Version: 4.4 Last-Modified: Sat 08 Apr 1995 09:49:24 EDT by dalamb@qucis.queensu.ca Archive-name: mail/college-email/part3 Saint Anselm College: Students, Faculty, Staff: anselm!username@dartmouth.edu Usernames are of the form flllllll, where f is the first letter of the first name and lllllll are the first seven letters of the last name. If a last name has less than 7 letters, the entire last name is used. Saint Anselm College is a UUCP client of dartvax, the Dartmouth College system. All news and email is fed via a data transmission made twice daily (1am and 1pm). San Diego State University: Faculty and Staff: flastname@sciences.sdsu.edu 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. San Francisco State University: Created: Tue Apr 6 1993 Domain: sfsu.edu Santa Clara University: Students and faculty with accounts there, at least in some cases, may be reached as FLLLLLLL@scuacc.scu.edu, 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): Changed: Sat Jul 3 1993 Finger flllllll@grover.claremont.edu. Mail to: flast@scripps.claremont.edu (Novell network) Finger at: charon.claremont.edu (Charon mail server) Charon knows nothing about users unless they're logged in (and crashes regularly). Seattle Pacific University: Created: Fri Oct 8 1993 @spu.edu Seattle University: Everybody (students and faculty) are on the same machine, @seattleu.edu Simon Fraser University: Changed: Mon Feb 15 1993 All students, staff and faculty have accounts on the campus computing network (CCN). The domain name is @sfu.ca. User information is available through an X.500 directory service, which can be accessed via the finger program: finger f_l@whistler.sfu.ca, where f is the first name and l is the last name. Computing Science and allied units also maintain a separate subdomain cs.sfu.ca (Centre for Systems Science). Users generally have the same accounts on this domain as they do on the CCN. Skidmore College (Saratoga Springs, NY): zipcode: 12866. phone: (518) 584-5000. All e-mail is collected by scott.skidmore.edu. 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 LDG@SCOTT.SKIDMORE.EDU for any delivery problems or other questions about the College. Smith College (Northampton, MA): Changed: Sun Mar 20 1994 Usernames are flllllll (or fmllllll to prevent duplicate names). Most accounts are on VMS at smith.smith.edu. Some, mostly computer science, are on UNIX at sophia.smith.edu, where fingering works (but talk has been disabled). Sonoma State University: fname.lname@sonoma.edu: Southwest Texas State University: cs and math faculty or grad students: @swtexas.bitnet. (most user IDs are cs_lastname or ma_lastname) St. John's University (Collegeville, MN): Changed: Tue Jan 4 1994 Same domain as College of St. Benedict (St. Joseph, MN) Students: fmllllllllll@csbsju.edu Faculty: flllllllllll@csbsju.edu St. John's University (New York, NY): Created: Thu Apr 6 1995 World-Wide Web service at . Gopher service at . St. John's University (Santa Fe, NM): Created: Thu Apr 6 1995 Domain stjohns-nm.edu. There is no reliable system for finding addresses because students are free to choose their own codeword as a name. Often it consists of their first initial and last name, but not always. 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: lname@stolaf.edu. Last name conflicts are usually resolved by adding first and/or middle initials to the end of the last name. Try fingering Lname@stolaf.edu (note the capital letter). Try using the St. Olaf Gopher service at . Phonebook information can be found under "St. Olaf Information". Try sending email to postmaster@stolaf.edu describing the person you're trying to contact. CSO phone book server at cso.stolaf.edu. Stanford: Changed: Wed Nov 9 1994 Stanford has implemented a finger service for its whois database. Try "finger name@stanford.edu" first -- most students and lots of staff and faculty now have their e-mail addresses registered with this service. Name can be lastname, or for better results flastname or fmllllll. Alternatively, this service can be accessed via whois: whois -h stanford.edu name If that doesn't work, most students (and lots of staff and faculty) have accounts on leland.stanford.edu. The finger daemon on leland only matches exact usernames. Its various clients are slow but match more: elaine0 through elaine53(.stanford.edu) A couple of other machines to try: CS (Grad and undergrad): xenon.stanford.edu Geology/Earth sciences: pangea.stanford.edu EE: sierra.stanford.edu Psychology: psych.stanford.edu Stevens Institute of Technology (Hoboken, NJ, USA): Created: Mon Jul 5 1993 Send mail to username@SITVAX.STEVENS-TECH.EDU, where username is of the form "first