Update, Feb 1999

Numerous times at Summercore discussion sessions, I have shared the perspective with colleagues that of all the innovations at Nobles since 1994, the one that I would make as my first priority at any new school would be the implementation of First Class. First Class mailing lists, conferences, internet mail, graphics, sounds are all so straight-forward and powerful that the software becomes an equalizer in terms of academic usage, gender issues and integration of technology throughout the curriculum. We have been running NoblesNet (our First Class server name) since 12/7/94. In the summer of 1996, the headmaster, Dick Baker, announced that NoblesNet was now the main organ of communication on campus. We believe that NoblesNet is one of the most active e-mail and bulletin board systems in the country. In addition to 500 students, 125 faculty and staff, we have about 100 parents, 25 trustees and a number of visitors, including our friends at the Boston Home, a residency for patients with multiple schlerosis and long-term physical disabilities; several of them even use Dragon Dictate to compose their NoblesNet notes!

What follows after the screen snapshots is an excerpt from chapter 2 of our Summercore Primer ... Steve Bergen 2/99 (e-mail: )

Some Screen Snapshots of our Conferences (Feb 99)


CHAPTER 2
NOTHING BUT NET: GET CONNECTED!
Written by Steve Bergen and Lynne Schalman


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web site: www.summercore.com
The Original Teaching Company, PO Box E, Lexington MA 02420

NOBLESNET: E-MAIL AND CAMPUS BULLETIN BOARDS

(excerpted from pages 33-45 from The Summercore Primer)

Software such as First Class by SoftArc allows use of your network to facilitate e-mail and campus bulletin boards. What you see below are screen dumps of various components of NoblesNet, the implementation of First Class at Noble & Greenough School. This system began on 12/7/94 and the progress has been amazing. Students access NoblesNet from almost anywhere on campus (via the Ethernet cabling and numerous hubs) or from home via their modems. The software supports modem access from home via Macs or PCs running Windows 95. The graphical interface resembles America Online. Numerous academic projects have emerged in all subject areas: computers, history, spanish, latin and so on. Numerous conferences by “special interest groups” have begun and students/faculty writing to each other or occasionally chatting with each other has become a mainstream part of the culture of the school. Unlicensed students get 25 minutes per day, N licensed students get 72 minutes per day and the generous G license helpers get 144 minutes per day plus attached file privileges. The software warns you when your time is almost up, regardless of whether you are checking your mail, chatting on-line with someone or reading the latest postings in one of the conferences. We issue new accounts to the 200 new students who are accepted each March and allow matriculating students to keep their accounts for the six months before they have formally stepped foot on campus. Numerous academic and recreational conferences by “special interest groups” have taken hold and on-line chatting and e-mail have become a significant part of the culture of the school.

LIfe stinks when you have no more minutes left on NoblesNet .. Dusty Fahie, 3/9/95



When on NoblesNet — whether at school or from home via modem — you can check out who else is online and can invite him/her to chat. Numerous students and faculty members have been amazed by the range of unique and interesting dialogs that regularly take place between students and faculty members. Of course, we have had to push a few chatting rules, such as inappropriate use of language and avoiding repetitious invitations to chat, since the other person may be working and not want to be interrupted. One faculty member, Erika Guy, even found the necessity of turning off the chatting feature when she was away from Nobles for several weeks and would be calling long distance via NoblesNet to send/receive e-mail. She'd be running up a phone bill and kids would be inviting her to chat! Here is a typical chat session with two seventh graders that took place soon after NoblesNet was begun on 12/7/94.

A Sample Chat... this one about the store "Imagine"
NOBLESNET: AN OVERVIEW
Software such as First Class by SoftArc allows you to use your networking to facilitate campus e-mail, campus bulletin boards, etc. NoblesNet, the implementation of First Class at Noble & Greenough School was begun on 12/7/94 and the progress has been amazing. Students access NoblesNet from almost anywhere on campus (via the Ethernet cabling and numerous hubs) or from home via their modems. The software supports modem access from home via Macs or Windows 95 computers. The graphical interface resembles America Online. As of June 97, NoblesNet became the “main organ of communication” to quote the headmaster, Richard Baker. We have 500 students, 75 faculty, 50 staff, 25 trustees, 100 parents, a few alums and several outside visitors on line, including MS residents from the Boston Home.


Questions and Answers begin here! The system is quite sophisticated, so take your time reading and learning!

Question 1A: What are the steps when logging on?
When you are asked for your User ID and Password, use TAB to jump from one box to another; don't push return until both your User ID and Password are correct; uppercase vs lowercase is not relevant.

Question 1B: How to change my password?
Once you have logged in, look under the Service Menu. Type your own password, then type your own new password again. It is against NoblesNet Rules to let someone else use your account or for you to use someone else’s account. In the adult world, this is called fraud. We have had several disturbing incidents at Nobles with NoblesNet fraud. Please keep your password to yourself and change it occasionally.

