Additional Services

• Sendmail

  http://www.sendmail.org/

• Usenet News
  • use with caution
  • INN FAQ
  • Dave Barr's INN page (includes links to source code)
  • Getting a feed: joe@oregon.uoregon.edu

• FTP/Anonymous FTP sites

  A few notes relating to:

  file permission and ownership
  testing and debugging server
  maintaining your FTP server
  monitoring log files
  

• Directory Services
  • Ph/cso
    most recent version is qi-3.1b7.tar.gz (1995!)

    Ph/cso FAQ
    ph source FTP site (ftp.cso.uiuc.edu/local/packages/ph)

  • Ldap
    

    http://www.kingsmountain.com/ldapRoadmap.shtml

• Search Services

  WWW Search Engine Software:

  ht://Dig
  Excite 1.1

• Conferencing
  • IRC/ICQ/Muds/Moos/etc
  • Conferencing Software for the Web

• Old but not gone... Gopher, Archie, Veronica, Jughead.

• Commercial Web Based services (webmail, blackboard etc.)

Policy & Administration

• Managing services
  • machine based resources (disk, cpu, network, etc.)
  • maintance tasks (logs, upgrades, customizations, etc.)
  • security, monitoring & policy enforcement (i.e. blocking spam relay in Sendmail)
  • Human response (webmaster, postmaster, listmaster, systems, consult, etc.)
  • User training and support

• Your AUP and other Issues
  • Considerations:
    

    resources
    laws
    institutional practices
    ethical use

  • Policies can be written, but they can also be common practice - in general written policies are decided on by offical bodies while the actual implamentation falls to engineers and operators,

  • Examples from the Univesity of Oregon
    • UO Acceptable Use Policy
    • Amendments to State of Oregon Policies on Acceptable Use of State
    • Modem nagging - a practical example

  • Other examples

    Northwestern University Information Technology Policies and Guidelines
    Georgia Institute of Technology COMPUTER AND NETWORK USAGE POLICY
    Information Technology Policies and Guidelines at the University of Michigan

  • Computers and Academic Freedom

• Centralized information services vs. 1000 flowers

• Text based clients, X clients, licenced software, freeware/GNU etc.