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The Internet & Cornell

Get into the habit of checking your e-mail and the course web page daily.
For e-mail and news, you will need to have a Cornell NetID and password.
If you do not have these yet, you need to go to the CIT helpdesk in the CCC building and obtain a Bear Access CD.
For additional help, consult CIT.

E-mail
CIT supports electronic mail (e-mail). Use the following guidelines when e-mailing staff:

Be polite! Give unclear writing the benefit of the doubt.

No MIME-encoding or HTML

No unsolicited attachments

No autowrap - break lines by hand: Formatting is important in programs, and autowrap tends to screw up formatting.

Keep lines less than 70 characters in width in text - wider lines are a little more tolerable in programs

Use a fixed-width (monospaced or non-proportional) font, like Courier or Monaco

Quote relevant text from the original message to establish context

Add new text after the corresponding quoted text, NOT at the very top.

Following these guidelines makes your messages friendlier and more accessible, thus making your questions more likely to be answered. CIT maintains a list of conventions, as well. Other netiquette conventions are possible and reasonable, but this course has its own guidelines. Mixing conventions tends to lead to confusion. Therefore, please follow the course conventions.

USENET
We might occasionally use Network News (USENET):

Refer to CIT's website for a description of USENET and instructions on accessing discussion groups.
We will use cornell.class.cs100j, cornell.class.cs100m, and occasionally cornell.class.cs100.
Post messages according to the same guidelines as sending e-mail.
Save important messages to disk because posts gradually vanish from the group.
Follow all rules of academic integrity! Never post fragments of your programming-assignment code. Instead, you should seek clarification of the underlying concepts, perhaps by pointing to an example discussed in class.
We will not necessarily respond to posts, but we will check regularly to ensure that academic integrity is maintained.

We recommend that you follow the instructions on CIT's website. You may also try these. If you prefer Netscape, try the following steps:

Start Netscape.
Click on Communicator and select Newsgroups from the drop down menu. A newsgroup window should appear.
Click on File and select Subscribe. On the window that appears, make sure the server is newsstand.cit.cornell.edu. If it is something else, click Add Server choose New Server (NNTP) and then type in the above server name.
In the newsgroups that appear, double click on cornell and then on cornell.class. Then select the desired newsgroup, such as cs100m, by double clicking on it followed by OK. You are now subscribed to the newsgroup.
The messages posted can be seen by double clicking on the newsgroup title. To post a message, right click on the newsgroup title and select New Message.

WWW
CIT supports viewing and browsing of the World Wide Web (WWW). Check out the following links for CS100 websites:

Recent CS100 Websites

Archived CS100 websites

FTP
You can move files between computers using. File Transfer Protocol (FTP). We store some CodeWarrior files here.

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