Here's a question: what would a 'modern' university email system looklike, one that's in line with the 'students already have online lives'theme of last entry ?

(Let's assume that our assignment is limited to designing the emailsystem, and thus we don't get to question or change what it's used for.)

Clearly, a lot of people will already have outside email addresses andmany of them will want to just forward their university email addressto their

There's a lot of services that people build around the university, bothlarge and small . The general habit isto make them self-contained services that run on your own web site orwhatever, or perhaps ones that integrate with other on-campus systems.

I have come to believe that this is a mistake. These days, universityservices should be assuming that students (both undergraduates andespecially graduate students) will show up to the university withalready established online identities and habits, which means thatservices should