Version: 4.4 Last-Modified: Sat 08 Apr 1995 09:49:24 EDT by dalamb@qucis.queensu.ca Archive-name: mail/college-email/part1 This is a summary of how to find email addresses for undergraduate and graduate students, faculty and staff at various colleges and universities. It is available on the World-Wide Web (via browsers such as Mosaic or lynx) at If your university is not listed, send me a detailed description of how to find email addresses there, in a format similar to what I have here, and I'll add it to this list. Please mail ADDITIONS, CORRECTIONS, SUGGESTIONS, and OTHER INFORMATION to me at dalamb@qucis.queensu.ca. I will *not* answer requests for help finding a specific address; if the school is not listed in this posting, I do not have any information about the site. NOTE: I have a backlog of corrections going back to December 1994 (although some more recent changes have made it into the FAQ). If you've sent me a correction since then: it's still in the queue, and I should get to it within the next month or two. This last year has been a doozy.... 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 in directory pub/dalamb/college-email as the files faq1.text, ..., faqN.text, where N is the current number of parts. Many FAQs are available by anonymous ftp from rtfm.mit.edu; this one is in directory /pub/usenet/mail/college-email, files part1-partN. You can also send mail to "archive-server@qucis.queensu.ca" with the subject send dalamb/college-email or by sending a message to "mail-server@rtfm.mit.edu" whose body contains send usenet/mail/college After a discussion of general facilities for locating email addresses, we present detailed information on locating the email addresses of students, faculty and staff at various universities. As of Feb 1993 I've started to tag entries with the date I last changed them, so you have some clue as to how stale the information might be. Disclaimer: Most universities have restrictions on the uses of directory information. So don't use this info for commercial purposes or whatnot without securing permission from the individual colleges and universities. It is considered rude to widely distribute (e.g., in a Usenet posting) anyone's E-mail address without prior consent, even if the address is publicly available using one of the techniques described below or some other technique. It might seem that having one's E-mail address listed in a publicly accessible database is equivalent to distributing it, but this is not the case in practice, for three primary reasons: * Some people may not be aware that their addresses are available for others to locate. For example, the majority of Usenet posters are unaware of the database of Usenet E-mail mentioned in the "finding addresses" FAQ (available via anonymous ftp from rtfm.mit.edu in pub/usenet/finding_addresses). * When some effort is required to locate a person's address (e.g., using the techniques described below), only people who have a specific reason to send mail will go to the trouble. However, if the address is mentioned in a Usenet posting read by thousands of people, no effort is required to obtain it, and many more people will send mail. Most people with E-mail addresses are not accustomed to receiving E-mail from strangers or large amounts of E-mail, and they may not be happy if they do. * As unwanted E-mail becomes more common, people will start to remove their addresses from public databases, which means that it will become more difficult to find people's addresses for legitimate reasons. In summary, if you want to advertise someone's E-mail address, get his or her permission before you do it. Besides, if you're going to advertise an address, it's a good idea to make sure it works first, and writing to it for permission is a good way to do that. [adapted from the "How to find people's E-mail addresses" FAQ, maintained at the time by Jonathan Kamens, at the suggestion of Dan Hoey] There are several general facilities for locating an email address. We concentrate on those usable from the internet. o finger Changed: Thu Jul 1 1993 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 information listed varies from site to site, and not all sites allow remote fingering. [Plan files are "sys$login:plan" on VMS systems.] To use finger, simply call finger as follows finger @ replacing with the name of the appropriate machine, and with the name of the person or the person's login ID. For example, % finger mkant@cs.cmu.edu [CS.CMU.EDU] [ Forwarding mkant as "mkant+@a.gp.cs.cmu.edu" ] [A.GP.CS.CMU.EDU] Login name: mkant In real life: Mark Kantrowitz Directory: /usr2/mkant Shell: /usr/cs/bin/csh Last login Tue Apr 2 15:21 on ttyQ7 from LION.OZ.CS.CMU.EDU No new mail, last read on Thu Apr 11 16:27 Notice how fingering my userid at the generic address forwarded the request to the correct machine. Many universities are set up to do forwarding in this manner, so that mail may be sent to the generic address and is automatically forwarded to the