This is beginning to smell like a good workshop/discussion for the un-conference on Sunday. "Google Eating University Email Services, Many Concerned -- or -- Hard-pressed Institutions Saving a Buck with Google's Quality Email Service"
> 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 >> >> > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://freeculture.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss > _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://freeculture.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss
