[12889] in APO-L
Re: request: uniform style for all chapter names
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Fuzz)
Sat Oct 7 15:05:28 1995
Date: Sat, 7 Oct 1995 14:04:10 -0500
Reply-To: Fuzz <rhochste@UTSI.EDU>
From: Fuzz <rhochste@UTSI.EDU>
To: Multiple recipients of list APO-L <APO-L@VM.CC.PURDUE.EDU>
While I must say I agree with Neal that learning all of the
chapter/school correspondences is next near to impossible, even for
just the active ones, or even just for the ones you see appear on
APO-L, making a request that everyone tack their school name next to
their chpater name seems a tad.... futile? Considering the rate at
which new subscibers appear on APO-L, to be effective this request is
going to have to be made very, very often, which I am definitely against.
I normally don't even list my chapter or school name when I post.
Seems inconsequential. My opinions and my thoughts are my own, not my
home chapter's or my alma mater's. For those that do list their
chapter and/or school affiliations I'm sure they have their own
reasons for listing what they do and for not listing what they don't.
But either way I fail to see why it should bother anyone whether a
school name is listed or not, it would probably be better not to to
avoid any possible school based prejudices or rivalries.
But if curiosity has really got your goat on a particular chapter
name or school, you can always look it up. Normally, for undergrads,
you can determine what school they're from by their email address
anyway. For the less obvious domain names such as isu.edu (is it
Idaho, Illinois, or Indiana State?) you can do a
whois isu.edu
and your computer will find out for you, or if you don't have a whois
client you can telnet to rs.internic.net and give it that command to
find out.
If the email address in question came from outside the educational
zone, for those of you with web access you can look up chapter name
school correspondences with my chapter locater in my web site. The
URL for the locater system is:
http://work1.utsi.edu:8000/fuzz/aphio/bychapter.html
Just input the greek name of the chapter in question, hit the find
button, and the sectional level page with that chapter on it will
appear, from there you'll be able to access the chapter's and school's
WWW sites (if they exist).
Hope this helps for those concerned!
InLFS,
Reuben "Fuzz" Hochstedler
Region VI On-Line Communications Coordinator
P.S. For those that just have to know, isu.edu is Idaho State
University (Eta Theta), Illinois State University is ilstu.edu (Theta
Epsilon) and Indiana State University is indstate.edu (Beta Lambda)
and so as not to offend, Iowa State University is iastate.edu (Xi).
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