Question 1C: How do I log on from home?
Get a copy of the NoblesNet Installer disk from the student staff room or admissions office. We have one disk for the mac and one the PC, along with a one page instruction sheet which includes students who will help you trouble-shoot at home! We currently have 15 lines on a hunt group, using 320-1314 as the one dial-in line. We also can be accessed via TCP using bbs.noblesnet.org as the equivalent for the IP address.

Question 1D: How do the time limits work at home or at school?
Initially, students have 25 minutes per day, which gets upgraded to 72 minutes upon familiarity of the important rules posted on the actual 1994 Wittenberg Door. Sending an appropriate note to the electronic conference called the 1994 Wittenberg Door changes the temporary status of that student to be an N License with 72 minutes per day and more privileges. G License Students who help out in the computer lab get 144 minutes per day while students on the Computer Department Student Staff get unlimited time (as do faculty members). Parents, trustees and visitors get 60 minutes per day.

Question 1E: What are the basics of Internet access?
Everyone on NoblesNet can receive Internet mail by using his/her name followed by nobles.edu with an underscore in between. For example, sending from outside of Nobles to Richard_Baker@nobles.edu is one way to reach our headmaster. Parents, trustees and faculty members can send out Internet mail by typing in the e-mail address followed by a COMMA and then the word Internet, e.g. LBird@aol.com,Internet might get to Larry if he ever stops playing with his children Mariah and Connor and starts learning to use a modem. In order to get Internet access, students must complete the blue Internet Access form, together with parent and advisor signature.

Question 1F: How to send mail to a conference?
To send to a person or a conference, just type a few bytes of the name in the TO box and the computer will find all the people or conferences that include those bytes. For example, if there is a conference names Celtics Stink or Celtics Conference or Celtics with Pitino, all you need to do is to type Celtics in the TO line, and push TAB. The software is clever enough to identify any conference with a “first name” of Celtics. Sending mail to a conference is not harder than sending mail to an individual. As far as the computer goes, a conference named Celtics Stink is the same as a person named Richard Baker; Celtics is the first name and Stink is the last name.

Question 1G: How to find a conference?
Finding a specific conference can be challenging. The conference might be located in the Public Conference section, under Academic or General. Or it might be a private conference in the faculty private area or parent private area or trustee private area. Using the student or faculty “FIND” directory can be helpful in locating the conference.

Question 1H: How to make an alias of a conference?
Because we have so many conferences on NoblesNet, a very useful skill is to “make an alias” of that conference once you find it. Click once on the conference, then choose MAKE ALIAS under the CONFERENCE MENU. Voila! You will now have an alias (i.e. shortcut) to that conference on your personal NoblesNet desktop.

Question 1I: How do I download files from NoblesNet to my own computer?
The key involves attached files. For example in the conference called Public Domain, you will find several messages posted that contain attachments. If you double-click on that attachment, the computer asks you where you want to save the file. If you are not careful, it will save it within the FOLDER called DOWNLOADS. If you are skillful, you can navigate to wherever you want. Then when you double click on that attached file, it is then DOWNLOADED from the NoblesNet server to your location, whether you are at home or somewhere on campus at Nobles. You never see the attached file, since it may be a graphic, a spreadsheet or whatever. Once transferred, the file is the same as if you carried it on a disk. Will it load up? That depends on whether or not you have the software that created it. If it was a Clarisworks Spreadsheet, it will load up only if you own Clarisworks.

Question 1J: How do I upload files?
The opposite skill is called UPLOADING, a privilege given to faculty, parents, trustees and G license students. Try sending a message to another user and then choose the feature called ATTACH FILE under the FILE MENU. You will have to NAVIGATE to the FILE on your floppy or hard drive that you want to send. Once you select it, the file is transferred to the NoblesNet server and is automatically ATTACHED to your message. When another user reads your message, he/she can now DOWNLOAD it. You might say that UPLOADING is like depositing money in a bank and DOWNLOADING is like withdrawing it. Please be honest with your uploads and downloads. We do not want any applications uploaded or downloaded, even public domain or shareware.

Question 1K: What should I do if I get Internet mail that looks like a chain letter with or without inappropriate language?
We would like you to delete the mail right away. Even if it makes you laugh, please do not send it on. We consider this to be a violation of NoblesNet rules, since forwarding inappropriate mail means that you have taken some ownership of it. We cannot prevent Internet mail from coming to your account, but we want you to delete the letter and not send it on.

Question 1L: What do the different flags mean?
The Yellow Flag means a message from you that has not yet been sent, while Red Flag means a message that has not been read by you yet. If you have sent a message, but the recipient(s) has not read it it, you can choose UNSEND under the Message Menu. On some Macs and PCs, the flags are not red and yellow, but rather “filled in” or “empty.”

