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Alumni Email Detailed
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Patrick Aland)
Wed Mar 6 09:54:56 2002
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Date: Wed, 6 Mar 2002 10:44:21 -0500
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From: Patrick Aland <paland@STETSON.EDU>
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Got a few requests for a more detailed summary here it is:
Southwestern
we offer a free e-mail forwarding service where the alum registers for a
permanent alumni address in our domain, and we relay mail sent to that
address to an address which they specify. This is all done via the web
with cgi's and a database backend and sendmail on a Unix system.
Mount Holyoke
We simply allow alumnae to retain the account after graduation.
They must have graduated; we don't do this for students who visit
for a semester or year.
We ask they register yearly, but in practice that is only important
when there is a question about account security.
We do not advertise that if an alum wants an account who was not
on the system already that we will provide that.
For an official service, advertised to our alumanae magazine,
we are considering, but not yet decided, on offering IMAP-only
accounts. To do this, we need to have secure web password
and forwarding change forms.
Millersville
At Millersville University, we offer our alumni use of our email system for
1 year beyond graduation at no additional charge.
UMich
Forwarding: Free
ISP-like services: Charged-For
The University of Michigan relatively recently began offering e-mail
forwarding for life service. The intent is to help people with
communications during the transition from graduation to first (or
second) employment. They may loose track in real life, and the
potential is there in cyber-life if they don't have a consistent e-mail
address. Another read between the lines intent is to help the
University stay in contact with rich potential donors, oops, I mean, the
rich-in-experience alumni community. ;)
http://www.itd.umich.edu/help/faq/ocdirectory/dirFAQ8-01.html
What is e-mail redirection and why is the University offering it?
E-mail redirection, also known as "free e-mail forwarding," is a service
that the University has begun offering to alumni. It is sponsored by the
Provost, the Office of Development, the Alumni Association, various
schools and colleges, and ITCS. It gives alumni the opportunity to have
any e-mail that is sent to them at umich.edu redirected to them at an
e-mail location of their choosing. The service enables the University
and its alumni to maintain a lifelong relationship.
The University is an ISP for current affiliates, and alumni can
subscribe to a similar package of services
"Students can continue to use their Basic Computing Package services for
one term after they graduate or leave the University. To continue
services after that, you can sign up for U-M Online."
Trinity College
If a recent alum keeps checking their account - either via the web or pop
client at least once every 60 days (may be 90 but i think it is 60) the
account will stay active indefinitely. If the students stops checking it the
account will become disused - we will maintain a forward for them forever
but they will not have an actual Trinity account anymore. Also once a
student graduates their email address changes to incorporate their class
year - for example if I graduated in 2000 my email would be
david.tatem.2000@trincoll.edu.
Providence
Currently we do not offer the alumni any email services.
Our Alumni Department was looking into some offcampus site offering
redirection. We were to setup an MX record in our DNS so that mail to
alumni.providence.edu would end up at their site.
Our administration was not crazy about the use of our domain name by people
not within arms reach. Imagine the Secret Service showing up here looking
for baduser@alumni.providence.edu because of presidential death
threats. When asked, "Where's baduser?" all we'd be able to do is shrug
our shoulders.
I had suggested that the Alumni Department get their own domain, something
along the lines of pcalumni.org as an attempt to have some detachment from
the school, yet give the alumni their warm fuzzy feeling. I've heard
nothing more on the subject.
QueenSU
Our Alumni dept keeps bringing this up, too. It would be a free service and
users could choose their own userids. They estimated 80k users within 5
years. Briefly, we came up with 2 scenarios for them.
1. Local POP/IMAP/web accounts and disk
- huge disk and cpu
- maintaining an extra 80k users ( over quota, unread mail for long periods
of time, etc )
2. email address aliasing
- no disk
- few maintenance costs
We shopped quotes around to places like Sendmail.com and portal vendors.
Everyone recommends scenario 2.
Organizations like IEEE do this, too. They offer an email aliasing service
to their members. You create geoffleboldus@ieee.org, but you tell the
system what that should actually forward to. This is really great because
people do move around and their primary email address will change. It does
put the onus on the user to keep it up to date and you will have the
occasional bounced mail problem.
Westminster
We keep all of there services that they had as a student for 3 years.
only by request.
Simon's Rock
For a long time, we never expired accounts, but changed usernames to
designate alumni status. Now alumni keep their accounts (same address) by
default for one year after leaving. We currently allow (and encourage)
alumni to keep their email accounts for as long as they are active.
Whether they are active or not is determined by sending out an email once
a year to all alumni and waiting a month for replies. The same policy
applies to former faculty and to former staff, unless their supervisors
recommend otherwise.
Northwestern
At Northwestern, we provide 2 options. Before the student's NetID
becomes inactive, he can choose to redirect his current
username@northwestern.edu alias to another email account (e.g. Hotmail)
but retain his username@northwestern.edu alias for life. The second
option is to sign up for a new email forwarding address (also for life)
which is in the form of another_username@alumni.northwestern.edu (try
typing that 3 times fast!). When you register w/ option 2, we also give
access to the online alumni directory.
University of Guelph
We charge a monthly fee for these services..you can see what alumni get at
http://www.uoguelph.ca/ccs/internet/associates
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