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I believe the impetus is just Google cancelling the free unlimited storage for education institutions.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
For the people who write the SMTP RFCs and teach students how to implement them to have hands-on experience operating a mail system?
This wouldn't be RFC work, this would be sysadmin work. Probably not the worst use of time, but you'd need to find interested students and faculty year-over-year.
I believe the impetus is just Google cancelling the free unlimited storage for education institutions.
I believe the impetus is just Google cancelling the free unlimited storage for education institutions.
It is sad IMO, yours may differ, that educational institutions, once among the pioneers of the internet, are now relying on an advertising company for something as basic as email.
maybe this is a trend and should be used for all websites.
make small data great again?
it's clear. nobody needs more than 5GB. they won't exist if they need more and this ensures the statement is true. maybe this is a trend and should be used for all websites. make small data great again?
permanent vanity addresses tied to accomplishments, clubs etc should be a straightforward business or product for google, microsoft, cloudflare etc to offer.
or patch dns to allow the sale of email addresses, and process all forwards (with the forwarding address stored privately) before processing other mx records.
none of that should take up much storage.
I can't think why I'd want to keep an email account from my old university. Is that really a thing?
Oh yes. EDU emails are a hot commodity. And there have been a lot of crack downs lately on who can have them. The number of free and heavily discounted items you can get with them makes them quite valuable.
which actually turns out to be a win, because because they arent tied to the university itself, they can impose a 5gb cap, stop accepting new alumni, and carry on. and a .com is often easier to say over the phone than subdomain.school.edu
it's clear. nobody needs more than 5GB. they won't exist if they need more and this ensures the statement is true. maybe this is a trend and should be used for all websites. make small data great again?
how about all alumni email addresses just become forward and reverse proxy relays. let me just add a forwarding address, and provide outbound mail. permanent vanity addresses tied to accomplishments, clubs etc should be a straightforward business or product for google, microsoft, cloudflare etc to offer. or patch dns to allow the sale of email addresses, and process all forwards (with the forwarding address stored pr…