God damn it

[glasseye]

Our records indicate that you currently hold the Network ID xxxxx at
Case Western Reserve University. Our records also indicate that your
status with the university changed on 5/24/2004 because you
are either no longer a student or an employee of Case.

Your affiliation with the university might have been as a student, staff,
or faculty member. University policy requires that the network privileges
associated with your former affiliation with university be de-activated on
1/30/2005


I've been using my cwru.edu e-mail account for 6 years now as my primary account, and when I came to case it was guarenteed for life, if I recall correctly.

Hrm. I wonder if they'll at least let me do mail forwarding.

Comments

[thekat03.livejournal.com]

yes, you should probably be able to do mail forwarding by signing up for an alumni account (i think the page is here)
of course, i have no idea if you count as an alum or not, but you can hopefully figure that out here

as for having email for life, while yes, it was implied, i don't know if it was ever explicitly stated

[glasseye.livejournal.com]

Would that catch mail sent to my @cwru.edu address, or would I have to direct people to @alumni.cwru.edu?

[glasseye.livejournal.com]

Nevermind, the answer is in the FAQ and it is yes.

[zeldajean.livejournal.com]

I'm having trouble parsing the FAQ -- was that a yes, we'll have to redirect people to alumni.cwru.edu?

[thekat03.livejournal.com]

no, you will not need to redirect people to alumni.cwru.edu
@cwru.edu will work
@case.edu will work
@po.cwru.edu will work (though i'd personally recommend phasing that one out since i wouldn't be surprised if at some point they want to phase that one out)
@alumni.cwru.edu will also work
your aliases (if you had something like coolalias@cwru) will no longer work
however, xxx123 will work, and i think firstname.lastname will work as well
any other questions? (:

interesting....

[arhracole.livejournal.com]

Likely as not if you contact the school you'll probably be able to get them to leave it active and availible for you for a minor fee. I think that's how the UNC system does it anyway. As a couple of friends of mine have graduated from there and are still able to use theirs. Just just pay something like $5 a year or some such rediculusly low amount like that.

Regaurdly, I'm sure you'll get it worked out.

Re: interesting....

[thekat03.livejournal.com]

i doubt that cwru would do that at this point because there simply is no structure to do that
there's no system to mark which people are paying to keep their mail, and keep track of their payments
maybe that'll be an option in the future, but not right now

[gwacie.livejournal.com]

When I started at the University Help Desk, I was told it was for life... by word of mouth. Then about two years ago someone ranted "They keep telling people it's for life, it's not! It never said that!" Apparently the policy has /always/ been 6 months after graduation you loose the account, they just hadn't enforced it in 18 years. Go fig.

[thekat03.livejournal.com]

it wasn't worth the effort of enforcing until recently, i think

pretty lame

[(Anonymous)]

I havent gotten that one yet but I get so much spam in my cwru account thunderbird can barely handle it. I will probably just quit using it. Personally I think they should just deactivate accounts based on a period of inactivity.
-fatty