maildrop on the machine where the user receives his or her mail. Fingering using last names or full names may work, depending on the site: % finger Mark.Kantrowitz@cs.cmu.edu [CS.CMU.EDU] [ Forwarding Mark.Kantrowitz as "mkant+@a.gp.cs.cmu.edu" ] % finger kantrowitz@cs.cmu.edu [CS.CMU.EDU] [ Forwarding kantrowitz as "mkant+@a.gp.cs.cmu.edu" ] Some sites with use an underscore (_) instead of a period (.) in the full name (e.g., Mark_Kantrowitz), or require an extra period to specify middle initials (Mark.X.Kantrowitz). If fingering using the last name doesn't work, you can try sampling various possibilities for userids. The following are some possibilities. After the description of each possibility, I give an example in square brackets with either the previous maintainer's name (Mark Kantrowitz, no middle initial - his was longer than mine!) or "John C Smith", and a generic acronym for the method, with f's for characters from the firstname, m for the middle initial, and l's for characters from the lastname; these acronyms will be used in the detailed listings section of this file. * Many UNIX sites limit userids to 8 characters, so try the first 8 characters of the last name. [smith or kantrowi] llllllll * If there are two people with the same last name, the first initial (and possibly the middle initial as well) are appended at the front of the name. [jsmith or jcsmith] flllllll fmllllll * Try appending the initials at the end of the name. [smithj or smithjc] lllllllf llllllfm * Try the initials of the users name. [jcs] fml Unfortunately, you cannot finger to bitnet addresses (unless they are also on the internet). o whois/nicname Changed: Tue Jun 29 1993 Whois is the internet user name directory service. Do whois help or nicname -h to get a help message. The whois and nicname programs will check the database maintained at rs.internic.net (or nic.ddn.mil for U.S. military sites) for the given names. For example, nicname or whois or whois -h where is some site with a whois server. 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 rs.internic.net 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). gopher Gopher is an Internet-wide distributed document retrieval service. If your site has a gopher client program, you can use it to access gopher servers at other sites; domain X.edu might have a gopher server gopher.X.edu, but there's no guarantee. One kind of document sites often place under gopher is their phonebook. Most Gopher servers have pointers to a complete list of ph servers used by all sorts of organizations. You can enter various criteria, in an easy-to-use manner, and it will return the info that you didn't give (if, of course, there are no more than 20 entries that match. This is to prevent people getting mailing lists via the ph servers.) o help/gripe/olc If your site has consultants or facilities staff responsible for helping users/fixing bugs/maintaining software, try sending them mail. Often they will be able to help you. If you don't know how to contact these people, ask someone in your department, or try sending mail to the userid 'help'. o postmaster Changed: Thu Jul 1 1993 Most sites have an individual responsible for network and mail operations at the site, usually with the userid of 'postmaster'. These people are usually very busy, so before bothering one of them, try telephoning the person you are trying to reach. Long distance is expensive for you, but less expensive, globally, than the postmaster's time. The one reasonable exception is if you're sending mail and getting messages in response that suggest some sort of mail system problem; you might report the problem to postmaster at your own site, who may in turn contact postmaster at the destination site. Many postmasters will refuse to answer questions about user identification, for reasons of privacy, though they may be willing to forward *your* address so your intended recipient can write to you. o /etc/hosts Changed: Mon Feb 15 1993 Mail routing on UNIX machines on the internet use to use a large file called /etc/hosts to validate host names. We used to advise you to examine this file to guess host names when all else fails - but that really isn't useful anymore. Use one of the above methods instead. o LISTSERV If the person is subscribed to a mailing list through a LISTSERV server, sending mail to the server with the line WHOIS may catch the person. For example, listserv@buacca.bu.edu. This is an unlikely option. It also does not work with all listserv implementations. o Internet to America Online Creating the Internet version of an America Online address requires that you know the conversion rule. You ignore the case, remove the spaces, and add "@aol.com" to the end of the address. Thus, an America Online address "Jane Doe" becomes "janedoe@aol.com" (without the quotes, of course). Internet mail incoming to America Online is trucated at 27 kilobytes. o Internet to Prodigy Created: Mon Sep 6 1993 Around July 1993 there were rumours that