The latest news from the Office of Information Technology
The popular local broadband ISP, Cox, has made recent changes to how it handles electronic mail. These measures were taken to prevent malicious users from exploiting Cox for Spam or e-mail based network attacks.
Technically speaking, they have blocked port 25 (SMTP) except for Cox subscribers sending mail through Cox’s mail server. This will not have [...]
In April of 1996, NACS announced the Netcom Campuswide PPP program, which made Netcom’s Internet dial-in service available to UCI at an academic discount. Recently Netcom changed their business model, and in a letter to UCI NACS exercised their option to terminate the pricing agreement.
As a result, Netcom is no longer accepting new accounts at the discounted [...]
ALTERNATIVES FOR MODEM USERS
As a member of the UCI community, you have unlimited use of NACS’”free” modem pool. However, for many people, sharing 300 modems that serve a community of approximately 20,000 faculty, staff, and students is inconvenient and, at times, frustrating. The free modem pool is designed as a default service to ensure that [...]