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...Harvard undergraduates used Gmail as their primary email client, up from 38 percent the year before. It’s no surprise that so many students are jumping ship to get on board the Google bandwagon. Webmail is plagued with problems, notably its poor interface, lack of adequate spam filters, limited user names, and miniscule storage capacity of 40 megabytes. FAS Information Technology claims to be working to respond to these student concerns, but change has been slow in coming. While various improvements have supposedly been considered, concrete plans for reform are yet to emerge. Meanwhile, the Graduate School...
...president of the Harvard Computer Society Joshua A. Kroll ’09 said. “One gigabyte is so big that most people would be quelled, and there are a number of free Webmail clients available.”Kroll added that Webmail’s spam filters could also be improved.In FAS IT’s survey, only two percent of students were very satisfied with FAS Webmail, while 23 percent were very dissatisfied, up from 16 percent last year.“I wish it were as easy as saying we could just outsource to Gmail...
...charged twice, typically at a rate of 10 cents for the sender and five for the receiver, though receivers can pay as high as 25 cents. Worse, since the recipient has no choice to accept or reject an incoming message, cell phone users can be billed for receiving spam...
...people spam their friends even though most people hate it? I could claim I was motivated by altruism - proceeds from the ad revenue generated by the (Lil) Green Patch go toward saving the rainforest - but the truth is that I just wanted to grow my garden and see how many different kinds of plants I could send and receive. If I send 1,000 plants I earn a garden gnome. Cool! (By Green Patch's own statistics, the application has contributed a mere $15,650 toward its stated cause since launching in December...
...have noticed: There are some people on this campus who like to complain. They whine, they cry, they spam the open lists; in every discussion, Lacoste-sporting Harvard undergraduates form up into a bourgeois proletariat, for whom angry emails have replaced manifestos. They are defiantly, eternally dissatisfied—it doesn’t matter why—and many spend their hours insisting upon an urgent need for some type of “change”; though, again, they never take the unattractive step of defining what that change means. It’s like a Barack Obama...