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News About Nformation Systems Throughout MIT News about nformation systems throughout MIT Volume 12 • NumberI/S 2 N o v e m b e r / D e c e m b e r 1 9 9 6 . MIT Alumni/ae Association E-Mail Forwarding for Life . Tests Its First Online Service The first ANS to be offered is E-Mail . Forwarding for Life (EFL). EFL provides . Lee Ridgway . a permanent, lifetime e-mail address . that acts as a forwarding service: . MIT Press Releases Third Edition . A t a place like MIT, creating on- messages sent to an alum’s EFL address . of The New Hacker’s Dictionary ........ 2 . line services for alumni sounds like a are automatically forwarded to that . natural thing to do, and this is what person’s actual e-mail address. Alumni Software Spotlight . registered for EFL will be able to up- . the MIT Alumni/ae Association is PageMill Lets You Create Web . about to launch with its Alumni Net- date their e-mail address in the ANS . Pages without Knowing HTML ......... 3 . work Services (ANS). The impetus for system and are, in fact, responsible . for keeping it current. Network Notes . ANS came from two directions: . EFL is now undergoing beta testing . • In 1994, surveys conducted for the How to Tame the “Time Out of . by volunteers from the 1996 graduating . Association’s Long-Range Strategic Bounds” Error ........................................ 4 . class and the Class of 1991. Plans are . Planning Committee indicated that Computer Corner . to have the testers put EFL through its ................................... 4 . alumni wanted services which only . paces for two months. During this time, MIT Computer Connection/ . MIT could provide, including better . changes may be made to the system in Bits and Bytes . alumni directory services. Alums . also wanted to see more creative response to feedback from the testers. Silicon Graphics Introduces . If all goes well, the Association will . use of technology in delivering O2 Desktop Workstations .................... 5 . begin a staged rollout of EFL to all . these services. alumni early in 1997. PC Service to Repair Dell . • Advances in interactive network . Once EFL is in place, the next Computers .............................................. 5 . services, including the World Wide . service will be a searchable online . Web, were providing relatively Publishing Pointers . alumni directory. easy ways to make extensive infor- RTFtoHTML 3.0 Converts Word . Access to ANS, and to EFL, is . mation available over the Internet. through the Alumni Network Services Processing Files into HTML ................ 6 . The Alumni/ae Association recog- Gateway at . IS Launches IT Partners . nized that the Internet, and especially http://web.mit.edu/alum/ans/ Program for Local Experts ................... 6 . the Web, could be the basis for online . Because of the way security and . services for alumni. This technology New Directions for the . authentication are being handled for . would also make it easier for alumni to Macintosh Operating System .............. 7 . ANS, Netscape Navigator 2.0 or later . maintain their connections with MIT . is the recommended browser for ac- Getting Help ........................................... 8 . and other alums, thereby fostering a . cessing the system. Other browsers . greater sense of “virtual” community. Recent Publications from . will be evaluated during the beta test. In 1995, a Committee on Online Information Systems............................. 8 . Details on browser setup and connect- . Communications was formed with a . ing will be included in the notices to . broad representation of alumni, and . alumni about registering for ANS. charged with developing a plan to ▲ . deliver network services to alumni. continued on page 2 ▼ Recipients of messages forwarded Under Consideration ALUMNI NETWORK SERVICES through EFL receive them via their EFL and a searchable alumni direc- continued from page 1 regular e-mail service. Header informa- tory are just the first two of a range of tion will always indicate when a mes- possible online alumni services. Other EFL Registration and Formats sage has come through EFL. EFL is not services being considered are Alumni register for ANS and EFL an e-mail service itself and messages •Publishing a calendar of Alumni/ae through a series of Web pages. The are not stored on any of the ANS or Association and MIT events around alum sets up an ANS username and EFL servers. the world password, and supplies other infor- mation that will authenticate him or Privacy Concerns •Enabling online registration for MIT her as a bona fide MIT alum. Part of In using the Internet to deliver ser- and Alumni/ ae Association events the information includes the e-mail vices to alumni, the Association is well •Publishing an electronic version of address to which the alum wants aware of the need to guarantee – as much Technology Review’s ClassNotes