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So I’m sitting in class right now before it starts and some people are talking about our college email. Recently it was upgraded to outlook webmail which is a tiny bit better than it was, yet still sucks. I hear things like the the upgrade was a gift from the previous graduating year which might be true - who knows I don’t care.

A couple things they said are pretty ignorant which made me realize again that everybody can think anything about tech. They were sarcastically saying that email must be really expensive since there is so many free email services out there like gmail. Well Gmail is under Googles billion dollar business plan. Its part of how they make money along with every other free email service out there. They wouldn’t be arounf if they weren’t trying to make money. Our university email is a service provided for free because we need it and its not part of some business plan to make money.

Somebody also said “Do you think they make money giving our email adresses to spammers?” They all answered “yeah” and this wasn’t sarcastic. They actually think this happens because they get spam. This is against so many laws its rediculous. This would not happen and doesn’t happen. Here’s why they get spam, 1) they have used their email address somewhere else that has then been gathered by spammers. 2) Our university website has many ways to mine email addresses and names via our people search and the varous email adresses that are setup to mass mail groups of people. So we’re all screwed. There are many articles all over the internet discussing how email is a problem yet we all don’t have a solution yet. Spammers are still winning the battle.

That’s my thoughts for today. Please excuse spelling errors as I’m writing this on my treo.

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