initial lastname" truncated to 8 characters, with a uniqueness number. For example, John Smith would have the username JSMITH, but Jane Smith (who's account was added after John's) would have JSMITH1. We hope to add a Campus Information Server in Fall'93 to make it easier to find people. This record will be updated when that occurs. SUNY/Albany: Created: Mon Aug 23 1993 Students: flnnnn@albnyvms.bitnet (VAX cluster) or @albnyvm1 (IBM system) where nnnn is last 4 digits of social security number. SUNY/Alfred (Alfred, NY): (SUNY College of Technology at Alfred) Students and faculty: llllllfm@snyalfva.cc.alfredtech.edu (lastname, firstname, middlename, though middle name sometimes isn't used). SUNY/Binghamton: (Binghamton, NY): Changed: Wed Nov 9 1994 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: bXNNNNN@HOSTNAME.cc.binghamton.edu 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), bingsuns (SunOS), bingvmb (IBM), or bingtjw (IBM). Older userids are of the form vyNNNN@bingvaxa, and bgNNNN@bingvmb. Interested undergrads tend to have accounts on bingvaxa, though those in Math/CS classes will have accounts on bingsuns. N.B.: since about November 1993 the following doesn't seem to work. An e-mail directory for some faculty and staff is supposed to be available; telnet to bingvmb.cc.binghamton.edu DIAL VTAM ELIXIR Choose from menu. SUNY/Buffalo: Changed: Tue Feb 21 1995 Finger name@ubvms.cc.buffalo.edu, where name is userid or lastname or firstname; you'll get a list of possible matches if there is more than one. Grads, Undergrads: username@ubvms.cc.buffalo.edu. 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): username@acsu.buffalo.edu ubvms is a VAX, and most students had accounts there. Recently, however, more people are getting accounts on acsu, the Unix system. Engineering Students: username@eng.buffalo.edu EE Students: username@beatrix.eng.buffalo.edu CS Dept: username@cs.buffalo.edu (username@sunybcs.bitnet) 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/Canton: students: llllllll@scanva.bitnet, also try @snycanva.bitnet SUNY/Geneseo: students: fmlyy@geneseo.bitnet .. yy is graduation year I dont know about faculty, it might be on @snygenva.bitnet. SUNY/New Paltz: Created: Mon Feb 20 1995 Domain is newpaltz.edu, but they don't allow finger access from off campus. SUNY/Potsdam: students: llllllss@snypotvb.bitnet .. where ss are last 2 digits of SS# faculty: llllllfm@snypotva.bitnet SUNY/Stony Brook: Undergraduates: flllllll@ccvm.sunysb.edu (sbccvm.bitnet) flllllll@ccmail.sunysb.edu (sbccmail.bitnet) (servers ccsinc.bitnet and ccnova.bitnet) flllllll@ic.sunysb.edu (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 fllll@sunysb.edu Swarthmore: Changed: Tue Aug 3 1993 Most Students/Faculty/Staff: FLLLLLLN@cc.swarthmore.edu, where F is the user's first initial, and LLLLLL is the first six letters of their last name. A '1' (one) is appended in most cases, though for duplicates the number is incremented. To find people, send mail to postmaster. You can also finger people by their last name. As of fall 1993: some students may be reached at lastname@sccs.swarthmore.edu Computing Centre staff: usually lastname@cc.swarthmore.edu CS: Usually, lastname@cs.swarthmore.edu Engineering: usually lastname@engin.swarthmore.edu Syracuse University: CompSci Grads/Faculty: top.cis.syr.edu Many CompSci graduates and faculty have accounts on this machine; the usual username pattern is "lastname@top.cis.syr.edu" 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 name@syr.edu" 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 (NSERVE@SUVM.BITNET), 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 (315) 443-1870 is campus information; if the userid exists in the phonebook, the people there will be happy to give it out. consult@mailbox.syr.edu -- 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. Tampere University of Technology (Tampere, Finland): Created: Mon Sep 6 1993 Host: tut.fi. Finger available. 