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Re: Discontinuing student email service
From: Jesse Thompson <jesse.thompson () DOIT WISC EDU>
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2010 14:25:38 -0600
Why not just put students onto your fac/staff email service? Jesse On 1/26/2010 1:33 PM, Moore, Frank wrote:
When we got rid of our student e-mail system which was at end of life and support we got rid of huge recurring maintenance costs as well as the expense of purchasing new hardware so we were pleased with the decision. frank F. X. Moore III, Ph.D. Vice President for Technology, CIO and Chief Privacy Officer Longwood University 201 High Street Farmville, VA 23909 (434) 395-2034 [voice] (434) 395-2035 [fax] http://www.longwood.edu Do not ever e-mail your password to anyone. IITS will never ask for your password -----Original Message----- From: The EDUCAUSE Security Constituent Group Listserv [mailto:SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU] On Behalf Of Michael J. Wheeler Sent: Tuesday, January 26, 2010 2:31 PM To: SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU Subject: Re: [SECURITY] Discontinuing student email service Jesse, I wrote the provisioning code, which I wrote in Java, but 99% of it was already there in the Google code samples. As for maintaining it, we've actually handed off to our helpdesk manager. It no longer takes root access to mess with accounts, so there is actually a net reduction in the work for my Unix administrator.
-- Jesse Thompson Division of Information Technology, University of Wisconsin-Madison Email/IM: jesse.thompson () doit wisc edu
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Current thread:
- Re: Discontinuing student email service, (continued)
- Re: Discontinuing student email service Bob Bayn (Jan 26)
- Re: Discontinuing student email service Gregg, Christopher S. (Jan 26)
- Re: Discontinuing student email service Terence Ma (Jan 26)
- Re: Discontinuing student email service Michael J. Wheeler (Jan 26)
- Re: Discontinuing student email service Moore, Frank (Jan 26)
- Re: Discontinuing student email service Bob Bayn (Jan 26)
- Re: Discontinuing student email service Jesse Thompson (Jan 26)
- Re: Discontinuing student email service Julian Y. Koh (Jan 26)
- Re: Discontinuing student email service Michael J. Wheeler (Jan 26)
- Re: Discontinuing student email service Moore, Frank (Jan 26)
- Re: Discontinuing student email service Jesse Thompson (Jan 26)
- Re: Discontinuing student email service Jesse Thompson (Jan 26)
- Re: Discontinuing student email service Eric Case (Jan 27)
- Re: Discontinuing student email service Stephen John Smoogen (Jan 27)