Prodigy was beta-testing an Internet gateway. We don't know if there would be any cost to Prodigy users, but they need new software, called Mail Manager, and can sign up for Internet access at JUMP INTERNET. Prodigy users would receive Internet mail via the address format abcd12a@prodigy.com where "abcd12a" is the recipient's Prodigy user ID. o Internet to GEnie Created: Wed Nov 9 1994 Creating the Internet version of a GEnie address requires that you add "@genie.geis.com" to the end of the address. Thus, a GEnie address "J.DOE3" becomes "J.DOE3@genie.geis.com" (without the quotes, of course). There is no added cost to GEnie users (beyond normal connect-time charges) to send or receive Internet mail. GEnie addresses are case-insensitive, but you should preserve periods. o Internet to DELPHI Created: Wed Nov 9 1994 Delphi users can recieve Internet EMail at @delphi.com. Usernames are user-defined and vary from handles to real names. Only Delphi users can gain information on other Delphi users from within Delphi -- an Internet- wide finger facility is (unfortunately) unavailable. Addresses on the United Kingdon academic network (JANET) have their components reversed. For example, @uk.ac.dund.mcs works on JANET, but in the rest of the world use @mcs.dund.ac.uk instead. Abilene Christian University, College of Biblical Studies (Abilene, Texas): Changed: Sat Mar 25 1995 World-Wide Web service at . Email to lastname@bible.acu.edu. Gopher service at . Anonymous FTP, finger also available. Listserv available at listserv@bible.acu.edu Abo Akademi University (Turku, Finland): Created: Mon Sep 6 1993 Host: finabo.abo.fi. Finger available. Alfred University: Created: Mon Sep 6 1993 (New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred) Internet: bigvax.alfred.edu Bitnet: ALFREDU or CERAMICS Almost all students and faculty have email adresses in the form lastnamefm, but exceptions abound. Connecting via telnet to bigvax.alfred.edu and logging on as GENERAL will connect to the GENERAL account, which supports username searches. Outside finger is not supported. American University: Created: Wed Nov 9 1994 Finger firstname or lastname@american.edu works for some faculty and the occasional student. You generally need to know social security numbers to find people (!) Userids since about 1992 have been FLnnnnX@american.edu, where nnnn is last four digits of social security number, and X is a letter used to distinguish duplicates (starts with A for the first name, then B, etc.) Older userids (e.g for many administrators and faculty) may be FLLLLLL or Lastnam (7 characters). Amherst College: Students, Faculty, Staff: userid@amherst.edu. Usernames are of the form fmllllll (e.g., jqstudent), but truncated to 12 letters instead of 8. Amherst.edu has a finger daemon running, but it requires an exact username match (i.e. finger lastname@amherst.edu) doesn't work, as a rule. It's also worth trying usernames like flllllll in case the person in question didn't register their middle initial with the College. Antioch College (Yellow Springs, OH): Changed: Sat Mar 25 1995 Flastname@college.Antioch.Edu All students, faculty, administrators, staff, and alum who request accounts can get them. Almost all follow First Initial lastname setup. Offices, such as ADMISSIONS, COOP etc have alias accounts. Best bet is to send mail to help@college.antioch.edu or jmann@college.antioch.edu Arizona State University: Changed: Mon Sep 6 1993 Finger firstname.lastname@asu.edu; all persons (students or staff) registered in ASU can be "finger"ed. Email addresses are unreliable though since not everyone has started using accounts yet. But most grads and computer/Usenet literate undergrads do. The engineering grads/ugrads are on enuxsa.eas.asu.edu. Most other machine info should be available from netfind's seed database search. 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. Atlantic Computer Institute (Halifax, N.S.): Created: Thu Nov 10 1994 Students: userid@aci1.aci.ns.ca. Userid is in the form firstnamel, to a maximum of 8 characters. If the firstname is less than 7 characters, the userid is in the form firstname-l, e.g. Richard Doe would be richardd, John Doe would be john-d. 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. Augustana College (Rock Island, IL): Changed: Wed Dec 7 1994 firstname-lastname@augustana.edu Augustana College (Sioux Falls, SD): Created: Fri Oct 8 1993 user@inst.augie.edu. Student usernames are fmlastname. Faculty usernames are lastname. Australian Defence Force Academy (Canberra, Australia): Created: Thu Jul 1 1993 Faculty and staff: F.Lastname@ADFA.oz.au Australian National University (ANU): Created: Mon Mar 22 1993 Canberra, Australia (Domain: anu.edu.au) netfind: rlogin anu.anu.edu.au -l netfind Academic Machines: Grad, Staff userids fml### where ### is a group identifier. huxley.anu.edu.au -- Unix -- finger on usernames only coombs.anu.edu.au -- Unix -- GNU finger, allows first/last names Undergrad: userds lllfxxxx, where