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 lastname@tamsun.tamu.edu or lastname@tamu.edu. (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, staff, and faculty: firstname.lastname@mail.trincoll.edu mail.trincoll.edu is currently equivalent to trincoll.edu Tufts University: tufts.edu, tufts.bitnet Union College (Schenectady, NY): Created: Wed Nov 9 1994 llllllf@unvax.union.edu United States Air Force Academy: Changed: Sat Apr 8 1995 World-Wide Web service at . Gopher service at . Cadets: you must know the cadet's last name, first and middle initials, class year, and cadet squadron. For example, John Ivan Smith, class year 96, squadron CS-17, gives SmithJI96%CS17%USAFA@cadetmail2.usafa.af.mil Instructors and faculty: class year is not applicable, and squadron is replaced with the department they work in. All academic departments are preceded by DF and then the department's abbreviation is placed. The cadetmail2 is also dropped. For example, an instructor, Smith, J I who works in the English department, would be denoted as: SmithJI%DFENG%USAFA@usafa.af.mil Computer science: host kirk.usafa.af.mil. Finger works. Universite Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris VI, Paris, France): Created: Wed Nov 9 1994 Faculty and staff only. Computer architecture department: lastname@masi.ibp.fr University of Aalborg (Dennmark): @iesd.auc.dk University of Aarhus (Dennmark): Created: Wed Mar 24 1993 Computer Science: @daimi.aau.dk University 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 r2sk9@vax1.cc.uakron.edu... 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. University of Alabama at Huntsville: Domain: uah.edu, asn.net (asnuah.asn.net) School of Engineering: xxx..x@ebs330.eb.uah.edu CS dept : xxx..x@uahcs2.cs.uah.edu Math dept: xxx.x@sun3.math.uah.edu Grad std/Research : xxx.x@asnuah.asn.net University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa: Domain: ua.edu College of Engineering: flastname@buster.eng.ua.edu Seebeck Computing Center: flllllln@ua1vm.ua.edu, 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: postmaster@ua1vm.ua.edu University of Alaska: Changed: Tue Jun 29 1993 Bitnet: username@alaska.bitnet Internet: username@acadO.alaska.edu Usernames are of the form CTFMLN where: C=Campus. A is for U of A Anchorage B is for non-university related accounts (very rare) D is for Kodiak College F is for U of A Fairbanks G is for Tanana Valley I is for Kenai Peninsula College J is for U of A Southeast (in Juneau) K is for U of A Southeast (Ketchikan branch) L is for Bethel N is for Nome P is for Mat-Su College (in Palmer) S is for system-wide personnel and organizations T is for U of A Southeast (Sitka branch) V is for Prince William Sound Community College (in Valdez) Z is for Kotzebue 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 Y is for administration and organizations. H is for temporary guest accounts R is for research 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. 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. acad2 and acad3 (.alaska.edu) can be fingered (usernames only - VMS finger). Fingering these computers will not tell you the person's name. There are also other computers in the alaska.edu domain. SX accounts (computer system administrators and testing accounts) usually are on orca.alaska.edu and also on at least one of the acadO's. orca cannot be fingered. A student, faculty, or staff member can request an account on camelot.acf-lab.alaska.edu, also. This computer can also be fingered. Other computers in alaska.edu may not use this username assignment, but orca.alaska.edu and camelot.acf-lab.alaska.edu do. University of Arizona: Historically computer access at the UA had been limited to students, faculty and staff who had either a job, or a class which required a computer. Recently the Unix Users Group at the University of Arizona began providing General Access Systems for no charge to UA students. The machines are configured from donated, loaned and retired equipment and managed by volunteer effort. As a volunteer effort, there is not time to respond to postmaster requests for usernames so please do not send address requests to the postmaster. Use the finger utility instead; it will respond to "real name" requests (in the following "gas" means "gas.uug.arizona.edu"): finger -l kennedy@gas gotobed@gas |grep "Login name:" Login name: bjk In real life: Brian J. Kennedy Login name: kennedys In real life: Steven A Kennedy Login name: jgotobed In real life: Joe Gotobed While we are attempting to support a rational username policy, it is not foolproof as this example shows. If the finger info returns nothing, the person has no account on these systems. Due to limited disk capacity, ( < 1Mb per account) the usage is limited primarily to internet news, telnet, ftp and email. There are currently about 500 students and a capacity of about 3,000 accounts. While accounts are currently limited to students, we expect to provide access to the general staff & faculty sometime in the spring of 1993. There are nearly a hundred subdomains at the University, each with their own access policies, username assignments and email schemes. If the finger utility does not reveal the address of a friend, a phone call to them asking for their address is probably the most efficient way to discover it. Many faculty and staff are 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. Undergrads in Engineering are on a cluster of Suns; try evax2.engr.arizona.edu. 