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News Archive
Wednesday, September 20, 2006
In this issue
o  Emailing from Comcast
o  Scam Alert:  Announcement from 1st Source Bank
o  New to Campus?
o  Copyright and the law
o  Want a good job?  Steer clear of the spammers
o  Thursday's service outage
o  ResNet Report
o  Raise your Google IQ
o  Wikipedia--no joking matter

Emailing from Comcast:  In the ongoing effort to thwart spam, we have enabled a technology called SPF (Sender Policy Framework).   SPF requires that remote users either use mail.goshen.edu as their outbound mailserver (SMTP) or have their domain listed in our SPF record.  While most local ISP's have already enforced this, Comcast still allows you to send email from a goshen.edu address through their SMTP server.  This scenario worked until last Monday, so if you encounter a problem sending mail from a remote site, call the Help Desk for information on switching your mail client to use mail.goshen.edu.

We received the following announcement from 1st Source Bank regarding a recent email-borne scam:

Announcement from 1st Source Bank

Be aware of attempted e-mail scams.  On September 6, a wide geographical cross section of individuals received an email that looked like it came from 1st Source Bank, asking recipients to enter personal information.  1st Source cautions consumers never to give personal or financial information at the request of an email, or to an unsolicited telephone call.  If you were tricked into responding, contact 1st Source Direct Banking as soon as possible at 574-235-2250 or 888-258-3150.

New to Campus?  Check out these technology resources:  There are a lot of great technology resources available at GC.  To help you take advantage of them, we've put together a page of orientation materials at:  http://www.goshen.edu/its/Help_Desk/New_User  Check them out!

Copyright and the Law:  This week we received our first complaint this year from the RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America) of a student sharing copyrighted materials over our network.  By law, we are obligated to address these complaints or remove the offender from the campus network.  We ask you to make our job easier by NOT participating in file-sharing networks and not misusing copyrighted music, movies or software.  There are many opportunities to legally download free music and videos.  Apple's iTunes Music Store gives away 2 free songs each week as well as periodic free music videos or TV shows; many bands give away free teaser songs; YouTube, Yahoo and Google Video offer large numbers of free videos.  There is also an ever-expanding array of options for purchasing songs, albums and videos online that are quick, convenient and reasonably priced.  Finally, it's free and legal to check out your fellow students' iTunes music library.  Staying legal also has the benefit of reducing your risk of spyware infestations.

Want a good job?  Steer clear of the spammers:  Along with the deposed dictator who wants to give you millions of dollars, another class of spam scam is the fabulous part-time job offer.  We see a large number of these spam come-ons, and the conventional wisdom holds--if it looks too good to be true, it probably is.  Quoting from http://www.joewein.net/fraud/spam-payment-jobs.htm

    "Please be aware that:

        * No legitimate company will use bank accounts of private individuals for processing payments from its customers.
        * No legitimate business will pay 5% and more for international money transfers (for example, $250 out of $5000), when banks provide such services for only $30-50 per transaction and businesses and individuals can set up their own bank accounts in other countries if needed.
        * No legitimate company uses private individuals to receive parcels and remail them.

    Any job offer that involves any of the above activities is a fraud!"

Thursday's service outage:  Sometime early Thursday morning, one of ITS's server room network switches experienced a partial failure.  Perhaps related to that failure, a network interface card on the GC Domain server also failed.  These failures resulted in people being unable to log onto GC File or use other domain-related services.  ITS staff were able to isolate the problems and replace the failed equipment and service was restored by 9 a.m.  ITS regrets any inconvenience caused by this outage.

ResNet Report:  As of today, there are 442 student computers registered on the GC ResNet.  This is about 20 ahead of last year and 70 more than in 2004.  If your computer is not registered and you'd like it to be, give the ITS Help Desk a call at x7700.  We're here to help.

Raise your Google IQ:  The gurus at Google keep raising the bar for what you can do with a search engine and most of us are only scratching the surface.  Check out the following pages to see what you've been missing:
http://www.google.com/intl/en/help/features.html
http://www.google.com/options/

Wikipedia--no joking matter:  Wikipedia has become enough of a web icon to attract the ribbing of late night talk show hosts and The Onion, but if you're not familiar with Wikipedia you're missing out on the sleeper story of the year. Wikipedia is changing the landscape of web-based reference.  Check out this article on Hurricane Ernesto for an example of things that Wikipedia does really well:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Ernesto_%282006%29   
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