Thursday, June 16, 2005
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So when you graduate from Harvard, the Alumni Association offers you a lifelong Harvard email address. You pick your username, and then you get @post.harvard.edu. I guess that means you're in life post-Harvard.
But the service kind of stinks. It's not really an email account. Instead, it's just an address that forwards to another email address you already have. I'm not sure why they think it's that cool. I mean, yeah, it's nice to say to someone that you have a Harvard email address, but you could just as easily tell them that you have a Yahoo or Gmail address. And that's where the email goes.
And worse than that, you can't send an email from your post.harvard account. You can only drop the H-bomb by telling someone verbally to email you at your Harvard account. You can't email someone from your Harvard account yourself. I signed up for the service, but I doubt I'll ever use it, except maybe to put on my resume.
But the service kind of stinks. It's not really an email account. Instead, it's just an address that forwards to another email address you already have. I'm not sure why they think it's that cool. I mean, yeah, it's nice to say to someone that you have a Harvard email address, but you could just as easily tell them that you have a Yahoo or Gmail address. And that's where the email goes.
And worse than that, you can't send an email from your post.harvard account. You can only drop the H-bomb by telling someone verbally to email you at your Harvard account. You can't email someone from your Harvard account yourself. I signed up for the service, but I doubt I'll ever use it, except maybe to put on my resume.
Comments:
actually you can email "from" it from, say, gmail by merely changing your outgoing mail settings.
as far as the general usefulness of the address, the reason it's great is that it never changes. you may switch from yahoo to gmail or from firm to firm, but this email address will always stay constant.
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as far as the general usefulness of the address, the reason it's great is that it never changes. you may switch from yahoo to gmail or from firm to firm, but this email address will always stay constant.
