Inessential SIPB

1. What is SIPB?

SIPB stands for the Student Information Processing Board.  According to
Article II of the bylaws, its "principal purpose ... shall be to provide
the M.I.T. community with improved access to computational facilities."
SIPB provides services such as news, a www server, programs,  and documents,
such as this and the others listed at the end.  Members also answers 
questions of all kinds, both on various zephyr classes and in the office 
(w20-557, x3-7788).  

2. Services

So, what exactly are the services that SIPB provides?  Following is a detailed
list.

AFS: SIPB has its own AFS cell.  It uses this diskspace for building and
     providing software for the MIT community.  It also provides guest 
     accounts for people who cannot get an MIT account otherwise and need 
     one.  Some of the lockers (on Athena) provided by SIPB are sipb,
     discuss, linux, outland, postscript, and tcl.  More later on 
     the specifics of some of these lockers.