The ADN Post 

Top Ten New Features

• Optional message filtering hooks (can be used for PPG [Pretty Good Privacy] integration)
• Extensive address and list management improvements, including an improved facility for subscribing to Usenet/Netnews news groups and a new "fcc" field in the address book to specify default folders for your correspondents (to turn this feature on, in the Main Menu press S "Setup" then C "Config"; select one of the "by-FCC" options under "Saved-msg-name-rule" )
• Additional printing capabilities
• Improved MIME and non-ASCII support (mime.types, 1522, 8BITMIME)
• Improved PC-Pine for Windows (GUI amenities, 32-bit version)
• Some modest performance improvements
• Lots of new personal preference options and command improvements
• Hooks for integral file transfer between desktop computer and UNIX Pine
• Built-in signature editor
• Improved user feedback when Pine is busy or waiting

Want to Know More?

• The built-in "Help" text. Start with the ? (question mark) command on the Main Menu; this will give you basic information on Pine, but remember that every Pine screen has its own separate Help text.
• The built-in "Config" command. From the Main Menu "Setup" command (type S in the Main Menu), press C and you'll find a dazzling number of options and features. Some of these are configuration values necessary for Pine's basic operation, but most are options for tailoring Pine's behavior to your personal taste and turning on some of Pine's advanced features. Once Pine is correctly installed, you shouldn't need to look here, but if you find yourself wishing that Pine behaved differently, by all means run through the Config screen and see if there is an entry that pertains. Note that each entry has its own "help" text, accessed by pressing ? after you've highlighted the option or feature of interest.
• The built-in "Release Notes." Press R on the Main Menu, and you'll find an extensive document that lists the changes made since the previous version, installation information, project history, and various legal notices.
• The built-in "Update Service." From the Main Menu "Setup" command (type S in the Main Menu), press U. This connects you to a computer at the University of Washington in Seattle (the birthplace of Pine) that contains the latest information on Pine status and other resources such as the Pine Technical Notes and Frequently Asked Questions.
• Finally, there's UW's Pine Information Center at http://www.washington.edu/pine/ for just about anything you'd want to know about Pine.

Comments are welcome; send them to
Judith Grobe Sachs, judygs@uic.edu

UINet//Connect provides unlimited email and full Internet access to UI faculty, staff, students, and, of course, to UI alumni, from the anywhere in the Chicago metro area (what used to be the 312 and 708 area codes) for the monthly fee of $12. A one-time account setup fee of $10 applies, which includes Mac or Windows software, and, of course, you'll have to join the Alumni Association.

In addition to unlimited email (with a 5 megabyte mailbox) and full Internet access, the $12 monthly charge gives you:

• 60 hours of connect time (and unlimited time from 1:00 a.m. to 6:00 a.m. at no additional cost); each additional hour is $0.95, billed in one-minute increments.
• An 800 number provides worldwide connections back to the main site on the UIC campus at a dime a minute, MCI's standard long-distance rate. (This rate applies from anywhere in the world ... including hotel rooms.)
• UINet//Connect is available 24 hours per day, every day, with 24-hour support available from MCI.
• 28.8Kbps modems, with 99% guaranteed connect probability without a busy signal. (Currently, there are 96 modems at the Green Street facility using four T1 lines.)

Maybe you didn't know that the UI Alumni Association is the largest in the world. Many alumni travel extensively and need daily access to email, stock charts, and other Web services. For this reason, the Alumni Association negotiated a premium service contract and made sure that the terms extended to all faculty, students, and staff anywhere within the UI system -- all under very favorable terms and rates.

Want to know more? Visit the Alumni Association on the WWW at: http://www.uiaa.org/

Please keep in mind that UINet//Connect is not associated with the ADN Computer Center. It is a commercial service, one of many available in the Chicago area; it's entirely possible that another ISP would better suit your current needs. See Finding and Selecting a Commercial Internet Service Provider (or use Inform with the search keyword Chicago) can help you find an ISP that's right for you.

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Take a look at Yahoo!'s Computers and Internet Viruses menu at: http://www.yahoo.com/Computers_and_Internet/Security_and_Encryption/Viruses/
Check the virus warnings you receive online and you'll never be part of a virus hoax again!

Because almost all BITNET nodes are now also on the Internet, CREN (Computing and Research Educational Network -- the organization that manages BITNET) has asked that all current BITNET nodes drop out between June 30 and December 31, 1996. The ADN will officially withdraw from BITNET on October 1, 1996.

UIC and the Academic Computing and Communications Center have had a long and illustrious association with BITNET; we were one of the first institutions to join it, and we are one of its last remaining major hubs. However, our withdrawal from BITNET won't make much difference at UIC, even to those people who still use UICVM, the only ADN system still connected to BITNET.
The only major change is that people who still send and receive mail on CMS will have to stop using BITNET-style email addresses and begin using the equivalent Internet-style email address. For example, if your CMS "U-number" is u12345, then you'd use u12345@uicvm.uic.edu (not: u12345@UICVM -or- u12345@UICVM.BITNET).

The best way to address this problem is to take it as a sign to stop doing mail on CMS altogether (see Choosing the Right Tool; the names address book utilities described in that article do the BITNET-to-Internet conversion automatically).

But if you're not ready to leave CMS yet, there's also a BITNET-to-Internet conversion utility for CMS . To convert your default names file, enter: fixnames
This renames your current names file (same filename, filetype oldnames) and creates a new names file with the BITNET node names replaced with the proper Internet-style names. It will warn you if it finds BITNET node names that don't have published Internet equivalents; ask those people what their new email address is.

The CMS sendfile and tell commands are BITNET-specific; after we withdraw from BITNET, they will continue to work only for exchanges between accounts on UICVM. Your best bet for sending files is using a MIME-aware mail facility like Pine or Eudora. (Another reason for not doing email on CMS !)

LISTSERV discussion list subscriptions should not be affected by BITNET's demise, even if you're signed up as your userid at UICVM. If each site uses the proper procedure to drop out of BITNET, then LISTSERVs around the world will convert BITNET addresses to Internet addresses automatically.

Comments are appreciated; send them to
systems@uic.edu

  If you already have all the grant money you need, stop reading. But if you'd like to know more about grant opportunities in your field ... the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research with the Academic Computing and Communications Center's help is launching a system that will allow them to match the research interests of UIC faculty with the outside funding available in their fields. They need information about your research interests for the system to work. If you are a UIC faculty member, please fill out the ACC Funding Information Needs Survey on the OVCR's Grant Getting Page. It's on the UIC Home Page ( http://www.uic.edu/ ) under "The Researcher." While you're there, check out the other services on the page, including the Community of Science and UIUC's Illinois Researcher Information Service (IRIS).

If you have any questions about the survey, please contact Michael Breton, OVCR Associate Director (mbreton@uic.edu, (312) 413-9736) or Patricia Bueno Kearns, OVCR Program Coordinator (bueno@uic.edu, (312) 996-9405). David Hemmings, Publications Editor in the Office of Research Services (hemmings@uic.edu), is the author and Webmaster of the Grant Getting Page.