I'm not sure who to contact about up to date stats, but here is what I have from December of 2006:
147,015 Current Account
27,998 Users Forwarding
Hosts with 100 or more forwarding hits:
4,926 gmail.com
4,479 hotmail.com
3,916 yahoo.com
1,345 aol.com
1,144 mail.msu.edu
725 msu.edu
551 egr.msu.edu
517 comcast.net
512 ht.msu.edu
474 cvmstudent.cvm.msu.edu
415 bus.msu.edu
340 anr.msu.edu
327 cvm.msu.edu
306 mail.hfs.msu.edu
286 sbcglobal.com
247 hc.msu.edu
216 msn.com
168 esp.msu.edu
148 pa.msu.edu
135 mail.lib.msu.edu
128 ath.msu.edu
124 umich.edu <-- what!? lol
124 ais.msu.edu
122 nscl.msu.edu
115 math.msu.edu
106 pplant.msu.edu
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Stephen Bogdanski
Network Support
College of Veterinary Medicine
Michigan State University
>>> On 8/30/2007 at 9:39 AM, <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> I'd be interested in seeing a breakdown of forwarding address domains if
> at all possible.
>
> Just some data collected from the mail.msu.edu user base as a whole,
> that says something like 15,000 of 150,000 users forward their e-mail.
> Of these users, here are the top 10 used e-mail domains that users
> choose to forward their e-mail to:
>
> @gmail.com
> @hotmail.com
> @yahoo.com
> Etc, etc...
>
> Would any data like this be available to this list?
>
> Taking this even further would be to analyze this in a students vs.
> fac/staff manor, but I realize this part may be difficult.
>
> Appreciate the consideration.
>
> Regards,
>
> Chris Harper
> INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY SPECIALIST
> University Relations / Michigan State University
> 401 Olds Hall, East Lansing, MI 48824-1047
> Email: [log in to unmask] / Direct: 517.355.9980
> Web: http://ur.msu.edu / Cell: 517.290.5496
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: MSU Network Administrators Group [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
> Behalf Of Steve Bogdanski
> Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2007 9:19 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: [MSUNAG] Five more US schools go to GMail for email, apps
>
> While there have been both noteworthy pros and cons mentioned about this
> issue so far, it seems that many people are missing another big point.
> I always thought that the largest issue most MSU members have had with
> mail.msu.edu is available storage. The 128MB quota is just too low for
> most students and faculty, which gives them two options: either download
> their email to a local computer (and lose backups and the ability to
> access it anywhere) or forward to another account with more space
> available. That is what makes Gmail, Yahoo! and Hotmail so attractive,
> they offer far larger amounts of storage (2GB-5GB). Currently about 2/3
> to 3/4 of our users (out of ~1,300) forward their MSU mail to our system
> and our storage allocations are a little more liberal than MSU's
> (faculty/staff get 512MB and students get 256MB). Now whether it is
> financially feasible for MSU to offer even a modest increase in mail
> storage space is a whole other question.
>
> Outside of space constraints, I do believe Nick is correct that the next
> biggest issue is the front-end interface with things such as additional
> features (calendar, IM, etc) being a much lower priority. There is also
> the difference in opinions between faculty/staff and students. A good
> example of this is calendaring features. Our faculty and staff love it
> and many could not live without it, where as students have always had
> access to the same features but rarely ever use them.
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