• How to use email to contact your instructor and classmates
• Understand the uses and security issues of telnet vs secure shell (ssh)
• Try out a few of the other classic UNIX communication tools

Files/directories and commands:

• alpine
• finger
• ssh vs telnet
• talk (not installed on lampbusters)
• write
• mesg

• How do you use pine?
• How do you check out pine's online help?
• How do you check to see if you have email?
• How do you do the following with your email in pine?
  • Read it
  • Reply or forward
  • Delete it
  • Create and send
• What does telnet/ssh allow you to do? Why is telnet fading in use?
• What are the advantages/disadvantages of talk/write?
• What is a .plan file?
• How do you set up a permanent forward in unix for email? (please do not actually do this, you will be unable to take first exam)

• Send the instructor an email with a paragraph or two about yourself to his lampbusters address, username philw
• Send an email to someone else in the class (ask them first) and have them send one to you
• Set up a .signature file and a simple .plan file (ctrl g to get help in pine)

• man pages for the commands (see next topic on finding answers)
• while in pine, hit ctrl g to access it's online help
• All About PINE
• PGP GnuPG with Alpine Mail for encrypted email