So Case's alumni services are launching an exciting "new feature" which allows alumni to use their alumni.case.edu email address as a forwarding account forever, absolutely free. That sounds great in their marketing-speak announcements, which conveniently gloss over the fact that this is replacing the old system where we all kept fully-functioning email accounts forever, absolutely free.
I think I have 180 days to transition to a new email address (I haven't seen any announcement to current students, just a teensy blurb in the alumni newsletter I've been getting since I got my BS last year). Currently alumni, however, get a whopping month and a half before they are cut loose. And anyone who doesn't read the alumni news will be screwed, since there hasn't been any big "your email account will be going away in a month" warning. Perhaps their goal is to reduce the number of alumni donations they get?
I guess it's time to set up my EECS email account for general use, since my department shows a little more loyalty to its alumni than the university as a whole.
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