At 10:41 AM -0400 10/2/09, Richard Wiggins wrote:
Apparently I've caused a bit of tempest in the teapot.
I'lve had one jackass hang up on me and another threaten me.
Wow! We alll need less drama.
So let's all simmer down, myself included.
Here are the points I was trying to make:
1. MSU has made an intitutional statement that students and staff
must use
mail.msu.edu to receive
official e-mail.
This makes sense to me. Many people I know switch from
Yahoo to Comcast to Google to Whatever but their MSU ID always stays
the same. I suspect there are some legal issues here as
well.
This is where I get confused about your argument. As been stated
a dozen times before there are two parts to the the e-mail system.
The web front end, which could be a lot faster, but actually seems to
work O.K. for me. And there is the back end that can be accessed by
any number of clients. Who is making you use the web
interface?
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.
Do you have some statistics on mail provider usage by MSU
students and staff. Where would I find these?
4.
Mail.msu.edu hides the auto
forward function. The expected options are along a ribbon bar as one
would expect. The most important option on
mail.msu.edu is hidden under an obscure
label of "MSU Prefs."
After you original e-mail I was curious how hard it was to
forward my MSU e-mail. It took me three clicks to find it
(options, mail.msu.edu, MSU Prefs) not the hour long nightmare you
describe. I then went to the main MSU search page and typed
"forward mail" this returned one hit that told me exactly
where to look.
Could the interface be better? Probably. Is it terrible?
I don't think so.
So let's make this clear: the leading land grand university
hides how to receive communications from the institution. This
is not optimal.
Folks, I've mostly laid under radio silence for a year. I
will now go back into silence. Googbye and good luck.