliple matches produces multiple output.  "finger @syr.edu" for more
      details.  The same information is available via a BITNET directory
      server ([e-mail]), through PSI's X.500 project, and through
      whois -h syr.edu
         Phone Book: The Syracuse Phone book has the same e-mail addresses as
      are available in the White pages, but as it's only printed once a
      year they are usually out of date.  Dialing [phone] is campus
      information;  if the userid exists in the phonebook, the people
      there will be happy to give it out.
         [e-mail]  -- If the username exists, and that person
      doesn't mind having it handed out, this userid will check into it
      beforehand and reply via mail.

Swarthmore:
        All Students/Faculty/Staff: [e-mail], 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, [e-mail]

    [The following is the old info, which still holds for some people:
     All Students: [e-mail], 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 [e-mail] or [e-mail].
        (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

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 [e-mail]...

    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: [e-mail]
    CS dept : [e-mail]
    Math dept: [e-mail]
    Grad std/Research : [e-mail]

Univ. of Alabama at Tuscaloosa:

    Domain: ua.edu
    College of Engineering: [e-mail]
        Seebeck Computing Center: [e-mail], where n is 1 for
        an undergraduate, 3 for a graduate student, and black for
        faculty/staff
    Others: cs.ua.edu, asncray.asc.edu etc.
    Help: [e-mail]

Univ. of Alaska
    Bitnet: [e-mail]  Internet: [e-mail]
    Usernames are of the form CTFMLN where:
    C=Campus
        A is U of A Anchorage
        D is for Kodiak College
        F is for U of A Fairbanks
        I is for Kenai Peninsula College
        J is for U of A Southeast (in Juneau)
        K is for U of A Southeast (Ketchikan branch)
        P is for Mat-Su College (in Palmer)
        T is for U of A Southeast (Sitka branch)
        V is for Prince William Sound Community College (in Valdez)
    T is for usage type.
        S is for an undergraduate student
        T is for a graduate student
        F is for faculty
        N is for staff.
        X is for consultants
    FML is the initials of first, middle, and last names, respectively.
    N is a number, and is only given (and then it starts from one) if
      there are more than one person at the same school with the same
      status and initials
    O is the computer that the person is on.
      1 is Southeast and affiliated schools (don't know C letters for them)
      2 is Anchorage and its affiliates (Kodiak, Kenai, Mat-Su, and Prince
        William Sound)
      3 is Fairbanks and affiliates
    However, a person with enough access can use other campus' computers.

Univ. of Arizona:

    All students can now have internet accounts, usually of the form
    [e-mail], where LAST is first 7 characters of last
    name and F is first initial.  Undergraduates used to get
    single-semester accounts on the cluster ccit.arizona.edu for a
    specific class, with usernames in the format Lxxxxyyyy, where L= first
    letter of last name, xxxx = last four digits of student ID number
    (usually SSN), and yyyy = last four digits of course sequence number

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

    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 [e-mail] if you
    suspect the person you want uses EMAIL a lot.  However,
    [e-mail] is an unusually helpful person, and extremely
    polite mail sent to him may result in an answer.

Univ. of Atlanta: @auc.UUCP

Univ. of British Columbia (Vancouver, BC, Canada)
    Domain ubc.ca.  Public accounts might be on unixg.ubc.ca.
    Computer Science is cs.ubc.ca

University of Calgary
        General (Students/Faculty): @acs.ucalgary.ca
    CS students/faculty: @cpsc.ucalgary.ca
    for all faculty,  staff,  grads,  undergrads
    - often last name, or first name, or initials. or last name
    followed by initials.

Univ. of California/Berkeley: 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, Staff: cs.berkeley.edu (aliases mail address)
    CS Grad Students: snake.cs.berkeley.edu
        Good systems to try are (all .cs.berkeley.edu
        or .berkeley.edu) sprite, harmony, sequoia, larch,
        robotics, postgres, and ginger.
        tenet.icsi.berkeley.edu also has some CS grad students on
        it.  Many machines in the department are now
        foo.cs.berkeley.edu, but not all are.
    EE Faculty: esvax, ic, cad, or a workstation

    Janus will be going away soon, as will ucbarpa.  Many csgrads will
    have mail aliases on cs.berkeley.edu, which will eventually support
    finger.  Systems to try for grad students are (all .berkeley.edu):
    sprite, harmony, sequoia, yew, larch, robotics, postgres, and ginger.
    Soon, these will be moved into the cs.berkeley.edu subdomain instead
    of berkeley.edu subdomain (ie, you'd finger @sprite.cs.berkeley.edu).
    This will happen soon, but hasn't happened yet.

