Account Renewal Time

By Claudia Lynch, Benchmarks Online Editor

If you purchased a Premium Remote Access Service subscription for the spring semester, and you want to keep it, you will need to renew it for the summer. If you weren't associated with UNT last semester and you don't enroll for Summer I or Summer II, your UNT Internet Account will be disabled in mid-July unless you take action. Details for renewal of both these services follows.

Premium Remote Access Service Renewals*

Premium Remote Access Service renewals for the summer'99 semester may be purchased in person or over the phone at the software department of the UNT Bookstore (940-565-3185). Basic subscriptions are $30. ISDN (128kB) subscriptions cost $60.This will take your subscription to the end of the fiscal year (through August '99). At that time you will have the opportunity of purchasing subscriptions semesterly or for an entire fiscal year.

These subscription renewals will become active Monday, 7 June 1999 and will expire on Monday, 30 August 1999. All subscriptions that have not been renewed by Saturday, 5 June will be deactivated on Monday, 7 June 1999. Please E-mail any questions regarding renewal to dialups@unt.edu

Forget Something?

The helpdesk staff receives a LOT of E-mail and telephone calls from people wanting to know whether or not they paid for a year of the Premium service. So Ryan Hickey, Helpdesk Assistant Manager, created a Web site that will allow people to determine that for themselves. If you're wondering about the status of your account, check it out at: http://luna.acs.unt.edu/status.html

Internet Service Account Renewals

People who are no longer associated with the University lose their eligibility to have access to many services, including various computing services.** The following message has been sent out to people who have been deemed ineligible to continue to have a UNT Internet Services account. The note below suggests ways to keep your account active.

We need to inform you of the status and/or verify information regarding
your Unix/Internet Services account, {xxxnnnn}.

This is the FIRST of two notifications you may receive from us related
to your account's status.

Our information shows that you are not currently enrolled as a student or
employed by the University. If our information is incorrect, then please
let us know by replying to this message. REMEMBER, it's quite possible
that our data is incorrect, so don't panic. Just let us know, and we'll
investigate further.

NOTE: if you will be registered as a student for Summer '99 by the 5th
class day of Summer II '99, or if your employment at UNT can be verified
by the 5th class day of Summer II '99, your account status will be
automatically updated and you may disregard this message.

We are giving you this opportunity to transfer any Internet services to
another provider and forward your E-mail and/or homepage before the
account is disabled after the 5th class day of the second summer session
(in this case, 16 July 1999.)

If you have questions regarding this message, please direct them to the
Computing Center Helpdesk at (940) 565 2324 or to helpdesk@unt.edu.

 

Academic Computing Services UNIX Support

*Questions about PRAS? We answered some common ones in our August PRAS renewal article. The Remote Access area of the Helpdesk Web site is also chock full of information on that topic.

** Retirees may continue to have a UNT Internet Service account, however these accounts must be renewed annually. You may be asked to provide documentation of eligibility for this service due to the absence of available data on retirees at this time.