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Salient Points About the Configuration of Your WWW Pages

The directory called world in your home directory on mhc contains information that is published to the entire world. This page lists some important points about your world directory and how it works.

• Your WWW page privileges and your main computer account can be suspended independently of one another. The decision of what to suspend will be made by CIS on a case-by-case basis. You should be aware that if your computer account is suspended, your Web pages may no longer be available to the public.
• All information placed in your world directory is regarded officially as public. Computer system file permissions can be manipulated to prevent the WWW server from serving documents in your world directory. CIS reserves the right to, without prior notice and on a regular basis, reset the permissions on files in the world directory so that files can be read by others. If your information is not intended to be public, store it elsewhere.
• You should back up the information in your world directory. CIS maintains backups to allow recovery from general hardware malfunctions. We do not restore files from our backups when individual users accidentally remove files. Although our general backups are designed to be as effective as our technology permits, no backup system is completely error-free, and information can still be lost in general system failures. The safest approach is for you to maintain your own backups of your information.
• As part of your account setup, we provide a default home page that clearly states that it was not created by you. That file is called default.htm. You can not change the file, but you may remove it if you choose. A much better way to override the default page is to create your own page called index.htm. This file will be displayed rather than the default page. Instructions are available elsewhere.
• There is no easy way of discovering usernames from the WWW server. This is by design.

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