Melissa Unplugged

[Image: purple ball] 1969, The Tax-Conscious Investor
[Image: purple ball] 1986, Riverdale Neighborhood Phonebook
[Image: purple ball] 1990, Security Breaches: Five Recent Incidents at Columbia University
[Image: purple ball] 1992, Name Frequency on Usenet
[Image: purple ball] 1992, DeeJay - The Dump Jockey: A Heterogeneous Network Backup System
[Image: purple ball] 1993, Talking to Friends and Strangers
[Image: purple ball] 1995, Some SANS Conference Highlights
[Image: purple ball] 1996, 1997, The Wecagram
[Image: purple ball] 1998, Money Talks
[Image: purple ball] 2004, The School Newsletter
I first appeared in print in early 1969, when I was only four.
[Image: purple ball] Robert Metz, The Tax-Conscious Investor, Popular Library, 1969.
To my daughter Melissa, the four-year-old whose uncluttered mind served as a model and a reminder in the difficult areas.
For more from my Dad, see his on-line column.
I got my first apartment and made the phonebook in 1986.
[Image: purple ball] Riverdale Neighborhood Phonebook, NYTEL, 1986. 
Metz, Melissa    3210 Arlington    601-zzzz
I helped my friends write this paper in 1990, and went to Oregon where it was presented to a Security Workshop sponsored by CERT and USENIX.
[Image: purple ball] Fuat Baran, Howie Kaye, and Margarita Suarez, Security Breaches: Five Recent Incidents at Columbia University, Proceedings of the USENIX UNIX Security Workshop II, Portland, OR, August 27-28, 1990, p. 151-171.
We would like to thank Melissa Metz for helping during the incidents; our colleagues for proofreading this document and making extensive comments and suggestions; [...]
In the summer of 1992 my computer made it into print in ;login:, the USENIX Association newsletter.
[Image: purple ball] Elizabeth Zwicky, Name Frequency on Usenet, ;login:, July/August 1992, pp. 26-29.
There are several thousand way ties for least popular name (of course, truly unpopular names never occur at all, and there are millions of those), but I have listed the ones that struck me as notable. [...] A randomly chosen selection of the least popular names: [...] broccoli [...]
In the Summer of 1992, Howie and I wrote a paper about our networked backup system, submitted it to the USENIX/SAGE Systems Administration conference LISA VI, and presented it in Long Beach. It was written in roff, and converted to postscript, and is also available in the printed proceedings.
[Image: purple ball] Melissa Metz & Howie Kaye, DeeJay - The Dump Jockey: A Heterogeneous Network Backup System, LISA VI Conference Proceedings, Long Beach, CA, October 19-23, 1992, p. 115-125.
[DeeJay allows] a large variety of machines to connect to it to do their backups. Like most universities, we have a heterogeneous network made up of many different types of systems. We felt it was important to be able to support many of these systems, and to use the native backup software on each.
I wrote an article in 1993 for AcIS's newsletter, about using talk and email to communicate across the Internet.
[Image: purple ball] Melissa Metz, Talking to Friends and Strangers, Computing News, February 1993, pp. 3-4.
Once you have activated your computer account on the Columbia systems, there are many ways you can use it to communicate with people at Columbia, around the country, and around the world.
In April 1995 I went to the SANS IV conference in Washington, DC, sponsored by the Open Systems Conference Board (with the cooperation of SAGE et al), and wrote up some notes on the sessions I attended. It was printed in a subsequent issue of ;login:, the USENIX Association newsletter, in the SAGE section.
[Image: purple ball] Melissa Metz, Some SANS Conference Highlights, ;login:, August 1995, pp. 14-19.
[The Majordomo and Large Email Sites ] BOF dealt with assorted email administration issues, with a lengthy discussion (2.5 hours) of Majordomo, talk about POP, and how to administer aliases files. Seemed like a BOF that would be popular at many conferences.
My husband, Fuat Baran, N2YGN, was the newsletter editor for the Westchester Emergency Communications Association newsletter, from July 1996 through June 1998. WECA is a local ham radio club. For helping scan images and proofread, as well as general moral support, schlepping, folding, and stamping, I appeared in the masthead.
[Image: purple ball] Fuat Baran, editor, The Wecagram, July, 1996.
THE WECAGRAM
Editor: Fuat Baran, N2YGN
Assistant to the Editor: Melissa Metz, KB2SXB
After helping out at Field Day, I was mentioned in a Wecagram article.
[Image: purple ball] Bob Wilson, N2DVQ, Field Day, 1996, The Wecagram, August, 1996.
Fuat, N2YGN, and XYL Melissa, KB2SXB, make sure that all tripping/strangulation hazards are well marked with fluorescent orange tape. That probably saved a few lawsuits.
The next year I was mentioned for non-ham activity.
[Image: purple ball] Anthony Licata, N2NWZ, May Membership Meeting, The Wecagram, June, 1997.
Joe, KB2NBN, also announced that Fuat, N2YGN and his wife Melissa, KB2SXB, just had a new baby girl.
In 1998, I wrote a Life In The 20s column for the online Money Talks, the Daily Investment Magazine for the Serious Individual Investor.
[Image: purple ball] Melissa Metz, Life In The 20s: Sitting Ducks -- Not Supermom, Just a Mom who Works, Money Talks, April 29, 1998.
I tried everything in my search for a babysitter for my first-born. In that I've been there, done that -- if you'll pardon the cliche -- let me save you the trouble of hitting a lot of dead-ends; the agony of following a lot of paths to nowhere.
In 2004, I was a member of the Nominating Committee for the very first elections for the PTA of the School at Columbia University. I wrote an article for the PTA's newsletter about the elections and the new board's first PTA meeting.
[Image: purple ball] Melissa Metz, The Votes Are In, The School Newsletter, April 2004.
On March 23, the PTA Nominating Committee, including [...] Melissa Metz [...] presented a slate of candidates [who] were elected unanimously and will serve through May 2005.