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

[Pete Hickey <pete () SHADOWS UOTTAWA CA>]

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

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Pete Hickey                      
The University of Ottawa         "The sooner you fall behind,
Ottawa, Ontario                   the more time you have to catch up."
Canada