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Starting in the mid-1980s, every Harvard undergraduate had an account that they could use to e-mail or transfer files anywhere in the world. Harvard was part of the Unix-to-Unix Copy network, which allowed for digital data transmission practically in real time. Data transfer could take a full day, depending on how far it needed to travel...
...mail address from a combination of the individual’s first and last names. And students with popular last names such as “Chen” or “Smith” will often have numbers attached to their addresses. FAS runs on an older UNIX-based legacy system, which not only encompasses e-mail accounts, but also Webspace and storage space for files. Kroll said that Harvard’s e-mail system dates from the 1980s, which currently confines usernames to the technological restrictions from two decades ago. Usernames are limited to eight characters...
...restricted storage is not our only concern; our e-mail servers are also unreliable. Last week, the FAS UNIX and e-mail servers failed for several hours. Apart from the obvious inconvenience for everyone, several students had problems submitting papers and problem sets due at noon that...
...could not visit any FAS Web sites and were able to access their FAS e-mail only intermittently throughout the day until the system was fully restored by 6:30 p.m. The Computer Services staff and system platform vendor located the problem to be a malfunction in the FAS UNIX storage system. “Unfortunately, we do not yet have a specific answer as to why the malfunction occurred,” Nettifee said. “The system vendor and operational staff are still on-site investigating the issue.” E-mails that were sent during...
...Computer Services is currently experiencing problems with its UNIX and e-mail servers. This may cause some network intermittency and login problems. FAS computer services is currently investigating this problem...