The A3C Connection, 1998-1999

• ACCC Y2K Status
  

  ADN Computer Network Connectivity ... Central UNIX Servers ... Microcomputers and Labs ... Departmental Personal Computer Support ... UICVM VM/CMS Mainframe ... Telecommunications ... Summary ... Related Links

• Phone Bill and Dialin News
  

  Departmental Phone Bills...Announcing Dialin-0

• What's New in Microsoft Office 2000
  

  New Installation Wizard ... Menus and Toolbars ... Help System ... Office 2000 Clipboard ... Want to Know More?

• Y2K Contingency Planning
  

  What Is Year 2000 Contingency Planning? ... Why Are Year 2000 Contingency Plans Necessary? ... What Is the University's Approach to Contingency Planning? ... Who Does What? ... What If Your Unit Is Dependent on Others? ... What Next? Your Unit's Y2K Contingency Plan is Part of the UIC Contingency Plan

• Minimizing Risk: For Unit Administration
  

  Fall 1999 ... December 31, 1999 ... January 1 and after

• Minimizing Risk: For Researchers
  

  Fall 1999 ... December 31, 1999 ... January 1 and after

• Minimizing Y2K Risk: For Building Supervisors
  

  Fall 1999 ... December 31, 1999 ... January 1 and after

• About the A3C Connection

• Important ACCC PC Labs News
• CMS Email Phaseout Plan
  

  1. OVERALL GOALS ... 2. OVERALL TIMELINE ... 3. IF YOUR EMAIL INBOX IS ON TIGGER or ICARUS: ... 4. IF YOUR EMAIL INBOX IS ON UICVM: ... 5. AVAILABLE ASSISTANCE ... 6. THE BOTTOM LINE:

• Moving from CMS to Mailserv
  

  The time has come. ... Do These Three Things Now: ... And Do These Four Things After:

• Changing Your Mailserv Password (Tigger or Icarus too)
• WebMail Revisited
  

  Getting Started ... Using WebMail Windows ... Figure 1. Ada Byron's Inbox ... Managing Your Mail ... Figure 2. Reading a Message ... Reading, Answering, and Forwarding Mail ... Figure 3. Creating and Sending a Message ... Creating and Sending Messages ... Figure 4. Using the WebMail Address Book ... Using WebMail Addressing Tools ... Warning on Attachments ... Working with Folders ... Figure 5. Using a WebMail Folder Selection Window   ... Deleting and Undeleting Messages ... WebMail URLs:

• About the A3C Connection

• What's New at the ACCC
  

  Y2K Reminder -- What You Need to Do ... The Grim Reaper Revised ... Borg and Tigger News ... CMS Retirement Update ... Don't Worry About Your Files in the VM Archives ... Class Rosters on the Web ... A Note About Melissa

• Find and Fix with Norton 2000
  

  Norton 2000 ... What Exactly Does Norton 2000 Do? ... Using Norton 2000 ... Customizing Norton 2000 ... Keeping Norton 2000 Up-To-Date

• Email on the Road: Method Number 1: WebMail
  

  Important Note to POP Users: ... Method Number 1: WebMail

• Email on the Road: Method Number 2: Pine
  

  Important Note to POP Users: ... May 20, 1999: Important Note About Folder Collections and mailserv ... Method Number 2: Pine 4.0 ... Other Pine 4 News: Roles

• About the A3C Connection

• IMAP: What's New in Electronic Mail
  

  Sorry, I was... ... Offline and Online, IMAP or POP ... Why IMAP rather than POP? ... The Bottom Line

• IMAP and the New Eudora
  

  Now that I've convinced you... ... Getting Started ... Table 1: A Visual Guide to Eudora v4.1 Options ... Table 2: How-to-be-happy-using-Eudora (in general and with IMAP) Tips ... How to use Eudora, in general and with IMAP

• Table 1: A Visual Guide to Eudora v4.1 Options
  

  About this Table: ... Getting Started ... Checking Mail ... Incoming Mail (Using IMAP) ... Sending Mail ... Replying ... Attachments ... Viewing mail ... Mailboxes ... Styled Text ... Miscellaneous ... Fonts ... Spell Checking ... Date Display ... Getting Attention