xxxx is course name/unit number. e.g. stuaca11 is A.Student doing Computer Science unit A11. fac3.anu.edu.au -- Unix -- finger on usernames only fac4.anu.edu.au -- Unix -- finger on usernames only Computer Science: boris.anu.edu.au -- Unix -- finger on usernames only Ball State University: University Computing Services: username@bsuvax1.bitnet Some faculty and grad students have accounts on this machine. CS: username@bsu-cs.bsu.edu Barnard: Changed: Mon Sep 6 1993 Barnard College, affiliated with Columbia. Students and staff get free accounts on a PC-based system running cc:mail (no finger, gopher, etc.) There is no known way of looking up addresses. They can also request accounts on Columbia's systems. Students: LLLLLFFM@@barnard.columbia.edu (or @smtplink.barnard.columbia.edu) As of October 1993, Columbia will list Barnard directory information, so mail to firstname.lastname@columbia.edu will probably reach Barnard recipients. Bates College (Lewiston, Maine): Students and Faculty: userid@abacus.bates.edu Userids are of the form flllllll. Numbers are added to the end of the userid in case of name conflicts, e.g. asmith, asmith2, asmith3 If the name is unique you can use firstname.lastname@bates.edu Baylor College of Medicine: The central mail server is bcm.tmc.edu and finger user@bcm.tmc.edu will get you any faculty or staff user that makes use of the central mail facility. finger user@express.bcm.tmc.edu will get you any student that makes use of the student email facility. whois -h whois.bcm.tmc.edu gets you the on-line phone/address book. This is directly tied to the BCM personnel database, so the information is as accurate as possible. Questions about these facilities should be directed to postmaster@bcm.tmc.edu Baylor University (Waco, TX): Changed: Mon Sep 6 1993 Computer Science and Engineering students: userid@bilbo.baylor.edu Computer Science: gandalf.baylor.edu Work-study students and journalism staff: baylor.edu Beloit College (Beloit, WI): Created: Fri Mar 31 1995 llllllll or lllllllf@beloit.edu. Bemidji State University, MN: Created: Fri Nov 25 1994 Finger first or last name @vax1.bemidji.msus.edu. Logins are chosen by students and are normally less than 8 characters. Bentley College (Waltham, MA): Created: Fri Nov 25 1994 Graduate and undergraduate students: lllllll_ffff@bentley.edu Faculty and staff: flastname@bentley.edu Whois, etc. aren't available; to find an email address or other information, call our information desk at 617-891-2255 or send an e- mail to postmaster@bentley.edu. Bethune-Cookman College (Daytona Beach, FL): Created: Mon Sep 6 1993 Faculty, staff, students: username@cookman.edu To learn a particular email name at the college, it is best to send to: postmaster@cookman.edu Biola University (La Mirada, CA): Created: Thu Nov 10 1994 First_LastName@bubbs.biola.edu. Not available for fingering from some places. Postmaster located at: postmaster@john.biola.edu. Birmingham-Southern College (Birmingham, AL): bsc835!userid@uunet.uu.net where userid are of the form flllllll. Postmaster is bsc835!jbaxter@uunet.uu.net. Boston University: Changed: Tue Jan 4 1994 World-Wide Web service at . Gopher service at ; finger @bu.edu accepts usernames, first.last, OR index_ids; the usual way to do this is to do a full name query (i.e. first.last), then finger using individual index_id numbers to get more information (including the person's E- mail address). Main campus system: acs.bu.edu. Everyone can get accounts on this machine, but not everyone does. Call the person and ask (they may never log on even if they have an account). Student Directory 617-353-3700, Faculty 617-353-2000. Usernames are any "socially acceptable" 8-character name. Unix accounts: Mail or finger user@bu.edu or first.last@bu.edu. There is a ph name server at bu.edu; replace spaces in names with dashes. CS: cs.bu.edu Undergrad CS: csa.bu.edu. Engineering: buenga.bu.edu (faculty/admin) Bowdoin: Changed: Mon Feb 15 1993 Studnets: fl*@polar.bowdoin.edu, where f is the first initial, l* is the lastname up to 7 characters. Administrative staff: @henry.bowdoin.edu. Mailboxes are fl* as above, or last_first Faculty: either of the above depending on personal preference. Bradley University: Changed: Tue Nov 15 1994 Generally, mail to username@bradley.edu. A PH server runs on bradley.bradley.edu. Faculty: bradley.bradley.edu Students: camelot.bradley.edu, squirrel.bradley.edu. Usernames are chosen by the user and may be from three to eight characters long. Heartland Freenet: heartland.bradley.edu. Free use to the public, used mostly by the Peoria public. Use login 'bbguest'. login names are usually flllllll or fmllllll. CS: bucs1.bradley.edu, cssun1, cssun2 Physics: truth.bradley.edu, beauty.bradley.edu Engineering: CEGTxxx.bradley.edu (where xxx IS 100-400). Electrical, for example, is CEGT200-2. Brandeis: Changed: Tue Feb 21 1995 White pages are accesible via Gopher service at . Undergraduates: pip.cc.brandeis.edu. Usernames on pip are of the form