Seattle Community Network

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Seattle Community Network

• How to use SCN to send and receive Email.
• Using the PINE Email Service
• Text based Email

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Introduction

• At the end of this session you will be able to
  send and receive Email
• Steve Guest / Jim Haskins
• George Goodwin / Dave Collins
• Melissa Guest
• Seattle Community Network (SCN)

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The Pine Email Service

• Text based interface
• Easy to use
• Fast
• Can be used over all dialup lines
• Basic concepts are those of most modern email
  services
• High level of functionality
• Supports low end equipment

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What is SCN

• Almost totally volunteer run ISP
• Has strong principles
• One of the largest ISPs in Seattle
• One of the oldest ISPs in Seattle
• Provides free email and web sites
• Provides maillist and news groups
• Supported by donations and grants
• No Advertisements

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E-Mail Addresses

• These are like most addresses
• a name and a place for delivery
• Important that you type what you see because
  computers make bad postal workers
• ltnamegt_at_ltcomputer namegt
• e.g.
• vice-president_at_scn.org

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Computer names

• ltnamegt.ltnamegt.ltnamegt
• scn.org or spl.org
• domain names in the USA
• org ? Organisation
• edu ? Education
• gov ? Government
• mil ? Military
• com ? Commercial

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The Keyboard

• Return or Enter Key
• Shift Key
• - Control Key (not the 6 Key)
• Delete or Backspace Key
• Auto Repeat
• Any key

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Logging into SCN

• Choose telnet
• The hostname is scn.org
• At the login type YOUR user id
• At password type YOUR password
• Remember to press the enter key at each stage

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The SCN menu system

• Text based - for speed and older machines
• Menu driven
• FreePort
• from Case-Western University
• Interface to all SCNs services

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Change your password

• This is a SCN Utility - option 7
• It is a User Account Service - 1
• There is Change your Password
• Follow the instructions
• Old Password
• New Password
• Retype New Password
• Try not to forget it

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Email - Pine

• There are two ways of getting to the PINE Email
  service.
• Follow the menu for email
• or
• Simply type pine
• Only on the first startup - you are asked some
  questions. In these cases simple press return

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Pines Read Email Screen

• On SCN, Pine always starts with a list of email
  you have been sent. (So this should be empty!)
• At the bottom of the screen is a list of commands
  / options / things you can get Pine to do.
• Look for the arrow keys on the keyboard - you
  will need these later!

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Sending email

• You Compose a message
• m - will take you to the main menu
• c - will then compose
• (by the way - you can also compose from the read
  email screen, but we wanted you to see the main
  menu!)

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An Email Message

• Headers
• To, From, Subject, Date
• Message or Main Body
• The contents of the message. What you wanted
  the person to actually read.
• Header ? Envelope
• Message ? Letter

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Type in an email

• Choose who To
• Choose a Subject
• Type a simple message
• Note that the bottom help section now has the
  ? Control keys
• So x will send the email.
• Press and hold down the Control Key and then
  press the x key once

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Options while Writing

• Postpone - put off the task until later (save
  what you have so far)
• Cancel - put off the task forever
• Get help - seek on-line help
• Look at the bottom reminder lines for other
  options.

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Exit Pine

• To stop the Pine service you type q at the main
  menu or the read menu
• While Pine is stopped - email will still be
  accepted by SCN. Pine simply gives you access to
  the email and helps you create your email.

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Reading Email

• Start Pine
• Look at the email information
• Number, Date, From, Subject
• Use up and down arrow keys to highlight a message
  - press Enter
• Look at the bottom lines for options and see i
  goes back to the index

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What can you do now?

• Reply to a highlighted message
• Forward a message
• Save a message
• Delete a message
• Explore the other options

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Editing Messages

• You might need to edit a message - change what is
  or was written
• You have a cursor
• Commands you might need
• Arrows keys move you around
• Delete (or Backspace) erases the character to the
  left of the cursor
• k deletes a whole line
• u undelete what was deleted
• j reforms the paragraph

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What you now know

• Login to SCN
• Start Pine
• Read email
• Write email
• Manipulate email
• Stop/Exit from Pine
• Logout of SCN

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There is more

• This is a basic introduction
• To help you, SCN has an email follow on system
  called PINENUTS
• These are video tapes in the Library
• There are help pages within SCN and Pine itself
• Pine is a powerful email program

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Other details

• Remember the SCN 45 minute limit per session
• The Library has a 45 minute per day limit for
  Internet access
• SCN has a limit on its mailbox size

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Other ways of emailing

• SCN offers other email services which are not
  covered here
• forwarding
• POP
• IMAP
• Web
• Other services are being developed

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Contacting SCN

• SCN has a Help Desk(206) 365-4528 or
  help_at_scn.org
• SCN has 40 dial-up lines(206) 386-4199
• Or from most Libraries

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Thank-you

• We hope you will have many more happy hours using
  your SCN email account
• Thank-you for your time