Re: Alumni and Retiree Email Question

["Seth A. Shestack" <shestack () TEMPLE EDU>]

We have alumni email for all (for life as long as they update their contact info with the advancement office annually)
The advantage to the Alumni is a free email account that continues to use the same address that they have used while a 
student.
The advantage to the university it that it helps the advancement office keep contact information up to date for 
solicitations.
We also have some retiree email although that is declining, mainly faculty who believe that they are entitled to it, 
however it is something we discourage.

Regards
Seth

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On Tue, 29 Oct 2019 21:11:38 -0000, "Jones, Mark B" said:

> I have never heard of any institutions with stories of anything but rare use
> of alumni or retiree email accounts.

I guess I'm a rare exception.  :)

> From an alumni/retiree perspective the only advantage to 'email for life' is
> the free service.  But there are so many free email options available and
> people normally establish a free email account before they become affiliated
> with the university.

Remember that somebody retiring now with 30 years service started in 1989, and
probably didn't have a free email account before they took the job, unless it
was one from a *very* progressive ISP.  Hotmail launched in 1996, Yahoo Mail in
1997, and GMail has only been out for the public for 15 years since 2004, which
is kind of short service for retirement unless the person had another position
for a long time elsewhere....

Back in 1993, "always on connection, email client, and gopher client" was
enough to make the national news.

http://www.bev.net/about-us/history-bev

(I'm sure Randy has a few bar stories about the zoo getting *that* service
launched, I know I do.. :)

No web browser, because http and html were still in the future....

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