[PRL] note about @neu.edu email address migration

[Dave Herman]

I have to say I found it truly, well, trippy to be getting updates about 
our school's technology infrastructure from former members of the 
Grateful Dead. I guess the boomers really have all grown up.

Dave

Felix S Klock II wrote:
> PRL members-
> 
> I just got a note from Bob Weir with the subject line: "Important  
> Change to your Northeastern-provided email service" that discusses the  
> imminent replacement of Northeastern's email service with a Googe  
> hosted email service.
> 
> Here are the two most important things I saw for the PRL community at  
> large:
> 
>    1. From Bob Weir's e-mail: "any email forwarding address that you
>       established in the myNEU email system will not be transferred
>       and must be recreated."
> 
>    2. From the G-Apps migration timeline website: "October 1st: All
>       students that have not migrated voluntarily will be automatically
>       migrated to the new service."
> 
> We've had problems in the past where members of the CCIS community  
> (namely PhD students acting as Instructors of Record) relied solely on  
> their CCIS e-mail address and missed important OSCCR-related  
> notifications because those members did not have mail forwarding set  
> up from their @neu.edu account to their @ccs.neu.edu account.
> 
> So if you have relied on mail forwarding in the past to track the  
> content of your @neu.edu inbox, make sure you reestablish your mail  
> forwarding under thew new system by October 1st.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> -Felix
> 
> 
> 
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