STXXYYYY where XX is the year the student entered Brandeis and YYYY is the student's campus mailbox number. Not all students use their accounts, so check with the student before emailing. US mail can be sent to MB , Brandeis University PO Box 9110 Waltham, MA 02254-9110 CS students (grad and undergrad) have accounts on cs.brandeis.edu, which is fingerable. For phone information: On-campus students can be reached by dialing an automated "spell-the-name" server at +1 617 736 3000 , 24 hours a day, or during business hours through the Brandeis operator at +1 617 736 2000. Off-campus students' numbers can be obtained through the campus information booth at +1 617 736 4770 during business hours. Some undergrads have accounts on a more advanced unix machine, chaos.cs.brandeis.edu. Userids are chosen by the student; finger {lastname}@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu or mail to postmaster@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu for info. Graduate Students: binah.cc.brandeis.edu (brandeis.bitnet). Not all use them; write to postmaster@binah.cc.brandeis.edu for information. Userid is chosen by the student. A few undergrads have binah accounts. DIRECTIONS to Brandeis can be had 24 hours at +1 617 736 4660. Brandon University (Brandon, Manitoba, Canada): Created: Wed Nov 9 1994 Faculty: brandonu.ca Usernames are [initial]. The initial is appended for common names (Joe Blue = blue; Tom Smith = smitht) Students: brandonu.ca Usernames are $ (Helen Rice = $riceh; Tim Albert Klassen = $klassenta) No online phone directory. Finger support but does not search. Anonymous FTP service (READ ONLY); ftp to ftp.brandonu.ca Bridgewater State College (Bridgewater, MA): Created: Wed Mar 24 1993 Host: bsc.mass.edu Brown: You can send mail to Firstname_Lastname@Brown.Edu if the user uses email and it will forward the mail to him or her. To find out whether the user has an email address, finger their name at brown.edu. This will return their preferred phone number, address, and email address if they use it. You can also try looking for undergrads on: brownvm.brown.edu (brownvm.bitnet) Username is some random alphanumerics. CS: cs.brown.edu (userids are usually initials) Bryn Mawr College: F_LLLLLLLLLL@cc.brynmawr.edu (F_LLLLLLLLLL@BRYNMAWR.BITNET) The former is fingerable, unlike the .bitnet address. This machine is mostly used by undergrads. Bucknell University: Changed: Wed Nov 9 1994 general: username@bucknell.edu cs: username@spectrum.cs.bucknell.edu usernames are typically last names, but if the last name is 4 letters or shorter, the first and middle initials are tacked onto the front. First initials are frequently used in usernames. The first user with any given last name who gets an account gets just his last name as the username. Every subsequent person with that name gets a first initial and then middle initials are used. California Inst. of Tech: Changed: Thu Jul 1 1993 CCO MACHINES (undergrad/grad/general) CCO means campus computing org. Unix: mail to username@cco.caltech.edu VMS: Juliet.caltech.edu. Also romeo,hamlet,iago,portia. These are all the same vax cluster. Try "whois -h finger.caltech.edu name" to find user names, or telnet to info.caltech.edu 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 University/San Luis Obispo (Cal Poly, SLO): polyslo.CalPoly.edu California State University/Chico: csuchico.edu California State University/Hayward (Hayward, CA): Created: Thu Nov 10 1994 host: .calstate.edu School of Business and Economics: FL@barney.sbe.csuhayward.edu. Computer Info System: s1.csuhayward.edu Fingering: gandalf.csuhayward.edu Warning: flastname@eis.calstate.edu is format for the Electronic Info Exchange, ONLY for local High School students. I don't believe any Hayward State Students can get into this account. California State University/Sacramento: csus.edu Calvin College: calvin.edu: Use 'finger name@calvin.edu' (eg firstname or lastname) to find addresses, since userids include parts of student numbers, so are hard to guess. Students: flllllnn (first intitial, first 5 of last name, last 2 digits of student number; except lastnames starting with Dutch prefixes Van Vander Vande etc., where just the v and first 4 letters of second part of lastname. Thus Henk Vander Bos, #123456, becomes hvbos56, Al Shoemaker, #987654, becomes ashoem54) (formerly s0###### where ###### is the student id number) Faculty/staff: xxxx@calvin.edu where "xxxx" is the standard faculty abbrevation, often lastname Cambridge University (Cambridge, England): Created: Sat Mar 27 1993 Telnet to info.cam.ac.uk and log in as "info"; you then get an online information system about Cambridge, which according to rumour can help you find people (though I got lost in a maze of twisty hypertext when I tried it). Carnegie Mellon University: Changed: Tue Nov 8 1994 Finger @cmu.edu to find people. You can try mailing to name@cmu.edu, but as of late 1993 it doesn't always work; mail to whatever destination Finger tells you