What I remember was an issue with who owns the data that passes through the mail system.  Seems like the Google terms of service (TOS) said Google owned it, but then later it was commented it, I believe by David Gift himself, that the GMail TOS trumpted the Google TOS and that the individual owns the data.
 
However my memory has been incorrect in the past, just ask my wife.
 
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Troy Murray
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Michigan State University
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From: MSU Network Administrators Group on behalf of Kim Geiger
Sent: Fri 4/24/2009 10:57 AM
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Subject: [MSUNAG] Google Mail

Can somebody refresh my memory on why we decided not to move student and/or faculty staff email accounts to Gmail under Google's education offering?

Somebody asked me, but I have only the vaguest recollection.  Thanks.

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Kim Geiger
Information Technologist
Broadcasting Services
Michigan State University
517-432-3120 x 429