FAQ: College Email Addresses 1/3 [Monthly posting]
David Lamb
Last-Modified: Tue Feb 23 17:21:10 1993 by David Lamb
Version: 3.26
This is a summary of how to find email addresses for undergraduate and
graduate students, faculty and staff at various colleges and universities. If
your university is not listed, send me a detailed description of how to find
email addresses there and I'll add it to this list. Please mail ADDITIONS,
CORRECTIONS, SUGGESTIONS, and OTHER INFORMATION to me at
dal...@qucis.queensu.ca.
I will *not* answer requests for help finding a specific address; if the
school is not listed in this posting, I probably do not have any information
about the site, and certainly do not have the time to answer the mail.
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 (host 130.15.1.100) in the directory
pub/dalamb/college-email as the files faq1.text, faq2.text, and faq3.text.
You can also get the file by anonymous ftp from rtfm.mit.edu (18.172.1.27) in
the file /pub/usenet/soc.college/Student_Email_Addresses, or by sending a mail
message to "archive...@qucis.queensu.ca" with the subject
send dalamb/college-email
or by sending a message to "mail-...@pit-manager.mit.edu" with the subject
send usenet/soc.college/Student_Email_Addresses
A copy of this file may be found on the WAIS server at wais.cic.net,
thanks to Edward Vielmetti (e...@msen.com, e...@cic.net).
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.
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There are several general facilities for locating an email address.
We concentrate on those usable from the internet.
o finger
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
.project files from the home directory of current UNIX users. The
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 mk...@cs.cmu.edu
[CS.CMU.EDU]
[ Forwarding mkant as "mka...@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.Ka...@cs.cmu.edu
[CS.CMU.EDU]
[ Forwarding Mark.Kantrowitz as "mka...@a.gp.cs.cmu.edu" ]
% finger kantr...@cs.cmu.edu
[CS.CMU.EDU]
[ Forwarding kantrowitz as "mka...@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.
o whois/nicname Changed: Tue Feb 23 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 by SRI-NIC (Network Information Center
at SRI International) for the given names. For example,
nicname <name>
or
whois <name>
or
whois -h <host> <names> (e.g., whois -h stanford.edu <names>)
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 nic.ddn.mil
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).
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: Tue Feb 23 1993
Most sites have an individual responsible for network and mail operations
at the site, usually with the userid of 'postmaster'. So if you're having
trouble with mail, first send mail to postmaster at your site, and if
that fails, try sending it to postmaster at the destination site.
Postmasters are usually very busy people, so try not to bother them much.
Many postmasters will refuse to answer questions about user identification,
for reasons of privacy.
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, list...@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 "jan...@aol.com" (without the quotes, of course).
Internet mail incoming to America Online is trucated at 27 kilobytes.
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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.
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Amherst College:
Students, Faculty, Staff: use...@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 last...@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):
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 Postmaster or Laslow.
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.
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.
Ball State University:
University Computing Services: user...@bsuvax1.bitnet
Some faculty and grad students have accounts on this machine.
CS: user...@bsu-cs.bsu.edu
Barnard: See Columbia.
Bates College (Lewiston, Maine):
Students and Faculty: use...@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...@bates.edu
Baylor College of Medicine:
The central mail server is bcm.tmc.edu and finger us...@bcm.tmc.edu will
get you any faculty or staff user that makes use of the central mail
facility. finger us...@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
postm...@bcm.tmc.edu
Birmingham-Southern College (Birmingham, AL):
bsc835!use...@uunet.uu.net where userid are of the form
flllllll. Postmaster is bsc835!jba...@uunet.uu.net.
Boston Univ.:
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 us...@bu.edu or first...@bu.edu.
Mailing us...@bu.edu is currently broken but should be fixed soon.
CS: cs.bu.edu
Undergrad CS: csa.bu.edu.
Engineering: buenga.bu.edu (faculty/admin)
In the fall (of 1992) BU will set up a nameserver on bu.edu.
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:
Faculty: bradley.bradley.edu
Students: buhub.bradley.edu, camelot.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.
Chemistry: chem1.bradley.edu
CS: bucs1.bradley.edu, cssun1, cssun2
Physics: truth.bradley.edu
Physics: beauty.bradley.edu
Brandeis:
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
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
postm...@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu for info.
Graduate Students: binah.cc.brandeis.edu (brandeis.bitnet).
Not all use them; write to postm...@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.
Brown:
You can send mail to Firstname...@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_LLLL...@cc.brynmawr.edu (F_LLLL...@BRYNMAWR.BITNET)
The former is fingerable, unlike the .bitnet address. This
machine is mostly used by undergrads.
Bucknell University:
general: user...@bucknell.edu
cs: user...@pollux.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.
Example:
username person
-------- ------
murray Betty Murray, switchboard operator
dmurray David Murray, senior
jmurray Jeff Murray, senior
jemurray Jonathan Murray, freshman
California Inst. of Tech:
CCO MACHINES (undergrad/grad/general) CCO means campus computing org.
Unix:
tybalt.caltech.edu: also called tybalt.cco.caltech.edu or
truebalt. There are about 15 machines on this cluster of
Suns/NeXTs. The mail server is actually called
cobalt.caltech.edu or cobalt.cco.caltech.edu (either one
works). All of these are equally good.
VMS: Juliet.caltech.edu. Also romeo,hamlet,iago,portia.
These are all the same vax cluster.
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 Univ./San Luis Obispo (Cal Poly, SLO):
polyslo.CalPoly.edu
California State University/Chico: csuchico.edu
California State University/Sacramento: csus.edu
Calvin College: calvin.edu
Use 'finger na...@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: xx...@calvin.edu where "xxxx" is the standard
faculty abbrevation, often lastname
Carnegie Mellon University:
Undergrad: andrew.cmu.edu
Grad CS: cs.cmu.edu
Grad Robotics: ri.cmu.edu
ECE: ece.cmu.edu
Mail sent to Fname.M...@andrew.cmu.edu works, even if the name
is slightly misspelled. Andrew usernames are two initials followed
by two random characters. Mail to CS/RI may be sent to
Fname...@cs.cmu.edu. CS/RI usernames are arbitrary names selected
by the user. If you wish to send to the username, add a + at
the end of the name: mka...@cs.cmu.edu
bitnet.cc.cmu.edu (carnegie.bitnet) is the gateway to bitnet.
The CMU.EDU domain name has now been enabled for use of the new
campus-wide mail/finger service.
Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland: Changed: Tue Feb 23 1993
Use 'whois -h whois.cwru.edu' to find usernames. It supports
substring and soundex searches.
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.)
Catholic University of America
user...@cua.edu (Internet)
user...@cua.bitnet (BITNet)
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 University of New York (CUNY):
cunyvm.bitnet
Userids:
Students: A99SC
Faculty: AAASC
Liasons: LIASC
Where A is any letter from A to Z
Where 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:
fl...@cmcvx1.claremont.edu (VAX-VMS)
Clark College:
firstname...@clark.edu, or use...@clark.edu. Send
mail to postm...@clark.edu if you have difficulty.
Note: this is not Clark University (clarku.edu).
Clark University:
vax.clarku.edu and black.clarku.edu
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:
clemson.clemson.edu (VMS)
Engineering: eng.clemson.edu
Cleveland State University: Changed: Mon Feb 15 1993
CIS faculty may be reached at last...@cis.csuohio.edu.
Engineering students with an account on the vax cluster may be reached
at the following address: xxx...@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
li...@csvaxd.csuohio.edu.
Colby:
f_m_la...@colby.edu
You can figure username, firstname, or lastname.
College of William & Mary (Williamsburg, VA):
fml...@news.cc.wm.edu
Colorado College:
Students: F_LLLLLLLL%CCN...@vaxf.colorado.edu
Faculty: FLLLLLL%CCN...@vaxf.colorado.edu.
This does not support finger since it is not a real internet node.
Columbia:
Undergrads, Grads: cunix{a,b,f}.cc.columbia.edu
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. The best way to finger them is na...@cunix.cc.columbia.edu.
CS Grads and Faculty: cs.columbia.edu (also, some cs undergrads)
Astrophysics people can be found at cuphyd.phys.columbia.edu
Also try: ctr.columbia.edu. This has EE faculty and students who
are affiliated with the Center for Telecommunications Research.
Law School (Students): stu...@lawmail.law.columbia.edu
The students e-mail name is there lastname plus the first
initial oftheir first name, so long as this is 8 characters
or less. Otherwise it is their FML initials. Duplication is
distinguished by appending a number, such as the graduation year.
All faculty and staff are also located on lawmail.law.columbia.edu
lawmail.law.columbia.edu currently does not respond to finger
inquiries. Any questions regarding mail addressing should be
directed to: postm...@lawmail.law.columbia.edu
General access questions can be sent to:
cula...@lawmail.law.columbia.edu
which will reach the law school computer center operations desk.
Mailing lists are serviced by listserv.law.columbia.edu
Current lists served are:
lawplacement issues relating to career oppurtunities
calr computer aided legal research
foreignlaw
clerkship issues relating to federal clerkships oppurtunities
legal-history
death-penalty
crimlaw-enforcement issues to criminal cases in the news
conlaw constitutional law issues
public-intlaw public intrest law
eastern-europe privatizations issues in Eastern europe and legal
reform
Request to subscribe should be sent to:
request-...@sparc-1.law.columbia.edu
Some lists are restricted.
Cornell College (Mount Vernon, Iowa)
Most Usernames are FLLLLLL, some may be LLLLLL or FFFFFF.
Mail to user...@cornell-iowa.edu
Finger: CS: turing.csc.cornell-iowa.edu
Others: hera.acn.cornell-iowa.edu
zeus.acn.cornell-iowa.edu
Cornell University (Ithaca, New York):
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 1992, undergrads are no longer given CornellA or
Vax5 accounts as they were in the past. Instead, incoming students
are given "network ids", which consist of first, middle and last
initials, plus a number. Mail should be sent to
netwo...@cornell.edu. If the person's name is unique, mail can
also be sent to firstname...@cornell.edu.
Email addresses can be searched by using finger on qi.cornell.edu.
Use variations such as finger last...@qi.cornell.edu or
finger "firstname lastname"@qi.cornell.edu.
Many upperclassmen have not switched over to the new mail system.
These students still use mail on cornella.cit.cornell.edu or
vax5.cit.cornell.edu. Usernames on these systems are randomly
generated 3 or 4 character IDs, which do not resemble real names.
[Actually, they are an (unknown) hash function of the student's
social security number.]
Some upperclass students who have network ids still only check mail
on cornella and vax5. If they haven't set up autoforwarding, they
will not receive mail sent to cornell.edu.
Undergrads: crux1.cit.cornell.edu, crux2.cit.cornell.edu,
crux3.cit.cornell.edu, vax5.cit.cornell.edu,
cornella.cit.cornell.edu
Faculty and staff may ask to have a 3-character username of their
choice. Faculty are typically on cornella and staff on cornellc, but
there are many exceptions.
Faculty and administrators who use QuickMail can generally be found
as first...@qmrelay.mail.cornell.edu.
Postmaster won't give out addresses. Administrators do not give
out usernames over the phone.
Students' street addresses and phone numbers, as well as
voluntarily-supplied email addresses (faculty and staff only), can
be looked up in CUINFO. Telnet to cornellc.cit.cornell.edu, port 300,
and type DIRECT.
AIX/370 folks: eagle.tc.cornell.edu
CS: cs.cornell.edu, svax.cs.cornell.edu, cornellf.tc.cornell.edu, or
theory.tc.cornell.edu (supercomputing center)
EE: ee.cornell.edu
Bitnet: cornella.bitnet, crnlvax5.bitnet, cornellc.bitnet (gateway).
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 postm...@dsuvax.dsu.edu.
Dartmouth:
Send mail to fname...@dartmouth.edu (or fname.mi.lname if
it is a very common name). If the name is ambiguous, you might
want to finger fname.m...@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
na...@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.
Drake University:
Host acad.drake.edu. 'finger' works but unfortunately userids don't
closely correspond to names and you can't 'finger part-of-name' to
guess the userid.
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: use...@duvm.ocs.drexel.edu
consultant's desk telephone 215.895.2698
Math and Computer Science : use...@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:
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;
postm...@faculty.law.duke.edu has volunteered to forward mail to
Law School faculty and staff, and suggest
postm...@student.law.duke.edu might be willing to do the same for
students.
