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Re: Gmail for students and IMAP
From: Michael Sinatra <michael () RANCID BERKELEY EDU>
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2009 00:53:17 -0700
Jim Dutcher wrote:On a related note...especially for schools who host their email internally...does your school have as part of its policies, to ensure that all email correspondence is kept private?
Yes. This is a University of California systemwide policy.
Not subject to inspection?
Only in very extreme circumstances. It's even pretty difficult to get permission read deceased persons' emails.
To clarify, I did not mean to imply that this behavior is rampant, but it is there.
"there" could always also = Google/Microsoft/name-your-outsourced-vendor here. They don't have policies as strict as we do. On 07/29/09 21:22, Cal Frye wrote:
That said, we have switched to Google Mail, across the board, and we know that our policies are not enforceable outside of contract law with Google. It is a calculated risk, and we have an explicit policy which warns folks of the insecurity of having their data stored in Google Apps. The costs of dealing with the ever-increasing load of spam made a strong argument.
I think the spam load can be dealt with, given a paid subscription to Spamhaus and judicious use of Spamassassin. But I agree that the carefully-crafted privacy policies of your institution go out the window when you out-source to Google.
Personally, I have a hard time understanding how I can have someone else do a job for me I used to do, and make a profit on it, while still overall saving me money. But then again I used to be adjunct faculty, so I'll grant it's not impossible ;-)
But not terribly likely. michael
Current thread:
- Re: Gmail for students and IMAP, (continued)
- Re: Gmail for students and IMAP Cal Frye (Jul 29)
- Re: Gmail for students and IMAP James M. Dutcher - Assoc. VP IS/IT & CIO (Jul 29)
- Re: Gmail for students and IMAP James M. Dutcher - Assoc. VP IS/IT & CIO (Jul 29)
- Re: Gmail for students and IMAP John Kristoff (Jul 29)
- Re: Gmail for students and IMAP James M. Dutcher - Assoc of IS/IT & CIO (Jul 29)
- Re: Gmail for students and IMAP James M. Dutcher - Assoc of IS/IT & CIO (Jul 29)
- Re: Gmail for students and IMAP Mike Porter (Jul 29)
- Re: Gmail for students and IMAP James M. Dutcher - Assoc of IS/IT & CIO (Jul 29)
- Re: Gmail for students and IMAP Joel Rosenblatt (Jul 29)
- Re: Gmail for students and IMAP Cal Frye (Jul 29)
- Re: Gmail for students and IMAP Michael Sinatra (Jul 30)
- Re: Gmail for students and IMAP McClenon, Braden (Jul 30)
- Re: Gmail for students and IMAP McClenon, Braden (Jul 30)
- Re: Gmail for students and IMAP Joel Rosenblatt (Jul 30)
- Re: Gmail for students and IMAP Willis Marti (Jul 30)
- Re: Gmail for students and IMAP McClenon, Braden (Jul 30)
- Re: Gmail for students and IMAP Joel Rosenblatt (Jul 30)
- Re: Gmail for students and IMAP Stanclift, Michael (Jul 30)
- Re: Gmail for students and IMAP Valdis Kletnieks (Jul 30)
- Re: Gmail for students and IMAP McClenon, Braden (Jul 30)
- Re: Gmail for students and IMAP Michael Sinatra (Jul 30)
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