This is an update on several events that have happened during the first two
weeks of Winter quarter and what will be happening during the upcoming
weeks.

MAIL:

     Mail is still being processed by the PS/2s and zeus.  There will be an
     attempt to move the mail onto the RISC/6000s during scheduled downtime
     on Sunday, January 18th, 1992 from 8:00 AM to 2:00 PM.  Barring
     complications, the user's ".newmail" files will be moved to
     "/usr/spool/mail" on the RISC/6000 site named "oboe".

     Users who are still getting mail addressed to "nike.calpoly.edu" will
     have their mail delivered properly.  However, the default mailer
     address is going to be changed when mail moves to "oboe.calpoly.edu". 
     Users who have sent out messages or given others "tuba" as their
     address should still function without any problems.

     As part of this task, we will be applying quotas to users on the mail
     filesystem.  These quotas will be established to encourage users to
     clear their incoming system mail box on a regular basis.  Based on a
     pass of the system and examining ".newmail" files, we have determined
     that the average user with a ".newmail" file is using about 20 K
     bytes.

     Mail quotas will be established as follows:

                                    Soft Quota     Hard Quota
     Student accounts:              50 K bytes    150 K bytes
     non-Student accounts:         200 K bytes    600 K bytes

     NOTE:  This is not to be treated as extension to your quota within
     your account.  These quotas are designed to provide sufficient space
     to prevent loss of mail during extended periods such as quarter
     breaks.

     Users who find themselves going over the soft quota for mail on a
     regular basis will be granted quota increases when the space
     requirements meet the academic goals of the University.  Users who are
     using mail that does not meet these academic goals and find themselves
     going over soft quota will be encouraged to use mail filters and other
     methods to move incoming mail to files within their own account.

     With the six day grace period for going over soft quota and mail being
     deferred for up to three days after that point, a user could go over
     soft quota and still not lose any mail.

ACCOUNTS:

     All Cal Poly students may now add their own accounts to the system,
     one account per user.  A handout is available from ACS on this
     process.  As of this point, approximately two thirds of the accounts
     added to the system this quarter have been added by this process.

     Several of the problems encountered during the first week of the
     quarter with this process have been resolved and we are now looking at
     the problem where the user's terminal seems to hang after asking all
     of the pertinent information.  Have them call 756-5512 to report the
     problem.  Please encourage these users to disconnect their terminal
     when this happens rather than leave it connected.

     One of the other common problems involves the user entering a zip code
     of five digits when they completed the forms for student records with
     nine digits (zip plus four).  "new" requires the user to enter the
     same amount of information as is on file with student records.

ADA

     IBM Ada is installed on the RISC/6000 systems.  Alsys Ada is being
     renamed to "aada".  The name change took place at 12:00 PM (Noon) on
     1/4/92.  Since that time the command "ada" invokes the IBM ada
     compiler and the command "aada" will invoke the Alsys AdaWorld
     environment.

     Please be careful to use the command "aada" while working with Alsys
     Ada as using the command "ada" (IBM's Ada) may corrupt your Alsys
     library and require you to delete and rebuild it.