Yale Switching To Gmail, Not Without Opposition 439
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)."
In other news (Score:5, 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.
Does Google pay for this? (Score:1, Funny)
I too want to make a living astroturfing. Where do I apply?
Re:Having gone there... (Score:5, Funny)
Kids your days... /var/spool/mail/$USER
When I was at school, everyone used vi
Re:News flash: you'll never make everyone happy. (Score:4, Funny)
maybe they should form a committee to discuss the forming of a committee to discuss how to go about deciding whether to use gmail? that seems to be the way these things work.
My Ivy-League university uses Windows Live (Score:3, Funny)
...at least for the arts and sciences college. Like a good Slashdotter, I'm in engineering, which hosts their own mail (we even get a proper mailspool on our Unix home-directory). We have Pine or IMAP, or basically whatever we want.
Meanwhile "they" have Live Hotmail. I feel just terrible for them, and I'm embarrassed we're even doing such a thing.
In short, Yale - it could be worse.