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UC Berkeley will delete all alumni email accounts with >5GB stored

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Re: UC Berkeley will delete all alumni email accounts with >5GB stored

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Post by samstave »

skissane wrote: post #7
samstave wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Or thunderbird for more portability - Create a free Proton.me and pipe them into that. (Although I think @berkeley.edu is likely the most famous .edu? (because of BSD and all the man pages?))

> (Although I think @berkeley.edu is likely the most famous .edu? (because of BSD and all the man pages?)) Your average random is more likely to have heard of Harvard or MIT than Berkeley I’m Australian. I think most educated Australians have heard of Harvard. You don’t even have to be “educated”, maybe you just saw The Social Network (or one of several other popular films featuring Harvard). How many Australians hav…

Just read email wiki -- didnt realize Eric Schmidt (goog) was the creater of berknet in 1978

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berknet

Re: UC Berkeley will delete all alumni email accounts with >5GB stored

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Post by wwqqr »

skissane wrote: post #7
samstave wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Or thunderbird for more portability - Create a free Proton.me and pipe them into that. (Although I think @berkeley.edu is likely the most famous .edu? (because of BSD and all the man pages?))

> (Although I think @berkeley.edu is likely the most famous .edu? (because of BSD and all the man pages?)) Your average random is more likely to have heard of Harvard or MIT than Berkeley I’m Australian. I think most educated Australians have heard of Harvard. You don’t even have to be “educated”, maybe you just saw The Social Network (or one of several other popular films featuring Harvard). How many Australians hav…

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Re: UC Berkeley will delete all alumni email accounts with >5GB stored

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Post by perihelions »

That's hilarious. Isn't this the same "Berkeley" that runs a sustained 20 petaflop distributed supercomputer from freely-donated volunteer machines?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkeley_Open_Infrastructure_f... ("Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing")

They are Kropotkin when you are volunteering for them, and neutron-bomb Jack Welch when you expect something of them.

Re: UC Berkeley will delete all alumni email accounts with >5GB stored

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Post by dzonga »

daemonologist wrote: post #9

The University of Oklahoma wiped out all alumni email accounts a couple of years ago (after explicitly promising they would be retained), regardless of data stored. Didn't affect me too much but it still struck me as an extremely shortsighted move - cut off contact with any professors or peers who only had your school address just to save on a couple of mail servers.

University of South Florida did it for security reasons. I'm guessing after they switched from google accounts to Microsoft ones. :(

Re: UC Berkeley will delete all alumni email accounts with >5GB stored

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Post by 0cf8612b2e1e »

samstave wrote: post #4
nullbyte808 wrote: post #2

You can import all of your emails into gmail. It can take a few days or more. Then just empty the mailbox.

Or thunderbird for more portability - Create a free Proton.me and pipe them into that. (Although I think @berkeley.edu is likely the most famous .edu? (because of BSD and all the man pages?))

Swapping one free email for another might be kicking the can down the road.

If you have the resources, would encourage you to pay for email so your provider has less flexibility to boot you the moment your account is an inconvenience.

Re: UC Berkeley will delete all alumni email accounts with >5GB stored

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Post by cheepin »

Here's why: https://bconnected.berkeley.edu/projects/google-cost-reducti...

TLDR: Google Workspace for Education rug pulled schools on their "unlimited" plans, and the deadline is coming up to avoid paying extra fees. This was communicated in advance, but maybe still a bit quick for a large institution

Re: UC Berkeley will delete all alumni email accounts with >5GB stored

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Post by bogwog »

nullhole wrote: post #6

I'm worried about this happening at my alma mater. Under protest by the people managing the service, the university administration switched from a locally hosted service to the microsoft suite. Now that there's a (probably very large) line item in the bill from MS to support email for people who don't pay tuition, there's got to be pressure from the beancounters to just drop the perk.

Florida International University switched to Microsoft too and they deleted all alumni emails in the process.

Alumnis beware of Microsoft

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