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...according to Noah S. Selsby ’94-’95, senior client technology advisor for FAS IT.The search for an e-mail vendor began last summer, according to Selsby. He says that the decision—a departure from the in-house storage used for FAS Webmail??was made for reasons that ranged from the financial to the technological.“Certainly the economy wasn’t in the state that it was then,” says Selsby, “but there were definitely questions of cost savings. There were definitely...
...proactive solution, outsourcing their e-mail needs to Google. Since last fall, the GSD has assigned all students a “gsd.harvard.edu” account that operates using a Gmail interface. Harvard College should consider a similar solution. The main changes that need to be made to Webmail??s antiquated system could easily be accomplished by outsourcing to a provider, like Gmail, who already provides the majority of Harvard students with the e-mail tools they desire. FAS IT articulates various concerns with outsourcing, worrying about a loss of privacy and reliability. These fears seem overblown...
...Webmail client,” 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...
Users of Pine and Webmail??which are SSL-enabled—will be unaffected by this change. Students, faculty members, and staff who use POP/IMAP e-mail clients such as Eudora, Outlook, Outlook Express, and Mac OS X Mail can enable SSL encryption using the instructions posted on the HASCS website...
Gmail’s 1000 megabytes (MB) of storage—compared to FAS webmail??s 100 MB of storage—also means that a Gmail user will never have to delete potentially important old mail...