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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 -- 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.