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Sol Lightman (verdant@twain.ucs.umass.edu) wrote:

: Greetings:

:    As a senator in the UMASS Amherst Student Government Association, I've
: been asked to do a quick informal survey about University e-mail policies.
: This is in preparation for an SGA bill which may give all students attending
: UMASS Amherst free access to basic internet e-mail or campus-wide e-mail
: services.  Anyone who has ever seen this kind of policy at their institutions
: would help us a great deal if they could give us a brief description of
: what programs are available and how they were formed.

:    A few of the questions we are most interested in are:

: 1) Does your institution give free computer services to all students?

	Yes, to all who want it!

: 2) Do students have access to the Internet or just a LAN?

	To the actual internet!

: 3) What percentage of the people who have ready access to e-mail use
:    this service regularly -- and how many professors use e-mail
:    to improve the quality of their classes?

	I know of one teacher who uses e-mail (ok, 2). 20-30 students at max.

: 4) What other services are offered at your institution?

	Gopher, Telnet, FTP.

: 5) What level of support is available for dial-in computing and how
:    many terminal rooms/terminals do you have?

	8 terminals/3 dial in lines!

: Please send answers to julin@ecs.umass.edu.

: Thank you very much,

: --
: Brian S. Julin
: Senator (Commuter Area)
: Student Government Association,

: The University of Massachusetts at Amherst
: Amherst, MA 01003

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