and messages forwarded. as possible – a secure environment that CourseNews sections protects privacy and personal informa- The format for EFL addresses is •Providing career assistance [email protected], where name tion. This is particularly crucial when it comes to online directory informa- •Setting up chat and newsgroups is some form of the alum’s name and around topics of interest to alums class is the year of graduation. A sample tion. When an alum logs onto ANS with address for an undergraduate alum Netscape, data transmitted between •Making some MIT Libraries’ would be: <[email protected]>. his or her computer and the ANS server services available through ANS A graduate alum known by his nick- is protected through “security certifi- •Facilitating distance learning oppor- name might have an address like this: cate negotiation.” This is an automatic tunities and making MIT lectures <[email protected]>. process that establishes an encrypted and seminars available over the Web link between the two systems. This format is designed to be con- •Providing news about MIT research. sistent and fairly intuitive, so that if ANS subscribers indicate what ad- you wanted to try to send e-mail to an dress information they want displayed For more information about ANS alum whose name and graduation year in the online directory using the same and EFL, go to the Alumni/ae Asso- you knew, you could make an educated online form they use to log in and up- ciation home page at guess at what that person’s EFL ad- date their EFL addresses. This form http://web.mit.edu/alum/www/ dress might be (although some name also has a box for Online Notes, where and select the Network Services link. combinations might take a couple of a subscriber can enter personal infor- You can contact the Acting Director of tries). EFL subscribers may also pub- mation and automatically send it to ANS, Jason Slibeck (’91), at x3-8262 or licize their addresses on their own. his or her class secretary. <[email protected]>. ø MIT Press Releases Third Edition In 1991, The MIT Press published of The New Hacker’s Dictionary the first edition of The New Hacker’s Dictionary – a polished version of the MIT Information Systems Jargon File edited by Eric Raymond. You may not be a computer whiz, but Managing Editor More than just a lexicon, the Dictionary Robyn Fizz with The New Hacker’s Dictionary in tow included essays about hacker culture Writer/Editor you can decode much of the cryptic and cartoons by Guy L. Steele Jr. A Lee Ridgway slang used by the hacker crowd at MIT second edition was published in 1993. i/s is published six times a year on a bimonthly and beyond. This lexicon, now in its The third edition, published in schedule. MIT faculty and staff receive copies third edition, gives you the lowdown October, has more than 100 new en- through campus mail; i/s is also available in lob- on cybercrud, laser chicken, and raster tries and 200 updated ones. The essays bies around campus. Individuals at MIT may subscribe by contacting the managing editor. burn. Find out (in the shelter of your and cartoons are still insightful and own room) if you’re a lurker, luser, entertaining. Reading the lexicon is Send comments or subscription requests to: or lion food. MIT 11-309, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, also great fun, since wordplay is a Cambridge, MA 02139-4307 Origins hallmark of many hacker terms. Phone: (617) 253-0540 Electronic mail: <[email protected]> The New Hacker’s Dictionary began Getting a Copy life as the Jargon File, during the era i/s is also published online at If you’d like to explore the world of http://web.mit.edu/is/pubs/isnews/ of time-shared computing and LISP J. Random Hacker, The New Hacker’s Contact the managing editor if you would like to programming. It continued to evolve Dictionary is the place to start. The be notified when new issues are published online. as C and UNIX came to dominate the book is available in cloth ($32.00) or Articles are also posted in TechInfo. The path is computing landscape. Today you can paperback ($16.50) at the MIT Press Computing→Publications→Information Systems → find the Jargon File on the Web at Bookstore in Kendall Square. For Publications i/s Newsletter. http://www.ccil.org/jargon complete ordering information, see All product names are trademarks of their manufacturers. It was and is maintained by volunteers, http://mitpress.mit.edu/bookstore/ © 1996 Massachusetts Institute of Technology and new entries and modifications are ordertop.html ø welcomed. 2 . i/s . Software Spotlight PageMill Lets You Create Web One major drawback in PageMill’s Pages without Knowing HTML implementation of tables is that you must format the contents of each cell Robyn Fizz separately. This can lead to a lot of repetitive handwork. A dobe Systems recently released Forms PageMill 2.0 for the Macintosh.
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