A MESSAGE FROM THE HELP DESK.
A true story.
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I was an Erasmus student to Strathclyde, and was assigned a free e-mail account like all students who applied for it. I summer, after finishing my academic year and leaving Glasgow, I got an e-mail account here in the Basque Country, but for several weeks I couldn't access to the e-mail account I had there in Strathclyde, since I didn't remember the address of the mail server we used there. So I e-mailed the Help Desk, explaining my problem to them, and giving them my new e-mail address. I didn't receive any answer to that address.
Around a month later, I succeeded to access my old account, and then I read the following message (when I already didn't need it):
"Subject: Re: accesss to my e-mail
Date: Wed, 2 Jul 1997 16:36:36 +0100 ()
From: Postmaster <helpdesk@ccsun.strath.ac.uk>
To: javier.mediavilla-ezquibe@strath.ac.uk (javier)
>
> hallo.
> As a Strathclyde student, I was assigned an e-mail address, I joined
some
> e-mail lists, and I've been used my address from inside the university.
> Now I cannot go there for some months, I have a different e-mail address
> and another way of acceeding the net, but I don't know how to acceed
my
> Strarthclyde account fron here.
> How can I do it?
> Which is the Strathclyde mail server address?
> Please send the answer to:
> Javier <**@****>
(Here I wrote the address I used at that time)
> Thanks
>
Use telnet to access your account:-
telnet skye.cc.strath.ac.uk When you get the skye prompt type elm
......helpdesk
>
-- ********************************************************************* Help Desk Email: helpdesk@strath.ac.uk Networking & Computer Services Tel: 0141 552 4400 x 4000 University of Strathclyde Fax: 0141 553 4100 100 Cathedral Street Glasgow G4 OLN Scotland U.K. ********************************************************************"
Well, maybe they didn't understand my English (I recognise it's not very good and I didn't check the message well enough to correct all the mistakes), but it was a funny answer anyway: the Help Desk had kindly answered my query by e-mailing me... to my Strathclyde account (the one I had told them I couldn't access to), instead of replying to the address I had asked to. :-)
Anyway, I must say that the e-mail service at Strathclyde has generally been good, much better than the one in my home university. Thanks for all.
Javier.
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