Account application form for nic.funet.fi

At the request of the CSC/FUNET management we kindly ask to provide us with your contact information etc. needed by our account administration. This system is still a bit experimental but if successful you may be to modify more of your information later using this or similar tool. Currently the requests are screened manually by Harri Salminen then sent to our user manager Aila Lyijynen but future updates may be more automatic. Please be patient with this new system.

What type of account you are applying for?

Details on the account type you need: Please note, that we don't grant accounts for normal internet use on nic.funet.fi, only accounts needed for managing the services and information we have. Mirror accounts are an exception and we grant them only to other well known ftp sites willing to offload a significant traffic from us. Normal users should use our servers via the anonymous ftp account at ftp.funet.fi, gopher.funet.fi, www.funet.fi, info.funet.fi etc. which don't need any special accounts. In general we expect you to have your personal internet account at some preferably a FUNET member site or use one of the commercial internet connection providers if you need a dial up connection. We may still have to apply some usage limits especially for foreign users since we have nearly constant overload on the lines already although we have several megabits/second capacity. Do you already have your contact information in the CSC customer database? (E.g. if you have an account at some CSC.FI machine, or receive some of the printed publications from us)

 Yes  No  I Don't know

Account name    that you already
have at CSC/FUNET computers or would like to have. If empty we
will allocate a new one of the type jmaki for a name ("Jussi Mäki").
Maximum length is eight US-ASCII characters due to technical limitations.

If you answered yes, we'll try to just add your NIC.FUNET.FI information to your already existing contact information. If not we will create a new entry for you with the contact information in this form. We may later send you a paper version for verification.

Your contact information

This information will be used the main contact address in administrative contexts. E.g. if you forget your password, our user manager will contact you back for verification. You can also receive CSC printed publications and other printed material unless you specify an alternative address for them. The various parts of the address will be used in the approximate order shown for mailing labels, so if the fields don't seem applicable to you please try to improvise... E.g. if you study in some university and work elsewhere you could give first your university as organization, home address for postal use and then your work address in the "home address" section ;-).

Primary contact info (Work/Study)

Personal name Job Title Org. abbreviation Organization name Department Postal address to your work place Postal code City or county Province (Finnish ones just for statistics) If you selected "elsewhere" in the previous selection you can specify your provice or state Country Nationality International phone number Work fax number Work email address (please use .forward too) Work URL
Most of this information will be put in the CSC customer database ASKARE. Would you like to have your contact information also put in public databases like X.500, whois or some other probably www-accessible database? Yes ftp-group (maints) only No

secondary contact info (home)

Optionally, you can give a secondary address hereafter referred to as "home address" to be used as the contact address for urgent problems or for subscribing our publications. In practice it can be your other "organizational address" if you have one instead of your real home address.
Organization     
Department       
Postal address

Postal code  City or county 

Province 

If you selected "elsewhere" in the previous selection you can
specify your provice or state 
Country                       

Home phone number   
Home fax number     
Home email address   (please use .forward too)
Home URL            

This information will be kept in the CSC customer database ASKARE. Would you like to have your alternate contact information also put in public databases like X.500, whois or some other probably www-accessible database?
 Yes  ftp-group (maints) only  No 

Magazine subscriptions

We offer you a free subscription to the following printe CSC publications: Check the CSC publications department for more information. Some of them are also available as online WWW versions. You can order them either to your work or home address

Work  Home Publication
       FUNews (in Finnish)FUNews (in Finnish)
       CSC News (in English)
       Korkeakoulujen ATK-Uutiset (in Finnish)

Additional information to CSC User Manager (like more details on how to really contact you...)
To:
usermgr@csc.fi

NIC.FUNET.FI specific information

This section applies only to NIC.FUNET.FI and may be separated in the future from your other information. In general we expect all maints people to subscribe at least to maints alias and an alias for their specific subject area. We add more aliases on request, since in general they are stable contact addresses behind which people may change, go on long vacations etc. and the users don't need to know and you don't need to try to update the publicized address all around the world... Of course you can still advertise your name, personal www id cards etc. but for contacting in administrative issues please try to use an alias.

Membership in the various administrative xxx-adm@nic.funet.fi alias groups Please check carefully since we might recreate the aliases based on these. This applies only to maints, csc and staff groups and is in experimental use for now. You can change these later, this is just an initial setting. You should join only those aliases you are really willing to volunteer some work as well. A good idea would be to send mail to the alis asking if they would like to have more help and especially how you should help in a way that doesn't mix up the current practices for the particular area.

 386ix-adm 
 aiesec-adm 
 amiga-adm 
 astro-adm 
 atari-adm 
 cae-sw-adm 
 calculators-adm 
 cbm-adm 
 cdrom-adm 
 chess-adm 
 cpm-adm 
 csc-adm 
 culture-adm 
 drivers-adm 
 discus-adm
 doc-adm 
 dx-adm 
 etext-adm 
 gnu-adm 
 graphics-adm 
 ham-adm 
 kermit-adm 
 languages-adm 
 linux-adm 
 mac-adm 
 mach-adm 
 maints 
 map-adm 
 microprocs-adm 
 minix-adm 
 misc-adm 
 molbio-adm 
 msdos-adm 
 msx-adm 
 music-adm 
 netinfo-adm 
 neural-adm 
 next-adm 
 os2-adm 
 papers-adm 
 pics-adm 
 sci-adm 
 siy-adm 
 sounds-adm 
 sun-adm 
 sports-adm 
 tesla-adm 
 tex-adm 
 unix-adm 
 vm-adm 
 vms-adm 
 win-nt-adm 
 xwindow-adm 


Suggestion for a new alias     
with the following description 

Additional information to managers@nic.funet.fi. E.g. for what specific purpose you would need this account at nic.funet.fi, how it relates to the goals of FUNET, estimated additional disk space in the /pub area, reference information, possible co-operation with some of the existing maints group members etc. We will use this and other information to verify your credentials and determining if the proposed activity suits to nic.funet.fi and necessitates the type of account and resources you are proposing. For mirror accounts we would like know which portion of the archive, how often and from which domain you'd intend to mirror.


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