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From: jewettrj@potsdam.edu (Bob Jewett)
Subject: An important message about information technology at SUNY Potsdam
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Greetings from Distributed Computing/Telemedia! 

Before the new school year starts, we wanted to inform you about a number 
of items regarding information technology at SUNY Potsdam. Over the 
summer, we have been hard at work developing and enhancing our voice, 
video and data services. We hope that this message provides you with the 
information you need to make better use of those services, or at the very 
least, points you toward the information you may want. 


Contents of this message:

1. How to continue receiving (or avoid receiving) these email messages on 
   information technology.

2. Electronic mail (email) at SUNY Potsdam for Faculty and Students. 

3. Workshops and Brown-bag Presentations for '95 - 96. 

4. Creating personal and/or department-office "homepages" on Potsdam's Web 
   (WWW) server.

5. Useful campus Web (WWW) addresses; that is, addresses to use with 
   Netscape or Mosaic.

? 6. Important software to use at SUNY Potsdam. **(should we include    
   this???)** 

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1. How to continue receiving (or avoid receiving) these email messages on 
   information technology:

If you find the information contained here useful and would like to 
continue receiving announcements of workshops, presentations and 
information about technology at SUNY Potsdam, you need not do anything 
extra--just keep checking your email for new messages. 

If you would prefer NOT to receive further email messages such as these, 
please REPLY to this message and let us know that. We'll remove your name 
from our email list. We don't want to send you something you don't want. 

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2. Electronic mail (email) at SUNY Potsdam for Students: 

First and foremost, you should know that *all* of our students are 
automatically provided with an email account when they are registered for 
coursework at SUNY Potsdam. Unless a student registered late or 
experiences problems accessing their email account, s/he should be able to 
use email upon arrival on campus. 

Returning students can simply use the same account/password they used 
before they left campus for the summer. 

New students can determine what their account name and password are by 
using the following simple convention: 

Account name - 1st 6 letters of their last name + last 2 digits of their 
Social Security Account Number (SSAN).

Password	- the student's SSAN is their initial password which they should
change as soon as they use their email account the first time. 


As examples, the account name for John Woods (379-96-7277), would be 
"woods77" and the password would be "379967277". The account name for Lori 
McPherson (233-99-1111) would be "mcpher11" and the password would be 
"233991111".

Information on *how* to use email is available in the Levitt Center and 
other student computing areas (all residence hall computing centers, 
Kellas Computer Classroom, Flagg Computer Classroom). Also, workshops on 
the use of email, for Macintosh and Windows/DOS users, will be offered to 
students on a weekly basis during the Fall semester--times and location 
will announced soon (see #3 below). 

Student may go to the Levitt Center in Crumb Library for more information 
or if there is a problem with their email account and/or password. 

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3. Workshops and brown-bag presentations for '95 - 96: 

We will again be offering our weekly brown-bag presentations this year as 
well as a number of special workshops--"Same time. Same channel" (that is, 
Thursdays, 11:30am, Kellas studio). 

Because these brown-bag sessions often present late-breaking technology or 
developments, we find it difficult to meet the deadline for including an 
announcement in the Reporter. Therefore, brown-bag sessions are only 
announced via email and Web server (refer to URL under #5 below). 

This summer, we offered an intensive schedule of workshops and help 
sessions on HTML, the language used to develop Web pages. While we cannot 
offer this level of training during the school year, we will be offering a 
number of special workshops on HTML during the Fall semester. You'll have 
a chance to develop your own personal homepage (see #4 below). Watch for 
announcements of the time and location in upcoming email messages and via 
our Web server (again, refer to URL under #5 below) 

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4. Creating personal and/or department-office homepages on the WWW: 

There seems to be a lot of talk these days about the World-Wide Web (WWW). 
There is also a great deal of interest in learning about how to publish on 
"the Web". This 'fever' seems to have touched SUNY Potsdam as well, if our 
summer workshops on HTML (the language used to develop Web pages) are any 
indication of local enthusiasm. 

If you are interested in publishing on the Web--office/department 
material, academic information or personal "homepages"--you should attend 
one of the workshops offered this Fall. The schedule will be announced 
through email, the Reporter and, of course, our campus Web server (refer 
to URL under #5 below). We will set up the means for you to create Web 
documents using an HTML editor (Mac or Windows-based) and provide you will 
space on our Web server to store your documents. 

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5. Useful campus WWW addresses (URLs to use with Netscape or Mosaic). 

- Information about SUNY Potsdam offices/departments and much more: 

      http://www.potsdam.edu/connections.html


- Current information about technology at SUNY Potsdam: 

      http://www.potsdam.edu/ISD/IT_Intro.html 


- Schedule of technology workshops and brown-bag presentations: 

      http://www.potsdam.edu/dctm/Presentations/IntroTraining.html 


- SUNY Potsdam's WWW homepage--how we look on the global Internet: 

      http://www.potsdam.edu

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6. Software supported for use at SUNY Potsdam: 

**My thought here was to inform faculty and other employees about what 
software they should be using. Of course, if they don't have the right 
hardware, license to the software, etc.... Let me know what you think we 
should do here. We will be referring to this information in our Web 
documentation as well. 

Email:
- Eudora for Macintosh or Windows
- NuPOP for DOS

Operating Systems for personal computers: - Mac OS 7.01 or better
- Windows 3.1
- Windows '95 (currently being evaluated) 

Word-processing:
- Word for Macintosh or Windows
- WordPerfect 5.1 for DOS

Spreadsheets:
- Excel 4.0 or later for Macintosh or Windows - DOS?

WWW Browser (for navigating the WWW on the Internet): - Netscape 1.1 for Macintosh or Windows
- DOS?