It appears that touch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx <touch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> said: >FWIW, one reason most alumni addresses are forwarding-only is that other orgs, like Apple and HP, offer educational discounts, but you >need to send FROM a .edu address to qualify. I think a lot of us are extrapolating from a point. Cornell still assigns permanent cornell.edu addresses even though they've outsourced all the mail to Microsoft. The old accounts seem to be mostly forward-only. Yale gives alumni aya.yale.edu addresses, so elihu@xxxxxxxxxxxx is me. It's hosted at Google, it's a real mail addresss, and yes you can use it at places that demand a .EDU address. Harvard also outsources their mail to Microsoft, and they're a lot richer than Cornell, so whatever the reason for cancelling old accounts, it's not money. I also do not believe it is a concern that someone with a harvard.edu address might say something embarassing, since every undergraduate has a harvard.edu address. Most likely they just didn't think about the implications. It wouldn't be the first time. R's, John