Question 1M: How do resumes work?
By choosing RESUME under the EDIT menu, you can type in (or copy and paste in) your daily or monthly schedule or other personal info about you. Then others can view this info by double-clicking on your name. When you are sending a note to someone, just double click on THEIR name to see the contents of their resume, which can be text and/or graphic. As of 9/96, we decided that there are to be NO GRAPHICS IN RESUMES because of congestion on NoblesNet. We have evolved a system of turning off the RESUME feature for students if there exists any graphic or language that is not part of the informational template. To avoid problems, we have said “no personal philosophy or quotes, no philosophy, no quotes, just information.” The Student Staff has taken charge of turning off the resume of students violating these rules.

Question 1N: How does chatting on-line work?
Under the Service Menu, you can check Who's On Line. Then below this item, you can choose Private Chat and invite someone to talk with you. Others can be invited to chat, so it is possible to have a Chat Room with 5-10 people in it, e.g. our Gleason Hall CyberChat room.

Question 1O: What are the basic etiquette rules for NoblesNet, something we have begun to call Nobles Netiquette?
First of all, do not invite anyone to chat repeatedly. Secondly, do not let anyone else use your account and do not use anyone else’s account. Thirdly, watch your language on NoblesNet. Electronic graffiti is no different from regular graffiti. Please be nice, as one of our community principles says. Please watch your language. Yes, the Boston Celtics might suck, but please find another way to express that sentiment!

Question 1P: Is it is possible to see graphics or hear sounds via NoblesNet?
Yes, it is. If you hold down option on your Mac (or control on your PC) and double-click on the attached graphic file, you will see the graphic. Similarly hold down option on your Mac or control on your PC to listen to the attached sound file. Both examples assume that the sender use the correct file format when saving (e.g. pict, jpeg, mac system sound).

Question 1Q: How do I change the expire date of a file so that it does not disappear after 8 days?
All mail expires in 8 days regardless of whether or not you put it into a folder; coincidentally 8 is the number of championships the Boston Celtics won in a row from 1959-1966! To alter the expire date, click once on the file and choose GET INFO under the FILE menu; you can change the expire date to be one month, one year or never. Because of the NoblesNet crash in Nov 1995, we need to keep the total size of the system down; consequently, warnings will be given to users with too many files in their NoblesNet mailboxes; a file that you send is part of your account until all locations of that file are deleted (e.g. other users or conferences)

Question 1R: How do I configure my account so that my replies go only to the sender?
Under EDIT, choose PREFERENCES. Now change your REPLY preference to be REPLY SENDER. This avoids the problem of replying to a message send to you as part of a mailing list, only to find out that your personal response has gone out to hundreds of people!

Question 1S: What are the rules for mailing lists?
Mailing lists (ML) generally are reserved for student staff & faculty usage. Otherwise, the spam would be incredible! A mailing list is a huge cluster of people. Below is a collection of mailing lists on NoblesNet. The ease of constructing and using mailing lists has been key to the popularity and success of NoblesNet!

ADMIN Mail List (ML) • Admissions Office (ML) • Alums All (ML) • Alums Internet (ML) • Boston Home (ML) • Business Office (ML) • Campus Conferences (ML) • Class Coordinators (ML) • Class III Core (ML) • Class IV Core (ML) • Class IV English (ML) • Class IV Science (ml) • Classics Dept (ml) • Closers/Openers (ML) • Comp Dept (ml) • CP3 Advanced (ML) • CP3 All (ML) • Cross-Country-Men (ML) • Dept Heads (ml) • Develop Office (ML) • EAC (ml) • English Dept (ml) • Fac Growth/Dev (ML) • Faculty Mail List (ml) • G License Mid Sch (ML) • G License Students (ml) • Global Computer (ML) • High Five Contest (ML) • History Dept (ML) • Library Dept (ML) • Loaners (ML) • Maintenance Dept (ML) • Math Dept (ML) • Middle Sch Core (ML) • Middle Sch Faculty (ML) • Mod Lang Dept (ml) • NewStudents97 (ML) • Nobleman Mail List (ML) • Nobleman'97-'98 (ML) • ParentNet Coord (ML) • Parents All (ML) • Parents Internet (ML) • Parents NNet (ML) • Perf Arts Dept (ML) • PHP Mail List (ML) • Pioneers! (ML) • Portugal Contacts (ML) • Printers+ (ML) • Romeo & Juliet (ML) • Schoolhouse Comm (ML) • Science Dept (ML) • Shield (ML) • Student Staff+ (ML) • Students All (ML) • Students Class I (ML) • Students Class II (ML) • Students Class III (ML) • Students Class IV (ML) • Students Class V (ML) • Students Class VI (ML) • Sweet 16 Mail List (ML) • Teaching Faculty (ML) • Trustees All (ML) • Visitors All (ML) • Visual Arts Dept (ML) • Wiggins Dorm Fac (ML) • Yearbook Mail List (ML)


Question 2A: How do I Make a New Folder and give it an Icon?
• under Conference, choose NEW FOLDER
• then click on the folder and choose GET INFO under FILE
• now you can rename the folder and double-click one of the many icons

Question 2B: How do I set up my mailbox so that I can create folders above the line?
Make sure you move the split-bar horizontal line. To move selected items into a folder, use the SHIFT-CLICK trick; to move all your mail into a folder, use SELECT ALL under EDIT. Note that files in folder will still expire on the designated date.

