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> From: Richard Wiggins <[log in to unmask]> > 1. MSU has made an intitutional statement that students and staff must use > mail.msu.edu to receive official e-mail. Agreed. > 2. MSU's official central e-mail system is mail.msu.edu. Also agreed, but simply a restatement of #1. > 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. Can you provide any evidence that "most people" use Gmail something other than mail.msu.edu as their primary mail service? And most people would mean > 50% of the all MSU faculty, staff and students. I communicate via e-mail with a large variety of MSU personnel and it is the rare case that someone is using a mail service other than mail.msu for this communication. > 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." It does not "hide" anything. The name used for the preference icon is poorly chosen but configuration options are grouped into multiple views based on function. Placing every configurable option at the top level of he interface would truly lead to an unusable cluster f&#*. Your assertion that forwarding is the "most important option" is highly debatable. > So let's make this clear: the leading land grand university hides how to > receive communications from the institution. This is not optimal. Hides how to receive communications?! Hyperbole much? Kevin M. Carr ************************** Bioinformatics Specialist Research Technology Support Facility S20-A Plant Biology Lab Michigan State University East Lansing, MI 48824 Ph: (517) 355-6759 x102 Fax:(517) 355-6758 **************************