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Subject: Policy.hu services for fellows
Date: 15.03.2004
Greetings IPF fellows!
This page is to provide you with a reference
list of the services that are available on the
Policy.hu server.
You should GIVE SPECIAL
ATTENTION TO THE SECTION ON E-MAIL, since this will affect
how you receive program announcements from IPF in the future.
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Summary:
- - All current and former IPF fellows have personal accounts
on the Policy.hu server
- - These accounts, set up on a Linux server, include Web
space for your IPF and professional projects, and an e-mail
account
- - Additionally, the server has software installed that
will allow fellows to run
- -> mailing distribution and discussion lists
- -> web-based discussion forums/bulletin boards
- -> a demonstration version of an on-line learning environment for distance learning
- - If you have not already done so, you should make an
SSH/Telnet connection to the server and CHANGE
YOUR PASSWORD
- - Further details on how to use SSH to change your password
are contained at:
www.policy.hu/help/putty.html
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Web Space
Your web address is:
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www.policy.hu/yourfamilyname/ or,
www.policy.hu/~yourfamilyname
these both go to the same destination and a
full list of the fellows' web page links is located at
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www.policy.hu/ipf/fel-web/
Again, a reminder that you need to quickly post a
basic web site, so that we don't share bunch of dead
links with the rest of the world!
IPF Fellows are expected to have a basic page up on their site by the end of the March Seminar, and to have a more complete site up by the end of April.
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SFTP is the client tool that you will use to
upload and download files to and from the server over the Internet.
In other words, you will use FTP to move files for your Website from your
computer hard drive (i.e. C: drive),
and copy them to your account on the Policy.hu server.
You will use SFTP to place web files in your public_html directory,
for other people to see on your website address. You can download
a copy of SSH-Secure Shell Client with SFTP from the www.policy.hu/help/
page.
Remember, you MUST have a file in the public_html directory
called index.html as your first page. This file should
then contain links to your other pages.
You can also use ftp to store any other files that you want
in your personal directory -- this is a good way to keep backups
of some of your important files from your personal computer.
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Your e-mail account on Policy.hu is:
VERY IMPORTANT!:
From now on, the IPF program will send all correspondence to your
policy.hu account. One of the primary reasons that IPF established
the Policy.hu server, is so that fellows could have a "permanent"
place to keep their web sites and to have a single stable e-mail
account, rather than the constantly changing, and often outdated,
e-mail lists that IPF has had to maintain in the past.
HOWEVER, this does not mean that you have to
change your regular e-mail account just for us --it just means
that YOU have to assume responsibility for keeping your e-mail
address updated. You have three choices:
- you can make policy.hu your regular account (encouraged!)
- you can forward ALL your policy.hu mail directly to another
e-mail account,
(Do not do this to a commercial (i.e., HotMail or Yahoo!) account.)
- you can forward your policy.hu mail AND keep a copy at
policy.hu
** for choices 2 and 3 you need to set a "dot-forward"
file in your account (see " dot-forward"
in the section below)
E-mail Access
Your e-mail account can be accessed in at least
three different ways (A, B, C below) and you can alternate between
these depending on your personal preference, where you are, and
how you are connected to the Internet.
A- Telnet with pine
Open an SSH/Telnet connection to Policy.hu (details are provided
in the Policy.hu/help/putty.html page);
log in with your Username and Password; at the username@polcy>
prompt type " pine"
(all lowercase, no quotes); from the pine menu page, you can read,
compose, store, and forward your e-mail.
Most pine commands are just a single key: "i"
mail list index, "c"
compose message, "r"
reply to message, arrow keys for up and down, etc.; or a "Control-key"
combination marked as "^X"
send message, or "^C"
cancel message. All of the commands are listed at the bottom of
your Telnet window. With a little bit of practice, this becomes
a very easy and quick way to check your mail from almost any computer
on the Internet. Using pine requires an active connection to the
Internet.
B- POP3/IMAP
If you are using a regular e-mail client installed on your personal
computer (such as Eudora, Netscape Mail, or Outlook Express) you
can download mail from your Policy.hu account onto your computer
to read, compose, and store messages there -- even when you are
not connected to the Internet. You will need to create the following
settings in your mail client (obviously replacing "username"
with your own account name":
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User ID: |
Username |
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Mail Account: |
Username@mail.policy.hu |
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E-mail Address: |
Username@policy.hu |
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Password: |
(the same as your Web access password) |
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POP3 mail server |
mail.policy.hu |
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SMTP mail server: |
(you need to get this information from your
local Internet Service Provider (ISP)) |
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C- WebMail
You can also access your Policy.hu account from any web browser,
similar to the way you access a Yahoo!mail or HotMail account.
The address for web mail is:
mail.policy.hu
There is also a link to this from the left side
of the Policy.hu/help/ pages. Using WebMail requires an active
connection to the Internet.