about, instead. All undergraduate students and some faculty, staff, and graduate students: Mail sent to Fname.MI.Lname@andrew.cmu.edu works, even if the name is slightly misspelled. Most Andrew usernames are two initials followed by two characters that will appear random to outsiders. Usernames are arbitrary; to tell the mailer you're supplying an exact username, not to be pattern-matched with closely matching names, add a + at the end of the name: mkant+@cs.cmu.edu. If you try an ambiguous name, you'll get mail back with a list of matches. CS Grad: cs.cmu.edu ECE: ece.cmu.edu Mathematics: math.cmu.edu Psychology: psy.cmu.edu Robotics Grad: ri.cmu.edu. Mail to CS/RI may be sent to Fname.Lname@cs.cmu.edu. Statistics: stat.cmu.edu Humanities & Social Sciences: hss.cmu.edu Chemical Engineering: cheme.cmu.edu Computational Linguistics: lcl.cmu.edu Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland: Changed: Wed Mar 24 1993 Use 'whois -h whois.cwru.edu' to find usernames. It supports substring and soundex searches. If there is a * beside an address, it has not been activated. po.cwru.edu is the post office. Every student, professor, and staff member has access to email through this machine, as do alumni who activated their accounts while students. (Not everybody activates their account, however.) User ids are of the form fml##, where ## is a number, probably less than 30. The number is omitted if equal to 1. If there's no middle initial, m is an 'x'. skybridge.scl.cwru.edu is the server for the undergraduate Unix lab. The user ids on that machine are the full last name, for the most part. (Mainly Computer Engineering and EE's on this machine.) You can also search the Cleveland Freenet user list for CWRU people by any part of the name; telnet to freenet-in-a.cwru.edu, choose "Visitor", "Explore the system" and at the prompt, "go directory" CS/computer engineering majors may have accounts on the CS cluster; finger any part of the name @alpha.ces.cwru.edu. Userids are usually full last name. EE majors and those in related courses may have accounts on the EE HP/UX cluster; finger @snowhite.eeap.cwru.edu. Userids are usually the first six letters of the last name. Catholic University of America (Washington, DC): Changed: Sun Mar 20 1994 Send mail to username@cua.edu (Internet) or username@cua.bitnet (BITNet). There is no finger service. 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 Polytechnic of Hong Kong: Created: Fri Mar 31 1995 userid@cphkvx.cphk.hk, where userid is the 8-digit number of a student, or the initials of a staff member (possibly followed by a digit). City University of New York (CUNY): cunyvm.bitnet Userids: Students: A99SC Faculty: AAASC Liasons: LIASC Where A is any letter from A to Z, 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): Changed: Sat Jul 3 1993 finger flllllll@cmcvax.claremont.edu Clark College: firstname.lastname@clark.edu, or userid@clark.edu. Send mail to postmaster@clark.edu if you have difficulty. Note: this is not Clark University (clarku.edu). Clark University: Changed: Tue Jun 29 1993 Students, employees, alumni: flastname@VAX.CLARKU.EDU (up to 12 characters, unique in the first 8). Duplicate userids are resolved with a trailing digit. This address isn't fingerable. postmaster@vax.clarku.edu is willing to be helpful in tracking usernames. An ULTRIX machines, black.clarku.edu can also be used by anyone. It is fingerable. 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: Changed: Wed Nov 9 1994 World-Wide Web service at . Gopher service at . All students have accounts assigned through various butcherings of their names on the machine at clemson.clemson.edu (an IBM/390). Most students/faculty that use the Internet, or those that just want to use USENET, have accounts with identical account names on hubcap.clemson.edu (currently a VAX, but will be an Alpha by early '94, UNIX at any rate). The various academic departments with domains are: Department Domain ----------------------------------- Computer Science cs.clemson.edu Mathematics math.clemson.edu Engineering eng.clemson.edu Chemistry indigo.clemson.edu All department domains support UNIX finger and have postmasters. Cleveland State University: Changed: Mon Feb 15 1993 CIS faculty may be reached at lastname@cis.csuohio.edu. Engineering students with an account on the vax cluster may be reached at the following address: xxx9999@csvaxd.csuohio.edu, where xxx is the first three letters of their last name and 9999 is the last four digits of their social security number. A possible person to ask for help might be Linda Herrington at linda@csvaxd.csuohio.edu. Colby: f_m_lastname@colby.edu You can figure username, firstname, or lastname. College of Marin (Kentfield, CA): Created: Sun Mar 20 1994 userid@marin.cc.ca.us Userids are usually lastname, flastname, or fml. Most accounts don't last very long. College of St. Benedict (St. Joseph, MN): Created: Wed Nov 9 1994 Same domain as St. John's University (Collegeville, MN). Students: