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If that's what he was trying to say, it was certainly poorly expressed. People at MSU can use any email system they want, and they can forward mail or not as they please. There is absolutely no "demand" that has anything to do with either "forwarding" or "foreign addresses". The only demand is that they read their msu.edu mail, which we all know. -----Original Message----- From: MSU Network Administrators Group [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of David McFarlane Sent: Thursday, October 01, 2009 4:54 PM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: [MSUNAG] A note about MSU's first e-mail system, circa 1983 -- and in 2009 Rich, You may have misundestood Chris's question, as I had the same problem with the strong wording of your statement. It sounded like you meant that MSU demands that everyone have an e-mail account outside of MSU, and then that everyone have all their MSU e-mail forwarded to that account, which would be absurd. I think you only meant that MSU will send official mail only to msu.edu addresses, which means users need do nothing if they already get their mail at msu.edu, but those who use a foreign system must *then* forward their msu.edu mail to their foreign address. Did I get that right? I think that's all that Chris was wondering about. Regards, -- dkm >MSU requires, in particular, that students understand that official >MSU mail will come to their <http://msu.edu>msu.edu e-mail >address. MSU wiill no loger send official paper mail to students. > >Listen carefully, Chris. Paper mail is no longer. Therefore your ><http://msu.edu>msu.edu address is critical. > >You've been gone for a while, Chris. Don't comment on things you >don't know about, OK? > >/rich > >On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 4:26 PM, Chris Wolf ><<mailto:[log in to unmask]>[log in to unmask]> wrote: >"MSU demands that folks set their <http://mail.msu.edu/>mail.msu.edu >forwarding to a foreign address. " > >What is this statement supposed to mean? I don't forward my MSU >email, and I know many others who don't. > > >---------- >From: MSU Network Administrators Group [mailto:[log in to unmask]] >On Behalf Of Richard Wiggins >Sent: Thursday, October 01, 2009 3:47 PM > >To: <mailto:[log in to unmask]>[log in to unmask] >Subject: Re: [MSUNAG] A note about MSU's first e-mail system, circa >1983 -- and in 2009 > >CE was a student project. Henrich wrote a far better Webmail tool. >which I'm not sure why was never delpoyed. > >Never mind all that. Let's forget CL history. > >It is 2009, not 1998.. MSU demands that folks set their ><http://mail.msu.edu/>mail.msu.edu forwarding to a foreign >address. MSU hides e-mail forwarding under the most obscure label >you can imagine: "MSU prefs." Is MSU serious about reaching >thousands of people? > >/rich >