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We would still have to deal with the administrative tasks of all those thousands of forwarding accounts. The only thing that forwarding would save is storage sp
by jerrac 16y ago
We would still have to deal with the administrative tasks of all those thousands of forwarding accounts. The only thing that forwarding would save is storage space. And that's likely a minimal cost.
Though, since that kind of thing isn't what I deal with, I might ask the people who do what they think of that idea.
- pmorici 16y agoIt couldn't possibly be that prohibitively expensive to provide simple forwarding. Purdue University for example offers a life time @alumni.purdue.edu forwarding address to every graduate.
- jerrac 16y agoReally? Like I said, that's not my purview, and I may mention the idea to those who would be responsible for it. The main sticking point right now, I think, is that we are short staffed, and administering the service would be just that much extra. That's also likely one of the reasons we aren't using Google Apps yet.
- pmorici 16y agoReally, https://gateway.purdue.edu/ https://gateway.purdue.edu/ once you graduate you go signup through the alumni website and then you can change your address or the forwarding address via the web at any time. It's not like some sys admin is sitting there creating accounts for each graduate that wants a forwarding address. Sounds like you might need to advocate a healthy does of automation. In my 4 years of school I never had an IT problem and never interacted with anyone from the University IT department.