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Hello NAG I appreciate the work and service that our MSU network and email personnel provide for us. There is always room for improvement. The students do need more disk space in their email accounts. The danger of our MSU email data being misused is real and I believe it has happened to me in spite of MSU's email AUP. I have sent emails complaining about MSU problems to MSU administration and have had them copied (resent as if cc'd by me) to my supervisor. I know I did not cc these emails to my supervisior. I believe this was an attempt to keep me from complaining about problems that MSU did not want to address. So do not believe that our own internal MSU email system is beyond being misused. Cliff -- Clifford L. Beckett office: 517-355-4659 Electronic System Designer cell: 517-449-8226 A411 E. Fee fax: 517-353-0789 OMM Department email: [log in to unmask] Michigan State University web: www.obl.msu.edu East Lansing MI, 48824 Robert Kriegel wrote: > The core principle of Goggle's success, and the part that worries > Microsoft and should concern us [for different reasons] is search. > Its a great tool that I use almost every day, but: > > electronic correspondance stored by a company external to MSU + > sensitive data + > government requests for data + > corporate (e.g., recording industry) requests for data + > AUP governed by corporate business practices, not MSU governance + > the industry leader in delivering search results > = > potential loss of control of data + > potential loss of privacy + > potential for data to be searched, analyzed and used for non-MSU purposes > > I hate to be paranoid, but [since that is formally part of my job > description] could we ever be absolutely, positively, 110% certain > that MSU correspondance controlled by Goggle could never be used to > identify dissidents or dissenting views for clients that potentially > include corporations, foreign governments, or even our own > government. Individuals choosing to use GMail or other systems on > their own is fine, but a university policy to outsource email hosting > must vault an awefully high bar for it to pass muster. I will gladly > sacrifice some ease of use to ensure privacy and control of the server > side dataset. > > Now, pardon me while I wave at the camera mounted on that roof top > just across the parking lot [just kidding]. > > back to the bit mines, > /bob