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Re: Gmail, etc. - Forwarding Email to Personal Accounts!

From: hokan <unisog () HOKAN ORG>
Date: Wed, 8 Nov 2006 16:45:22 -0600
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On Wed, Nov 08, 2006 at 03:14:39PM -0500, Geoff Nathan wrote:

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Sadler, Connie wrote:
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  <p><font face="Arial" size="2">Hi, all&#8230; we have more and more people
(faculty and staff as well as students) who want to forward their
work-related messages, as well as their personal messages, to one
central email account, usually gmail. Obviously, I am concerned about
having potentially sensitive university email content sitting on a
gmail server. What are you folks doing to manage these sorts of
requests? Are you preventing staff or faculty from doing this? If so,
how has that worked? We are rapidly moving toward expectations people
have of having all of their messaging funneled to one place, and while
this is certainly convenient, I'm quite concerned about how we can
ensure a reasonable level of security.</font></p>
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<font size="2"><font face="Arial">We encourage our people to forward
their Wayne State e-mail to another account if they regularly use other
accounts (i.e. rather than not read our sparkling prose at all), but
people shouldn't be sending that kind of sensitive e-mail anyway--or at
least not without encrypting it.&nbsp; Not that we've suggested encrypting
either...<br>
<br>
Geoff<br>
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<pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">--
Geoffrey S. Nathan <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:geoffnathan () wayne edu">&lt;geoffnathan () wayne 
edu&gt;</a>

Faculty Liaison, Computing and Information Technology,&lt;p&gt;
and Associate Professor of English, Linguistics Program&lt;p&gt;
Phone Numbers (313) 577-1259 or (313) 577-8621&lt;p&gt;
Wayne State University&lt;p&gt;
Detroit, MI, 48202</pre>
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