Question 2C: How do I Delete Mail in my Mailbox?
Click on the item, then choose DELETE under FILE. To delete a number of documents: click on one, hold down SHIFT and click on others; choose DELETE under FILE.

Question 2D: How do I Inspect or Change the EXPIRE Date of a specific item in my mailbox?
Click on the item, then choose GET INFO under FILE; now check the EXPIRE arrow and see what it is set for.

Question 2E: How do I VIEW my MAIL in an organized fashion?
Viewing by DATE is useful to see incoming and outgoing mail; viewing by STATUS is also useful, since all NEW MAIL comes to the top with the red flags. Pay attention to the toggle switch REVERSE SORT under VIEW ; keeping REVERSE SORT to be checked à means that new mail comes to the top.

Question 2F: How do I make a message change from red-flag to not-red-flag or visa versa?
Hold down OPTION or CONTROL and click on that file; this is the same as the menu choice MAKE UNREAD.

Question 2G: How do I open a number of documents at once
Click on one, hold down SHIFT and click on others; then choose OPEN under FILE.

Question 2H : How do I make a new document as a REMINDER LIST or JOURNAL ENTRY for myself, not to send to anyone else?
Choose NEW DOCUMENT under the MESSAGE menu; this is a great tip that not enough users understand. This feature lets you make a document that you can come back to and edit frequently. The expire date on this document is automatically NEVER. If using an old version of NoblesNet on a Mac, hold down OPTION, then choose NEW.

Question 2I: What are 3 of the most useful keyboard commands?
Make a new document or message: command-N on Mac or control-N on PC.
Close the specific document and choose to send at same time: command-W on Mac or control-W on PC. Send the specific message that you are writing: command-E on Mac or control-E on PC.

Question 2J: How do you created a quoted reply?
Assuming you are using the recent version of NoblesNet, you can highlight the portion of the message from someone to you, then choose REPLY under the EDIT MENU. Alternatively, if you want the entire document quoted, choose REPLY WITH QUOTE.

Question 2K: How do I search for a lost note?
Assuming your note is within a conference or your own mailbox, the SEARCH feature under FILE is very powerful, finding notes that contain key words in their title or even within the text.

Question 2L: Any way to get a receipt when someone reads the note?
Yes, a wonderful feature is that you can tag a note (before you actually send it) with the feature under MESSAGE called RECEIPT ON READ. As soon as the recipient reads your note, you get a message in YOUR mailbox telling you the exact time. Or after sending the note, you can choose VIEW HISTORY and see the exact times and dates that various people have read your note.

Question 2M: Any way for an important note to be given a higher priority?
Yes, before sending the note, tag it with the feature under MESSAGE called PRIORITY URGENT. This makes the note arrive at the TOP of the recipient’s mailbox, highlighted in bold. It can’t force him/her to read it, however!

Question 2N: Any way to spell-check in English or other languages?
Yes, there is a feature under EDIT called CHECK SPELLING. Additionally, you can configure your dictionary to be SPANISH, FRENCH or several other languages. All of these dictionaries are free from SoftArc, the company that makes First Class.

Question 2O: How does VIEW HISTORY work?
By choosing the HISTORY under the MESSAGE MENU of any received or sent note, you see the exact details of who has read the note and at what time. This can be a scary and sobering feature! At Nobles, the cook sends out the lunch menu on NoblesNet at a random time every morning. Students had a contest to see who would be the first student to read the menu. They would constantly check the HISTORY of these notes to see the daily winner!

Question 2P: How does bcc (blind carbon copy) work?
Any individual(s) put into blind carbon copy do NOT see the fact that others have received this note, so that there is a measure of security or privacy. For example, if you send a bcc to 5 students stating that they have failed the recent test, they do not see the names of the other 4 students who received the note. Of course, if they can VIEW HISTORY, then this defeats the purpose.

Question 2Q: How does the UNSEND feature work?
With a few exceptions, notes that have been sent can be taken back (feature called UNSEND is found under the MESSAGE MENU). If the recipients have read the note, then UNSEND does nothing to their mailboxes. But it removes the note instantly from the mailboxes of all those who have not read the note. Occasionally, when a student violates the MAILING LIST rule and sends out a note to Students All stating that the celtics stink, we direct that student to UNSEND the note. If 33 students have read the note, once he/she chooses UNSEND, the note magically disappears from the mailboxes of the other 467 students.

One other exception to UNSEND is internet e-mail. When you send internet e-mail, it is always too late to UNSEND it.