Earlham:
Students, faculty, staff: FFFF...@yang.earlham.edu
Administration: FFFF...@yin.earlham.edu
Advanced computing students: FFFF...@math.earlham.edu
in the case of an 8-character first name, the userid is FFFFFFFF
in the case of conflicts, the userid is FFFFFFLL, FFFFFLLL, etc.
increasingly, students are being assigned userid's in the format:
xx...@yang.earlham.edu, where
xx is the first two letters of the first name,
y is the middle initial,
z is the last name initial.
Information can be sought via E-Mail from o...@yang.earlham.edu
opr can get you directory info, or user info.
Florida Atlantic University Changed: Mon Feb 15 1993
The local ACM chapter runs cybernet.cse.fau.edu, on which everyone can
get accounts, and many FAU students (and some faculty) use it.
Florida State University
A very low percentage of students and faculty outside the science
departments have accounts of any kind. Those that do are spread out
on many servers with the fsu.edu domain.
Most new non-science accounts are being created on
garnet.acns.fsu.edu, though few students (or even faculty) are aware
that they could get an account.
To find a student or faculty member, two systems have been set up.
Unfortunately, neither is working all the time and neither correctly
locates all accounts.
1: email white...@wp.fsu.edu with the words
whois "name"
in the subject line, with no message body
2: whois -h mailer.cc.fsu.edu "name"
Other than these two methods, it's very difficult to track someone
down unless you know which server they're on (there are more than 50
of them).
Gallaudet University (for the Deaf), Washington, DC 20002
GALLUA.GALLAUDET.EDU a VAX/VMS machine. Student usernames typically start
with 11, 12, 13 or 14, with 11 being the most common.
The rest of the username is first initial last name.
Faculty and staff are typically first initial, middle
initial, last name. The node is also reachable as
GALLUA.BITNET.
GALLUX.GALLAUDET.EDU a VAX/Ultrix (UNIX) machine. Not nearly as many users
on this machine. Name conventions are the same as for
GALLUA.
Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech): Changed: Mon Feb 15 1993
All Users: prism.gatech.edu (aka hydra.gatech.edu)
Prism is a Yellow Pages/Mail domain to which all students, faculty
and staff have access through accounts issued by the computer
center. A number of users, especially faculty and graduate students
in Computer Science, have access to departmental resources which are
not part of the Prism domain. They may get their mail there, though
typically people use prism as their main mail drop and forward it
from there to their home systems.
CS Dept (Faculty, staff, PhD students): gatech.edu, boa.gatech.edu
us...@cc.gatech.edu. (cc = College of Computing)
Usernames:
students: gtXXXXy (example: gt6953b), where XXXX = last 4 digits
of Campus PO Box, y = A-E to make it unique (PO Boxes are shared)
faculty/staff: firstname...@department.gatech.edu
Also try: user...@hydra.gatech.edu,
Glassboro State College:
Below is a list of computers and who uses them. For help, send mail
to postmaster on whichever one seems the most appropriate. If you're
not sure, send it to postm...@saturn.glassboro.edu. For those with
access to gopher you can find current email info on our server. It
includes most of the electronic mail addresses on campus.
heroes.glassboro.edu administrative departments
secretaries
some faculty
saturn.glassboro.edu Academic Computing
students
faculty
elan.glassboro.edu all School of Business faculty
students
irp.glassboro.edu Institutional Research and Planning
gboro.glassboro.edu Computer Science faculty
students
Most students are accessible via <username>%satur...@glassboro.edu.
Student usernames are last name, with first initial added to the end if
needed.
Note that you cannot finger glassboro.edu at present,
but should be able to by July or August 1991.
Grinnell College, Iowa:
Addresses at Grinnell College are of the following format:
username@nodename e.g., POSTM...@GRIN1.bitnet
or POSTM...@GRIN2.bitnet
Usernames are typically the first 8 letters of the person's last name,
frequently with the first initial or first and middle added at the end
(e.g., WILLIAMS, MILLERM, JOHNSOAS). As a result, it would be
difficult to guess someone's username. The nodename is GRIN1.bitnet
for all students and faculty; GRIN2.bitnet is for administrative
staff. If you do not know the address of someone at Grinnell,
please send a message to POSTM...@GRIN1.bitnet asking for help.
Grinnell College now has an Internet connection - ac.grin.edu.
Hampshire College (Amherst, MA):
user...@hamp.hampshire.edu, where username is of the form fllllll
Haverford:
Students: acc.haverford.edu
Harvard: Changed: Mon Feb 15 1993
Finger @husc.harvard.edu to find mail destinations.
husc{8,9,10,11}.harvard.edu are Unix machines, which is what most
people use for e-mail. husc{3,4,6,7,12}.harvard.edu are VMS
machines, used a bit for mail, but more for application server for
the MAC/PC networks, etc.
Undergrads: @husc.harvard.edu, @husc9.uucp
Username is lastname, with a number appended in case of duplicates.
During Summer '90, Harvard moved most undergrad and grad
accounts to husc9 instead of husc4.
All Harvard Medical School students now have accounts on
student.med.harvard.edu. The system is relatively new, however, and
the number who actually use them now appears to be small. The
usernames are of the form fll...@student.med.harvard.edu. This is a
distributed PC system, and users are not fingerable.
Harvard Law School students may have accounts on
hulaw{1,2}.harvard.edu. These machines are fingerable, but usernames
must be matched exactly to be found.
Harvey Mudd, Claremont CA:
Undergrads: flas...@hmcvax.claremont.edu or
flll...@jarthur.claremont.edu; in case of name conflicts
more letters of firstname are used. hmcvax is more
likely for class of '94 and before; jarthur for '95 and up.
CS faculty: last...@jarthur.claremont.edu
Other faculty: last...@hmcvax.claremont.edu
Administration: flas...@hmcadm.claremont.edu
finger full...@jarthur.claremont.edu usually works, but users
can change their fullnames to anything
Illinois Institute of Technology
Domain IIT.EDU has servers on iitmax.iit.edu and karl.iit.edu. So far
no one from there has volunteered how to deduce user names. One
correspondent said: "try last...@IITVAX1.BITNET@UICVM.UIC.EDU"
Illinois State University (Bloomington, Illinois)
FMLas...@ilstu.edu. Most students do not have internet access.
Finger works.
Indiana University:
Faculty, Staff, Students: user...@ucs.indiana.edu
Usernames are portions of the person's real name. 8 characters,
usually the last name plus maybe a few initials.
Student/Staff VAX/VMS machines: (main nodes)
gold.ucs.indiana.edu, aqua.ucs.indiana.edu,
jade.ucs.indiana.edu, amber.ucs.indiana.edu,
rose.ucs.indiana.edu
silver.ucs.indiana.edu -- Unix, All students ( mostly CS undergrads)
copper.ucs.indiana.edu -- These two are VAXen running Ultrix
(UNIX) They're student machines.
bronze.ucs.indiana.edu -- This is DEC RISC (Not a VAX)
running Ultrix. Staff only...
iuvax.cs.indiana.edu -- Unix, CS students ( mostly grad students
and faculty )
The email address of any student, faculty, or staff member at Indiana
can be found out by doing a
"finger last...@indiana.edu" or
"whois -h indiana.edu lastname" or
"whois -h iugate.ucs.indiana.edu lastname"
Type "finger he...@indiana.edu" or "whois -h indiana.edu help" for
more information about the service.
Instituto Tecnologico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey (ITESM):
Students: mtecv2.mty.itesm.mx (vax machine)
academ01.mty.itesm.mx (RS/6000)
Userids begin with BL plus the id number of the
student, i.e., bl205102.
Every student can ask for an account on the vax machine. There
are other computing facilities as well.
Iowa State University: fname_mi...@iastate.edu
Johns Hopkins:
Accounts are located on
jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu
jhuvms.hcf.jhu.edu
jhuvm.hcf.jhu.edu
All are on bitnet.
The default userid is of the form lllll_fm or llllll_f. However,
students may choose whatever userid they wish, which can be just
about anything.
Kalamazoo College:
fll...@kzoo.edu
Kansas State Univ.: Changed: Mon Feb 15 1993
VM/XA: ksuvm.ksu.edu. All students, faculty, and staff. This is by
far the most popular machine.
KSUVM has a homebrewed finger server that allows you to search
for KSU students, faculty, and staff. Usage is
"finger lastname,firs...@ksuvm.ksu.edu"
This does a fuzzy lookup so you don't have to get the spelling exact
and returns the KSUVM userid (if any) plus name, address, phone
number, major (if student), and classification. If you know the
KSUVM userid you can look that up with
"finger useri...@ksuvm.ksu.edu"
(where "xxx" is the userid you want to find).
Unix:
matt.ksu.ksu.edu All students, faculty, and staff.
depot.cis.ksu.edu CS faculty, staff, and grads.
cygnus.cis.ksu.edu CS undergrads.
eece.ksu.edu EE grads and faculty.
math.ksu.edu Math staff, faculty, grads, and some undergrads.
Kenyon College:
user...@kenyon.edu
Username is usually the last name, sometimes with initials
tacked onto the end.
LaSalle University (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
Host hp800.lasalle.edu
Faculty, Staff, and student staff: use last name, eg. jones (llllllll)
Course accounts: xnnn0mmm or xnnnamm, where x is 1-letter course name
(e.g. c for computer science), nnn is 3 digit course id, 0 or a is
entered exactly as shown, and mmm or mm is the student's individual
number within the course)
Incoming finger (from the Internet) does not yet work.
Lehigh University:
Undergrads: user...@lehigh.edu (ns1.cc.lehigh.edu)
Help with specific userids can be obtained from
lu...@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu.
Lehigh has installed "white pages" server on lehigh.edu.
Fingering for a person's first or last name (case insensitive)
at lehigh.edu will return all relavant user info (email
address, full name etc.)
Lenoir-Rhyne College (Hickory, NC 28603):
E-mail address is user...@alice.lrc.edu or User...@mike.lrc.edu.
Louisiana State University (Baton Rouge):
CS: csvax.csc.lsu.edu
EE: max.ee.lsu.edu
SNCC (S/m Network Comp Center): lsu500.sncc.lsu.edu
Macalester College (Saint Paul):
Every student and faculty member has an account on the college's VAX
system. Many students have additional accounts on departmental
machines. These instructions are for finding someone on the VAX.
Finger use...@macalstr.edu, where userid is of the form
flllllll for students, and lname for faculty. Numbers are added
to the end of the userid in case of name conflicts.
McGill University:
Computer Science profs, grads, and ugrads have mail forwarded from
login...@cs.mcgill.ca to the correct machine. Currently all
profs have their accounts on opus.cs.mcgill.ca, and grads and
undergraduates have accounts on binkley.cs.mcgill.ca.
Memphis State University:
Undergrads: memstvx1.memst.edu (memstvx1.bitnet)
memstvx1 is a VAX connected to both internet and bitnet,
and also serves as the domain name server for memst.edu
While it does support Finger, it only reports users
currently logged on.
All instructional account usernames are dependent on the
course title (e.g. MATH1234567 would be an account
for a Math class)
Grads and Staff accounts are usually First_InitialLastname
e.g. JSMITH for John Smith (but there are exceptions)
Some departments have their own machines, but the majority of
accounts are on the VAX.
Merrimack College: (inquiries to postm...@merrimack.edu welcome)
Faculty: except in extraordinary circumstances last...@merrimack.edu
Undergrads: Aliases exist for most students as
First....@merrimack.edu
REAL ids are usually lastnamefi...@merrimack.edu with dups
getting lastfirstin...@merrimack.edu
For example:
Jane A. Smith -> jane.a.smith and smi...@merrimack.edu
Joe L. Smith -> joe.l.smith and smi...@merrimack.edu
Millsaps College:
All faculty, staff, and students are use...@okra01.millsaps.edu.
Userid is produced from first five letters of last name, first two
initials - merged without spaces. In case of no middle initial,
nothing is used. In case of name conflicts, numbers are added to
the end to produce unique userid's.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT):
Finger na...@mit.edu for info about the person and mail
address. This is the same info that's used to create the
MIT phonebook, so it is as accurate. (One can finger
he...@mit.edu for instructions in using this service.)
All students and faculty may get an account from Project
Athena. Their mail address will be @athena.mit.edu, even
though athena is a distributed workstation environment.
Finger @ai.mit.edu for AI graduate students, faculty, and
some undergrads. Also try @media-lab.mit.edu
(= media-lab.media.mit.edu) for the MIT Media Lab.
Try @lcs.mit.edu for Laboratory of Computer Science faculty, staff,
and students.
Also, MIT math professors can be found on math.mit.edu (a.k.a.
bourbaki.mit.edu; however, this information is already accessible
from fingering mit.edu information.
MITVMA.MIT.EDU is the gateway to bitnet.