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 (e.g. RReagan) @bpa.arizona.edu with very good success. If FirstinitialLastname is ambiguous, a username might be LastnameFirstinitial instead. (Main site was mis.arizona.edu until late 1992). On BITNET send mail to username@arizbpa.bitnet Arizona.EDU is the campus mail gateway, but only those who ask get aliases on Arizona.EDU. You could try last-name@Arizona.EDU if you suspect the person you want uses EMAIL a lot. University of Atlanta: @auc.UUCP University 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. University of California/Berkeley: Changed: Tue Nov 15 1994 World-Wide Web service at . Whois: whois.berkeley.edu. Gopher service at and infocal.berkeley.edu. Undergraduates, faculty, staff, and graduate students: uclink or ocf (all .berkeley.edu). Finger on uclink also finds uclink2 and uclink3 addresses. CS and EECS undergraduates: cory.EECS.berkeley.edu. soda.CSUA, ucsee.eecs, and hkn.eecs are run by students (CS Undergrad Association, UC Society of EEs, and Eta Kappa Nu, respectively). First Year Graduate CS students: try cory.EECS.berkeley.edu or xcssun.cs.berkeley.edu. antipodes.cs.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 Many csgrads will have mail aliases on cs.berkeley.edu, which supports finger. Systems to try for grad students are (all .cs.berkeley.edu): sprite, harmony, sequoia, yew, larch, robotics, postgres, and ginger. 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. Danube, congo, po, and volga and a cluster of stars (named after stars) (all in the .EECS.berkeley.edu domain), and web and buddy are used for the first 3 semesters of CS classes. haas is 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 Undergraduate Interdisciplinary Studies), and accounts are available to any Social Sciences major by permission of their advisor. Account names are 193xxx, where xxx is the last name of the user. Math (Graduate and Faculty): math.berkeley.edu Physics Grads and Undergrads: physics.berkeley.edu Mech. E Profs & Grads: euler.berkeley.edu, tycho.berkeley.edu, erastosthenes.berkeley.edu Public Cluster (some undergrads): ocf.berkeley.edu School of Education: soe.berkeley.edu, ced.berkeley.edu College of Natural Resources: nature.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 and staff, 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. Also, people can look for staff people on whois.berkeley.edu. postmaster@nic.berkeley.edu should be considered as a last choice when looking from someone electronically. University of California/Davis: Changed: Thu Nov 10 1994 whois -h ucdavis.edu @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 CS: First.Last@cs.ucdavis.edu Engineering/CS: First.Last@ee.ucdavis.edu or First.Last@eecs.ucdavis.edu othello and bullwinkle.ucdavis.edu are for general use. Userids are ez0xxxxx, where xxxxx is a 5 digit assigned number. University 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 fname-lname@XX.uci.edu (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. University 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). University 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 name@ucsd.edu". Most usernames are the initial of the first name followed by the last name, truncated to 8 characters, ie. "jfowler@ucsd.edu", 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). There are many other subdomains for other subjects (math, cs, ee, etc.). Many, many other machines house course, faculty, staff, and research accounts. Your best bet is to look the name up at ucsd.edu. University 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. University of Central Florida (Orlando): CS dept: only grad students are given accounts. finger lastname@eola.cs.ucf.edu Engineering: finger initials@apocalypse.engr.ucf.edu General: ucf1vm.cc.ucf.edu. (A bitnet node, so you cannot finger) University of Chicago: Changed: Thu Jul 1 1993 Undergraduates: midway.uchicago.edu (formerly tank.uchicago.edu) (midway.uchicago.edu serves as a mail server for machines named quads, ellis, and kimbark (.uchicago.edu). When midway refuses connections, finger at one of the others.) Grads and faculty may also be on quads, ellis, or kimbark. 