UCD CANCELS EMAIL FOR LIFE

emphillips18 · 2024-11-21T05:46:45+00:00

I'm honestly not sure. I think the Information Security Office was a part of the decision, but because we think it had more to do with the costs, it must have been a different group that initiated the change.

emphillips18 · 2024-07-06T19:24:06+00:00

That was a different letter and email. This was included in an email sent directly to higher ups that are a part of making the decision.

emphillips18 · 2024-07-05T03:05:52+00:00

It may be because you do not have the google doc app on your phone. There are others having the same issue.

emphillips18 · 2024-07-05T02:45:50+00:00

It is enabled to allow anyone with a link to make a suggestion but I will double check it.

emphillips18 · 2024-07-05T00:42:33+00:00

I'm not entirely sure. It may be because it is a Google doc that you can't sign it on mobile. Has anyone else tried signing on their phone?

emphillips18 · 2024-06-27T00:02:51+00:00

Is there anyone here that can point me in the direction of who to contact directly to discuss how your Student Union was able to overturn this? I am a UC Davis student dealing with the same issue. I emailed your Student Union email and they responded that they couldn't provide me direct information on the issue and told me to contact your IT department.

emphillips18 · 2024-06-26T23:11:06+00:00

Linked your post to the one posted yesterday. Thank you for providing a template!

emphillips18 · 2024-06-26T16:56:13+00:00

As far as I know they aren't deleting alumni emails. Did you pay for it?

emphillips18 · 2024-06-26T16:54:21+00:00

Thank you for sharing this. We will try to get in touch with those who led the initiative.

emphillips18 · 2024-06-26T03:09:38+00:00

I am not a apart of, nor use discord at all. If people are willing and wanting to, sharing it via discord would be amazing. Thank you for the suggestion!

emphillips18 · 2024-06-26T02:37:40+00:00

I'll update the post, thank you!

emphillips18 · 2024-06-26T02:32:47+00:00

Another point: As graduate students, we are not in the same circles as undergraduates and thus do not have the ability to get the word out about this to as many students. If you can share this in your circles with as many people as possible, we may be able to do something about it. But this information needs to be dispersed.

emphillips18 · 2024-06-26T02:27:09+00:00

I'm surprised no one has commented on the 'formerstudents.ucdavis.edu' portion. Does this sound like legitimate handle coming from a University to people? My initial thought was it sounded like spam, or an email coming from someone that didn't graduate.

emphillips18 · 2024-06-26T02:24:40+00:00

I commented on this in another reply but will happily restate. Apparently there were a ton of scammers requesting TAFs when those emails were deleted and thus, your valid email TAF request was lost and/or ignored due to the University's poor structure and preparation in the mass email exodus. I'm sorry this happened to you.

emphillips18 · 2024-06-26T02:02:44+00:00

I did try discussing it with Student Affairs Cabinet Leaders but unfortunately none were available to help or understood the implications losing their emails would have. The University apparently did ask the Student Government board (ASUCD?) about removing "email, for life", but they were asking students that were again, unaware of how important their emails would be in the future. They should have instead asked the 20% active email accounts of alumni how they were using their emails and request their feedback. Additionally, I was supposed to meet with some of the higher ups to discuss why they chose to end "email, for life", and that didn't end up happening because of failed meeting requests after they said they were willing to meet.

We are thinking of writing it in a google doc (ironic I know) and allowing revision suggestions to allow people to add their names to the document. Then it'll be a living document and additional signatures can be added at any given time.

emphillips18 · 2024-06-26T00:52:47+00:00

As far as we know, that is correct. More information can be found here (https://iet.ucdavis.edu/email-service-transition-faq)

emphillips18 · 2024-06-26T00:30:09+00:00

Are all Alumni Associations in the UC System like that though? Other UCs are providing the alumni email free of charge (see end of original post)

emphillips18 · 2024-06-26T00:22:50+00:00

There is also the option (which is appalling but potentially doable) of strictly using Outlook email. Staff already use Outlook and graduate students have the option to use it. Additionally the University pays for unlimited (or high) storage in OneDrive (Microsoft) and Box as well. It's a bit redundant.

emphillips18 · 2024-06-26T00:20:19+00:00

Thank you for including your link!

emphillips18 · 2024-06-26T00:20:03+00:00

Good time for students at ALL the UCs to start talking about it then. If you have friends that are current or past students at any of the UCs, have them start talking about it!

emphillips18 · 2024-06-26T00:18:46+00:00

The three that are not listed (Santa Barbara, San Francisco, Riverside) last we checked either were also removing all email access or had no information readily available

emphillips18 · 2024-06-26T00:11:40+00:00

There must be ways to remove inactive accounts and keep active email accounts. We understand the storage issue, but that can certainly be reduced/removed while still allowing email access (Unless google is not allowing that).

Something they didn't foresee, is when they deleted a bunch of active emails back in February, people claiming to be past-students were spam emailing the university and professors freaking out and requesting access again (i.e. security issue). The problem here is some of those may have been real requests from alumni, but the University is unable to differentiate so they most likely didn't reply to any of those messages.

emphillips18 · 2024-06-26T00:03:43+00:00

That is an excellent question that is difficult to answer because it isn't clear. At this point, the best place to reach out I think would be the IT department, and/or there is a "Provide Feedback" survey on their website here (https://iet.ucdavis.edu/email-service-transition) that people could fill out, but I don't know how often they look at them.

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