Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2010 09:51:37 -0500 From: "Hall, Rand" Subject: Discontinuing student email service MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On the heels of another student email outsourcing question...it has occurre= d to me that some of us may want to step back and reflect on the following = question: Why do we still provide student email accounts? We once provided labs full of typewriters and then computers. We used to pr= ovide our own dialup service. Once these things were commoditized we were a= ble to largely eliminate them. Do student email accounts fall into the same= lifecycle pattern? Cheers, Rand -- Rand P. Hall * Director, Network Services Merrimack College * SunGard Higher Education 315 Turnpike Street, North Andover MA 01845 * Tel 978-837-5000 Fax 978-837-5383 * rand.hall () merrimack edu * www.sungardhe.com CONFIDENTIALITY:=A0 This e-mail (including any attachments) may contain confidential, proprietary and privileged information, and unauthorized disclosure or use is prohibited.=A0 If you received this e-mail in error, please notify the sender and delete this e-mail from your system.