Nevertheless, be advised that what you send to the news group and post on any website associated with this course, will for practical purposes be in the public domain. Materials addressed to specific individuals through email will not be accessible to the public. Our news group is open to anyone with a Columbia user account. Websites will ordinarily be open to anyone on the Internet. For a few specialized purposes as the course unfolds, we may create restricted Intranets within the course website, but that will not be the norm.
Posting is a form of publication.
Part of our task will be to understand how to make it an effective form and what we should do to make it optimally serve the advancement of knowledge and education. In addition to introducing yourself through the News Group, during the orientation period you should create an introductory personal web page in your Cunix account, following the instructions Cunix gives. These instructions are not entirely satisfactory. Kevin is developing a supplement. Basically, we advise that you follow the Cunix instructions only for the last stage of the process through which you store the files in your Cunix account and set UNIX permissions to make them viewable by the world.