Timeline for Email address etiquette - Which address should I use to contact professors?
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| Aug 26, 2019 at 13:58 | comment | added | GrotesqueSI | There's no escaping insane University spam filters. My (Russell Group UK) Uni's spam filter regularly marks my colleagues' Uni domains from around the world as spam. There's no pattern to it. I've also had communications from the US state department, etc marked as spam...sigh | |
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| Aug 12, 2019 at 19:32 | comment | added | Janus Bahs Jacquet | @Karl Wow, that’s rather harsh! Eight weeks is very quickly. To be fair, both the universities which have let me keep accounts use generic usernames (e.g., [email protected]), which are ridiculous and annoying, but at least they’re equally ridiculous and annoying for all, not only for the newer users. I do think they cap the email accounts after you graduate, but in both places the email is tied up with the ability to log on and create exam result printouts, which is something they’re legally required around here to provide former students with these days. | |
| Aug 12, 2019 at 19:26 | comment | added | Karl | @JanusBahsJacquet I'll believe you, but all my universities disabled your account eight weeks after the end of your last semester, and switched of the forwarder after one year. There are legal problems, email accounts cost money (all mailboxes with a, say, 1GB per account must be on a fast and failsafe storage system, 4000 new students per year, since 25 years, thats 100 TB), and last but not least Joe Smith, freshman 2020, doesn't want to end up with the address [email protected] | |
| Aug 12, 2019 at 16:32 | comment | added | Janus Bahs Jacquet | @Karl Why is that so hard to believe? Many universities provide more or less permanent e-mail accounts for students. I still have mine from the IT University where I studied for two years between 2007 and 2009. | |
| Aug 12, 2019 at 15:00 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackAcademia/status/1160929056101191680 | ||
| Aug 12, 2019 at 9:08 | answer | added | allo | timeline score: 8 | |
| Aug 12, 2019 at 6:10 | answer | added | Ian | timeline score: 13 | |
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| Aug 12, 2019 at 3:00 | comment | added | mkennedy | @Karl I still have email access to an account at a US uni that I graduated from in 1994. They use lastname.#. It's not unheard of. | |
| Aug 11, 2019 at 21:34 | answer | added | JeremyC | timeline score: 2 | |
| Aug 11, 2019 at 21:03 | comment | added | Karl | I cannot believe you still have access to an email account at a US university from eight years ago. If you still have a forwarder from that address (strange enough), I wouldn't use it because your outgoing mail server and email address won't fit, which is guaranteed to give you a high spam-rating. | |
| Aug 11, 2019 at 19:51 | answer | added | darij grinberg | timeline score: 18 | |
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