Thanks for the numbers, I hope we get more. Just on that point, I
don't think the issue is whether or not forwarding exactly exceeds
50%, just whether this affects a substantial enough number of
people. I would think 20% plenty substantial enough.
-- dkm
At 10/2/2009 11:43 AM Friday, you wrote:
>I am not sure about now, but the numbers I still have from 12/2006 were:
>
>147,015 Total Account on mail.msu.edu
>27,998 Accounts auto-forwarding
>
>So about ~20% or so, definitely not close to a majority but that was
>3 years ago. I do know the at least roughly 2/3 of our College's
>faculty, staff and students forward their MSU email to our GroupWise
>system. Anyway we could get accurate up-to-date numbers on this
>from ATS? If for nothing else than curiosity's sake :)
>
>Stephen Bogdanski
>Information Technology Center
>College of Veterinary Medicine
>Michigan State University
>
>
> >>> "Kevin M. Carr" <[log in to unmask]> 10/2/2009 11:34 AM >>>
>
> > 3.Most people use Gmail or another provider for their e-mail. If most of
> > the MSU community doesn't use mail.msu.edu, then therefore they need an
> > obvious way to auto-forward.
>
>Can you provide any evidence that "most people" use Gmail something other
>than mail.msu.edu as their primary mail service? And most people would mean
>50% of the all MSU faculty, staff and students. I communicate via e-mail
>with a large variety of MSU personnel and it is the rare case that someone
>is using a mail service other than mail.msu for this communication.
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