"Nobody teaches assembly language"

It was thus said that the Great Fred Cisin once stated: When I was in college, the department (non-academic) that ran the physical network (and controlled DNS, plus the dial-up modem bank) wanted to run email for the entire campus. I can see say, the English Department taking them up on this, as their expertise is not system administration, but English. But at that time, there were a few departments that refused to go along (and it wasn't like the network department was offering to handle email---no, they *wanted* to the *only* interface for email for the entire campus), like Computer Science Department, and the Ocean Engineering Department [1]. That was then. I've since heard that this department [2] now handles *all* email for the entire campus. Not even the Computer Science Department can handle email. It actually wouldn't surprise me if you now have to jump through hoops to get a public IP address at that college [3]. -spc (As the professor I worked for used to say, "The politics are so fierce *because* the stakes are so small.") [1] The Ocean Engineering program at my college was top in the nation, even beating out MIT's Ocean Engineering department. [2] This is the same department that ran a widely used VAX system. One night when they shut down the VAX, they also shut down the dial-up modem bank, because, well, if the VAX is down, they didn't want people dialing up trying to use it. Never mind the fact that there were, oh, a hundred other computers that could be used on campus from the modem bank. [3] It has a Class-B [4] network block. [4] Or a /16 for those that now use CDIR.