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 finitial-lastname@uchicago.edu 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 advisor@midway.uchicago.edu. Unfortunately few people bother to input their e-mail addresses. University of Chile (Universidad de Chile) (in Santiago, Chile, South America): Mathematics and Physical Sciences Campus (includes engineering) All students that ask for an account can get one on araucaria: araucaria.cec.uchile.cl (Sun 690MP), uchcecvm.bitnet (IBM 390) All students that have a class involving computers get an account on: cipres.cec.uchile.cl (Sun 690MP) Professors, researchers, and research assistents: tamarugo.cec.uchile.cl (Sun 690MP) Computer Science (Departamento Ciencia de la Computacion) All Computer Science students and professors have an account on: dcc.uchile.cl (Sun 4/470) Professors, researchers, and grad students of Computer Science tortel.dcc.uchile.cl (Sun SS II) For more information access the Gopher service at (using normal gopher access or telnet/rlogin with login name "gopher") University of Colorado/Boulder: Changed: Tue Feb 23 1993 Finger name@colorado.edu, where name is lastname, firstname, or firstname-lastname. At the upper right of the directory information is a username and machine; their address is then username@machine.colorado.edu Telnet to directory.colorado.edu, using username "directory". This lets you access the online phonebook/email address book. University of Connecticut: uconn.edu userid@nicky.uconn.edu CS Undergrads: ug1.eng1.uconn.edu CS Grads and Faculty: cse1.cse.uconn.edu CS Research and Grads: sparc0.brc.uconn.edu University of Copenhagen (Dennmark): Created: Wed Mar 24 1993 Computer Science: @ling.cphling.dk University of Dayton (Ohio): School of Engineering: udecc.engr.udayton.edu CPS: udcps3.cps.udayton.edu General: udavxb.oca.udayton.edu University of Delaware: Changed: Wed Nov 9 1994 All undergraduate students, graduate students and faculty have accounts on the university system at strauss.udel.edu. Also there are bach, brahms, and chopin{.udel.edu}. The login name is a random 5-digit number until the user changes it, then it is whatever the user picks. Fingering last names will work to find the login name, but since there are thousands of accounts, it may produce an overload of information. Faculty are best reached at Firstname.Lastname@mvs.udel.edu, though some have accounts on the "composers" machines. The College of Marine Studies maintains a computer system. Students and faculty have accounts with login names of their choosing on several computers, such as earthview.cms.udel.edu mingming.cms.udel.edu chester.cms.udel.edu There are several other sparcstations around but they share accounts with the ones named above. University of Dortmund (Germany): Created: Mon Aug 23 1993 Students: firstname_lastname@ls<#chair>..uni-dortmund.de #chair faculty 1-12 informatik (= computer science) 1-?? mathematik 1-?? physik University of Exeter (Exeter, Devon, UK): Created: Sun Mar 20 1994 exeter.ac.uk. Various departments have their own mail servers, e.g.: Computer Science: dcs.exeter.ac.uk Mathematics: maths.exeter.ac.uk Camborne School of Mines: csm.exeter.ac.uk University of Florida (Gainesville, FL): Finger lastname@wasp.eng.ufl.edu. Contains complete listings for people in the College of Engineering, and some listings for people in other departments. University of Helsinki (Helsinki, Finland): Created: Mon Sep 6 1993 Hosts: klaava.helsinki.fi, plootu.helsinki.fi. Finger available. University of Houston (Houston, Texas): Changed: Mon Feb 15 1993 Host: cs.uh.edu.: All graduate students, staff, and faculty in the CS dept. have accounts on cs.uh.edu. Undergrads have accounts on either menudo.uh.edu (Unix) or jetson.uh.edu (VAX). Try "finger lastname@cs.uh.edu" for information on graduate students, staff, or faculty. Use "finger lastname@menudo.uh.edu" or "finger lastname@jetson.uh.edu" for undergrads. Anonymous ftp host: beethoven.cs.uh.edu (129.7.5.180) Undergraduate and graduate information can be found under pub/gradinfo. To request for information and/or application forms, send name and address to gradinfo@cs.uh.edu University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign: Changed: Wed Mar 24 1993 In general, finger name@uiuc.edu, where name can be firstname, lastname, or firstname-lastname. Also try whois -h uiuc.edu CS: try mail to lastname@cs.uiuc.edu or flastname@cs.uiuc.edu Campus: try f-lastname@uiuc.edu and firstname-lastname@uiuc.edu. It is usually possible to send mail to f-lastname@uiuc.edu or firstname-lastname@uiuc.edu. If that fails, you will get a message which tells you why the email could not be sent. Student Accounts: As of Fall 1992: ux4.cso.uicc.edu (those entering before then have accounts on uxa.cso.uiuc.edu) Every freshman gets an account on this machine. Usernames are usually flastname (old accounts were the user's three initials, followed by five random characters.) Math (Grads, Faculty, Staff): lastname@math.uiuc.edu Classes: ux1.cso.uiuc.edu, hendrix.ece.uiuc.edu (Purely instructional. 