To: alien
Subject: iap sucking 
Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2000 19:39:30 -0400
From: Alex <xela>

Ok, I'm leaving for London on Thursday and will be gone for a month.
There shouldn't be a lot to do, certainly shouldn't be any emergencies,
and I'll be checking e-mail fairly often (you should expect me to be
offline at the very most 48 hours).  I'll put any mail from you at the
top of my queue when I do log in.

You should know about the following directories:

/afs/sipb.mit.edu/project/iap 
  scratch space; you can give instructors instructors space here
  if they need it; there are also arrchives of stuff from past
  IAPs here.
/afs/sipb.mit.edu/project/iap/org.2001
  misc notes
/afs/sipb.mit.edu/project/iap/org.2001/mail
  where all the correspondance regarding iap goes.  I set up a symlink
  and recommend you do the same:
    % cd Mail ; ln -s /afs/sipb.mit.edu/project/iap/org.2001/mail iap
  then I just "refile +iap" any mail I receive regarding iap, and just 
  put the header line "Fcc: iap" in any mail I send.
/afs/sipb.mit.edu/project/www/iap
  where all the sipb iap class web pages go; it's pretty self-explanatory
  if you just look around it.  You shouldn't have to change any of this 
  while I'm gone.

You should have admin bits (as a member of the group sipb-iap-sucker)
recursively through all these directory trees.  If you're one of those
people who's perenially logged in and just renews, you'll need to do
something else for the system to know you have those privs (I can't
remember the command right off), or just log out and log back in.

That's all I can think of for now.  It would be nice but not necessary
if you could go to sipb meetings and show the flag ("IAP is happening.
If you want to teach, there's still time; if you want to design a
publicity slide to show at LSC or a poster, that'd be cool; if you
want to help out but are nebulous about how, talk to us....").

Take care, and thanks again!

---Alex

Carl Alexander                                                    KD7GUR
------------- MIT (where Alex hangs out):
xela@mit.edu      Course VI (sometime special student)    SIPB (prospective)
                  Mitgaard ("honorary mold")    MITSFS    LSC (night worker)
                  http://web.mit.edu/~xela
------------- Work (where they call me 'Carl'):
carl@terc.edu     Sr. Systems & Network Administrator, TERC
                  http://www.terc.edu