Michigan State Univ.:
@frith.egr.msu.edu @eecae.ee.msu.edu, @kira.ee.msu.edu
@cpsin.cps.msu.edu @cpsvax.cps.msu.edu
All college of Engineering students and faculty (includes CPS
students) that have requested an account will have the address:
us...@egr.msu.edu (us...@msuegr.bitnet)
where "user" is usually the last name, but is often some other
combination of first name, initials, etc to provide uniqueness
throughout the college.
In Addition, CPS students and faculty can receive mail at
us...@cps.msu.edu
with the rules for "user" being the same as above. As far as I know,
the same user-id is used on both "egr.msu.edu" and "cps.msu.edu".
General EMAIL accounts are available on Computer Center machines,
usually the IBM3090.
us...@ibm.cl.msu.edu us...@msu.bitnet
and also the Convex
us...@convex.cl.msu.edu
I don't know what the rules are for determining user IDs for Computer
Center machines.
MSU Information is (517) 355-1855.
Michigan Technological University:
mtus5.cts.mtu.edu or mtus5.bitnet
most students have accounts with the format FMLASTNA
First initial-Middle initial-LASTNAMe (8 letters total)
finger does not work on these machines.
Minnesota State University System:
Faculty (all campuses): use...@msus1.bitnet
Faculty/Students (Mankato State Univ.): use...@vax1.mankato.msus.edu
Mississippi State univ. Mail in the form fml#@ra.msstate.edu or
fml#@isis.msstate.edu.. The Number will normally range
1 and 4, it stands for the student number (First one with
given set of initials to apply for internet access)
Mount Holyoke College:
"mhc." may be omitted:
a. flll...@mhc.mtholyoke.edu
b. fmll...@mhc.mtholyoke.edu
c. llll...@mhc.mtholyoke.edu
Mount Royal:
mtroyal.ab.ca
Student's userids are of the form llllll#### where # are the
first four digits of the student id. Staff userids are of the
form flastname.
Entries beginning with N may be found in the next posting
(file .../college-email/faq2.text via anonymous FTP).
;;; *EOF*
--
Software Technology Laboratory dal...@qucis.queensu.ca (David Alex Lamb)
Computing and Information Science phone: (613) 545-6067
Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada K7L 3N6
David Lamb
Last-Modified: Tue Feb 23 16:53:32 1993 by David Lamb
Version: 3.26
This is the last third of the summary of how to find email addresses
for undergraduate and graduate students, faculty and staff at various
colleges and universities.
;;; ********************************
;;; Email Database: U-Z ************
;;; ********************************
Univ. of Dayton (Ohio):
School of Engineering: udecc.engr.udayton.edu
CPS: udcps3.cps.udayton.edu
General: udavxb.oca.udayton.edu
Univ. of Delaware:
All undergraduate students, graduate students and faculty have
accounts on the university system. The computer name is
brahms.udel.edu
also there are chopin.udel.edu, bach.udel.edu and ravel.udel.edu, but
these are redundant because they share accounts and files with brahms.
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.
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.
Univ. of Florida (Gainesville, FL):
Finger last...@wasp.eng.ufl.edu. Contains complete listings
for people in the College of Engineering, and some listings
for people in other departments.
Univ. 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 last...@cs.uh.edu" for information on graduate students,
staff, or faculty. Use "finger last...@menudo.uh.edu" or "finger
last...@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 grad...@cs.uh.edu
Univ. of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign: Changed: Tue Feb 23 1993
In general, finger na...@uicc.edu, where name can be firstname,
lastname, or firstname-lastname
CS: try mail to last...@cs.uiuc.edu or flas...@cs.uiuc.edu
Campus: try mail to f-las...@uiuc.edu and firstname...@uiuc.edu
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.)
CS/Grad Stud Research: m.cs.uiuc.edu (Encore Multimax)
Math (Grads, Faculty, Staff): last...@math.uiuc.edu
Classes: ux1.cso.uiuc.edu, hendrix.ece.uiuc.edu
(Purely instructional. 1 semester accounts on this machine.)
Faculty: are mostly on ux1.cso.uiuc.edu
whois -h uiuc.edu <names>
It is usually possible to send mail to f-las...@uiuc.edu or
firstname...@uiuc.edu. If that fails, you will get a
message which tells you why the email could not be sent.
From BITNET, it is possible to get information about any student by
executing the command 'TELL PHSERVE AT UIUCVMD firstname
lastname RETURN ALL.'
Univ. of Illinois/Chicago: uicvm.cc.uic.edu (userids of the form Uxxxxx)
Univ. of Iowa:
Engineers - on the Apollo ring
- @icaen.uiowa.edu
- First Inital Middle Initial Last Name
Others - @weeg.uiowa.edu
Univ. of Kansas:
Student Accounts: kuhub.cc.ukans.edu
Most user ID's are their last names (first 6 letters).
Univ. 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 wh...@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.
UNLV:
Student Accounts: redrock.nevada.edu
uns-helios.nevada.edu is used by some students, but may be
changing into a research machine.
Univ. of Louisville: @ULKYVX.BITNET
Univ. of Maine:
Campus mainframe: user...@maine.bitnet
CS Faculty and Students: use...@gandalf.umcs.maine.edu
Univ. of Maryland:
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
on eng.umd.edu. Finger using the lastname at these hosts.
CS Faculty/Staff/Graduate Students: cs.umd.edu
telnet info.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...@umail.umd.edu.
Univ. of Massachusetts/Amherst:
Students/Faculty: first.{mi.}la...@student.umass.edu (This is
on the CDC Cyber NOS/VE system.) Another common format is
first.{mi.}la...@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".
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}last...@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.
Univ. of Massachusetts/Lowell:
All CS students and University UNIX users are generally
addressable as flll...@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 lll...@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.
Univ. of Michigan:
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...@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: USE...@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" server running at gopher.uis.itd.umich.edu port 70, 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 postm...@umich.edu.
Alternately:
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 <return> NAME <return>
to get finger information for NAME
Univ. of Minnesota: Changed: Mon Feb 15 1993
In general, try fingering fname.mn...@umn.edu.
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
staff.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 student.tc.umn.edu, whether
they know it or not.
Chemistry (faculty, staff, grads): ln...@chemsun.chem.umn.edu
The login is usually the person's last name, although there
are some exceptions.
Statistics: umnstat.stat.umn.edu. Userid varies; use finger.
Univ. of Missouri/Rolla:
cs.umr.edu
Univ. of Missouri/St. Louis:
CS: arch.umsl.edu
This machine isn't fingerable, but its address info is
available by fingering at aber.umsl.edu.
Undergrads: clemens.umsl.edu, twain.umsl.edu
The id can be obtained by fingering either of these machines using the
last name of the student.
Univ. of Montreal Changed: Mon Feb 15 1993
General: user...@ere.umontreal.ca
Usernames are typically last names (maximum = 8 letters).
Univ. of Nebraska at Omaha:
Undergraduate Students and Faculty: zeus.unomaha.edu (unoma1.bitnet)
Main academic VAX running VMS.
All computer science students receive academic accounts of the
form CCXXX where CC is a 2-character class code and XXX is a number
from 000 (usually the instructor) up to 999 (usually smaller than
050 in practice). These accounts are reset each semester
Permanent accounts are also on Zeus, usually a last name or
nickname. Permanent student accounts are of the form ZAXXX
for unaffiliated students, or organizational forms like ACMXXX
and IEEEXXX for members of their respective student organizations.
Any undergraduate student who asks nicely can get a ZA account,
or an organizational account if they are a member.
Graduate Students and Faculty: odin.unomaha.edu
Main campus Unix workstation (running DEC Ultrix)
Finger by login ID (usually some form of the name) or by proper name.
Any graduate student or senior undergrad pursuing an academic
project can get an Odin account.
Math/CS Students and Faculty: unocss.unomaha.edu (not fingerable)
UNO Chapter of the Association for Computing Machinery: acm.unomaha.edu
All members have accounts, usually some form of the name (not
fingerable, this computer is also the former unocss.unomaha.edu in
case you haven't guessed). Polite mail to postm...@acm.unomaha.edu
may yield information about an ACM member or math/CS student.
Univ. of Nebraska at Lincoln:
Engineering: engvms.unl.edu
Computing Staff and some students: crcvms.unl.edu
CS students: cse.unl.edu
All students above the classification of sophomore have name accounts
on cse.unl.edu (first initial appended to the last name) but you can
also finger the machine.
Univ. of New Brunswick: (Fredericton, NB, Canada)
Computing Services: csd.unb.ca
All students are automatically given MUSIC accounts on the VM
service and can send and receive mail, however, there is at
present no easy way to determine the MUSIC id knowing the name
of the student. Depending on course requirements, students may
also have accounts on the MVS or UNIX systems.
Requests for non-student userids can be sent to our on-line
directory server. Send mail to Dire...@UNB.Ca, If the 1st
non-blank line of the mail is Help or Find name, the name will be
searched and the results mailed back to the address in the From:
field of the mail. The server is bilingual (English/French) and
will also respond to the commands Aide or Recherche name.
MVS machine: unbmvs1.csd.UNB.ca
VM machine: unbvm1.csd.UNB.ca
UNIX machine: jupiter.sun.csd.UNB.ca (finger works)
Univ. of New Hampshire:
General university users: unhh.unh.edu (same as
hilbert.unh.edu). User names, both student and staff, are
generally of the form F_LAST where F is the person's first
initial and LAST is the person's last name.
CS class accounts and undergrad CS: kepler.unh.edu. User
names are usually the person's initials (sometimes postfixed
by a 3 digit course number for intro classes).
Grad CS and Faculty: cs.unh.edu. With only a few exceptions,
all logins are the person's initials.
Univ. of New Mexico
Try finger last...@carina.unm.edu. User names are usually of the
form FLLLLLLL (8 characters max). Accounts may be on many different
hosts within unm.edu but the finger database on carina seems to know
where all the accounts are. If carina is unavailable try vesta.
Univ. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill:
CS: All CS students get an account on the network of workstations.
The login is usually just the first 8 characters of the student's
last name. Name conflicts are usually resolved by appending
the first initial and/or the middle initial to the last name.
Mail may be sent to user...@cs.unc.edu. You may finger both by
userid and real name at cs.unc.edu.
Faculty and Staff: One can get an email address from the online
phonebook.
telnet to 128.109.157.1
login as info
follow the menus to Campus Directory
OR
telnet to 128.109.157.150
a couple of returns
at '#' prompt type info
follow menus to Campus Directory
Medical School: students, staff, and faculty.
finger na...@boone.med.unc.edu
finger na...@winton.med.unc.edu
(They alternate each incoming year between the 2 servers to
parcel out disk space better, so fingering @med.unc.edu won't
work. However, once you know the user id, send mail to
us...@med.unc.edu.)
Univ. of North Carolina at Charlotte:
use...@mosaic.uncc.edu
Userids are of the form fmlastname.
Univ. of North Dakota: see North Dakota Network
Univ. of North Florida
CS undergrads, grads, faculty: fl...@unf6.cis.unf.edu, where last may
be limited to 6-8 characters.
Information Science undergrads: unf1vm.cis.unf.edu. Unfortunately
names are assigned randomly, so it's nearly impossible to guess
unless you already have contact with someone.
Others generally don't have accounts unless they ask for them.
Univ. of Notre Dame:
The University of Notre Dame now supports full name human readable
e-mail addresses, such as John.Q.S...@nd.edu. All members
of the Notre Dame community have e-mail addresses on nd.edu; however,
at this time (June, 1992) the vast majority of them are
"uninitialized". This means the user has not specifically told the
server how to deliver e-mail to this user, so e-mail to this user will
fail.
All members of the Notre Dame community also have userids in our AFS
file space. Userids in this file space tend to be of the form
flllllll or flllllln. Some users who use the AFS file system might
not have initialized their entries on the nd.edu name server;
conversely, many community members who can receive mail via nd.edu
ignore their AFS userids.
Notre Dame also has many other central and departmental computer
systems which can send and receive e-mail. As more and more users
initialize their nameserver accounts there will be less need to
remember these specific local systems and userids. However, for the
time being, they are often the best addresses for some members
of the Notre Dame community.
All students are given accounts on darwin.cc.nd.edu, but not
all students use them. Usernames are of the form flllllll. In
case of name conflicts, numbers are added to the end to disambiguate.
Questions can be sent to in...@nd.edu.
