Ted,
   I did not address the calling in issue and I do agree with you if
they are using a PoP account you can get in.
   Does she have an obligation to prove her self or are we so untrusting
of others that we are always on the lookout to "shoot first" and check
later?
   You must have gone a different Syracuse then I did. I was told that I
had to obtain this through the book store (that is access and an
address) and there was a fee for it. I was also told that I did not need
it as a distant student as I had an email address and access to the
areas which I would need for class participation and research. They
registered me under my home email address. 
    I can not answer the question on what she stated. I am guessing if
she is a distant student and not on campus for a direct connect they may
have well told her the same as I was told. I also do not know the
school's policy on using outside access to their network - some do and
some do not. The one I used required I have an ID/Password and use my
home address as a cross reference. Do you know or have you checked with
her school to obtain their policy?
   I have 33 years in computers with everything from mainframe
operations to LAN/WANS/MANS, as an operator, programmer, and
teacher/instructor. I feel that I am quite literate with them but there
are times when the policies and procedures at different locations make
it darn near impossible to do anything.
Terry

Ted Rosenberg wrote:
> 
> first:
> it does NOT "cost to call in", you just put pop3.cord.edu in your mail
> server list
> 
> Second: we get LOTS of people without school addresses - most are
> scammers - If she has any other way to verify her status, she could have
> offered it, besides she did not claim to be a distance learning student,
> merely living off campus.
> 
> Third: Syracuse would have given you an email address if you had asked
> 
> fourth:  She keeps claiming that students there DO NOT get email
> addresses - patently false - and easily checked.
> 
> It is QUITE POSSIBLE that she is just too computer illiterate to know
> what she is doing, but we can't depend on that
>