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by daemonologist 654 days ago
The University of Oklahoma wiped out all alumni email accounts a couple of years ago (after explicitly promising they would be retained), regardless of data stored. Didn't affect me too much but it still struck me as an extremely shortsighted move - cut off contact with any professors or peers who only had your school address just to save on a couple of mail servers.
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University of South Florida did it for security reasons. I'm guessing after they switched from google accounts to Microsoft ones. :(
My university did this recently, too. So silly.