[mschuster91]

> What do you want to bet that the whole "Using personal email for official communications" fiasco over here started when someone said "I need an email that the interns can't read and they won't give me two user accounts"?

Possible, but I also guess the reason was along the likes of "I want to be able to send and receive 100MB powerpoint slide decks, but central IT has a 5MB cap"... this one is something I regularly hit with clients back in ye olde freelance time. Record low was a client with 1MB attachment cap and 100MB of quota.

[TeMPOraL]

IT is directly responsible for a lot of those things. In some places, it seems like IT departments try to make their own lives easier by ensuring the infrastructure is so ridiculously constrained that nobody wants to use it (no users = no things broken by users that need fixing!). Users instead will make due in creative ways, which make organizations vulnerable (and people unhappy).

[jpindar]

Of course they'll say it's for security reasons... and indeed, the most secure network is one that no one uses.