Univ. of Oklahoma/Norman:
flll...@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu
Univ. of Oregon:
CS Grads and Faculty: <username>@cs.uoregon.edu
CS Undergrads/CIE: <username>@cie.uoregon.edu (this is only
for CS undergrads subscribing to the campus information
exchange)
Others?: fml...@oregon.uoregon.edu for those with email accounts
U-mail: first.mi...@oregon.uoregon.edu for those without
email. Such letters are printed out with a cover sheet and
delivered through the normal campus mail system (graduate
students, staff, and faculty only -- undergrads do not have
on-campus addresses).
Univ. of Pennsylvania:
Undergrad engineering, SEAS course accounts: eniac.seas.upenn.edu
Undergrad/Grad Business: wharton.upenn.edu
(all business students can get an account if they want one)
Lastname plus two number identification string (arbitrary)
Grad CS: grad1.cis.upenn.edu
CS faculty/staff: central.cis.upenn.edu
Medical School: lastname_f...@a1.mscf.upenn.edu
Medical students, biomed grad students, and some faculty
have accounts on this system.
Try whois -h whois.upenn.edu lname, or
whois -h whois.upenn.edu ? for help.
Univ. of Pittsburgh:
Students get their choice of Unix or VMS accounts, addressed
as us...@unix.cis.pitt.edu and us...@vms.cis.pitt.edu,
respectively. Student user names are of the form fmlst, where
fml are their initials and "st" stands for "student". To
finger the VMS accounts you must finger at vm1.cis.pitt.edu or
vm2.cis.pitt.edu. Mail addressed to us...@cis.pitt.edu won't be
rejected, but doesn't seem to be readable for the user's VMS account.
Computer Science : cs.pitt.edu
Electrical Eng : ee.pitt.edu
Library & Info Science : lis.pitt.edu
Medical School : med.pitt.edu
Univ. of Rochester:
Undergraduate, Student Staff, and a few others: uhura.cc.rochester.edu
(fingerd has been re-enabled on uhura, but will be permanently
disabled if finger attacks resume)
All incoming students now receive accounts on uhura - but whether they
use them is another matter.
Graduate CS: cs.rochester.edu
Class Accounts, Faculty, and Graduate: troi.cc.rochester.edu
Psychology: prodigal.psych.rochester.edu
Anyone _who does not already have an account on another
machine_ can also get an account on db1.cc.rochester.edu (vax).
Whois server: whois -h db1.cc.rochester.edu <name>
Gives phone but not email for most faculty and staff at the
University of Rochester and Strong Memorial Hospital.
Userids are set up as follows: (Where xxxx is a 4 letter code based on
your name, yyy is a 3 character random code and DPCRN is
DePartment, Course Reference Number)
xxxx_ltd: Standard account before August 1992; anyone can get one
flnnnx: Standard accounts for incoming students and all new
limited accounts. (fl initials, nnn a number, x a letter)
xxxx_ss: Student Staff
xxxx_eng: Some english accounts
xxxx: Usually system staff or administrators
yyydpcrn: Class accounts (I.E. aa1CS100 would be a computer science
100 class account, aa1eg150 would be English 150, etc...)
Anyone who has an account on db1 can also mail/post from the following
hosts: db{2,3,4,5,6,7}.cc.rochester.edu
Univ. of Saskatchewan:
Whois server available on access.usask.ca. Not a definitive
list. Undergraduates generally do not have mail access and are
not registered with the whois server.
Other queries should be addressed to postm...@sask.usask.ca.
Univ. of Scranton, (Scranton, PA):
All students are entitled to free accounts, many students don't
use them. Generally, all math, CS, engineering, accounting and
psychology majors use VAX accounts. Fingering by first and last
names works.
Students: fm...@jaguar.uofs.edu where f is first initial, m is
middle initial and l is last initial, and XX is a number usually
between 1 and 20, but sometimes higher.
Faculty: last...@jaguar.uofs.edu lastname is sometimes followed
by a number but usually not.
Univ. of South Carolina (Columbia, SC):
Graduate CS : usceast.cs.scarolina.edu,calvin.cs.scarolina.edu
Graduate ECE: charlie.ece.scarolina.edu
Univ. of Southern California:
General: usc.edu
Undergrad: aludra.usc.edu
nunki.usc.edu
usc.edu
girtab.usc.edu
phakt.usc.edu
Graduate: pollux.usc.edu
chaph.usc.edu
Robotics: iris.usc.edu
Faculty: pollux.usc.edu
Computing Staff: skat.usc.edu
Others: merlin.usc.edu and castor.usc.edu
Univ. of Southwestern Louisiana:
The entire campus population has the option to participate in
electronic mail. One system is reserved for campus communications,
but users can recieve mail directly at other machines without
participating in the centralized system.
Name look-up:
telnet usl.edu -or- telnet bss.usl.edu
login as user "motd"
select terminal type - type dumb exists if you must!
select motd program - "mail-directory"
for name search - n <CR>
enter partial name then <CR>
use "f" and "b" to flip pages
second column is user mail address
enter "a" or "c" to end program
Sending mail:
mail to address abc...@usl.edu
accounts typically are initials and last four digits of
university ID #
Users can also have easy to remember aliases setup, ask when you make
contact. Users receiving mail at usl.edu may forward their mail to a
machine they use more often, you will be notified after 24 hours if
usl.edu can not forward the mail to its destination.
Users who do not participate in the centralized mail system can have
independant mail address on campus. Typically locations are ...
CS/CE Grads: gator.cacs.usl.edu, sw...@cacs.usl.edu
CE Grads: a2fay.cacs.usl.edu
Undergrads & other grads: ucs.usl.edu, ea.usl.edu
Univ. of Texas/Austin:
Student/Faculty/Staff: walt.cc.utexas.edu, happy.cc.utexas.edu
(these are NFS Sun2's).
Class Accounts: ix1.cc.utexas.edu, ix2.cc.utexas.edu,
emx.utexas.edu
CS: cs.utexas.edu
ECE Research Group: unga-gw.ece.utexas.edu, ece.utexas.edu
Chemical Engineering (Grads, Faculty): che.utexas.edu
The University of Texas at Austin maintains an online database which
contains, among other things, a Faculty/Staff/Student directory.
Telnet to utcat.utexas.edu to log on, hit a couple of returns, and
just follow the prompt to get to the directory.
Univ. of Texas/Dallas: Changed: Tue Feb 23 1993
fll...@utdallas.edu
finger <part of person's name>@utdallas.edu
lists all the matching full names and the corresponding user ids.
For more information about most of the graduate students (irrespetive
of major), staff and professors, use:
finger <user id>@apache.utdallas.edu
Univ. of Texas/San Antonio:
Student/Faculty/Staff: lonestar.utsa.edu
CS: ringer.cs.utsa.edu
Usernames are typically first initial last name except
for faculty usernames on ringer which are last name only.
Univ. of Toronto: (Toronto, Ontario, Canada)
The University has two domains: toronto.edu and utoronto.ca.
Generally, undergraduates are not given free accounts unless if
they are in Engineering or Computer Science. Undergraduates that
do research with any of the departments listed below will usually
get an e-mail account. Fingering is available in almost every site.
Astronomy Department: astro.utoronto.ca
Botany Department: botany.utoronto.ca
Chemistry Department: alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca
Computer Science Department: cs.utoronto.ca
Computer Systems Research Institute: csri.utoronto.ca
C.S. Undergrads (Computing Disciplines Facility): cdf.utoronto.ca
Engineering Computing Facility: ecf.utoronto.ca
Geography Department: geog.utoronto.ca
Geophysics Department: mantle.physics.utoronto.ca
Geology Department: geology.utoronto.ca
Library and Information Science: flis.utoronto.ca
Mechanical Engineering: me.utoronto.ca
Mathematics Department: math.utoronto.ca
Pharmacy/Medicine: phm.utoronto.ca, med.utoronto.ca
Physics Department: physics.utoronto.ca
Psychology Department: psych.utoronto.ca
Scarborough College: scar.utoronto.ca
Statistics Graduates and Professors: utstat.utoronto.ca
Zoology: zoo.utoronto.ca
Univ. of Trondheim (Norway)
Students at the University of Trondheim can be reached at the
following mail adresses:
NTH (Norw. Inst of Techn.) : use...@solan.unit.no
AVH (Coll. of Arts and Science) firstname...@avh.unit.no
A postmaster service exists at both sites. Employees and
students at AVH can also be found in the EAN Directory Service.
The Norwegian Institute of Technology, aka NTH (Norges Tekniske
Hoegskole). All students at NTH have the right to open an account on
the the email machines, but this right is not very heavily advertized,
so most people don't use the machines. Login names may be FLLLLLLL,
LLLLLLLL, FFFFFFFF, FMLLLLLL, or (for people with very common first
and last names) MMMMMMMM (8 characters maximum). FLLLLLLL is probably
the most common; MMMMMMMM and especially FMLLLLLL is probably quite
rare. LLLLLLLL and FFFFFFFFF may be used if the user's last or first
names are not not very common, especially if they are foreign.
Univ. of the Pacific:
@madvax.uop.edu, @uop.uop.edu
Usernames are a name and an initial (in any order) or just a
name (i.e., Joe Smith could be jsmith, joes, or joe). Contact
postmaster for help with finding someone.
Univ. of Ulm (Ulm, Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany):
Main campus system: rzmain.rz.uni-ulm.de. Everyone can get accounts on
this VAX-cluster, but not everyone does.
Students: S_las...@rzmain.rz.uni-ulm.de
Other: Last...@rzmain.rz.uni-ulm.de
Contact address: sys...@rzmain.rz.uni-ulm.de
Computer Science:
Undergraduates: lo...@pcpool1.informatik.uni-ulm.de; login names
consists of maximal 6 letters of the last name and the first and
last letter of the first name, e.g. muellehs for Hans Mueller
Contact address: pat...@informatik.uni-ulm.de
Graduate Students and Faculty: last...@informatik.uni-ulm.de
Neuroinformatik: last...@neuro.informatik.uni-ulm.de
Mathematics:
Undergraduates: CFLL...@colossix.mathematik.uni-ulm.de: C
represents the course (P: Programmieren, S: Software, W:
Wahlpflicht, F: Fan), F the first letter of the first name, and
LLLLLL up to six letters of the last name
Graduate Students and Faculty: last...@mathematik.uni-ulm.de and
firstname...@mathematik.uni-ulm.de; finger
last...@laborix.mathematik.uni-ulm.de is possible
Contact address: borc...@mathematik.uni-ulm.de
Botanical Science: Contact address: ho...@rzmain.rz.uni-ulm.de
School of Medical Documentation:
Students: logins are owned by groups of two students each:
FFFF...@smdmv2.klinik.uni-ulm.de, FFFF represents the first four
letters of the first member and SSSS of the second member of a group
finger last...@smdmv2.klinik.uni-ulm.de is supported
Contact address: s...@smd.klinik.uni-ulm.de
Univ. of Utah:
For accounts being managed by the University of Utah Computer Center,
and any accounts that the department have turned in to the center, the
directory is on
PH.CC.UTAH.EDU
and is accessible via the internet PH protocol. It is also accessible
via the GOPHER program and it's related protocols. A limited version
is availiable via the finger server at PH.CC.UTAH.EDU It is from this
directory that the printed e-mail directory is made.
CS Graduate Students: asylum.utah.edu
CS Undergraduate Students: peruvian.utah.edu
Pre-majors: cadehp0.eng.utah.edu
CS Department: cs.utah.edu is the cs department main machine,
for faculty, staff, and grads.
Lots of departments have machines: [Very incomplete list]
Elec. Eng.: ee.utah.edu
Mathematics: math.utah.edu
Physics: physics.utah.edu
Chemistry: chemistry.utah.edu
Chem. Eng.: che.utah.edu
Mech. Eng.: mech.utah.edu
Civ. Eng.: civil.utah.edu
Biology: biology.utah.edu
Mining: mines.utah.edu
postm...@xanadu.cc.utah.edu is the postmaster for more than half of
the email accounts on campus, but not any cs machines.
postm...@cs.utah.edu is postmaster for CS machines
postm...@m.cc.utah.edu is postmaster for most unassigned students
postm...@science.utah.edu is postmaster for College of
Science Machines.
postm...@cc.utah.edu gets most unassigned departments.
postm...@m.cc.utah.edu gets most unassigned students.
postm...@cave.cc.utah.edu gets cavers and most imaginary users.
The medical center handles their own stuff separately, but
they often appear in the online directory at ph.cc.utah.edu
Univ. of Vermont:
There are two main computing organizations on campus:
UCS (University Computing Services) and
EMBA-CF (Division of Engineering, Mathematics, and Business
Administration, Computer Facility). As a general rule,
people with accounts at EMBA-CF do not bother to obtain accounts at
UCS. UVM's domain name is `uvm.edu', and sub-domains are not
generally used. Most of the UVM network has most TCP ports blocked
off, but one machine, emily.uvm.edu, can serve as a gateway for, for
example, the finger program, (i.e., finger
someone@somehost@emily.uvm.edu.)