Finally, it must be pointed out that once you delete the original note from your mailbox, there is NO way to UNSEND. We have had two pointed instances of this at Nobles: one a hate note sent and then deleted by a student and the other a faculty member who “slipped” and sent an evaluative comment about 5 students to an entire class. Because he conscientiously deleted his original note right away, he lost the opportunity to UNSEND his note.

Question 2R: What about the NEW FORM feature?
NoblesNet comes with various forms other than standard e-mail notes. In addition, we have built several of our own, including N license request and Internet Access Advisor approval.


Question 3: What are some of the more esoteric command and control Keys that I can use?
Here are command keys for color on the Mac (not PC) after highlighting text :
-- command and option and b to get blue
-- command and option and r to get red
-- command and option and k to get black
-- command and option and y to get yellow
-- command and option and g to get green
-- command and option and m to get magenta
-- command and option and k to get black

Here are other commands and control key patterns:

Attach file control T (PC) command T (Mac)
Blind cc control B (PC) command B (Mac)
Bold ctrl shift B (PC) command shift B
Copy control C (PC) command C (Mac)
Cut control X (PC) command X (Mac)
Delete control D (PC) command D (Mac)
Delete control D (PC) command D (Mac)
Forward note control + (PC) command + (Mac)
Get History control H (PC) command H (Mac)
Get Info alt ENTER (PC) command I (Mac)
Italics control shift I (PC) command shift I
Jump from command down
header to body F6 (PC) arrow (Mac)
New Message control N (PC) command N (Mac)
Paste control V (PC) command V (Mac)
Print control P (PC) command P (Mac)
Redo control Y (PC) command Y (Mac)
Reply control R (PC) command R (Mac)
Save control S (PC) command S (Mac)
Search control F (PC) command F (Mac)
See Directory control L (PC) command L (Mac)
Select All control A (PC) command A (Mac)
Send Message control E (PC) command E (Mac)
Underline cntrl shift U (PC) command shift U
Undo control Z (PC) command Z (Mac)


Question 4: How does the address book feature work?
The Address Book is a great feature given to all faculty, parents, trustees, visitors as well as students with Internet Access; the address book lets you have a CODE WORD for a group of people or a CODE WORD for a complicated Internet Address.
The Address Book is different from Mailing Lists; mailing lists can be used by any faculty members while items in your Address Book can be used only by you. Students are not supposed to use mailing lists. Mailing lists are made generally by Steve Bergen on request from some teacher, class coordinator or administrator.

To Make an Address Book, you must be on the Desktop of your NoblesNet account. This means you have logged into NoblesNet and then pulled down under VIEW if necessary to get to what we call the Desktop. On this screen, you will probably see things like Mailbox, Public Conferences, etc.

Step 1: now go to the CONFERENCE MENU and choose NEW FOLDER

Step 2: now click once on this folder and then choose GET INFO under FILE

Step 3: change the name to Address Book and make sure you spell it exactly as I did here; then close-box up this info screen

Step 4: Now double-click to open your Address Book; at this point nothing will be in it; go to FILE and choose NEW — you are about to make a first entry in your Address Book

Step 5: Type in someone's internet address, for example, here is Matt Horvat's in Taipei:

susmatt@transend.com.tw

remember that from your internet access on NoblesNet, you need to use comma then Internet, so it really is

susmatt@transend.com.tw,Internet

make sure you push TAB or RETURN at the end of the line

Step 6: now, with your address book open, choose GET INFO under FILE and type in a name such as Net Horvat

Step 7: close box everything up and save of course; you are ready to use your address book

To Use your Address Book, go to your mailbox and try writing a note to someone.Type Net Horvat or even just Net; the computer will now make this show up at the TO location and you will have saved yourself the trouble of remembering those nasty Internet Addresses

When you use this new feature, it will not say the special internet code, it will just say Net Horvat, for example; if you want to see the code behind the phrase, you double-click on that code

Other tips
You can use your address book for tasks like writing one note to multiple advisees or students, since you can put many items into each Address Book code. The new version of NoblesNet calls this feature a “Personal Mailing List.”



Question 5: How do I disable call-waiting from my home phone?

If your phone at home has call waiting, you put *70, in front of the Nobles phone number in the SETUP of NoblesNet
e.g. *70,320-1314. Alex Slawsby writes you can enter 1170 before the phone number as well!



Question 6: How do I use different fonts to line up columns, since tabs are problematic?

If you use a mono-spaced font, such as Courier , Monaco, Courier New , you can then line up columns via SPACES.

--> ANDREW: pc equivalent for monospaced?

AISNE CALENDAR OF EVENTS
Geography Workshop Monday, 5 Thayer Acad
HEAN Technology Tuesday, 6 Beaver CDS
Gender Conference Tuesday, 6 Worc Acad

The style above is not lined up, since it is a proportional font, but the sample below in Courier is lined up, because every keystroke including the space character is of uniform character width.