1 semester accounts on this machine.) Faculty: some are on on ux1.cso.uiuc.edu Engineering: coewl.cen.uiuc.edu; finger isn't supported. Electrical engineering faculty: ece.uiuc.edu From BITNET, it is possible to get information about any student by executing the command TELL PHSERVE AT UIUCVMD firstname lastname RETURN ALL University of Illinois/Chicago: Changed: Mon Jul 5 1993 uic.edu (Most userids of the form Uxxxxx) For Staff and Faculty info, use 'finger lastname@uic.edu' or Gopher service at , and select "The Campus" menu entry, then "Phonebook". Use the e-mail alias for best response. Student Info: Not yet easily available. However, if you know the person's userid, you can 'finger U12345@uic.edu' which will give you stats on the account, if active. Engineering: Use 'finger name@bert.eecs.uic.edu' The PostMaster will NOT help you in finding people, as the only resources available are described above. University of Iowa (Iowa City, IA): Changed: Wed Mar 24 1993 Finger name@uiowa.edu, or telnet to chop.isca.uiowa.edu and enter "go phone" to use the Uiowa phone book. Engineers - on the Apollo ring: fmlastname@icaen.uiowa.edu Others - @weeg.uiowa.edu University of Joensuu (Joensuu, Finland): Created: Mon Sep 6 1993 Hosts: cc.joensuu.fi, joensuu.fi. Finger available. University of Jyvaskyla (Jyvaskyla, Finland): Created: Mon Sep 6 1993 Hosts: tukki.jyu.fi, network.cc.jyu.fi. Finger with first or last name. University of Kansas: Created: Tue Nov 8 1994 Finger lastname or firstname or userid@falcon.cc.ukans.edu For computer science faculty and graduate students try hawk.cs.ukans.edu. University of Kentucky: The WHOIS server at UK maintains user databases for the following Kentucky universities: University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY University of Louisville, Louisville, KY Morehead State University, Morehead, KY Murray State University, Murray, KY Transylvania University, Lexington, KY Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green, KY Eastern Kentucky University, Richmond, KY Northern Kentucky University, Highland Heights, KY Sending Commands To WHOIS: If you have BITNET access, you can query the WHOIS server interactively, using the TELL command. For instance: TELL WHOIS AT UKCC WHOIS FOOBLE or TELL WHOIS AT UKCC GUESS AT NKU BOOGLE If you don't have access to BITNET, you can query the WHOIS server via electronic mail. Send your email to whois@ukcc.uky.edu, and place your commands in the body (NOT the Subject line) of the message. The HELP command will send you back a full list of commands. University of Kuopio (Kuopio, Finland): Created: Mon Sep 6 1993 uku.fi University of Louisville (Louisville, KY): Changed: Tue Nov 8 1994 The whois server at the University of Kentucky maintains data for U of L also. Every staff and faculty member has an account on ulkyvm.louisville.edu, but this machine refuses finger requests, as does ulkyvx.louisville.edu, the main name server. The Speed Scientific School operates starbase.spd.louisville.edu, which does accept finger. Most students and many professors in the six engineering departments of Speed Scientific School have accounts on starbase cluster. User ids on all the machines are exactly 8 characters: FMLastNN, where 0 is used for missing middle initials, lastnames are truncated to 4 characters or padded with 0 if shorter, and NN is used to resolve conflicts (starting with 01). University of Maine: Campus mainframe: username@maine.bitnet CS Faculty and Students: userid@gandalf.umcs.maine.edu University of Manitoba (Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada): Created: Sun Mar 20 1994 Dept. of Computer Science: Staff & Graduate Students: Firstname_Lastname@cs.umanitoba.ca Dept. of Electrical & Computer Engineering: UserId@ee.umanitoba.ca All other depts and undergraduate students: UserId@cc.umanitoba.ca University of Maryland/College Park: Changed: Mon Sep 6 1993 U.Md. has several campuses, but we currently have information only for the College Park campus. Employees (faculty and staff): Finger name@umail.umd.edu. Names are usually flnumber or firstname_MI_LASTNAME (e.g. dm17 or David_L_MATTHEWS) All students (grad and undergrad) may request an account on wam.umd.edu (Workstations At Maryland). All undergrads (and probably graduate students too) may request accounts on eng.umd.edu; most engineering graduate students have accounts there, but so do non-engineering studentss. Finger using the lastname at these hosts. CS Faculty/Staff/Graduate Students: cs.umd.edu; sometimes umiacs.umd.edu or cfar.umd.edu telnet umail.umd.edu and login as lookup for faculty/staff E-mail directory. Campus has universal faculty/staff E-mail on info.umd.edu (aka umail.umd.edu). Whois and finger do not work off campus for this computer, though. If you know the name, try firstname_mi_lastname@umail.umd.edu. University of Massachusetts/Amherst: Changed: Tue Jun 29 1993 Students/Faculty: first.