The start of the semester ushered in a 1GB e-mail quota. This five-fold increase from 200MB starts to address the frustration of students who are incessantly required to delete e-mails from their overflowing inboxes. Nonetheless, the quota remains far below ...(back to the article)
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Happy Email User: I agree that asking for more storage space was a bit silly. But I still think that increased storage space (at least in my opinion) isn't addressing the main problems with the client, such as having to constantly reload the webpage in hopes of seeing one's inbox messages. If OIT's upgrades had been major and had addressed problems such as this (and had left smaller issues for later), I would also think the article unappreciative. However, because the OIT upgrades were small and didn't address the more important issues, I think the article's complaints were well justified.
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John: I understood the point of the article - the increase in e-mail was only a small step toward a better e-mail service for the university community. What I was trying to say is that we should be thankful and appreciative for this small step. Instead, the ed-board used this event to try to bring out e-mail improvements that OIT missed. I suppose it could go either way, but I don't think it was appropriate for the ed-board to ask OIT for more improvements right after they expanded our e-mail space. Plus, the ed-board compared our e-mail space to G-Mail's 6 GB. I think that pretty much said, "OIT, you tried, but you didn't do a good job."
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I think "Happy Email User" is missing the point of the article. Increased storage space doesn't solve the other issues with the webmail client, which the authors of the article mentioned. I hope the commenter will read articles more carefully next time before he or she decides to to post.
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Why do you have to hate? We got 1 GB of storage and that's plenty. Post this editorial when we're not getting 1 gb of storage. You shouldn't ask for more right after you get a 400% increase in your e-mail.
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