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CAMS - The Good, the Bad, the Ugly....
Created by Mark Palmer (Concordia University at Austin) on February 17, 2006
Can anyone comment on their experience or knowledge about CAMS as a CAMPUS management system?
AOL and Yahoo to make non-paid mail second class
Created by Mark Palmer (Concordia University at Austin) on February 09, 2006
Over the last six months information has been leaked that AOL and Yahoo will soon require bulk mailers (like stores, spammers, and universities) to become "certified" and pay "postage" for every piece of email received. In fact, on 1-FEB they announced a date when their old "whitelist" process would terminate and they would be using a service called Goodmail to filter their inbound email (and collect the fee as part of the processing). They quickly assured the individual user that this new policy would have no effect on single pieces of email.
Since that date there has been a lot of discussions on various lists, forums, and editorials about the impact of charging for email (anywhere from $0.001 to $0.01 has been cited) and what that might mean to us, a college or university. Spam is applying pressure to all of us -- imagine what it must be like at AOL, Yahoo, and MSN/Hotmail. Something needs to be done, but charging for email delivery will hurt all of us.
One thing we don't need is to arrive at work some Monday morning discovering that all our AOL or Yahoo cannot be delivered and we need to buy some 'black-box' appliance to "stamp" all our outbound email that is routed to these sites.
Since that date there has been a lot of discussions on various lists, forums, and editorials about the impact of charging for email (anywhere from $0.001 to $0.01 has been cited) and what that might mean to us, a college or university. Spam is applying pressure to all of us -- imagine what it must be like at AOL, Yahoo, and MSN/Hotmail. Something needs to be done, but charging for email delivery will hurt all of us.
One thing we don't need is to arrive at work some Monday morning discovering that all our AOL or Yahoo cannot be delivered and we need to buy some 'black-box' appliance to "stamp" all our outbound email that is routed to these sites.
What are students saying about your university beyond your university's website?
Created by Mark Palmer (Concordia University at Austin) on February 09, 2006
Students at CTX have made efficient usage of websphere communities like Facebook and Myspace.
My neice was talking about Facebook the other day so I signed up. I signed up not to spy on or report "bad" students or things they are posting. I merely want to see how students are using various technology tools and what they are using it to do. I also want to know to what degree we as the university need to do to support/not support student usage of such sites.
What are they saying about Concordia?
What kind of impact does that have on the public preception of the school?
Does the school have an obligation/right/or otherwise to monitor/police such sites since we are providing the email adddress to support it?
What level of support, if any, should a university have when students use such websphere communities?
My neice was talking about Facebook the other day so I signed up. I signed up not to spy on or report "bad" students or things they are posting. I merely want to see how students are using various technology tools and what they are using it to do. I also want to know to what degree we as the university need to do to support/not support student usage of such sites.
What are they saying about Concordia?
What kind of impact does that have on the public preception of the school?
Does the school have an obligation/right/or otherwise to monitor/police such sites since we are providing the email adddress to support it?
What level of support, if any, should a university have when students use such websphere communities?
