This seems to have a lot of answers... It's a Google Q&A session with ASU:
http://74.125.47.132/search?q=cache:P66bh5pCrl4J:vpiet.ucdavis.edu/students/UCD.Google.Meeting.Notes.01.24.07.doc+ferpa+gmail&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us Essentially, we're writing an op-ed about this decision, but focusing less on (yet definitely mentioning) the potential issues, and more on the lack of transparency behind this change. -Adi On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 10:12 AM, Alec Story <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 9:57 AM, Greg Grossmeier <[email protected]>wrote: > >> "useful" web interface is up for debate regarding gmail: where the EF are >> my threads? Do you know where in the thread I am replying right now, and >> to whom? Only because I quote correctly. </rant> >> >> But seriously, I don't know of any modern university IT department who >> also doesn't have "tons of storage" along with IMAP and POP access. >> > > Well, I can give you one that doesn't: Cornell's in-house system (which is > still running, I think, although they're trying to move everybody off of it) > only offer something like 200 MB of storage, which is very easy to fill, > even without trying to use email for storing much. And the web interface we > had before was a joke - it took six or seven clicks just to get to the most > recent messages, messages weren't sorted by anything by default as far as I > could tell, and even when you got them sorted by date, the most recent > loaded at the bottom, and it took the server 1-2 minutes to send you the > previous 100 or so messages on that page. I used Evolution because there > was no other feasible way to read email, but I couldn't use it on library > computers, and thunderbird portable is a hassle to bring everywhere with > you. > > So, from a usability standpoint, a lot of us here welcomed Google with open > arms, but there's shockingly little thought about the privacy > ramifications. We tried to raise some awareness, but FCCornell is suffering > from, er, acute member shortage. > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://freeculture.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss > >
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