A Diploma and an Email Account for Life

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Saturday May 5, 2001 @06:59AM from the bouncy-bouncy-bouncy dept.

ackthpt writes "Graduate college and you may gain an email address for life. This story in the Associated Press Get that ordinary 'grad' email or get the prestige of 'alumni' email address. Great for keeping in touch with your college buds, or "Schools can also be sure they'll get the latest e-mail addresses of their alums to send newsletters, invitations to events, perhaps even pitches for financial gifts." That 'financial gifts' is probably the kicker, after working with a 'college development office' for years, I learned how valuable it can be to shorten the distance it takes to reach out and touch someone. Of course, there's still the anonymity of that old ivy-covered-standby, Hotmail.U ;-)" Plus if you don't like your fellow grads, its easier to mass filter!

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Re:that's it?! by SimplyCosmic · 2001-05-05 07:28 · Score: 5

Well, I've always looked at it as paying $14,000 for an ethernet internet connection, and getting an education thrown in for free.
that's it?! by Arctic+Fox · 2001-05-05 03:01 · Score: 5

After paying upwards of 50 or 60K for an education that's all you get? A lousy friggin email address?
Least they could do was give you a shell account or dialup....
What other account? by Mateorabi · 2001-05-05 03:24 · Score: 4

You're a college grad out on there own. You probably don't have an ISP: you don't even have a house/apartment yet and you've been an ethernet junkie for 4 years. Work? Soon, but not just yet. And who the hell uses an internet email address if you get your mail from campus servers quick and easy.

I personaly would trust my school with my mail much more than the other three any way

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