Death of cc.wwu.edu

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Part of the process of moving the students over to Exchange Labs is decommissioning the cc.wwu.edu domain for email. Students have been there for a loooong time, and once upon a time faculty/staff mail was there as well. We've since moved to wwu.edu for our fac/staff domain.

Next week we're turning off cc.wwu.edu for fac/staff. The students still over there will be moved slowly over to the hosted solution. The Fac/Staff users will be moved to Exchange, period.

This has created some heated feelings as there are professors who've published books and have "@cc.wwu.edu" printed in the books. I'm not sure how we're handling that, but... that's not my email system. Email addresses do tend to get stale after a while, and that's just a fact of the internet.

However, one of the guys in the office here was one of the very first people to get an email address at cc.wwu.edu way back in the dark and misty reaches of a more trusting internet. I don't know how long he had that address, but it very well could have been over 20 years. He's letting it go with a tear in his eye, but not a big one. He's one of the unlucky schmucks with his first name as his username, and it's in every. single. solitary. mail-list known to God and man. His @cc.wwu.edu account has been nothing but a spam trap for years now.

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Looking for Mette Bang. She had the old address, not being changed.