AISNE CALENDAR OF EVENTS
Geography Workshop Monday, 5 Thayer Acad
HEAN Technology Tuesday, 6 Beaver CDS Gender Conference Tuesday, 6 Worc Acad



Question 7: How do I subscribe to a listserv?
A LISTSERV is an electronic magazine that you subscribe to; it comes to your individual e-mail box. Sometimes we take the LISTSERV folder and give it an alias, putting it in a public location for others to see; this is a NoblesNet trick, but in general a LISTSERV is an electronic magazine that you subscribe to as an individual.

Overview? I have prepared a listing for you with 6721 different “electronic magazines” that you can subscribe to with ONE short NoblesNet note. You will find these lists in the LISTSERV folder.

To subscribe from NoblesNet to one of these lists, send mail to LISTSERV@LISTSERV.NET,Internet
with the following command in the text (not the subject) of your message:
SUBSCRIBE listname
Replace 'listname' with the exact short name in bold below .

example#1 Jazz Lovers' List
JAZZ-L JAZZ-L@BROWNVM.BITNET
send a NoblesNet note to LISTSERV@LISTSERV.NET,Internet
leaving the SUBJECT INFO blank
in the body of the note, type SUBSCRIBE JAZZ-L
you will get the Jazz Lover's List in your NoblesNet mailbox free of charge when it gets updated every day, week or month. The reference address is JAZZ-L@BROWNVM.BITNET but you don't use this when subscribing or unsubscribing; I believe you use this address to send your own contributions to this magazine
To unsubscribe, same instructions but type UNSUBSCRIBE JAZZ-L on the message line.

example#2 Poetry Writing Workshop
POETRY-W POETRY-W@PSUVM.BITNET
Send a NoblesNet note to

LISTSERV@LISTSERV.NET,Internet

leaving the SUBJECT INFO blank. In the body of the note, type SUBSCRIBE POETRY-W; you will get the Poetry Writing Workshop List in your NoblesNet mailbox free of charge when it gets updated every day, week or month.
The reference address is POETRY-W@PSUVM.BITNET but you don't use this when subscribing or unsubscribing.
To unsubscribe, same instructions but type UNSUBSCRIBE POETRY-W on message line.

How did I get the massive 100 page document of listservs?
I sent a NoblesNet note to listserv@bitnic.bitnet with the words LIST GLOBAL in the message body; the subject was left blank; within a few hours, I received this master list back. Alternatively, you can connect to www. listz.com and read or download lists of listservs.

Question 8: What about newsgroups?
A newsgroup is a public conference/bulletin board around the world just like SLC Online or Cuisine are public conferences/bulletin boards on NoblesNet. There are thousands of newsgroups. We choose to subscribe to some of them and the data flows into NoblesNet. In contrast to a LISTSERV which goes to individual e-mailboxes around the world, a NEWSGROUP is a bulletin board.

What is sometimes confusing is that some LISTSERVs are electronic magazines that take all the new postings from a certain NEWSGROUP over a week or month and send them out to subscribers as the LISTSERV's electronic magazine.

Here is the collection of newsgroups that we subscribe to. Unlike LISTSERVS, these must be done by the computer department, not by you individually.

• alt.fan.blues-brothers • alt.fan.monty-python • alt.music.dave-matthews • alt.music.ska • alt.sports.hockey.nhl.c • alt.tv.knight-rider • alt.tv.seinfeld • C++ Newsgroup • ListServ#1-Kidsphere • ListServ#2-CU See Me • ListServ#3-Penpals • ListServ#4-Penpals • news.answers • rec.a.b.marketplace • rec.music.bluenote • rec.music.bluenoteblues • rec.music.phish • rec.sport.hockey • rec.sport.rowing



Question 9: How do I avoid the carbon copy blues?
When you choose to REPLY to a note from someone sent via a mailing list, it goes to everyone on that mailing list unless you make sure the cc is blank. CC stands for carbon copy.
We've got those carbon copy
... too much junk mail -blues
All we've got is our own good time to lose.
Either you must blank out the cc each time or use the trick below. Please check your preferences under the EDIT menu right now! Once you choose PREFERENCES, the third item says REPLY PREFERENCES. Please make sure it says REPLY SENDER. If not, click on the tiny triangle and pull down on it and fix it. Reminder to everyone: only faculty and student staff are allowed to use our mailing lists (labelled with ML).



Question 10: How do I use my résumé and how do I look at others?
To get to your resume, pull down to the last item under the EDIT menu. To all members of NoblesNet: PLEASE fill in your own resume with basic info such as phone number, address, daily course schedule (if you are a student or faculty member).

To view the resume of someone else, you just double-click on that user's name in any TO box or CC box. Or you can choose directory, find the person, double-click there. There are a million roads to Rome and a million ways to view each others' resume!

You cannot change someone else's resume, only view it.