UCS has three main machines: uvmvax.uvm.edu (UVMVAX.BITNET),
uvmvm.uvm.edu (UVMVM.BITNET), and UVMADMIN.BITNET. Accounts on UVMVAX
(a VMS system) are generally of the form Lastname_F; accounts on
UVMVM and UVMADMIN don't seem to follow any particular scheme, but
Lastname and LastnameF seem to be popular. Many UCS staff people use
their initials. UVMVAX supports unspecified finger only; UVMVM
doesn't support finger at all.
EMBA-CF supports computing for the departments of Math/Stat, Business
Administration, CS/EE, and Civil/Mechanical Engineering, as well as
the administration of the College of Engineering and Mathematics; all
students, faculty, and staff in the Division are entitled to an
account, although many students do not bother to get a
non-class account. Sometimes, other people may be given
accounts on EMBA-CF machines.
EMBA-CF has three separate mail-spool servers, and users are free
to forward their mail to whichever one they happen to prefer; these
machines are uvm-gen.uvm.edu, hal.uvm.edu, and trantor.uvm.edu.
uvm-gen is also known as just plain UVM.EDU, and most faculty and
staff with accounts at EMBA-CF have a alias of the form
Firstname{.M}.Lastname installed at uvm-gen. All other users, except
for class and staff accounts, are assigned by last name, with a
numeric suffix in case of collision. Staff accounts for work-study
employees are usually of the form operfml. Class accounts are of the
form ddNNNfml, where dd is the department
(cs,ce,me,ee,ma,st,ba) and NNN is the class number; in case of
collision, the class number or middle initial may be changed.
There are two sub-domains: msg.uvm.edu belongs to Mach Systems Group,
a group of graduate students involved porting operating systems (most
notably, Mach 2.5 and 3.0) to local hardware; and med.uvm.edu belongs
to the UVM School of Medicine, which is not very well networked as
yet.
Univ. of Virginia:
More or less all students, faculty, and staff can have
accounts that at least receive mail, but most people don't
ever bother to get or use an account. People in the School of
Engineering are most likely to be accessible via e-mail. The
school's primary connections are Internet links to SURAnet
(local NSF Regional network), but there is also a single
BITNET link. Almost any user can be located using the
Internet standard whois program and the whois database that
is kept on the system named: whois.virginia.edu
You can also try fingering ln...@virginia.edu.
Univ. of Washington, Seattle:
CS Grads and Faculty: last...@cs.washington.edu
Most folks are on milton.u.washington.edu, which is the same as
u.washington.edu. Usernames can be anything. Mail sent via
u.washington.edu will forward to the appropriate account.
CS students, grads, and faculty can generally be looked up by last
name at cs.washington.edu; if not, try june.cs.washington.edu for
grads and faculty, and wolf.cs.washington.edu for undergrads.
Univ. of Waterloo, Ontario:
Userids are of of the form <initials>+<surname> (e.g. mbmulroney, ghwbush),
and may be any length (for most machines; some still restrict them to
8 characters. Mail servers send you back a list of possible userids
if the one you tried doesn't match any known user.
Math/CS undergraduates: undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca
CS graduate students: neumann.uwaterloo.ca
CS and Math Graduate Students: violet.uwaterloo.ca and jeeves.uwaterloo.ca
CS faculty may be found on one or more of the primary machines
{watdragon, maytag, watcgl, daisy, jeeves, grand, poppy, vlsi, watmsg,
math, watserv1}.uwaterloo.ca (there are lots more)
Engineering undergraduate students: userid usually of form
<surname>+<initials> or <initials>+<surname>, at one of
{chemical, civil, electrical, mechanical}.watstar.uwaterloo.ca
Also try @1302 and @108 for chemical, civil, electrical and mechanical
engineering -- these are used mainly for lower-year students
from all engineering departments.
Systems Design Engineering: watnow.uwaterloo.ca
Physics students: physics.watstar.uwaterloo.ca.
Art Students: artspas.watstar.uwaterloo.ca.
Univ. of Western Ontario, London, Ontario:
Computing and Communications Services operates a campus directory
service as well as a campus E-mail forwarding service. This covers
all of the faculty and staff listed in the campus telephone directory
as well as many students. Registration is voluntary but for faculty
and staff is reasonably complete and accurate.
% whois -h whohost.uwo.ca name
eg. whois -h whohost.uwo.ca smith
eg. whois -h whohost.uwo.ca j.smith
eg. whois -h whohost.uwo.ca john.smith
The mail forwarding service works for common names as well:
% mail commo...@uwo.ca
eg. mail sm...@uwo.ca
eg. mail j.s...@uwo.ca
eg. mail john....@uwo.ca
Mail will either be forwarded to the user with that common name, or
if the name is not unique, you will receive a returned message listing
all users with that common name.
Univ. of Wisconsin/La Crosse:
user...@uwlax.edu
Usernames are arbitrary. Try fingering by the lastname.
Univ. of Wisconsin/Madison:
Phone book server (staff only): finger ln...@wisc.edu
CS: cs.wisc.edu
Engineering: cae.wisc.edu
Undergrads: Class accounts based on first and last name,
@garfield.cs.wisc.edu.
For other departments, you can sometimes guess the hostname
from the department name. Thus: meteor.wisc.edu for
Meteorology, math.wisc.edu for Mathematics.
Univ. of Wisconsin - Milwaukee:
Many students - csd4.csd.uwm.edu, convex.csd.uwm.edu
EE ugrad and grad - ee.uwm.edu
CS grad - point.cs.uwm.edu
CS fac - blatz.cs.uwm.edu
Students taking Comp Sci Classes: miller.cs.uwm.edu
In fact if you finger cs.uwm.edu you get:
Computer Science users at UWM are normally on workstations or
other backbone computing machines. To locate a faculty member,
graduate student or undergraduate student, you can use the
finger program.
The finger program can help you locate a user who is known to the CS
machines at UWM. To locate a user do
finger pers...@cs.uwm.edu
Where X=F|f if the person is a CS faculty member
X=G|g if the person is a CS grad student
X=U|u if the person is a CS undergraduate student
X=E|e if the person is an Engineering student
X=O|o Other University machines(Just some of them!)
Undergraduates are for the most part on miller.cs.uwm.edu. Graduate
students are usually on cvax.cs.uwm.edu. To get a complete list of
cs-faculty, finger cs...@cs.uwm.edu.
Univ. of Wisconsin - River Falls:
uwrf.bitnet
Utah State University:
cc.usu.edu - This is the MAIN VAX. A Vax 6510 that is usually the
system that everyone uses for most purposes. Our
usenet news is on this computer as well as other
utilities. This is also the system that is a bitnet
node (USU). So mail can be sent to usu.bitnet as well.
mua.usu.edu - This is our Micro-VAX that is running ultrix. Because
this is the popular domain for TinyTALK and TinyFUGUE
programs, the active Gamers use this system.
You can finger both systems, the account names are given in a random
fashion that consists of a five letter code. The first two
letters usually denoting whether the user is a student or a
faculty member. SL___ account belong to students and FA___
accounts belong to faculty members. The easiest way to locate
a user is to send mail to OPER...@cc.usu.edu or, if your
system supports the bitnet SEND command, use SEND OPERATOR@USU
and ask them to look up the name for you.
Vanderbilt University:
Engineering faculty and grad students: @vuse.vanderbilt.edu
(most user IDs are the three initials)
Undergrads and other grad students: @ctrvax.vanderbilt.edu
Most user IDs are llllllfm (8 chars max). You can't finger
on this VAX cluster; try sending mail to
user...@ctrvax.vanderbilt.edu; you should get a response
within a business day or so.
Vassar:
Students: FMLLLL...@vaxsar.vassar.edu. (Every student is given
a VAX account, but few actually use them.)
Faculty: Faculty must request an account in order to get it,
but most of those who have accounts use them. Faculty
usernames are lastnames followed by enough letters of the
first name to ensure uniqueness. Their accounts are also on
vaxsar.vassar.edu. Fingering with the username or the lastname
will usually work.
Virginia Tech:
Computer Science students at Virginia Tech (aka VPI or VPI&SU for
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, normally just
Virginia Tech, though) can be found at:
EE: vtccts1.cc.vt.edu, eddie.ee.vt.edu
CS: csugrad.cs.vt.edu
Undergraduates: use...@csugrad.cs.vt.edu
Graduate Students: use...@csgrad.cs.vt.edu
Faculty: use...@vtopus.cs.vt.edu
There is also the SSI Mail account. If a person has an SSI Mail
account it will be: firstIniti...@vtssi.vt.edu. It is common
for undergrad students (especially non-CS) to get an SSI Mail account
rather than a CSU account because it doesn't cost any money.
Wake Forest University:
llll...@wfunet.wfu.edu
Washington University, St. Louis MO:
Arts&Sciences undergrads: fmll...@pear.wustl.edu
Undergrad Engineers: All have accounts on cec1.wustl.edu and
cec2.wustl.edu (cec2.uucp). Userids are the user's three initials
followed by a single digit for disambiguating name conflicts. If
there is no name conflict, the extra digit is a 1. Fingering from
outside the university sometimes works. Also, some computer science
students have accounts on wucs1, and anyone (including people
outside W.U.) can have an account on maria. On these machines, the
user chooses his/her own login name to be enabled. Usernames for
engineering faculty are just their three initials.
Other Undergrads: Try wugold.bitnet
Wayne State University, Detroit MI
All students in the University, regardless of their major or college
can have access to an account.
Engineering: ss0.eng.wayne.edu (or nova, or ece, or any solar planet,
e.g. sun, venus, ...)
CS: jupiter.cs.wayne.edu, zeus.cs.wayne.edu
These machines support finger. Most other students' accounts
are on wu.cc.wayne.edu; try 'finger partia...@wu.cc.wayne.edu'
to find information about anyone with "partial-name" in their name.
Wellesley College (Wellesley, Massachusetts)
FLastname#@lucy.wellesley.edu, where F is first initial, and digit #
is used only to disambiguate (e.g. JSMITH1). Finger not accepted from
remote sites. Faculty names never get the #.
Wesleyan:
Accounts are on eagle.wesleyan.edu. The username is of the
form FLname, where F is the first initial and Lname is the
lastname of the individual.
West Chester University:
Users (at least undergraduates, if not others) are given
accounts on a machine whose name is the same as the first
letter of their last name. Usernames are of the form fllllll.
So John Doe would be jdoe%d%w...@isn.wcupa.edu. Send mail
to postm...@isn.wcupa.edu if you have questions.
West Point, the United States Military Academy
Host names are of the form usmaX.usma.edu, for X from 1 to 18.
Try 'finger lastname@host', starting with usma18 (since lower-numbered
machines tend to refuse a finger connection). Actual mailboxes for
cadets are of the form xYNNNNCC where x is the letter x, Y is last
digit of graduating year (e.g. 6 for 1996), NNNN is a student ID code,
and CC is company (letter-digit, e.g. D4).
Western Montana College
Try f_lll...@wmc.edu. This site has no finger server.
Address: 710 S. Pacific, Dillon, MT 59725
Wheaton College:
UUCP: tellab5!wheaton!fmllllll
Widener University:
General: First...@cyber.widener.edu (it may also need a
middle initial)
CS: last...@cs.widener.edu
Willamette University, Salem OR:
userid is <first initial><lastname> (e.g. ksmith)
up to 8 characters
all students, faculty and staff
<userid>@willamette.edu
Williams College:
williams.bitnet. Username is YYFML (YY = year, F = first
initial, M = middle initial, L = last initial). Some usernames
have a _C postpended (YYFML_C).
I believe this machine is vax.cc.williams.edu.
Williams' postmaster will not give out user ids to outside
requests.
Worcester Polytechnic Institute:
@wpi.wpi.edu
Yale:
Fingering na...@directory.yale.edu will give you all Unix people's
email addresses, as well as their phone numbers. Finger
Fin...@directory.yale.edu for further directions.
Grad CS, Undergrad CS: lastname-...@cs.yale.edu (yalecs.bitnet)
Undergrad Accounts (plus faculty & grad students in many non-CS
Graduate School depts.): LLL...@yalevm.ycc.yale.edu (or
LLL...@yalevm.bitnet). LLL is the first 3 letters of the last name,
FFF is the first 3 letters of the first name, and M is the middle
initial. Users can also request custom names. Mail queries can go to
con...@yalevm.bitnet or postm...@cs.yale.edu, as appropriate. Some
non-CS undergrads can be reached at last...@minerva.cs.yale.edu.