    Names for the above accounts are usually, but not always,
    combinations of the user's real first, middle and last names
    and/or initials. However, finger will search the "real name"
    field as well as the account name.

    There are many class accounts (which all students get). These
    are found on web.berkeley.edu,bard.berkeley.edu, and
    xcssun.berkeley.edu.
    zooey, buddy, franny, and seymour too, except they're being
    retired. Danube, amazon, congo, po, and volga and a cluster of stars
    (named after stars) are supposed to be the replacements.
    web and buddy hold classes that freshmen and sophomores often take.
    seymour and franny are often used for classes for business majors.

    Class account usernames are typically cnnn-mxx or ennn-mxx, where
    'c' or 'e' denotes CS or EE, nnn is the course number, m is the
    section number (not always used), and xx are two letters.

    Statistics class accounts are of the form s#xxxx, where # is
    the class number and xxxx is some string of alphabetic characters.
    These accounts live on gandalf.berkeley.edu. Statistics
    cluster computers are named after Tolkien characters.

    qal.berkeley.edu is used for courses in "practical computer use"
    (taught by the anthropology department).  Account names are
    193xxx, where xxx is the last name of the user.

    Math (Graduate and Faculty): math.berkeley.edu
    Stat Department: stat.berkeley.edu
    Physics Grads and Undergrads: physics.berkeley.edu
    Mech. E Profs & Grads: euler.berkeley.edu, tycho.berkeley.edu
    Public Cluster (some undergrads): ocf.berkeley.edu
    School of Education:  soe.berkeley.edu
    Other machines to try: ucbvax.berkeley.edu

    garnet.berkeley.edu and violet.berkeley.edu are the most
    likely place for a pay-for-use account. Some departments
    maintain accounts on these machines for faculty, though,
    so these machines are the place to try for faculty affiliated
    with departments that have no real computing facilities.
    Almost anyone on campus can pay for an account on these machines.

    Some of the class accounts are also on congo. Generally
    addresses for the first semester classes are:
    CS 60A - c60a-__@danube
    CS 3 - c3-1a__@amazon or c3-1b__@congo

    [e-mail] 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>
    CS: [e-mail]
    Engineering/CS: [e-mail]
            or [e-mail]

Univ. of California/Irvine:
    CS Undergrads: bonnie.ics.uci.edu
        Mail sometimes restricted; policy has changed several times.
        Userid usually FLLLLLLL (8 char max); sometimes FFFFFFFL.
    CS Grads/Staff/Faculty: ics.uci.edu
        Faculty userids are usually their last names, sometimes
        initials, a few firstname only.  Grads usually FLLLLLLL,
        some lastname only.  Staff sometimes firstname, sometimes lastname.
    Other departments: mostly grads; userids usually lastname.
       Biology dept: sanger.bio.uci.edu
       EE: balboa.eng.uci.edu
       Physics dept: skid.ps.uci.edu
       Social sciences: ss.uci.edu
    Try fingering [e-mail] (for XX=ics,sanger.bio, etc.)

    There are two types of accunts on orion.oac.uci.edu:
    (1) Staff in the Office of Academic Computing
    (2) Students
    Staff userids on orion are usually FLLLLLLL, 8 char max.  The student
    accounts on orion are different, though.  Any student can get an orion
    account, but not a lot do.  The userids for these accounts are seven
    characters as follows: first "ea", then two characters representing
        major and grad vs. undergrad status, respectively,
    (e.g., i = information & computer science, u = undergrad),
    then three random digits.  Non-staff orion users tend to use
    their accounts infrequently because of usage limits.

Univ. of California/Los Angeles (UCLA):
    CS: @cs.ucla.edu @oahu.cs.ucla.edu
      MATH: @math.ucla.edu, @sonia.math.ucla.edu, @oak.math.ucla.edu
        (graduate students, staff, faculty)
    EE grads & faculty: ee.ucla.edu (network of RTs and SUNs
       running unix. Each machine has the name of a famous
       engineer:  watt.ee.ucla.edu, joule.ee.ucla.edu, etc)
       Usernames vary; try fname, lastname,...
    AGSM: @agsm.ucla.edu  @uclagsm
          (Anderson Graduate School of Management)
          All of students , staffs and faculty have their user ID.
          User ID: FLLLLLLL (max 8 characters)
    Class Accounts: pic.ucla.edu (PIC = program in computing)
       These get cleared every quarter. Account names are usually
       the course number followed by three letters chosen by the student.
       If you finger @laguna.pic.ucla.edu, you get more detailed
       info, such as when the user last logged on, etc.
    Engineering: seas.ucla.edu  This is a server for a network for
       the school of engineering and applied sciences. Any engineering
       graduate student can get an account on it, and many undergrads
       have accounts on it for classes. This machine has access to
       USENET.
    Anybody: oac.ucla.edu  An IBM 3090.  Anyone in UCLA can get an
       open access account on this to send mail, etc.  Account
       names on this machine are terribly cryptic (such as IZZYR33).

