Note: This activity assumes that you know how to use e-mail, and have an active account. If you do not, then complete the e-mail activity before attempting this activity.
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 63 - 68 in Internet Starter Kit for Macintosh by Adam C. Engst. (See your instructor for a reference copy.)
2. Using a departmental computer, start up Eudora from the Apple menu. (Alternatively, you may want to obtain free iTools from Computer User Services, install this software on your own computer, and do this project from home.)
3. 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.
Once you have received an electronic message from a list server,
print it out and hand to your course instructor for check off.