Medical School: yalemed.bitnet
York University (Toronto, Ontario) Changed: Mon Feb 15 1993
Try ``finger na...@yorku.ca'' using first name, last name and probable
userid. Also try ``whois -h horton.yorku.ca name'', also with first
and last names. The faculty and staff phone book is available on
gopher from gopher.yorku.ca and experimentally by ph from the same
machine.
About 1/3 of the faculty and staff have email, and perhaps 1/8 of the
students.
Faculty, Staff: use...@yorku.ca or use...@faculty.yorku.ca
Userids are often first-initial last-name, but do vary.
Student userids do not follow a simple pattern. Students with email
are on ariel,yorku.ca (computer science), glade.yorku.ca (cs and
part-time students), writer.yorku.ca (computer aided writing centre)
and calumet.yorku.ca. Most of these clusters are fingerable.
Questions can be sent to postm...@yorku.ca; they're not too useful
when searching for students, as there is no student phonebook.
However ``whois -h horton.yorku.ca name'' discovers many student
adresses.
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David Lamb
Last-Modified: Tue Feb 23 16:55:30 1993 by David Lamb
Version: 3.26
This is the second third of the summary of how to find email addresses
for undergraduate and graduate students, faculty and staff at various
colleges and universities.
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;;; Email Database: N-T, U to Univ of
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New Jersey Institute of Technology:
Newark NJ 07021
CS PhD Studs: us...@newark.njit.edu
Grad Studs: us...@hertz.njit.edu (ultrix), us...@tesla.njit.edu (vms)
New Mexico Institute Of Mining And Technology:
Try finger na...@nmt.edu or finger na...@jupiter.nmt.edu. Jupiter is
the main server; CS students generally have accounts on
minos.nmt.edu. Accounts generally seem to be of the form FLLLLLLL.
New Mexico State Univ.:
Virtually all email addresses are of the form fll...@nmsu.edu. Finger
is not well supported. Mail to postmaster should help. (Also, if you
have an account, there is a postmaster program.)
New York University (NYU)
Addresses for students at NYU are fml####@acfcluster.nyu.edu, where f,
m, l are first, middle, last initials and #### are the last four
digits of the social security number. All students and staff can get
limited mail accounts by requesting them. Some users have nicknames:
lastname, or lllllf, or lllllff.
North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC:
Whois server on gyro.cc.ncsu.edu also accepts requests via finger
All whois entries have Snail addresses, some have e-mail.
North Dakota Network
This section describes how to find email addresses for students who
attend Public Colleges and Universities in North Dakota.
ND HECN PLAINS (@plains.bitnet) -or- (@plains.nodak.edu)
This is a Unix system. All userids are given out according to last
name or possibly a first initial added in front. You are able to
finger these accounts.
ND HECN CMS (@ndsuvm1.bitnet) -or- (@vm1.nodak.edu)
This is a VM/SP (CMS) system. Userids are a bit more complicated here...
The ND HECN (No-Dak Higher Education Computer Network) consists of the
following schools.. Their 2-letter school code follows.
Bismarck State College (BJ) North Dakota State University (NU)
University of North Dakota (UD) Dickinson State College (DS)
Williston State College (WS) Bottineau State College (BT)
Lake Region Community College (LR) Valley City State College (VC)
Mayville State College (MV) Minot State College (MN)
State School of Science (SS)
Userids given out prior to (approximately) August 1991 are assigned a
userid according to the following: Userids are in the form of
LL######. LL is the "School Code" (see above). The #'s are the first
6 digits of the user's NAID number.
Userids given out after August 1991 are assigned according to last
name, or with part of their first name in front if the account is
already taken. They are trying to give you the same userid as your
plain's id (if you have one). Also, people with the 'old id' can
request to have their account renamed to the new format. You are able
to finger accounts on ndsuvm1, but as of 02-26-92 student names are
not yet available to finger. (It will tell you if the account at least
exists tho). Faculty/Staff names are available to finger. Each
college has an 'administrative' account with the form LL0ADMIN. (LL =
School Code). I don't know if they will give out userids, but it's
worth a try.
UND School of Medicine: try First...@medicine.und.nodak.edu for
staff and faculty; no student accounts as of Fall 1992. For help
finding someone, try 'finger' or contact
postm...@medicine.und.nodak.edu
Northeastern:
The engineering postmaster is postm...@nueng.coe.northeastern.edu.
For other mail, try postm...@northeastern.edu
Northern Arizona University (Flagstaff, Arizona, USA)
You can use any of the following ways to locate people at Northern
Arizona University. If one doesn't work, try the next. NOTE: not
everyone at NAU has an electronic mailbox.
1. finger PER...@info.nau.edu
where PERSON is any part of a person's name that you know. You may
have to use quotes, as in: finger "Jane Doe"@info.nau.edu. This is a
"white pages" style database. For more help on this system: finger
@info.nau.edu
2. mail FIRSTNAME...@nau.edu
where FIRSTNAME and LASTNAME are the person you're trying to reach.
You may need to specify FIRSTNAME.MIDDLEINITIAL.LASTNAME
3. send mail to the site postmaster: mail postm...@nau.edu
Some subdomains have postmasters e.g. postm...@cse.nau.edu for
the Computer Science and Engineering department.
Northwestern: Changed: Tue Feb 23 1993
General e-mail services are shared by casbah.acns.nwu.edu
(129.105.113.52) and merle.acns.nwu.edu (129.105.113.57). Merle is
in full production as of the beginning of 1993, although there are
not yet that many accounts on it. This will change. Both Casbah
and Merle support finger requests.
If you have access to a PH electronic database client, you can use
ns.nwu.edu for a ph-nameserver. Users must personally register an
e-mail address in this database for a query to provide one -- it is
not done automatically. If you do not have access to a PH client,
the default PH-based address is <al...@nwu.edu> where the default
alias is f-lastname (first initial-last name). Many people choose
to remove the hyphen or replace the default alias with their
initials, or just about anything else. The default is a good thing
to try, because if it fails for any reason, PH responds with fairly
complete information, in plain english, including other possible
aliases, if there is a conflict.
Norwegian Institute of Technology: see University of Trondheim
NCSU:
Faculty/Staff: accounts on adm.csc.ncsu.edu. No specific naming
convention for faculty accounts.
Graduate Students: accounts on druid.csc.ncsu.edu. login names are
gr-xxx where xxx are the initials of the person. However, using the
person first or last name will also work.
All engineers have accounts on eos.ncsu.edu
Most undergraduate id's are fmll...@eos.ncsu.edu
College of textiles comp. center: fmll...@unity.ncsu.edu
Oberlin:
Many students and faculty have accounts on ocvax{a,b}, which
can be reached as oberlin.bitnet and ocvaxa.cc.oberlin.edu.
Student User IDs are of the form: S+first & last initials
+ last 4 digits of the student ID (e.g. SDG1234)
Faculty IDs are of the form: F + lastname.
Best bet is to send mail to postm...@oberlin.bitnet
CS students/faculty: occs.cs.oberlin.edu (student usernames
are mostly last names, occasionally with a first initial to
disambiguate; faculty and staff are generally 3 initials).
You can also send mail to postmaster.
Ohio State University:
Faculty, Staff, Graduate students: flll...@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu
CS Students, Faculty and Staff: cis.ohio-state.edu, with
username lastname, fllllll, llllll-f, fml, firstname or lllll-fm.
Faculty and staff are mostly first or last name.
Also, some students have their accounts aliased so that
you can send mail/finger to lastname.#@osu.edu
where # is required and is anything from 1 on up to infinity
(these numbers can get very large for names like Smith, i.e. in
the thousands). "whois -h osu.edu" and telneting to osu.edu should
also work.
Ohio University (Athens OH):
CS (UNIX): fl...@oucsace.cs.ohiou.edu
CS (VMS): oucsduce.cs.ohiou.edu
EE (grad students): fl...@bobcat.ent.ohiou.edu, @redskins.ent.ohiou.edu
Undergrads (class accounts): OUACCVMB.BITNET
Faculty: OUACCVMA.BITNET
Oklahoma State/Stillwater:
use...@rsc.ceat.okstate.edu
Oregon Graduate Institute of Science and Technology:
Only Graduate Students. Their host, ogccse, is @cse.ogc.edu.
This recently changed to cse.ogi.edu.
Oregon State:
CS: mist.cs.orst.edu, prism.cs.orst.edu
Penn State Univ.: Changed: Tue Feb 23 1993
Domain: psu.edu
The Electronic Bulletin Board contains, among many other things, the
entire student, staff, and faculty directory. To use EBB, connect
to psuvm.psu.edu from an Internet-connected site using tn3270 (You
can also telnet to cac3270.psu.edu if you do not have a 3270
emulator, but will have to supply a terminal type). After the
initial logon screen appears, type the RETURN key and the screen
will clear. Type "ebb" and hit RETURN, and you will get the
top-level EBB menu, one item of which is "DIRECTORY". Typing "dir"
and RETURN will select the university directory. The rest should be
obvious, but for a couple of other points: EBB assumes you're using
an IBM terminal, and displays help in the form of PF keys to move
around, etc. A simple "+" serves to scroll ahead, and "-" moves
backward. Typing the RETURN key alone will back up one level of
menus, so typing RETURN repeatedly will ultimately close the
connection.
Polytechnic University (New York)
This is a listing for Brooklyn and Farmingdale Campuses
Code System Name Comments
---- ----------- ----------------
F borg
X galileo
F W george Farmingdale
F W gracie Farmingdale
F icon
F W ishara Brooklyn
F pixel
F Poly-TS Polytech Information Server
F prism
F pucatt
F puscs
X rabbit
X stealth
F spark
F sprite
F tasha Farmingdale
F thermal1
X vacuum
X vm
F W worf Brooklyn
X wri
Legend: F = Fingerable X = Nonfingerable
W = At login: prompt typing in 'who' will list parties logged on
All system names end with ".poly.edu", e.g. 'finger @Poly-TS.poly.edu'
Most login names begin with first initial then first seven character
of last name. Most undergrad users would be on george, gracie,
ishara, tasha and worf systems.
Pomona College (Claremont, CA):
Internet: fll...@pomona.claremont.edu (bitnet fll...@pomona.bitnet)
Usernames are the first character of the first name, followed
by the full last name (John Doe would be JDOE). In case of conflicts,
the middle initial is used between first and last name. (If JDOE
already has an account, James A. Doe would be JADOE). Finger works.
Portland State University (Portland, Oregon):
Students: odin.cc.pdx.edu
Princeton:
Undergrads: phoenix.princeton.edu, pucc.princeton.edu (VM)
pucc.bitnet. (Both phoenix and pucc are now fingerable.)
CS Grad Studs/Faculty: cs.princeton.edu
CogSci Lab: clarity.princeton.edu
Math Dept: math.princeton.edu
You can also try fingering at princeton.edu.
Some people also have accounts on gauguin.princeton.edu
Usernames are usually FMLLLLLL.
Purdue:
At Purdue, engineering students (undergrad/grad) have accounts
on machines on the Engineering Computer Network (ECN). There
are hundreds of machines, but the main ones are named according
to a fairly discernible system, i.e.
e?.ecn.purdue.edu = Electrical c?.ecn.purdue.edu = Civil
k?.ecn.purdue.edu = Chemical g?.ecn.purdue.edu = Nuclear/Aero
m?.ecn.purdue.edu = Mechanical p?.ecn.purdue.edu = Potter Library
In each case, "?" is one of 'a', 'b', 'c', etc..check your
local host tables or nameserver for a current list.
Undergrads usually end up on the 'n' series of machines... en,
mn, cn, and gn.
Effective 10/16/90, mail to ecn hosts need only be labeled
with the local domain. For example, us...@ecn.purdue.edu. Mail
sent there will automatically be forwarded to the users mailbox.
Usernames on ecn machines are assigned according to user
preferences. Try the usual (initials, fllllll, first name,
last name, etc.). You can send mail to ecn.purdue.edu (which
will forward it to the appropriate machine). Also, if your
finger supports arguments, doing a 'finger -l lastname' will
find people by name regardless of account.
Other students (CS, math/stat, and science majors) usually have
accounts on machines operated by the Purdue University Computing
Center (PUCC). These machines are all in the ".cc.purdue.edu"
subdomain. Many usernames are based on the user's last name and
initials, but many still use three letter/number combinations which
have nothing to do with the user's name. Computing center staff
usernames are either a name chosen by the user, or a three-letter
combination beginning with "a". Additionally, "finger" with a
name argument will find all people with that name, so try
"finger -l lastname".
