On Mon, 22 Dec 2008, Thomas Van Parys wrote:
Kenny Billiau schreef:
"VIB" in e-mail adresses
In order to strengthen the visibility of VIB and to make things more clear towards the outside world, the management decided - in accordance with all VIB directors and universities - to include "VIB" in all e-mail addresses. The transition from the "old" to the rearranged address is currently in process or is already in place in some departments. In case you'd have questions, please contact the IT people in your department. Please from now on use the new addresses in your communication. You can find an overview of the new e-mail addresses on the VIB Intranet <https://vibportal.vib.be/e-talk> .
What kind of bullshit is this?
I've got 3 problems with changing of emailaddresses you frequently use.
1/ An email address should be stable. You're subbed to maillinglists or websites, changing all these is a nutjob. And how are we going to use 'forgot password?' forms? 2/ An email address should always work. Inside or outside a network. 3/ An email address should be easy to give to someone in any medium. Don't take goose@foose-clo.ose.com because people on the phone will try to hang you around the phonecord. Everything with dashes, too many dots and/or too many parts in the domainname should be avoided. Unless very easy to remember.
And did I miss some prior announcement, or is this the first time they've said something about these addresses? If a change is inevidable (company broke, .. ?) , announce it before you say the changes have already been made, so we can protest!
Second this.
FK (FaculteitenKonvent) decided a few months ago that I had to give up my address thomas@fkserv.ugent.be ... it took me weeks to change it on all mailinglists and sites where I was registered. Also passing it on to your contacts is a huge job, as most people aren't too fast changing their address books. I believe changing a job address will go slightly smoother (as your contacts and subscriptions, or at least mine, are more centralized), but I fail to see the advantage other then pleasing marketing people.
Less of a problem though if they make the transition really slow like the university did. The old domain rug.ac.be still even works after all those years. That would fix the 'forgot password form' issue.
And you're right... the domain .ugent.be has (at least in Ghent) a familiar ring to it... 'vib dash ugent.be' doesn't.
I won't go on a strike for it, but it's annoying as hell indeed.
Oh, and what do you mean by item 2? I don't think the addresses will behave differently inside or outside the networks.
This is simply to annoy IT. 1/ help@ doesn't work ouside the network. 2/ we had to do battle to open up imap for outside sources. Anyway, I've mailed this to IT and to Yves too.
T.
PS. oh, and should/can I rant about a communication manager distributing information through a Word doc?
Lol .. euhm .. Maybe ask Ward?