U-M Online Newsletter—May 2006

• U-M Dial-In Service to End January 2, 2007
• U-M Online Has a New Mailing Address
• New Tool Will Let People Reset Expired Passwords
• E-Mail Users Asked to Update Settings for Sending Mail (SMTP)
• Usenet News Service to Be Discontinued by Fall Term

U-M Dial-In Service to End January 2, 2007

U-M Online subscribers who use the dial-in service will need to find an alternative Internet Service Provider for their connection to the Internet before January. All other U-M Online services will continue unchanged (except for the Usenet news service, which is being discontinued this summer [see below]).

There has been a significant drop in use of the dial-in service. As a result, it has become expensive to offer this service now that so few people use it. We regret the inconvenience it will cause to those people, but we can no longer afford to provide the dial-in service.

There are now many commercial providers, however, and we are confident that U-M Online subscribers who use dial-in will be able to find good alternatives. See our list of dial-in and high-speed Internet Service Providers.

For more information, see the Retirement of U-M Dial-in Service web page.

U-M Online Has a New Mailing Address

U-M Online
ITCS Accounts Office
University of Michigan
Arbor Lakes Building 2, Suite 1800
4251 Plymouth Road
Ann Arbor, MI 48105-2789

Effective May 25, the U-M Online and ITCS Accounts Office staffs will move from the Michigan Union Building on Central Campus to the Arbor Lakes complex on the northeast side of Ann Arbor.

The Accounts Office will offer walk-in service during business hours at the U-M Computer Showcase in the Michigan Union. During part of this summer, walk-in service will be offered at Angell Hall.

New Tool Will Let People Reset Expired Passwords

If your password has expired and stopped working, you can still change it online yourself.

Very old UMICH Kerberos passwords—those that have not been changed since December 1998 or before—are expiring during the last two weeks of May. These passwords are expiring because they will not work with an upcoming upgrade of our Kerberos environment. See the Implementing Pre-Authentication section of the Kerberos 4 to Kerberos 5 Transition web site for details.

E-Mail Users Asked to Update Settings for Sending Mail (SMTP)

If you use web mail, Pine on the Login Service, or Mulberry (the version provided by ITCS), you won't need to do anything. The change has already been made for you, and your mail program is already doing the necessary authentication.

If you use another e-mail program on your computer, you will need to make sure you are using the updated settings. For more information about authenticated SMTP and the new settings, see the Authenticated SMTP web site.

Usenet News Service to Be Discontinued by Fall Term

Posting to newsgroups was stopped in May, and the service will be discontinued entirely before the start of Fall Term.

We suggest these alternatives:

• People interested in participating in the Usenet community can both read and post articles through the use of Google Groups. (See the Help for Google Groups page for details.)
• Those interested in continuing to use native Usenet clients can use one of the publicly accessible servers. The Newzbot site publishes a database of public servers and lets you search for the groups you're interested in.