Students are found on the 'instructional' machines; the
distribution of major courses is approximately like this:
expert = low-level courses for non CS or EE majors, some CS courses
sage = more low-level courses, first semester CS
feserve = freshman engineering courses and some CS courses
sonata = some Math and CS courses
mentor = most other CS courses
Students not in one of these courses may still have an account on
one of these machines, since there are many smaller groups to
which accounts are issued. Also, any Purdue student may obtain
a student personal account on one of these machines.
Research users are found scattered around all the PUCC
machines, but mace, boiler, and j are the most likely places
to find them. Staff can always be reached through 'staff'
regardless of where they have their accounts.
In addition to those, there is an IBM mainframe which is found
on the Internet as vm.cc.purdue.edu or on BITNET as PURCCVM.
It is used primarily by research users and Computer Technology
majors. Some student personal accounts are also on this machine
Usernames are either based on the person's real name or Xyyy
where yyy is a 3-character PUCC ID.
Graduate CS students are found on machines in the ".cs.purdue.edu"
subdomain, including "arthur", "mordred", "merlin", and other
machines named after characters from the Arthurian legends.
Mail to cs.purdue.edu usually works.
Veterinary students are found on machines in the ".vet.purdue.edu"
subdomain; these machines are named after animals or other vet
terms e.g. "dog", "goat", "pharm"...Agricultural/Agronomy Engineering
students are found on machines in the ".acn.purdue.edu" subdomain;
these include "harvest", "barn", etc...Some folks in chemistry
can be found on machines in the ".chem.purdue.edu" subdomain;
many of these are named after items from the Dr. Who series,
e.g. "doctor", "tardis", "k9"...Some folks in psychology can be
found on machines in the ".psych.purdue.edu" subdomain; these
machines are named after Latin/South American countries,
e.g. "peru", "brazil", "mexico", "panama"...Some folks in
biology can be found on machines in the ".bio.purdue.edu" subdomain;
some of these machines are named after Tolkien characters,
e.g. "bilbo", "gollum"...Some folks in physics can be found on
machines in the ".physics.purdue.edu" subdomain; these machines
are named after physicists, e.g. "maxwell", "newton"... The
Krannert School of Management is in the .mgmt subdomain, with
hosts zeus and hera. Most management students will be found on
a PUCC machine.
Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada
Faculty and staff: firstname.ini...@queensu.ca.
Unfortunately you have to spell the name exactly as in the Personnel
records. This is an IBM mainframe machine with no Finger server.
Computing and Information Science: finger x...@qucis.queensu.ca, where x
is lastname or firstname.
Reed College:
user...@reed.edu, where username is of the form flllllll
Rice:
Mail may be sent to <username>@rice.edu. You can't finger this
machine. Rice students now have off-campus electronic access (email,
netnews), so long as it is for educational purposes only.
Owlnet accounts are provided for undergraduate and graduate engineers.
Non-engineers are given accounts when needed for a class, and then the
accounts are deleted after the class is over. A general address for
these accounts is @owlnet.rice.edu.
All students are given accounts on the rice mainframe computer, though
off-campus access is still restricted for these accounts unless given
permission. The address is @ricevm1.rice.edu and userid's are of the
form fllll00, so John Smith is JSM...@ricevm1.rice.edu.
Here's a small list of machines to try when searching for a user.
Department machines are generally for MS/PhD graduate students,
faculty, and staff. The OWLNET machines are used for classes. (Thus
the user population on OWLNET machines consists primarily of
undergraduates and graduate students in professional degree plans such
as Master of Computer Science.)
All the names given should have ".rice.edu" appended to them.
Department Machine Names
========================================== ==========================
Computer Science: titan, iapetus
Electrical and Computer Engineering: mu, zeta, eta, kappa, tavi
Math: math1
Mathematical Sciences: masc1, masc6
Mechanical Engineering: caesar
Space Physics and Astronomy spacsun (ID usually initials)
spacvax (ID usually lastname)
Statistics: stat1
Office of Networking and Computer Systems: brazos, uncle-bens
OWLNET: great-horned, marsh, snowy,
pygmy, great-gray
Rensselaer Polytechnic Inst. (RPI):
Department Machine or Domain Names
========================================== ==========================
Computer Science: cs.rpi.edu
Electrical and Computer Engineering: ecse.rpi.edu
Mechanical Engineering: meche.rpi.edu
Design Reseach Center: rdrc.rpi.edu
Robotics Automation Lab: ral.rpi.edu
Image Processing Lab: ipl.rpi.edu
Center for Advanced Technology: cat.rpi.edu
Integrated Electronic Arts Studio: iear.arts.rpi.edu
Engineering Computing Services: vm.ecs.rpi.edu,
vms.ecs.rpi.edu
Rensselaer Computing System: rpi.edu
Open to all students, faculty and staff.
Userids are lll...@rpi.edu with digits added to break ties.
finger last...@rpi.edu to verify userid only.
but finger @rpi.edu doesn't yield any login information.
Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT):
ritvax.bitnet
aaa...@ritvax.isc.rit.edu, where aaa is users initials, XXXX is last 4
digits of Social Security Number (SSN)
Computer Science: aaa...@cs.rit.edu. Sometimes anaXXXX where
n appears literally and means "no middle initial". Profs'
accounts omit the XXXX.
Rumour has it that some UNIX accounts on other machines within
the rit.edu domain use just last 4 digits of SSN, but recent
correspondents from RIT don't know of any such machines.
Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology: Terre Haute, IN
There are three major systems on which students are given accounts:
- Academic VAXcluster: rosevc.rose-hulman.edu
All students have accounts.
- NeXT workstation network: nextwork.rose-hulman.edu
All students have accounts.
- CS department network: cs.rose-hulman.edu
Any student can get an account upon request.
Student usernames are consistent across the systems, in the form
llllllfm. Mail addresses of the form: first....@rose-hulman.edu
are also accepted; mail is directed to a preferred address.
Rutgers: Changed: Mon Feb 15 1993
Rutgers has a whitepages server, so you can do whois -h
whitepages.rutgers.edu "fname lname" to find email addresses. If the
user has an email address it will explicitly indicate "Email:". The
"Userid" field is *NOT* an email address. (Note that not all people
with email addresses have put them in the directory.)
Other ways to find email addresses at Rutgers: There are many
departmental machines, but these are a few common ones. Usernames are
usually "llllllll" but some are "fllllll" etc.
General Student: trident.usacs.rutgers.edu (New Bruns. undergrad),
andromeda.rutgers.edu (Newark undergrad--all students),
draco.rutgers.edu (Newark grad--all students)
clam.rutgers.edu (Camden undergrad),
* not all New Bruns undergrads have accounts
CS: remus.rutgers.edu (undergrad), paul.rutgers.edu (grad),
cs.rutgers.edu (faculty), pyrite.rutgers.edu (grad/fac)
Math: gauss.rutgers.edu (undergrad), math.rutgers.edu (grad/fac),
hilbert.rutgers.edu (fac), dimacs.rutgers.edu (fac)
Engineering: pisces.rutgers.edu (ug), jove.rutgers.edu(g/fac),
caip.rutgers.edu (g/fac)
Student consultants: gandalf.rutgers.edu
McCormick Hall residents: dorm.rutgers.edu
Statistics: stat.rutgers.edu (fac)
Physics: physics.rutgers.edu
Systems Staff: klinzhai.rutgers.edu, cs.rutgers.edu,
hardees.rutgers.edu, gandalf.rutgers.edu
There is a machine, pilot.njin.net, which is available to any
Faculty/Staff member at any New Jersey college by request. As
such, using finger last...@pilot.njin.net may be useful in finding
someone at any of the non-Rutgers colleges in NJ.
Saint Anselm College:
Students, Faculty, Staff: anselm!user...@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: flas...@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.
Santa Clara University:
Students and faculty with accounts there, at least in some cases, may
be reached as FLLL...@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:
Mail to: fl...@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 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...@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, 12866 (518) 584-5000
Internet domain name: skidmore.edu
Bitnet node name: skidmore
All e-mail is collected by scott.skidmore.edu (141.222.1.4)
Usernames normally take the form first initial and first seven
characters of the last name. You can also employ "fname.lname",
giving the complete first and last names separated by a dot.
Contact L...@SCOTT.SKIDMORE.EDU for any delivery problems or other
questions about the College.
Smith: smith.smith.edu
Sonoma State University: fname...@sonoma.edu
Southwest Texas State University:
cs and math faculty or grad students: @swtexas.bitnet
(most user IDs are cs_lastname or ma_lastname)
Stanford: Changed: Mon Feb 15 1993
Stanford has implemented a finger service for its whois database. Try
"finger na...@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 flllll 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
was turned off by December 1992; try its various clients: 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
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: ln...@stolaf.edu
Last name conflicts are usually resolved by adding first
and/or middle initials to the end of the last name.
Try fingering Ln...@stolaf.edu (note the capital letter).
Try using the St. Olaf Gopher information server at gopher.stolaf.edu.
Phonebook information can be found under "St. Olaf Information".
Try sending email to postm...@stolaf.edu describing the
person you're trying to contact.
CSO phone book server at cso.stolaf.edu.
SUNY/Alfred (Alfred, NY)
(SUNY College of Technology at Alfred)
Students and faculty: llll...@snyalfva.cc.alfredtech.edu
(lastname, firstname, middlename, though middle name sometimes
isn't used.
SUNY/Binghamton: (Binghamton, NY)
In order to contact someone at SUNY-Binghamton you'll have to
give them a call; there is no way of figuring out a student's
address given their name, as the mapping is random (sequential
in the order people apply for accounts).
Undergrads: bXN...@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), bingvaxu (Unix), bingsuns (SunOS), bingvmb
(IBM), or bingtjw (IBM). Older userids are of the
form vyNNNN@bingvaxa, vuNNNN@bingvaxu, and
bgNNNN@bingvmb.
Interested undergrads tend to have accounts on bingvaxa,
though those in Math/CS classes will have accounts on
bingsuns.
An e-mail directory for some faculty and staff is available;
telnet to bingvmb.cc.binghamton.edu
DIAL VTAM
ELIXIR
Choose from menu.
SUNY/Buffalo:
Grads, Undergrads: user...@ubvms.cc.buffalo.edu [finger not possible]
Userids of the form VNNNXXXX where NNN are the first
3 digits of one's social security number, and XXXX are
4 alphanumerics representing the rest of the social
security number.
General Computing Center (students): user...@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: user...@eng.buffalo.edu
EE Students: user...@beatrix.eng.buffalo.edu
CS Dept: user...@cs.buffalo.edu (user...@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: llll...@scanva.bitnet, also try @snycanva.bitnet
SUNY/Geneseo
students: fm...@geneseo.bitnet .. yy is graduation year
I dont know about faculty, it might be on @snygenva.bitnet.
SUNY/Potsdam
students: llll...@snypotvb.bitnet .. where ss are last 2 digits of SS#
faculty: llll...@snypotva.bitnet
SUNY/Stony Brook:
Undergraduates: flll...@ccvm.sunysb.edu (sbccvm.bitnet)
flll...@ccmail.sunysb.edu (sbccmail.bitnet)
(servers ccsinc.bitnet and ccnova.bitnet)
flll...@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 fl...@sunysb.edu
Syracuse Univ.:
CompSci Grads/Faculty: top.cis.syr.edu
Many CompSci graduates and faculty have accounts on this
machine; the usual username pattern is "last...@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 na...@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 (NSE...@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.
con...@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.
Swarthmore:
All Students/Faculty/Staff: FLLL...@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.
CS: Usually, last...@cs.swarthmore.edu
Engineering: usually last...@engin.swarthmore.edu
[The following is the old info, which still holds for some people:
All Students: xx...@swat.swarthmore.edu, where xxx is the
student's initials, YY the year of graduation.
In case of duplicates, extra "x" are added between
the initials and year. If there are triplicates, they
keep on adding x's. You can also use
campus.swarthmore.edu (swarthmr.bitnet). If they have
no middle name, use "_" instead of the middle initial.
To find people, send mail to postmaster.
Faculty and staff have usernames as their last names on
campus.swarthmore.edu.]
Texas A&M University:
All students can have an account on a VAX cluster, a heterogeneous
set of UNIX boxes, or a VM/CMS machine. Probably less than
30% of the student body (40K students) takes advantage of this. The
format of the usernames is FML#### where fml are the initials and ####
is the last four digits of the SSN. If a student has no middle
initial then '0' (Zero) is used. These domain is "tamu.edu" and the
machine could be any of several choices like venus, rigel, summa,
sigma, etc.
