I started writing a few things here, and then I realized I should give up and realize that this piece by Asheesh puts it better than I will. Please read it: http://www.asheesh.org/note/debian/google-edu-mail.html
On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 11:34 PM, Alec Story <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm curious as to why people are so opposed to this move. Cornell moved to > Google's hosting last year, and it's meant a massive usability improvement - > usable webmail, docs, etc, and hosting that doesn't end when you graduate. > The only privacy loss is that, instead of being hosted on campus servers of > unknown quality and unknown admins, it's hosted on Google's servers of > unknown quality, and unknown admins. At least if you sue Google for > screwing it up they can't mess with your academic record. You can always > choose to not use the campus email, anyway. > > (Full disclosure: I interned at Google this summer) > > -- > Alec Story > Cornell University > Biological Sciences, Computer Science 2012 > > > On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 10:42 PM, Aditi Rajaram <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Was going to send this out but I guess you beat me to it! I went back and >> re-read the Yale thread (when this happened at Yale), and while I wholly >> disagree with it - I think that even though I use Gmail, the choice is >> what's important - the general reaction I've heard is "thank god, NYU's >> email is terrible." Which it is - and I, like many others, forward my NYU >> email to my Gmail - but that's my choice. It's also going to save the school >> a ton of money (around 400k a year, apparently?) so that's a huge >> motivator/NYU is cheap. >> >> So the CS/math department has their own emails, but they're maintained >> separately so my guess is that they won't move. >> >> I was thinking about taking the same route as Adi and writing an Op-Ed w/ >> SFC NYU about it, but I haven't really come up with any other >> possibilities..what are others' thoughts? >> >> >> On Nov 1, 2010, at 12:53 PM, Alex Leavitt wrote: >> >> For the general SFC crowd, but particularly interested in what the NYU >> crew has to say: >> >> >> http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/11/passing-torch-to-cloud-nyu-is-going.html >> >> *Today, NYU announced that it’s moving to Google Apps for >> Education<http://google.com/a/edu>, >> providing cloud-based email and collaboration tools to the entire university >> community. This announcement comes just weeks after New York State created >> an >> initiative<http://googleenterprise.blogspot.com/2010/10/im-in-google-apps-state-of-mind.html>to >> bring Google Apps for Education to their K-12 schools.* >> * >> * >> So what do y'all think? >> >> Alex >> _______________________________________________ >> Discuss mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://freeculture.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss >> FAQ: http://wiki.freeculture.org/Fc-discuss >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Discuss mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://freeculture.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss >> FAQ: http://wiki.freeculture.org/Fc-discuss >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://freeculture.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss > FAQ: http://wiki.freeculture.org/Fc-discuss > > -- http://www.madebyparker.com
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