fmllllllllll@csbsju.edu Faculty: flllllllllll@csbsju.edu College of William & Mary (Williamsburg, VA): Changed: Wed Nov 9 1994 All students and academic faculty & staff have e-mail addresses of the form fmllll@mail.wm.edu. Finger also supports partial name searches. The Department of Computer Science has its own domain. Addresses are of the form userid@cs.wm.du. userid is user-selectable, and of no standard form. Finger supports partial name searches. Some other departments (e.g. Physics) have their own domains. Colorado College: Changed: Wed Feb 22 1995 Students: F_LLLLLLLLL@cc.colorado.edu Staff, faculty: FLLLLLLLLLL@cc.colorado.edu In case of duplicate names: Fm_llllllll or FmLLLLLLLLLL. By administrative policy does not support finger. Columbia: Changed: Sat Mar 25 1995 World-Wide Web service at . firstname.lastname@columbia.edu; you may right-truncate either name. If you pick something ambiguous, you'll get a reply with a list of matches. Directory service is available via telnet or Gopher service at . This includes all hosts at Columbia subject to the information being reported by the manager of each system. Note, students have the right to withhold directory information and in that case you will not find them. Barnard College names should be available by October 1993. Teachers College and Union Theological do not (yet) provide student information for this directory, though Teachers' College should do so soon. Finger @columbia.edu for last login on any of the new cluster of hosts. Some problems with this finger are being ironed out. Law students have accounts on lawmail.law.columbia.edu, which has had delivery problems during 1993. 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. Connecticut College (New London, CT): Created: Sun Mar 20 1994 fmlll@mvax.cc.conncoll.edu (or fllll if no middle name) Cornell College (Mount Vernon, Iowa): Mail to username@cornell-iowa.edu. Most Usernames are FLLLLLL, some may be LLLLLL or FFFFFF. Finger: CS: turing.csc.cornell-iowa.edu Others: hera.acn.cornell-iowa.edu, zeus.acn.cornell-iowa.edu Cornell University (Ithaca, New York): Changed: Tue Aug 3 1993 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 1993, everyone gets "network ids", which consist of first, middle and last initials, plus a number. Mail should be sent to network_id@cornell.edu. If the person's name is unique, mail can also be sent to firstname.lastname@cornell.edu. Email addresses can be searched by using finger on qi.cornell.edu. Use variations such as finger lastname@qi.cornell.edu or finger "firstname lastname"@qi.cornell.edu. Names are available via Gopher service at . Some people choose to add information such as street addresses, phone and FAX numbers, nicknames, and so on. The CIT HelpDesk at helpdesk@cornell.edu (607/255-8990) is willing to help find e-mail addresses. Dakota State University (Madison, SD): finger dsuvax.dsu.edu for electronic mail addresses for any member of the faculty, staff, or student body. Addresses are typically the first seven characters of the person's last name plus the first character of the person's first name. Please address questions to postmaster@dsuvax.dsu.edu. Dalhousie University (Halifax, NS, Canada): Changed: Wed Nov 9 1994 Central academic system: username@ac.dal.ca (VAX/VMS) General undegraduate: username@is.dal.ca (UNIX) Computing Science undergraduates: username@ug.cs.dal.ca (Unix) Computing Science faculty/grads: username@cs.dal.ca (Unix) Medical students and faculty: LastnameF@tupdean1.med.dal.ca School of Business Administration students: moon.sba.dal.ca (VAX/VMS) Finger works for UNIX systems and moon. The university phone book, containing e-mail addresses for faculty and staff who have phones, is accessible by e-mail queries. Address a one line message "FIND last-name" to "DIRECTORY@DAL.CA". The last name must be spelt correctly and in full. A directory of users on the central academic system is also available by e-mail query. Address a message to "ACSERVER@AC.DAL.CA" with one or more lines of the form "FIND name". If you have a signature file, follow the FIND command(s) with the command "FINISH" so the signature isn't processed. The name may be a username, first name, or last name. Usernames on the central academic system of the form AAAA9999 (four letters followed by four digits) are course accounts. They are valid only for the duration of the course. All students at Dalhousie are entitled to a personal username that may be renew from year to year; which should be used for e-mail in preference to a course username. Many departments and researchers have computer systems or Novell networks that support e-mail. These may respond to FINGER (ac.dal.ca doesn't). Daniel Webster College (Nashua, NH): Created: Thu Nov 10 1994 Students: flastname@eagle.dwc.edu or flllllll@av8r.dwc.edu. Faculty and staff: lastname@eagle.dwc.edu or lastname@av8r.dwc.edu For eagle, student last names are completely spelled out (e.g. John Randomuser -> jrandomuser). For students on