General Unix: tamuts.tamu.edu, tamaix.tamu.edu,
tamsun.tamu.edu
General VAX/VMS: zeus.tamu.edu, venus.tamu.edu,
summa.tamu.edu, sigma.tamu.edu,
rigel.tamu.edu
General VM/CMS: tamvm1.tamu.edu
Finding addresses:
Try fingering last...@tamsun.tamu.edu or last...@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...@mail.trincoll.edu
mail.trincoll.edu is currently equivalent to trincoll.edu
Tufts University:
tufts.edu, tufts.bitnet
United States Air Force Academy
Cadets: CDT...@saturn.usafa.af.mil
Computer science: host kirk.usafa.af.mil
Finger works at both sites.
Univ. of Aalborg: @iesd.auc.dk
Univ. of Akron:
Academic Machines: Faculty, Grad, Undergrad
vax1.cc.uakron.edu (vax, so finger works)
vm1.cc.uakron.edu (vms, so finger doesn't work)
vm1 is also known as akronvm.bitnet
Most students and faculty have accounts on either of these machines.
Usernames are usually r1 for faculty, r2 for graduate
students, and r3 for undergrads, followed by first, middle,
and last initials. (If the student doesn't have a middle
initial it is omitted.) Naming conflicts are resolved by
adding a digit to the end of the userid (e.g., 1, 2, ... 9).
for example: mine is r2...@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.
Univ. 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: xx...@sun3.math.uah.edu
Grad std/Research : xx...@asnuah.asn.net
Univ. of Alabama at Tuscaloosa:
Domain: ua.edu
College of Engineering: flas...@buster.eng.ua.edu
Seebeck Computing Center: flll...@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: postm...@ua1vm.ua.edu
Univ. of Alaska
Bitnet: user...@alaska.bitnet Internet: user...@acadO.alaska.edu
Usernames are of the form CTFMLN where:
C=Campus
A is U of A Anchorage
D is for Kodiak College
F is for U of A Fairbanks
I is for Kenai Peninsula College
J is for U of A Southeast (in Juneau)
K is for U of A Southeast (Ketchikan branch)
P is for Mat-Su College (in Palmer)
T is for U of A Southeast (Sitka branch)
V is for Prince William Sound Community College (in Valdez)
T is for usage type.
S is for an undergraduate student
T is for a graduate student
F is for faculty
N is for staff.
X is for consultants
FML is the initials of first, middle, and last names, respectively.
N is a number, and is only given (and then it starts from one) if
there are more than one person at the same school with the same
status and initials
O is the computer that the person is on.
1 is Southeast and affiliated schools (don't know C letters for them)
2 is Anchorage and its affiliates (Kodiak, Kenai, Mat-Su, and Prince
William Sound)
3 is Fairbanks and affiliates
However, a person with enough access can use other campus' computers.
Univ. of Arizona:
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 user...@arizbpa.bitnet
Arizona.EDU is the campus mail gateway, but only those who ask get
aliases on Arizona.EDU. You could try last...@Arizona.EDU if you
suspect the person you want uses EMAIL a lot.
Univ. of Atlanta: @auc.UUCP
Univ. of British Columbia (Vancouver, BC, Canada)
Domain ubc.ca. Public accounts might be on unixg.ubc.ca.
Computer Science is cs.ubc.ca
University of Calgary
General (Students/Faculty): @acs.ucalgary.ca
CS students/faculty: @cpsc.ucalgary.ca
for all faculty, staff, grads, undergrads
- often last name, or first name, or initials. or last name
followed by initials.
Univ. of California/Berkeley: Many different accounts on many machines.
Undergraduates in General: ocf.berkeley.edu
Faculty, staff, and graduate students can also get accounts on
ocf.berkeley.edu.
Undergrad CS/EE, 1st Year Grad: cory.berkeley.edu (This is for
undergrad juniors and seniors and first year graduate
students. Most other graduate students have their own
workstations. For freshmen and sophomores, one must look for a
class account or ocf public cluster. Undergrads now have to
pay for accounts on cory, so fewer people will be using it.)
First Year Graduate CS students: try cory.berkeley.edu or
xcssun.berkeley.edu. antipodes.berkeley.edu
CS Faculty, Grads, Staff: cs.berkeley.edu (aliases mail address)
CS Grad Students: snake.cs.berkeley.edu
Good systems to try are (all .cs.berkeley.edu
or .berkeley.edu) sprite, harmony, sequoia, larch,
robotics, postgres, and ginger.
tenet.icsi.berkeley.edu also has some CS grad students on
it. Many machines in the department are now
foo.cs.berkeley.edu, but not all are.
EE Faculty: esvax, ic, cad, or a workstation
Janus will be going away soon, as will ucbarpa. Many csgrads will
have mail aliases on cs.berkeley.edu, which will eventually support
finger. Systems to try for grad students are (all .berkeley.edu):
sprite, harmony, sequoia, yew, larch, robotics, postgres, and ginger.
Soon, these will be moved into the cs.berkeley.edu subdomain instead
of berkeley.edu subdomain (ie, you'd finger @sprite.cs.berkeley.edu).
This will happen soon, but hasn't happened yet.
Names for the above accounts are usually, but not always,
combinations of the user's real first, middle and last names
and/or initials. However, finger will search the "real name"
field as well as the account name.
There are many class accounts (which all students get). These
are found on web.berkeley.edu,bard.berkeley.edu, and
xcssun.berkeley.edu.
zooey, buddy, franny, and seymour too, except they're being
retired. Danube, amazon, congo, po, and volga and a cluster of stars
(named after stars) are supposed to be the replacements.
web and buddy hold classes that freshmen and sophomores often take.
seymour and franny are often used for classes for business majors.
Class account usernames are typically cnnn-mxx or ennn-mxx, where
'c' or 'e' denotes CS or EE, nnn is the course number, m is the
section number (not always used), and xx are two letters.
Statistics class accounts are of the form s#xxxx, where # is
the class number and xxxx is some string of alphabetic characters.
These accounts live on gandalf.berkeley.edu. Statistics
cluster computers are named after Tolkien characters.
qal.berkeley.edu is used for courses in "practical computer use"
(taught by the anthropology department). Account names are
193xxx, where xxx is the last name of the user.
Math (Graduate and Faculty): math.berkeley.edu
Stat Department: stat.berkeley.edu
Physics Grads and Undergrads: physics.berkeley.edu
Mech. E Profs & Grads: euler.berkeley.edu, tycho.berkeley.edu
Public Cluster (some undergrads): ocf.berkeley.edu
School of Education: soe.berkeley.edu
Other machines to try: ucbvax.berkeley.edu
garnet.berkeley.edu and violet.berkeley.edu are the most
likely place for a pay-for-use account. Some departments
maintain accounts on these machines for faculty, though,
so these machines are the place to try for faculty affiliated
with departments that have no real computing facilities.
Almost anyone on campus can pay for an account on these machines.
Some of the class accounts are also on congo. Generally
addresses for the first semester classes are:
CS 60A - c60a-__@danube
CS 3 - c3-1a__@amazon or c3-1b__@congo
postm...@nettlesome.berkeley.edu should be considered as a last
choice when looking from someone electronically.
Univ. of California/Davis:
@ucdavis.edu -- works if you know their account name
userids are of the form fmlllll.
@clover.ucdavis.edu -- works for anyone in the CS department
whois -h ucdavis.edu <name>
CS: First...@cs.ucdavis.edu
Engineering/CS: First...@ee.ucdavis.edu
or First...@eecs.ucdavis.edu
Univ. of California/Irvine:
CS Undergrads: bonnie.ics.uci.edu
Mail sometimes restricted; policy has changed several times.
Userid usually FLLLLLLL (8 char max); sometimes FFFFFFFL.
CS Grads/Staff/Faculty: ics.uci.edu
Faculty userids are usually their last names, sometimes
initials, a few firstname only. Grads usually FLLLLLLL,
some lastname only. Staff sometimes firstname, sometimes lastname.
Other departments: mostly grads; userids usually lastname.
Biology dept: sanger.bio.uci.edu
EE: balboa.eng.uci.edu
Physics dept: skid.ps.uci.edu
Social sciences: ss.uci.edu
Try fingering fname...@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.
Univ. of California/Los Angeles (UCLA):
CS: @cs.ucla.edu @oahu.cs.ucla.edu
MATH: @math.ucla.edu, @sonia.math.ucla.edu, @oak.math.ucla.edu
(graduate students, staff, faculty)
EE grads & faculty: ee.ucla.edu (network of RTs and SUNs
running unix. Each machine has the name of a famous
engineer: watt.ee.ucla.edu, joule.ee.ucla.edu, etc)
Usernames vary; try fname, lastname,...
AGSM: @agsm.ucla.edu @uclagsm
(Anderson Graduate School of Management)
All of students , staffs and faculty have their user ID.
User ID: FLLLLLLL (max 8 characters)
Class Accounts: pic.ucla.edu (PIC = program in computing)
These get cleared every quarter. Account names are usually
the course number followed by three letters chosen by the student.
If you finger @laguna.pic.ucla.edu, you get more detailed
info, such as when the user last logged on, etc.
Engineering: seas.ucla.edu This is a server for a network for
the school of engineering and applied sciences. Any engineering
graduate student can get an account on it, and many undergrads
have accounts on it for classes. This machine has access to
USENET.
Anybody: oac.ucla.edu An IBM 3090. Anyone in UCLA can get an
open access account on this to send mail, etc. Account
names on this machine are terribly cryptic (such as IZZYR33).
Univ. of California/Santa Cruz:
Undergrads: ucscb.ucsc.edu
Other hosts include ucsc{c-e,o}.ucsc.edu, ucscvm.ucsc.edu, etc. All
these hosts (except for ucscb) are on bitnet as the first part of
their domain name.
A new host, cats.ucsc.edu, has been added as the mail address for
UCSC's version of Athena. Users can be fingered by username, first
name, or last name. Undergrads, grads, faculty, and some staff may
have accounts on cats. Users choose their own IDs, so you must use
finger to get an account name.
As of late fall 1992, the name space of cats and ucscb have been
merged, so that almost all students have the same userid on both
systems. However, there are (and will likely always be) separate
accounts on the 2 systmes that use the same name - so there will
remain differences between mailing to SomeAddress@cats and
SomeAddress@ucscb.
Univ. of California/San Diego (UCSD):
The primary mail gateway is ucsd.edu. This machine also has a
smart finger program, which will look up names that sound similar
to the one you fingered. Just "finger na...@ucsd.edu".
Most usernames are the initial of the first name followed by the
last name, truncated to 8 characters, ie. "jfo...@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).
Many, many other machines house course, faculty, staff, and research
accounts. Your best bet is to look the name up at ucsd.edu.
Univ. of Central Florida (Orlando)
CS dept: only grad students are given accounts. finger
last...@eola.cs.ucf.edu
Engineering: finger init...@apocalypse.engr.ucf.edu
General: ucf1vm.cc.ucf.edu. (A bitnet node, so you cannot finger)
Univ. of Chicago:
Undergraduates: midway.uchicago.edu (formerly tank.uchicago.edu)
(midway.uchicago.edu serves as a mail server for machines
named quads.uchicago.edu and ellis.uchicago.edu. When midway
refuses connections, finger at quad or ellis.)
Grads and faculty may also be on quads and ellis.
CS Grads: gargoyle.uchicago.edu
Math: zaphod.uchicago.edu
Education: paideia.uchicago.edu
Chemistry: pico.uchicago.edu
Astronomy: oddjob.uchicago.edu (finger lastname)
Social sciences (Economics, History, Sociology, Political Science):
cicero.spc.uchicago.edu [also accepts 'finger']
Also Try: uchep.uchicago.edu
Many researchers have accounts on rainbow.uchicago.edu, in
addition to having accounts on their own workstations.
The University of Chicago now (fall91) runs the ph mail
system, so sending mail to finitial...@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 adv...@midway.uchicago.edu.
Unfortunately few people bother to input their e-mail addresses.
Univ. of Chile (Universidad de Chile) (in Santiago, Chile, South America):
Mathematics and Physical Sciences 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 server (using normal gopher
access or telnet/rlogin with login name "gopher") on tortel.
Univ. of Colorado/Boulder: Changed: Tue Feb 23 1993
Finger na...@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
user...@machine.colorado.edu
Telnet to directory.colorado.edu, using username "directory".
This lets you access the online phonebook/email address book.
Univ. of Connecticut:
uconn.edu
use...@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
Entries beginning with Univ. of D may be found in the next posting
(file .../college-email/faq3.text via anonymous FTP).