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Yale Switching To Gmail, Not Without Opposition

Posted by timothy on from the maybe-schools-should-not-be-isps dept.

PwnSnake writes "While it makes sense for small (and large) corporations to move to Gmail, something seems amiss when a top private university decides to hand everything over to Google. Although most in that community seem to welcome the change, several organizations on campus have joined forces to call for a transparent process and get students and faculty thinking about the downsides of the switch. The problem is choice (users can already forward mail to Gmail; it doesn't make sense to force that option and not have a backup or opt-out mail server)."

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  1. In other news by dkleinsc · · Score: 4, Funny

    Harvard, just to spite Yale, has switched its mail system over to Yahoo! Mail. Also, 3 MIT students are currently being investigated for breaking into the accounts of the presidents of both universities and sending out notices to their entire university saying that the cafeteria systems at their universities had recently added a free bar.

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  2. Re:Having gone there... by hoggoth · · Score: 4, Funny

    Kids your days...
    When I was at school, everyone used vi /var/spool/mail/$USER

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