Welcome to Internet - the world's "information superhighway." In this exercise you will gain access to and make use of Internet. In this exercise you will learn to use an e-mail application called Eudora to send and receive e-mail, attach documents, and access list servers. Perhaps you've already been using UNIX commands on one of the department's computers to access e-mail, or have been using the NCSA/BYU Telnet application to access your e-mail account. Once you're introduced to Eudora - a user friendly, front-end Macintosh application - you'll never go back. If you are already familiar with Eudora, you may skip the preliminaries and merely prove to your course instructor that you can send and receive e-mail, including attachments.
1. Begin by reading pages 9 - 61 and 241 - 243 in Internet Starter Kit for Macintosh by Adam C. Engst. (See your instructor for a reference copy.)
2. Using an departmental computer, start up Eudora from the Apple menu. (Alternatively, you may want to obtain free iTools from Computer User Services and install this software on your own computer.)
3. Start up the application, being certain to designate a folder where your in and out files, system prefs, and records may be retained. If you are using a departmental computer, you'll want this folder to be on a diskette that you'll need to use each time you use Eudora.
4. Begin by changing Special/Settings... as shown below. Be certain to replace the generic "student" names with your preferred e-mail account on entropy, etc. Insert your real name as requested. Generally speaking, you should not make changes in other settings; these settings have been configured for you.
POP account: student@entropy.phy.ilstu.edu
Real Name: Joe Student
Connection Method: · MacTCP
Click the icons for Personal Information, Hosts, and Checking Mail and make the appropriate changes there as necessary. You should now be ready to run.
NOTE: Every time you run Eudora you will have to start the application off of your diskette. This will ensure that e-mail messages go to your disk and not the hard drive of the computer you are using. This will ensure privacy and keep the hard drive free from cluttering, and you from loosing your files when Assimilator kicks in. Note, too, that files received through Eudora will be transferred to your diskette and deleted from your host computer unless you change preferences.
5. It's nice to put your "John Hancock" on all your e-mail so you don't have to keep typing your name, phone number, address, etc. when completing a message. Under Window/Signature, type all the information you want to be part of your personal identification. "Netiquette" demands that you keep your signature to five lines or less. It is strongly recommended that you start the first line of your signature with a double-hyphen mark (--) for purposes that will become clear later when subscribing and unsubscribing to list servers which will be discussed.
6. Send your first piece of Eudora e-mail to your course instructor at: wenning@phy.ilstu.edu. Mail sent to the second address will be forwarded to the first address though the use of a dot-forward file. (If you have multiple computer addresses, all e-mail can be forwarded to one computer using the dot-forward command. See your instructor for details.)
7. Send a small document as an attachment to a Eudora e-mail message reading "Find attached the requested document <name>." Give the name of the document. The document might be the PEN newsletter described below.
8. Join a LISTSERV group. By registering with the sign-up site of the American Institute of Physics, you can receive an electronic, semi-monthly newsletter called PEN -- Physics Education News. A host of other list servers is available in Engst.
This subscription service of AIP is not the ordinary. One generally subscribes to a list server by leaving the Subject: line blank, and typing "subscribe Joe Student" in the text portion where Joe Student is really your name. One generally unsubscribes from a list server by sending the message "unsubscribe Joe Student." In both cases your signature should be turned off or the appended signature will confuse the list server. List servers are programmed to ignore anything after the double-hyphen statement, so if you start your signature with a double-hyphen, you won't have to turn it off and on and your subscribe/unsubscribe to list servers. See your instructor to find out more about commands available to users of list servers.
After you get Eudora up an running, you should have a good
working knowledge of Eudora. You should know how to do the following
things:
Your performance using Eudora will be assessed though the use of a demonstration interview, and the successful receipt by the course instructor of a brief e-mail with attachment. Arrange a 10-minute meeting with your PHY 302 course instructor to demonstrate that you can do each of the things listed in the above list of bulleted items.
Comments regarding the use of Eudora at Home:
The Office of Instructional Technology has acquired an unlimited
site license for both the Mac and Windows version of Eudora Pro.
This software is available free to ISU students, staff, and faculty
as part of the iTools set. Using Eudora Pro from home over phone
lines requires a PPP (Point-to-Point Protocol) account and installation
of additional PPP software available from Computer User Services.
Check out their web page give above.