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> Anyone with a .edu address is a student I actually meet the reverse more often: Every student has an .edu. I think only _some_ american college students can

> Anyone with a .edu address is a student I actually meet the reverse more often: Every student has an .edu. I think only _some_ american college students can be expected to have an e-mail address.

OJFord 4y ago
Or they might have an email address but it not be .edu - in the UK they're .ac.uk for example. Used to annoy me when US sites would use email to validate my studenthood and then miss it anyway (and the service was supposed to be available here). Oh that makes me think of another: Anyone with a university email address is still a student/faculty member!
- alistairSH 4y ago
  Oh that makes me think of another: Anyone with a university email address is still a student/faculty member! My uni offered lifetime email forwarding from out edu address as far back as 1999. I haven't had anything to do with them since them.
- School-Cotton 4y ago
  > Anyone with a university email address is still a student/faculty member Yep. I rarely log in to it now, but my @email.arizona.edu address is still alive and well, 9 years after leaving the university.
  - OJFord 4y ago
    Oh that's impossible to deal with then. Mine at least changed to @alumni.imperial.ac.uk (vs. @imperial.ac.uk) - so you could exclude me (now) if you really wanted to go all out.
- cesarb 4y ago
  > Or they might have an email address but it not be .edu - in the UK they're .ac.uk for example. At least you have a common suffix. Around here, a student at the computer science department of the federal university of the Rio de Janeiro state (UFRJ) could have an email at the domain dcc.ufrj.br; yes, universities which got on the Internet early enough have their domains directly on the ccTLD.
  - account42 4y ago
    No common suffix for universities either in Germany. And at my university, comp sci students didn't get just one emeail but a second one administered by the comp sci department. Actually, it does seem that they have a .edu now. I guess those aren't restricted to US-based institutions anymore?

> Anyone with a .edu address is a student I actually meet the reverse more often: Every student has an .edu. I think only _some_ american college students can be expected to have an e-mail address.

OJFord 4y ago

Or they might have an email address but it not be .edu - in the UK they're .ac.uk for example. Used to annoy me when US sites would use email to validate my studenthood and then miss it anyway (and the service was supposed to be available here). Oh that makes me think of another: Anyone with a university email address is still a student/faculty member!

alistairSH 4y ago
Oh that makes me think of another: Anyone with a university email address is still a student/faculty member! My uni offered lifetime email forwarding from out edu address as far back as 1999. I haven't had anything to do with them since them.
School-Cotton 4y ago
> Anyone with a university email address is still a student/faculty member Yep. I rarely log in to it now, but my @email.arizona.edu address is still alive and well, 9 years after leaving the university.
- OJFord 4y ago
  Oh that's impossible to deal with then. Mine at least changed to @alumni.imperial.ac.uk (vs. @imperial.ac.uk) - so you could exclude me (now) if you really wanted to go all out.
cesarb 4y ago
> Or they might have an email address but it not be .edu - in the UK they're .ac.uk for example. At least you have a common suffix. Around here, a student at the computer science department of the federal university of the Rio de Janeiro state (UFRJ) could have an email at the domain dcc.ufrj.br; yes, universities which got on the Internet early enough have their domains directly on the ccTLD.
- account42 4y ago
  No common suffix for universities either in Germany. And at my university, comp sci students didn't get just one emeail but a second one administered by the comp sci department. Actually, it does seem that they have a .edu now. I guess those aren't restricted to US-based institutions anymore?