Dot-Forward -- Forwarding your Policy.hu
e-mail
If you would like to forward all mail received at your Policy.hu account to
the account you are now using. This is done by creating a .forward
(dot-forward) file in your personal root directory while accessing
your account on the server with SSH/Telnet. Follow these simple steps:
And you are done! Be sure to test the account
by sending yourself an e-mail to your policy.hu account and
see if it shows up in your other account.
Mailing Lists
The Policy.hu server hosts a number of mailing lists on our mail list management
software.
There are a few lists that are surrently up and running,
and additional lists can be set up at the request of the IPF
program or individual fellows
NOTE: We will be exclusively using your Policy.hu address
for these mailing lists, so YOU need to make sure that you
are receiving mail sent to your Policy.hu account.
Mailing discussion lists run at http://lists.policy.hu/:
NOTE: The address for each lists hosted on lists.policy.hu
is listname@lists.policy.hu
(you must include @lists.policy.hu as part of the address,
not just @policy.hu)
| Listname |
Description |
| 2004-ipf |
Current 2004 IPF Fellows |
| 2003-ipf |
2003 IPF Fellows |
| 2002-ipf |
2002 IPF Fellows |
| 2001-ipf |
2001 IPF Fellows |
| events-ipf |
Discussion and announcement posting list
including most current and previous IPF fellows |
| all-fellows-ipf |
Central distribution list for all current
and previous IPF fellows |
| alumni-ipf |
IPF Fellows alumni (prior to the current
year) |
| Working Group lists |
as needed by WG mentors and fellows |
If you would like to create your own mailing
list for announcements or discussions related to your project,
send me a note indicating the name you would like for the list,
and whether it is to be an open or closed list.
Web-based Discussion Forum/Bulletin Board
We also have another web-based discussion forum
running on our server at:
We intend to begin using this discussion forum
more regularly in the future as a place for posting fellow announcements. It is also being used for our on-line fellow publications archive, to which you will be asked to contribute.
If you have questions about how to use a web-based
discussion board, or would like to set up a discussion board
for your own use, again, drop me a note and let me know what
you would like to do and how I can help.
On-line Learning environment with WebCT
Our server also has installed, on a trial basis,
a sophisticated on-line (or distance) learning environment tool
called WebCT (Web Course Tools). WebCT allows teachers to create
on-line courses with lecture materials, exercises, classroom
discussion forums, student presentations, quizzes, exams, and
more.
If you are interested in making further use
of the WebCT course environment, or would like to explore its
other features, drop me a note and I can set up a sample course
for you.
Finally, a reminder on how to change your Policy.hu password.
This password controls both your e-mail and your Web account
access via SFTP.
- establish a SSH/Telnet connection to Policy.hu
- at the policy.hu> prompt, type: passwd
- follow the instructions to type your current password
and the enter-key
(Note: for security, you will not be able to see your
password as you are typing, so you need to make sure that
you remember what you have entered!)
- type your NEW password (you will be asked to do this
2 times to verify that you have typed it correctly)
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Telnet
Telnet creates a terminal window that allows you
to work directly on a remote computer over the Internet.
[NOTE: Regular Telnet access has been
disabled on the Policy.hu server. You need to download and use
PuTTY or another SSH client to establish a secure SSH telnet
connection to the server.]
A more detailed description of how to use PuTTY
for SSH access is located at:
www.policy.hu/help/putty.html
From a Macintosh computer, in OS X you can establish an SSH
connection from the "Terminal" application in the Utilities
folder. For OS 9 or earlier you will need to download and install
an SSH/Telnet client like NiftyTelnet SSH
You can establish a secure encrypted connection to the server
using an SSH client connection. This guarantees that your connection
with the server cannot be intercepted and read along the way.
This requires an SSH Telnet client like SSH NiftyTelnet for the
Macintosh or SSH or PuTTY for Windows.
Instructions on how to use PuTTY and SSH are located on the new putty
page at www.policy.hu/help/putty.html
A copy of Putty for Windows can be downloaded
here.
A copy of SSH-Secure Shell client for Windows can be downloaded
here.
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HTML
& Web Pages
Each User on Policy.hu has their own
space for Web pages under the address of http://www.policy.hu/UserName/
You can add pages to this by putting HTML files into
your directory called public_html.
A few rules that you must follow when creating Web Pages:
- You must have a file called index.html
that contains links to your other pages. This file MUST be
called index.html
(not myindex.html
or index2.txt,
or any other variation) Without this file, no one will find
the rest of your web pages!
- Files must be written in HTML
- File names must end with .html
(or .htm , but be consistent!)
- File names are case sensitive (e.g.; CV.html is not the
same as cv.html
- File names cannot contain spaces, accented characters,
or other punctuation.
- Files must be inside your public_html
directory/folder
Good luck, and have fun with all these new
Internet services set up just for you.
-merrill
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