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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 and posting newsgroup messages:

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.

Turn off automatic word-wrapping: insert line breaks by hand. Use a paragraph width of around 65 to 72 characters.

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 reasonable, but please follow the course conventions.

USENET (Newsgoups)
USENET provides an excellent forum for public discussion using the Internet. The newsgroups give students the chance to pose questions about the technical content of the course. The CS100 staff monitors the newsgroup and might try to offer timely answers.

CS100J will use cornell.class.cs100j. CS100M will use cornell.class.cs100m. (Yes, the choice of names is a bit obvious. Clicking on these links only works if you have the FULL version of Netscape installed. Otherwise, see the instructions below.)
Post messages according to the same guidelines as sending e-mail.
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.

Refer to CIT's website or the summary instructions on accessing discussion groups, below:

On a Windows Platform:

Use WinVN program in CIT labs.

Otherwise, try Netscape:

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 newsgroup cornell.class.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.

On the Macs in the Carpenter Lab:

Double click on the hard drive icon, followed by Bear Access and MT-NewsWatcher.

Double click on MT-NewsWatcher. Select Shared and create a folder on the desktop.

Type in newsstand.cit.cornell.edu as the news server, and postoffice.mail.cornell.edu as the mail server.

Fill in the blanks in the window that appears.

After all the newsgroups appear, select cornell followed by cornell.class and cornell.class.cs100j.

From Roadrunner:

Set up Outlook Express to read news
Go to Tools->Accounts->News->Add
Enter Name, Email (cornell), NNTP server: newsstand.cit.cornell.edu
Under Properties, tick the box for "this server requires me to log on"
Under Account Name enter NetID
Password would be NetID/Cornell email password.

Since articles (posts) can expire (go away forever) and/or the news server is sometimes inaccessible, you should save important articles: e-mail copies to yourself and/or save to your hardrive/floppy. For further assistance, please ask the consultants in Carpenter Lab.

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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