Education Sampler 1992 [NeXTSTEP]/Education_1992_Sampler.iso/Programming/Source/Weather/Weather.app/other/solarmail.info

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Wilcox Solar Observatory at Stanford University serves as an internetwork
forwarding facility for electronic mail among members of the Solar Physics
community.  If you do not have a mail address or a direct connection for
someone, you can address mail to the appropriate mail-name at SOLAR in the
style of your own network and the mail will be automatically forwarded by
the SolarMail facility.  There are currently about 600 people enrolled
among users of computers on ARPAnet (NSFnet), BITnet/EARN, SPAN (NASA DECnet),
JANET in Great Britain, JUNET in Japan, and some UUCP nets.  The form of
address for the user John Doe (mail-name JDOE) would be:
    from ARPAnet/JUNET:    [e-mail]
    from BITnet/EARN:    JDoe@SOLAR
    from SPAN:        SOLAR::JDoe
    from JANET:        [e-mail]
    from UUCP:        {ncar | noao}!solar!JDoe
(Note that while the examples are given in various cases, most mailers,
including solar's, are not case sensitive.)  BITnet users whose mailers
limit mail-names to eight characters can use the first eight characters
of any mail-name.

Most solar mail-names consist of one or two initials and the last name.
They are not necessarily the same as the real user-names.  You can obtain
an up-to-date directory of solar mail-names at any time by sending a null
mail message via the appropriate route to the pseudo-user MAILDIR (no
subject or message is needed).  Mail-names followed by an asterisk in
the directory indicate individuals sharing the same computer account.
It is a good idea to include in your mail messages for those individuals
a Subject such as "Mail for So-and-so".

Mail forwarding through SolarMail is not necessarily the most efficient
way to reach someone, although we do try to make it work.  You can get
the real network address for someone by sending a message to pseudo-user
WHEREIS with that person's mail-name as the Subject or Topic; again, no
message is needed.

A copy of this message may be obtained by sending a null message to
SOLARMAIL.  There is also an up-to-date version of the SPD schedule
of meetings, obtainable by mailing to MEETINGS.  Meeting announcements
and updates and corrections to the schedule should be sent to the SPD
Secretary, Dave Hathaway (DHathaway via SolarMail).  Recent postings of
job listings are obtained by sending a message to JOBS.  An e-mail news
service, SolarNews, with items of general interest to the community is
available by subscription.  If you are interested in receiving these
approximately monthly newsletters, send a message to "postman" or
"postmaster" via SolarMail.  Items of urgent interest to all or a large
part of the community can be forwarded to EVERYONE; they will not be sent
out without the approval of the local managers (Rick Bogart and Phil Scherrer),
however, and distribution will ordinarily be limited to site contacts.
It is better to forward most messages if possible to DHathaway for inclusion
in SolarNews.  Of course anyone can construct their own mailing lists, but
large lists (more than about a dozen people) cause problems locally and are
thus discouraged.

The information provided through the automatic return names (SOLARMAIL,
MAILDIR, MEETINGS, JOBS) as well as recent news postings can also be
obtained directly as file transfers from a public directory by users with
access to ARPAnet/NSFnet and SPAN.  ARPAnet users can obtain copies of the
files by anonymous FTP (login as "anonymous" on solar.stanford.edu).  SPAN
users can copy the files from the public DECnet directory on SOLAR; VMS users
must use the command

    $ COPY SOLAR::"/guest/maildir"  ...             (for example)

since SOLAR runs Ultrix, which is case-sensitive in its file names.  Copies
of recent general mailings are also available on the same directory.  A VMS
command file is available for SPAN sites wishing to use the same set of mail
aliases locally, with non-SPAN addresses forwarded to SOLAR; it is always
current.

If you receive mail forwarded through SolarMail, be careful about using a
"Reply" command to answer.  Due to the various address translations that
must be made, there is a good chance that "Reply" will not work.  If it
does, it's an indication that you and the originator may actually be on
the same network.  It is safer to reply by sending mail to the originator's
mail-name at SOLAR as you would for an original message.

SolarMail is maintained by Rick Bogart.  Problems or requests should
be directed to POSTMAN or POSTMASTER via SolarMail or to
    R. S. Bogart
    CSSA-ERL 326                Telephone:
    Stanford University            [phone]
    Stanford, Calif.  94305-4055    USA    Fax: [phone]

In addition, the following people are informal contacts who can provide
help and information:

  NASA-MSFC, Huntsville, Ala - Linda Porter, Steve Suess
  NOAO, Tucson, Ariz - Steve Grandi, John Leibacher
  Lockheed, Palo Alto, Calif - Bernie Haisch, Dick Shine
  CalTech, Pasadena, Calif - Bruce Popp, Jeff Shapiro
  U Calif, San Diego - Hugh Hudson
  NCAR-HAO, Boulder, Colo - Leonard Sitongia
  NOAA-SEL, Boulder, Colo - Barbara Poppe, Pat McIntosh
  NRL, Washington, DC - Kay Howell, Spiro Antiochos
  IFA, Honolulu, Haw - Don Mickey
  U Chicago, Ill - Gordon Lentz
  NASA-GSFC, Greenbelt, Md - Brian Dennis, Kerm Smith
  CFA, Cambridge, Mass - Marc Herant
  Michigan State U, E Lansing - Jeff Kuhn
  Sac Peak Obs, Sunspot, NM - Dick Altrock
  U Sydney, Australia - Peter Wilson
  Aarhus U, Denmark - Joergen Christensen-Dalsgaard
  Obs Meudon, France - Guy Simon
  LSR, Utrecht, Netherlands - Rob Rutten, Lammert van den Brink
  Oslo U, Norway - Mats Carlsson
  Rutherford Lab, Abingdon, UK - Jeff Payne
  Mullard Labs, Dorking, UK - Paul Lamb

There is no formal institutional or financial support for this service,
so its proper functioning or even its continued existence cannot be
guaranteed.