Was going to send this out but I guess you beat me to it! I went back and 
re-read the Yale thread (when this happened at Yale), and while I wholly 
disagree with it - I think that even though I use Gmail, the choice is what's 
important - the general reaction I've heard is "thank god, NYU's email is 
terrible." Which it is - and I, like many others, forward my NYU email to my 
Gmail - but that's my choice. It's also going to save the school a ton of money 
(around 400k a year, apparently?) so that's a huge motivator/NYU is cheap.

So the CS/math department has their own emails, but they're maintained 
separately so my guess is that they won't move. 

I was thinking about taking the same route as Adi and writing an Op-Ed w/ SFC 
NYU about it, but I haven't really come up with any other possibilities..what 
are others' thoughts?


On Nov 1, 2010, at 12:53 PM, Alex Leavitt wrote:
> For the general SFC crowd, but particularly interested in what the NYU crew 
> has to say:
> 
> http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/11/passing-torch-to-cloud-nyu-is-going.html
> 
> Today, NYU announced that it’s moving to Google Apps for Education, providing 
> cloud-based email and collaboration tools to the entire university community. 
> This announcement comes just weeks after New York State created an 
> initiativeto bring Google Apps for Education to their K-12 schools.
> 
> So what do y'all think?
> 
> Alex
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