The Faculty also provides a number of facilities that are shared between education and research, such as electronic mail, portal accounts, backup facilities, printing and networking. Mail The Faculty has one small unix server, buzz, dedicated to electronic mail. This machine is a Sun Ultra-2 with 128 Mb RAM and 1 processor, running Solaris 7 and zmailer. All mail directed to any machine in the cs.dal.ca domain is redirected to buzz.
People using pine, mutt or mail can do so directly on buzz, or on borg or locutus.
The Faculty also supports a number of mailing lists via both zmailer and majordomo. The main zmailer lists are csall, csgrads, csugrads and csstudents, all of which are moderated, as well as csfaculty and daltech-sem. The first list is moderated by the society and used by the society only for announcements, such as elections, geekbeer, pub crawls, etc. The second list, csexchange, is an unmoderated mailing list. To post to the list a user must first be subscribed to the list.