Re: [tlug] outsourcing email service

[Micheal Cooper <mcooper@example.com>]

stephen@example.com wrote:
> Because if there's a leak of personal information, it'll be your bad.
> Just don't be the hundred-and-first.
>   
<snip>
> Just because you have nothing valuable
> doesn't mean they won't steal it anyway.
Point well-taken. Thank you very much.

I had another idea after reading responses from you and Josh Glover, but 
it gets a little theoretical, in the sense that I am just wondering what 
others think.

How about just closing the college email to the outside? All the 
students and all the teachers have free email accounts anyway, and they 
use them more than the in-house email because they can take those 
accounts with them when they leave. The in-house email could be 
restricted to in-house communication, keeping the webmail interface so 
that people offsite would be able to send inhouse emails from the 
internet (SSL, of course). All contact with the outside would be done 
with the user's personal email address (Yahoo, Gmail, Hotmail, and the 
like), and all school/ student info would be sent and received with the 
in-house email.

A company or a university providing an email address used to be the only 
way to get one, but now everyone has multiple addresses, and it is 
managing all of these different contact routes that complicates things. 
Perhaps we are moving toward a day when ISP and free and cellphone email 
is so ubiquitous that institutional email is intranet-only, making a 
clear separation between work and private lives, and ensuring that 
intra-company info never leaves the company network.

Just a thought,
Micheal