{mi.}last@student.umass.edu (This is on the CDC Cyber NOS/VE system.) Another common format is first.{mi.}last@saturn.ucc.umass.edu. Saturn is the name of the computer. Many people, especially faculty, have a departmental abbreviation in place of "student" or "saturn.ucc". Another possible form is FML@titan.ucs.umass.edu Graduate CS students: cs.umass.edu Username is person's lastname. Intro CS courses: S#######@tethys.ucc.umass.edu, where ####### is a 7-digit student number. Engineering: {fi}lastname@ecs.umass.edu. Names defaults to last name, but may include the first initial if the last name is not unique. Student directory service: (413)-545-1515 for finding a phone number. University of Massachusetts/Lowell: All CS students and University UNIX users are generally addressable as flllllll@cs.ulowell.edu. Adjustments are made for conflicts such as adding the middle initial after the first, or adding additional letters from the first name. Not all students automatically get accounts on the VMS system, but if they do they can be addressed as llllllf@woods.ulowell.edu. Finger works on this machine, but isn't very informative. If there is a name conflict, they will add letters from the first name or numeric digits (1, 2, etc.) until it is unique. University of Miami: Created: Mon Sep 6 1993 Rosentiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences: whois -h UMIGW.MIAMI.EDU name finger name@phone.rsmas.miami.edu University of Michigan: Changed: Sat Mar 25 1995 World-Wide Web service at . The best place to try to find an e-mail address for a faculty, students, and staff at U-M is via the X.500 White Pages service. There are many ways in which this can be accessed, but one easy way is through finger (finger firstname.lastname@umich.edu). (The X.500 Directory also contains business addresses, business phone numbers, titles, and home addresses and phone numbers in the case where the person has granted such permission.) If the person has registered an e-mail address, it will appear; if the person has not, follow the advice of the X.500 server and try fingering the person at um.cc.umich.edu (the mainframe), caen.engin.umich.edu (the College of Engineering mail hub), or med.umich.edu (the Medical Campus mail hub). People with accounts on um.cc.umich.edu also have a Bitnet address: USERxxx@UMICHUM.BITNET where 'xxxx' is the person's account on the mainframe. A database of U of Michigan student and faculty phone numbers and addresses (not email addresses, just phones) is available through the Gopher service at , also available via telnet to gopher.micro.umn.edu (login: gopher) in the "Other gophers" menu or the "phone books" menu. This gopher phone number database has been changed to access X.500. Grad students in EECS get accounts on eecs.umich.edu. (The specific machine names are dip and zip, but eecs forwards appropriately.) Usernames are either lastname, or of the form Fname_Lname. 313- ann arbor info 764-1817 998-7999 If all else fails, you can always mail the request to the U-M postmaster at postmaster@umich.edu. Alternately, to get finger information for NAME: telnet to 35.1.48.149 35.1.48.150 or hermes.merit.edu press return until you get a "Which Host?" prompt type FINGER UM NAME University of Minnesota: Changed: Fri Nov 25 1994 In general, try fingering fname.mname.lname@umn.edu. Fingering any reasonable fragment of the name should work. CS Grad students: @cs.umn.edu. General policy is "last name as account name, plus first and middle initials if that's not unique", but there *are* exceptions. Undergrads in technical majors will have temporary accounts on maroon.tc.umn.edu or vx.cis.umn.edu. The account names are serialized so aren't useful in finding out names. Recently (as of late 1992) most class accounts are on mermaid.micro.umn.edu, and are named. All Twin Cities campus students have e-mail on gold.tc.umn.edu, whether they know it or not. Chemistry (faculty, staff, grads): lname@chemsun.chem.umn.edu. The login is usually the person's last name. Statistics: umnstat.stat.umn.edu. Userid varies; use finger. Biochemistry & genetics: often molbio.cbs.umn.edu or lenti.med.umn.edu UMN Morris: Logins are in the form llllllfm@cab.mrs.umn.edu. Finger first or last name. -- http://www.qucis.queensu.ca:1999/~dalamb/info.html