av8r, the last name is truncated at seven characters (jrandomu). av8r is fingerable, matchable on first or last name. Dartmouth: Send mail to fname.lname@dartmouth.edu (or fname.mi.lname if it is a very common name). If the name is ambiguous, you might want to finger fname.mi.lname@dartmouth.edu for info about exact mail address. Dartmouth.Edu resolves all mail through the Dartmouth Name Directory, which stores preferred email addresses for all students, faculty, and staff members. If the name is unique, you can even send mail to name@dartmouth.edu. Most undergrads have accounts on mac.dartmouth.edu. Students who don't use any email address get the automatic default, @hinman.dartmouth.edu, which prints out the email and drops it into campus mail. Dickinson College (Carlisle, PA): Created: Wed Mar 24 1993 Addresses at Dickinson College are of the following format: username@dickinson.edu for example, postmaster@dickinson.edu username@dickinsn.bitnet postmaster@dickinsn.bitnet Usernames are typically the lastname (truncated at 8 characters) suffixed with the first few letters of the firstname when needed for uniqueness. Examples: Username Person -------- ------ jackson Joe Jackson jacksonb Bill Jackson jacksobo Bob Jackson Drake University (Des Moines, IA): Changed: Sun Mar 20 1994 userid@acad.drake.edu Students: fml### (or fl0### if no middle name), where the numbers distinguish among people with the same initials (usually 00#; informants don't know the method for choosing these numbers) Faculty: fl###1R where the numbers are the last three digits of the social security number. Finger works only for exact userids. Drake maintains a standard phone directory; telnet to acad.drake.edu, login as "drakeinfo" (no password required). E-mail addresses are not currently listed, but other directory information is. Students must reopen their accounts each semester, but userids remain consistent. Drew University (Madison, NJ): All students, faculty, and staff have accounts on drew.drew.edu (drew.bitnet). Whether they use them is another matter. Account names are usually of the form flllllll. In case of name collision, try fmllllll or fllllll# Drexel University: General Computing Services: userid@duvm.ocs.drexel.edu consultant's desk telephone 215.895.2698 Math and Computer Science : userid@mcs.drexel.edu where userid is of the form fllllll; the prefix is u for undergraduate, g for graduate, or t for temporary. Duke: Changed: Wed Mar 24 1993 Finger name@wp.duke.edu (IP address 128.109.140.14) Duke University Computer Assist Center provides general use accounts for most students and faculty. Mail addressed to @acpub.duke.edu should be forwarded to the appropriate account on any of the Academic Computing hosts. Computer Science is cs.duke.edu. Math is math.duke.edu; physics.duke.edu and law.duke.edu also exist (along with lots of other departmental domains.) There is also a BITNET site (dukemvs.ac.duke.edu or dukemvs.BITNET) Account names are NOT standardized on any of the systems. Math profs are probably {initials}@math.duke.edu Physics profs are probably {initials}@physics.duke.edu Duke Law School is under the address charon.law.duke.edu, which is fingerable, but student.law.duke.edu seems to be the better mailing address. Usernames can be hard to discover; postmaster@faculty.law.duke.edu has volunteered to forward mail to Law School faculty and staff, and suggests postmaster@student.law.duke.edu might be willing to do the same for students. Finger Undergrads, Grads, and many Faculty/Staff: The mail server is bacchus.acpub.duke.edu. Mail to other machines will get forwarded to it. For usernames, people are allowed to select their own. However, the Engineering school has taken to setting up accounts for its students, grads, and ugrads, and uses initials (fml) with possibly a number in case of name conflict. Everyone else could have anything as their userid, though people are encouraged to use their first initial and last name. Bitnet gateway: dukemvs.bitnet (dukemvs.ac.duke.edu) Math profs are probably {initials}@math.duke.edu Physics profs are probably {initials}@physics.duke.edu Other machines: cs.duke.edu, egr.duke.edu, psych.duke.edu Duke Law School is under the address charon.law.duke.edu, which is fingerable, but student.law.duke.edu seems to be the better mailing address. Usernames can be hard to discover; postmaster@faculty.law.duke.edu has volunteered to forward mail to Law School faculty and staff, and suggest postmaster@student.law.duke.edu might be willing to do the same for students. Earlham: Changed: Wed Feb 22 1995 A CSO information server is available via Gopher service at . VAX users: userid@earlham.edu Advanced computing students: userid@math.earlham.edu. Users added up to 8/92 have userid FFFFFFFL. In the case of an 8-character first name, the userid is FFFFFFFF In the case of conflicts, the userid is FFFFFFLL, FFFFFLLL, etc. Users added after 8/92 have userid LLLLLFF. -- http://www.qucis.queensu.ca:1999/~dalamb/info.html