Question 11: What are the full details for sending and receiving Internet mail?
To send Internet mail via NoblesNet, you must use the actual internet address followed by ,Internet

Here are two examples: nique@greece,Internet and lbird@frenchlick,Internet
Beware that you push TAB or RETURN at the end of the line. The most common mistake is that after typing the internet address line, the user clicks in the text area and starts typing his/her note - you must push TAB or RETURN at the end of the line so that the system can process that request - this is the main source of frustration when you send Internet mail to someone but the SEND feature is disabled, preventing you from completing the send -- you MUST push TAB or RETURN at the end of the line. Once you are on the next line, you can then click in the text area and type your note

To receive Internet mail from anyone on the outside, you need to tell the person out there to send to your official NoblesNet name @nobles.edu
For example, Mr. Baker's official NoblesNet name is Richard Baker and therefore mail gets sent to him using Richard_Baker@nobles.edu
If John Havlicek who lives in Florida, for example, tries to send to Bakes using Dick_Baker@nobles.edu he will get rejected, just like he occasionally did in those days when the Celtics used to be a good team. Make sure you tell the person to use the underline character between the first name and last name. On many keyboards, it is above the P key and requires SHIFT.

Shortcut: if Mr. Baker is the only “Baker” at nobles, he can give out his address as baker@nobles.edu which makes it easier, perhaps. If he is the only “Richard” at nobles, then he can use as Richard@nobles.edu for convenience.



Question 12: How does the faxing feature of NoblesNet work?
Faxing via NoblesNet is a privilege for faculty members only.

Why is this fax different from all other faxes?
1) On all other faxes, you push a piece of paper into a fax machine.
With NoblesNet, you send the fax by being on line on NoblesNet, e.g. you send a NoblesNet note to the fax number in question such as in this example
TO: Isa Schaff,329-8118,fax97
• anything before first comma is ignored and just intended to get someone's attention
• between commas 1 and 2 is the number being faxed
• phrase ends with ,fax97 just like we are used to ,Internet
• when you send a fax outside of the local 781 area code, you must place a 1 before the number:
Example: Larry Bird,1-403-555-1212,fax97
NOT: Larry Bird,403-555-1212,fax97

2) On all other faxes, you can both send and receive faxes. With NoblesNet, you can send only!

3) On all other faxes, you get no notification that it has been sent. With this fax technology, you get the following message in your NoblesNet mailbox once the fax has been sent correctly. It comes from a fictitious person called Fax Notifier,Fax97
The fax took 55 seconds to transmit at 9600 baud.
The station message was: 617329-8118

4) On all other faxes, you can send graphics the same as text, by pushing the paper into the machine.
With this fax technology, you can send graphics only if you send an attached file with the graphic in PICT format



Question 13: How does the external library of pictures and sounds work?
The Library of Pics/Sounds is a folder under the Public Conferences. Some of the files within the folder have pictures of the campus and some students. In the Sounds file, you can find files of music and messages. To view one of the files or hear the sound, hold down on OPTION on your Mac or CONTROL on your PC, and double click on the name of the file. This library consumes no space on NoblesNet because we are keeping these files as “read-only files” on an external hard drive, not as part of NoblesNet.



Question 14: What are the rules posted on the 1994 Wittenberg Door that students agree to as part of their N computer license?

No food or drinks please!

In the library or computer center (East and West Labs), no food or drinks are allowed. Coffee cups and water bottles by faculty and first class students — even if empty — make younger students think that we have a double standard, so please leave them outside of the door.

No games during the academic day

Games are allowed after the close of the academic day, but please do not run them off the file server. Please try to learn the difference between commercial games, public domain games and shareware games. commercial games purchased by Nobles can legally be used or installed on one computer. If we in the computer department install a commercial game on multiple machines or allow you to do so, we are breaking the law. Games declared public domain by the author can be freely copied. The third category is trickier. When software is declared shareware, you can copy the disk or the folder, but you are honor-bound to send in a designated fee if you choose to keep and use the program. How do you know which category a game is? Either you ask someone or you look through the READ-ME file that might be part of the folder. Sometimes the information is the first choice under the ð menu. The point is that if you are an honest computer user, the burden is on you to find out first. No one likes a tennis player who goes by the rule “when in doubt, call it out.” Please try to be honest.

“Be nice to each other.”

This is a popular extension of one of our three community principles (“respect for others”) at Nobles; we need to actively appropriate it with computers if we are going to be successful with technology at Nobles. Everyone needs help with something: CaspR library software, First Class Bulletin Boards, Photoshop, Pagemaker, Hypercard or even putting paper in the laser printer. All G license students have a formal job of helping out others, but even N license students will at times be asked to help out. Computer skills at Nobles will grow exponentially if we function technologically as a self-help environment. If you get stuck on a computer, find someone younger than you to ask! The N license will be the normal computer license and the G license will be for generous students willing to have a formal computer job helping out two periods per week. If you want a G computer license, please see Mr. Bergen for an application. It is easy if you can be generous helping out in the lab 2 periods per week.

Respect “electronic privacy.”

