last year admits - do we get an email address?

Admiral
Wed, 20 Dec 2006 02:24:45 +0000

Innocentstalker, in my humble opinion- wait, screw that, this is just FACT- the Harvard email system sucks.

Since I got an address that had apparently been used before, I get about five or six pieces of spam a day (and the Harvard email system has no spam filter). It has a limited inbox that will fills up after about a year, it goes down every few weeks for a few hours or a day (which, if it happens at the wrong time, can mess up your attempts to hand in essays or projects- REALLY frustrating). The interface is difficult to navigate and pretty slow, and sometimes gives random error messages. It has problems where it sometimes doesn’t mark read mail as having been read… After I got spoiled by gmail, I just find this system really, really lousy.

I stick with gmail for almost everything. I use the Harvard email system to check official mail (from deans, school government, whatever), as well as a few classes.

And, yeah, you can’t access the fas one after you graduate.