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Blocked File Attachments in Email

Most of us by now have received at least one email message where the original attachment is missing and the subject line preceded with {Filename} tag. It is usually accompanied by an attachment called Wesleyan-Attachment-Warning.txt that shows the name of the file that was removed. Some of the most common attachments that are removed are [...]

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Wesleyan Events Calendar is the central repository for events that are held at Wesleyan. As you know, the campus is alive with many exciting events every day. We describe here how you can choose to receive a custom email listing of the events in the calendar.
These events are submitted to the system by clicking on [...]

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How to deal with Phishing

Phishing refers to the technique used by criminal elements to “fish” for personal information by pretending to send official E-mails.
Wikipedia describes it as “In computing, phishing is an attempt to criminally and fraudulently acquire sensitive information, such as usernames, passwords and credit card details, by masquerading as a trustworthy entity in an electronic communication.”

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Over the past several years, we have seen tremendous growth in the need for centralized document storage, fueled by the increased use of the web for information dissemination as well as increase in the use of rich media (high quality images, music and digitized videos) in teaching and research. As we progressed, we accommodated these [...]

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Green Computing

Discussion on the global climate crisis and Wesleyan’s role in providing leadership on this issue has been both informed and passionate. President Roth’s initial posting on the issue and the subsequent response by students, alumni, faculty and staff, have contributed to momentum towards helping Wesleyan become a more sustainable institution and community.
One component [...]

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Backups

Backing up the data on your computers is extremely important. Despite the fact that the reliability of disks have gone up tremendously in the recent years, they do fail and the effect of losing data can be devastating. In this posting we explain 1) what we do to backup files on our servers, 2) the [...]

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