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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
<URL:http://www.qucis.queensu.ca:1999/FAQs/college-email/college.html>
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 <username>@<machinename>
replacing <machinename> with the name of the appropriate machine, and
<username> with the name of the person or the person's login ID. For
example,
% finger 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 <name>
or
whois <name>
or
whois -h <host> <names>
where <host> 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 <name>
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 <username>@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 <URL:http://bible.acu.edu>.
Email to lastname@bible.acu.edu. Gopher service at
<URL:gopher://bible.acu.edu>. 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 <URL:http://web.bu.edu>.
Gopher service at <URL:gopher://gopher.bu.edu>; 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
<URL:gopher://gopher.brandeis.edu>.
Undergraduates: pip.cc.brandeis.edu. Usernames on pip are of the form
STXXYYYY where XX is the year the student entered Brandeis and YYYY
is the student's campus mailbox number. Not all students use their
accounts, so check with the student before emailing. US mail can be
sent to
<Student Name>
MB <YYYY>, Brandeis University
PO Box 9110
Waltham, MA 02254-9110
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 <lastname>[initial]. The initial
is appended for common names (Joe Blue = blue; Tom Smith = smitht)
Students: brandonu.ca Usernames are $<lastname><initials> (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 <URL:http://www.clemson.edu>.
Gopher service at <URL:gopher://gopher.clemson.edu>.
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 <URL:http://www.columbia.edu>.
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
<URL:gopher://gopher.cc.columbia.edu>. 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 <URL:gopher://gopher-
hole.cit.cornell.edu>. 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 <prefix>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
<user>@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
<URL:gopher://gopher.earlham.edu.>.
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.
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