[Palindrome] Athena explanation

[Eric Albert <Eric Albert alumni brown edu>]

Athena is the MIT campus-wide computer thingie.  (Debby can probably 
explain this a tad more precisely.)  An "Athena cluster" is a room on 
campus that's filled with computers that anyone can use.  Well, anyone who 
knows the password to the door lock and who has an Athena account.

Which reminds me: Please e-mail me immediately with the following 
information:
     Who has an MIT Athena account that they can use themselves during the 
hunt?
     Who has an Athena account they are willing to let others use under 
supervision during the hunt?
     Who has an Athena account whose password they are willing to share 
and allow others to use unsupervised during the Hunt?

We'll have our own computers in our Hunt headquarters, but at times there 
may be more demand than supply, so you may want to go to an Athena 
cluster.  Also, Athena-cluster computers usually have *big* screens, which 
can be useful, or even necessary if you're past a certain age.

In order to support security at MIT, so they can keep providing such a 
wonderful public asset, I will not be giving out the Athena cluster 
password via e-mail to this list.  If during the Hunt you want to use an 
Athena cluster, just ask me or Debby or Mike Korn or any MIT student on 
our team, or a stranger in the halls, and you'll get the password.  Or you 
can just knock on the Athena cluster door and someone will usually let you 
in.

-- Eric