• Table 2: How-to-be-happy-using-Eudora (In general and with IMAP) Tips
  

  Most important note: Not all mailboxes are IMAP mailboxes. ... Tip #1 (IMAP): How to tell which mailboxes and folders are local (on your PC) and which are IMAP mailboxes on the email service machine. That is, how to tell which are the mailboxes that IMAP manages. ... Tip #2 (IMAP): How Eudora uses the local In mailbox and the server Inbox. ... Tip #3: How to tell Eudora to put a copy of the message that you're looking at into a particular mailbox. ... Tip #4: How to tell a message that you sent from one that you received. ... Tip #5: How to tell whether you've actually sent a particular message. ... Tip #6: How to tell Eudora to check for incoming mail. ... Tip #7: How to delete a message, remove a mailbox, rename a folder, or do just about anything else you'd want to do. ... Tip #8 (IMAP): How to refresh a mailbox or folder index. ... Tip #9: How to save your work in Eudora Tools. ... Tip #10: How to get the toolbar back. ... Tip #11: How to customize the toolbar. And Tip #11 (IMAP): How to Remove Deleted Messages the easy way (or undelete them). ... Tip #12 (IMAP): A caution about using IMAP with attachments.

• Bringing UIC Services Home
  

  Bluestem, Security, and Cookies: Two Reminders ... How to Look Like You're at UIC When You're Not ... Remote Password Changes ... UIC ph Directory Updates

• What's Up at the ACCC
  

  Personal Computer Access for People with Disabilities ... Tape Support for UNIX ... Borg: The Next Generation ... New Seminars for Spring ... Student Phone Bills on the Web ... No New Archiving on CMS

• UIC Year 2000 Web Pages, Site Index
• About the A3C Connection

• What's New at the ACCC
  

  ACCC? A3C? What Happened to the ADN? ... Updating and Expanding ... New Dialin Lines Again

• ACCC Free Public Micro Computer Labs
• The Case of the 100-Year-Old Babies
  

  Or: One Researcher's Encounter with the Y2K Bug ... The Year 2000 Pledge ... Windowing Two-Digit Years

• The Y2K Problem, UIC, and You
  

  Let's Start with the Good News: ... And the Bad News ... You Don't Have to Deal With: ... You Do Have to Worry About: ... What Should You Do?

• Y2K and Micro Software and Hardware
  

  Introducing the Y2K Problem ... Is it obsolete for you? ... Is it broken? What does the manufacturer have to say about it? ... How Not To Test ... Personal and Departmental LANs and UNIX Workstations ... Remember -- what the vendors say might not apply to you.

• What Does Y2K Compliant Mean?
• The ACCC's Y2K Plan
  

  We Have Lots of Y2K-Sensitive Stuff ... We Need to Talk

• The Right Format for Dates
• ACCC Free Seminars , Fall '98
  

  ACCC Seminars, Fall 1998 ... Seminars By Request or Do-It-Yourself: ... New Since Spring '98: ... Seminar Schedule for Fall '98

• About the ADN Connection

• A Time of Opportunity, a Time to Move On (from CMS)
  

  Nothing Lasts Forever ... What's Our Plan? ... What Should You Do Now? ... No Need to Panic

• Keeping Secure on the Web
  

  If You're an "End User" ... If You're a Web Page Owner or Web Site Manager ... Want to learn more?

• Web Security for Files and Data
  

  Want to secure some of your Web files? ... Restricting Access to Certain Web Files ... Security in Transmission: SSL ... Want to know more?

• The ADN Post
  

  UIC Computer Camp Wrap-up ... Spammers vs. UIC and What it Means to You ... New ADN Labs and Good-bye to DOS and Windows 3.1 ... Network Services Kit on CD

• ADN Free Summer Seminars
• Cookies on the Web
  

  What is a Cookie? ... What are cookies good for? ... What should you do about cookies? ... How to Set Your Cookie Preferences ... For More Information About Cookies

• Picking Keywords for UIC Search
• Copyright and Fair Use
  

  Is it Copyrighted? ... Copyright Law and Fair Use Guidelines ... Can I Use It Anyway? ... They "Aren't Lawyers"

• Operating Systems Support Group
  

  A Brief History ... A Look Back ... Thirty Years of Computing ... Three Truths ... The Group

• Guidelines on Email Size
• Active Content on the Web
  

  Java, JavaScript, and ActiveX ... The Answers are: Yes, Yes, and Yes ... Have I Scared You Yet?

• About the ADN Connection

• What's New at the ADN
  

  CMS Accounts Harder to Get ... Win95 News from the Labs ... What's New with ADSM (ADN/Datasave)

• Configuring Win95 for ADN and Modem
• Introducing the Network Services Group
• The New Inform on the Web
  

  What's New with the New Inform ... Using the New Inform ... To browse the Inform menus: ... To do a basic search: ... To do a more advanced search: ... Using the Inform Display Options:

• Using the Inform Advanced Search Form
• About the ADN Connection

The A3C Connection provides news and information about the use of computers and computer networking at UIC. It is published four times per year by the UIC Academic Computing and Communications Center.