Stay out of other users' folders and disks. Many computers are now networked to the N&G File Server where you find Community Files for you to copy. Yes, that's right — it is okay to COPY these COMMUNITY files, since they are public documents, not COMMERCIAL software and not APPLICATIONS. Opening another person's folder or disk without permission is no different than prying into his/her desk. To access the file server, you first go to CHOOSER under the ð menu, then click on APPLESHARE and then the N&G FILE SERVER. You register as a GUEST and click OKAY. Once the FILE SERVER ICON appears on your desktop, you can drag any of the files from the Community Folders to your own disk. But please do not open any Faculty or G License Folder. No one has permission to put any application (e.g. Clarisworks, Microsoft Word or FileMaker) onto the file server.

Fac/G License Students can have folders

All faculty members and G license students can maintain folders on several hard drives and the file server, but these folders may not contain applications. In case you didn't know it, an APPLICATION is a file such as Clarisworks or Monopoly created by programmers with mega-hours of time. A typical APPLICATION (i.e. computer program) can take 33 days to 33 years of person-time to create. When you COPY AN APPLICATION, that is when you are most likely doing something illegal, dishonest and against Nobles' rules. But copying community files from the FILE SERVER into your FACULTY or G-LICENSE FOLDER is fine. However, these folders cannot exceed 1 megabyte except if you have explicit permission. All N LICENSE students must save onto their own floppy disks, but may use the TEMPORARY FOLDER to facilitate backups or critical situations. The TEMPORARY FOLDER is emptied occasionally, so user beware!

Please respect copyright laws.

No copying of software permitted. No use of illegal, bootleg or pirated software regardless of whether you or someone else did the copying. If you own a computer and have software, it is your responsibility to know whether or not it is legal. Half the software publishers in the 1980s are out of business as a result of illegal copying. Copying software is analogous to counterfeiting money — in small doses it seems harmless, but it is stealing something that someone else produced. It is against federal laws and Noble and Greenough rules. One of our community principles is “Honesty is one of the essential values at Nobles. Any form of dishonesty is unacceptable.”

Use the Macs but do not alter them!

Do not alter the control panel, clock, colors, patterns, desktop settings, fonts, desktop accessories, sounds, etc. Do not change the names of folders on the hard drive or the name of the hard drive. Do not make any files invisible and do not use ResEdit without explicit permission. Use and enjoy the Macs, just don't alter them! No student or faculty member may install any software onto any hard drive without the permission of the Area Computer Coordinator. This includes putting public domain applications into personal folders. Please do not do so. No applications are to be installed or run off the file server without permission.

As of 6/98, we currently own 30 legal copies of Microsoft Word, 31 legal copies of Pagemaker, 30 legal copies of Photoshop, 75 legal copies of Type by Broderbund, 50 legal copies of Cricket Graph, 100 legal copies of Clarisworks, 30 copies of HyperStudio, 100 French and 100 Spanish dictionaries for Clarisworks, 35 copies of Filemaker Pro, campus-wide site licenses for CaspR Library Works, Geometer's Sketchpad and Hypercard 2.2.

Be careful with hardware.

Do not contribute to the dead mouse society! If a mouse or keyboard is broken, do not switch it with another computer while the power is still on. If the mouse or keyboard on two computers must be switched, please shut off both computers first, then switch them. Please tape a note to the mouse or keyboard so that we can then fix it or replace it. As a general rule of thumb, respect your own floppy disks. This means do not play with the metal shutter, or bend your disk, and always transport your disk in a solid plastic box. By abusing your disk, you cannot only destroy your data, but damage the floppy drive. If your disk does have a broken metal window slide, do not use it; if you must use the disk, break off the metal slide before inserting it. You take responsibility for damage to your data. If the label on your floppy disk is extremely sticky, again, do not put it into a Nobles disk drive. Do not attempt to put a sticky labeled floppy into a Nobles drive until the label has been removed outright.


Follow Nobles Netiquette & Online Rules

Watch your language with messages, chatting and in your résumés; Mr. Baker has said to the community that he wants us to use the same standards of language when on NoblesNet and on-line that we would use publicly at assembly. Do not invite anyone to chat repeatedly on Nobles. Do not give your password to anyone or let someone else use your account. Do not use anyone else’s account even if you have permission. Do not download illegal software, racist, anti-semitic, anti-gay or sexually provocative files; once again think of what you do online as trying to measure up to the same standards as what you might be doing in the library or at an all school presentation.

Do not send chain letters on NoblesNet. For one the language is occasionally problematic. But for two, the increased traffic and congestion on our system when 5 chain letters get sent to 25 people who then send to another 5 has frequently contributed to NoblesNet freezing up until the next overnight purge.

Do not let anyone use your account or even watch you when you enter your password. Be careful of preserving too many files.


We can't codify every type of behavior online in terms of dos and don'ts, so be please understand that we all have a case of the Gotta Be Decent at Nobles Blues!


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