Re: do your former employees get to keep their email address?

[Walter Moore <moorewr () ECKERD EDU>]

We do this as well, for both staff and faculty emeritus.


On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 10:51 AM, Pete Hickey <pete () shadows uottawa ca>wrote:

> In our case, only those who RETIRE get to keep their address.  All other
> employees who leave loose their address.
>
> On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 02:35:47PM +0000, Bob Bayn wrote:
> > This is only somewhat security related.   USU has just decided, by
> policy, to terminate an employee's email account and their email address at
> the end of employment.  There are two motivations for this new policy:
> > 1) University email address is being used as the access token for
> personal use of software that has been licensed by USU to include that use.
>  We cannot extend that access to former employees under terms of the
> licensing agreement.
> > 2) HR wants to be able to access and retain the business related
> communications that are directed to a former employee's address.
> > One category of protest to this decision is from people who want to
> maintain the professional connections they have made using their USU
> address.  That can't always be accomplished by sending out a
> change-of-address message to everyone in your addressbook.  Up to this
> point we HAVE been maintaining forwards from a former employee's old USU
> address to their current address elsewhere.
> > Has anyone else dealt with this transition in the extent of your email
> service?
> > Bob Bayn    SER 301    (435)797-2396       IT Security Team
> > Office of Information Technology,     Utah State University
> >      three common hazardous email scams to watch out for:
> >      1) unfamiliar transaction report from familiar business
> >      2) attachment with no explanation in message body
> >      3) "phishing" for your email password
>
> --
> Pete Hickey
> The University of Ottawa         "The sooner you fall behind,
> Ottawa, Ontario                   the more time you have to catch up."
> Canada



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