Univ. of California/Santa Cruz:
    Undergrads: ucscb.ucsc.edu
    Other hosts include ucsc{c-e,o}.ucsc.edu, ucscvm.ucsc.edu, etc.  All
    these hosts (except for ucscb) are on bitnet as the first part of
    their domain name.
    A new host, cats.ucsc.edu, has been added as the mail address for
    UCSC's version of Athena. Users can be fingered by username, first
    name, or last name. Undergrads, grads, faculty, and some staff may
    have accounts on cats.  Users choose their own IDs, so you must use
    finger to get an account name.
    As of late fall 1992, the name space of cats and ucscb have been
    merged, so that almost all students have the same userid on both
    systems.  However, there are (and will likely always be) separate
    accounts on the 2 systmes that use the same name - so there will
    remain differences between mailing to SomeAddress@cats and
    SomeAddress@ucscb.

Univ. of California/San Diego (UCSD):
    The primary mail gateway is ucsd.edu. This machine also has a
    smart finger program, which will look up names that sound similar
    to the one you fingered. Just "finger [e-mail]".

    Most usernames are the initial of the first name followed by the
    last name, truncated to 8 characters, ie. "[e-mail]", but
    this is not always the case (because most people don't like their
    names truncated).

    Machine sdcc13 houses the student personal accounts at present, but
    mail to ucsd.edu will reach (almost) everyone on sdcc13.ucsd.edu.

    If the person is a graduate student, faculty member, or staff
    member try: weber (social sciences), cogsci (guess), bend
    (linguistics), crl (some developmental psychology people).

    Many, many other machines house course, faculty, staff, and research
    accounts.  Your best bet is to look the name up at ucsd.edu.

Univ. of Central Florida (Orlando)
    CS dept: only grad students are given accounts. finger
      [e-mail]
    Engineering: finger [e-mail]
    General: ucf1vm.cc.ucf.edu.  (A bitnet node, so you cannot finger)

Univ. of Chicago:
    Undergraduates: midway.uchicago.edu (formerly tank.uchicago.edu)
      (midway.uchicago.edu serves as a mail server for machines
      named quads.uchicago.edu and ellis.uchicago.edu. When midway
      refuses connections, finger at quad or ellis.)
    Grads and faculty may also be on quads and ellis.
    CS Grads: gargoyle.uchicago.edu
    Math: zaphod.uchicago.edu
    Education: paideia.uchicago.edu
    Chemistry: pico.uchicago.edu
    Astronomy: oddjob.uchicago.edu (finger lastname)
    Social sciences (Economics, History, Sociology, Political Science):
      cicero.spc.uchicago.edu [also accepts 'finger']
    Also Try: uchep.uchicago.edu

    Many researchers have accounts on rainbow.uchicago.edu, in
      addition to having accounts on their own workstations.
    The University of Chicago now (fall91) runs the ph mail
      system, so sending mail to [e-mail] 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 [e-mail].
      Unfortunately few people bother to input their e-mail addresses.

Univ. of Chile (Universidad de Chile) (in Santiago, Chile, South America):
    Mathematics and Physical Sciences (including engineering)
    cecux1.cec.uchile.cl, uchcecvm.bitnet
    All students that have a class involving computers get an account on
    cecux1.cec.uchile.cl
    Computer Science (Departamento Ciencia de la Computacion)
    dcc.uchile.cl, anakana.dcc.uchile.cl, uchdcc.dcc.uchile.cl
    Professors, Researchers, and grad students of Computer Science
    tortel.dcc.uchile.cl

Univ. of Colorado/Boulder:
    tramp.colorado.edu, colorado.edu.
    Telnet to directory.colorado.edu, using username "directory".
    This lets you access the online phonebook/email address book.

Univ. of Connecticut:
    uconn.edu
    [e-mail]
    CS Undergrads: ug1.eng1.uconn.edu
    CS Grads and Faculty: cse1.cse.uconn.edu
    CS Research and Grads: sparc0.brc.uconn.edu

Entries beginning with Univ. of D may be found in the next posting
(file .../college-email/faq3.text via anonymous FTP).

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