[FC-discuss] Yale switching to Google Apps / Gmail

[Adi Kamdar]

This seems to have a lot of answers...
It's a Google Q&A session with ASU:

http://74.125.47.132/search?q=cache:P66bh5pCrl4J:vpiet.ucdavis.edu/students/UCD.Google.Meeting.Notes.01.24.07.doc+ferpa+gmail&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us

Essentially, we're writing an op-ed about this decision, but focusing less
on (yet definitely mentioning) the potential issues, and more on the lack of
transparency behind this change.

-Adi


On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 10:12 AM, Alec Story <avs38 at cornell.edu> wrote:

> On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 9:57 AM, Greg Grossmeier <greg at grossmeier.net>wrote:
>
>> "useful" web interface is up for debate regarding gmail: where the EF are
>> my threads? Do you know where in the thread I am replying right now, and
>> to whom? Only because I quote correctly. </rant>
>>
>> But seriously, I don't know of any modern university IT department who
>> also doesn't have "tons of storage" along with IMAP and POP access.
>>
>
> Well, I can give you one that doesn't:  Cornell's in-house system (which is
> still running, I think, although they're trying to move everybody off of it)
> only offer something like 200 MB of storage, which is very easy to fill,
> even without trying to use email for storing much.  And the web interface we
> had before was a joke - it took six or seven clicks just to get to the most
> recent messages, messages weren't sorted by anything by default as far as I
> could tell, and even when you got them sorted by date, the most recent
> loaded at the bottom, and it took the server 1-2 minutes to send you the
> previous 100 or so messages on that page.  I used Evolution because there
> was no other feasible way to read email, but I couldn't use it on library
> computers, and thunderbird portable is a hassle to bring everywhere with
> you.
>
> So, from a usability standpoint, a lot of us here welcomed Google with open
> arms, but there's shockingly little thought about the privacy
> ramifications.  We tried to raise some awareness, but FCCornell is suffering
> from, er, acute member shortage.
>
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