class's typical modes of behavior. If you jump right in, you might
risk accidentally offending someone.
-* **<sipb,\*,\*>** - The general class for SIPB members and prospectives. General discussion. It's considered polite to always use an instance when sending to **-c sipb**. *High traffic.*
+* **<sipb,\*,\*>** — The archetypal zephyr class for SIPB
+members and prospectives. Features general discussion about the SIPB,
+from brainstorming about projects to random bits of humor. It's
+considered polite to always use an instance when sending to **-c
+sipb**. *High traffic.*
-* **<sipb-door,\*,\*>** - Receives a zephyr whenever SIPB's office door opens or closes. Great way to keep track of whether the [[office]] is open or not.
+* **<sipb-door,\*,\*>** — Receives a zephyr whenever SIPB's office door opens or closes. Great way to keep track of whether the [[office]] is open or not.
-* **<sipb-auto,\*,\*>** - *High traffic.* Receives a variety of automatically generated zephyrs, including...
- * **<sipb-auto,sipbmp3,\*>** - Activity on [sipbmp3](http://http://sipb.mit.edu/sipbmp3/). *Usually high traffic.*
- * **<sipb-auto,sipb-door,\*>** - See **<sipb-door,\*,\*>** above.
- * **<sipb-auto,sipb-www,\*>** - Commit logs when changes are pushed to this website.
- * **<sipb-auto,backups,\*>** -
- * **<sipb-auto,nagios.stuff.HTTP,\*>** -
+* **<sipb-auto,\*,\*>** — *High traffic.* Receives a variety of automatically generated zephyrs, including...
+ * **<sipb-auto,sipbmp3,\*>** — Activity on [sipbmp3](http://sipb.mit.edu/sipbmp3/). *Usually high traffic.*
+ * **<sipb-auto,sipb-door,\*>** — See **<sipb-door,\*,\*>** above.
+ * **<sipb-auto,sipb-www,\*>** — Commit logs when changes are pushed to this website.
+ * **<sipb-auto,backups,\*>** — Log messages from automated backups of the SIPB AFS cell.
+ * **<sipb-auto,nagios.stuff.HTTP,\*>** — Alerts when SIPB's [stuff.mit.edu](http://stuff.mit.edu) server goes down.
## Classes for SIPB Projects
In general, you should only sub to these classes *if and only if*
you're interested in helping with a specific project.
-* **<scripts,\*,\*>** - If you're interested in getting involved
+* **<scripts,\*,\*>** — If you're interested in getting involved
with [Scripts](http://scripts.mit.edu/), subscribe here to see what
the Scripts team does behind the scenes. *High traffic.*
+* **<barnowl,\*,\*>** — Discussion of [Barnowl](http://barnowl.mit.edu/), a zephyr client written and maintained by SIPB members.
+
+* **<debathena,\*,\*>** — Discussion of [Debathena](http://debathena.mit.edu/), a project designed to bring the functionality of Athena to your Debian or Ubuntu system. Debathena is also the basis of the next official version of Athena. *High traffic.*
+
+* **<dodona-discuss,\*,\*>** — Discussing the development and coding of [Dodona](http://dodona.scripts.mit.edu), a SIPB zephyrbot.
+ * **<dodona,\*,\*>** — The "official" class for Dodona to run and give advice on. Currently *low traffic*, as Dodona rarely runs.
+ * **<dodona-test,\*,\*>** — Class for trial runs of Dodona. *High traffic*.
+
+* **<clockworks,\*,\*>** — Discussion of [[clockworks|projects/clockworks]].
+
+* **<mitex,\*,\*>** — Discussion of the development of [mitex](http://mitex.mit.edu). Note that this class receives a zephyr with each commit made.
+
## Other Useful Classes
-These are not SIPB-related classes, although many people affiliated
-with SIPB and/or IS\&T listen to them. In general, you should not send zephyrs to
-any of these classes.
+These are not actually SIPB-related classes, although many people
+affiliated with SIPB and/or IS&T listen to them. You should not send
+zephyrs to any of these classes unless you have a good reason.
-* *<consult,\*,\*>**
+* **<consult,\*,\*>** -
-* **<filsrv,\*,\*>**
+* **<filsrv,\*,\*>** — Announcements of filesystem outages
-* **<3down,\*,\*>**
+* **<3down,\*,\*>** — Recieves zephyrs about MIT service status (see also [3down website](http://3down.mit.edu/))
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