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A lot of institutions used to run their own e-mail. Over the years I've watched as my e-mail addresses (both universities and my current employer) have been rep
by derf_ 7y ago
A lot of institutions used to run their own e-mail. Over the years I've watched as my e-mail addresses (both universities and my current employer) have been replaced by Gmail on the backend. All of them stopped being willing to manage e-mail themselves. None of them were willing to use a less surveillance-oriented provider. That choice wasn't made by consumers. It was made by the same kind of informed IT people. I suspect it wasn't free, either.
- hunter2_ 7y agoFor universities, it actually is free (as in beer), aside from the university staff's compensation toward the migration.
- godzillabrennus 7y agoI remember when Dartmouth ran blitz mail... when google talk supported jabber... when people complained mostly about MAPI... It’s a shame that so many innovations are being squashed in communication because of the “free” price for cloud solutions. Google is learning so much about students thanks to this program.
- red_admiral 7y agoI thought the main problem with e-mail specifically was spam, and the reputation model that's arisen to combat it: a medium-sized university running their own e-mail service runs a risk of getting their domain blacklisted, if a few accounts are compromised and start sending out mass mailings.