<p>Believe me, it's true. The university webmail sucks--it's very slow--and students generally check their e-mail from kiosks and computer labs all over campus, where they can't use clients like Outlook and Thunderbird, but where terminal applications are installed, so Pine is the only alternative. The school's been pushing webmail pretty hard and even improving it a bit lately (you'll notice that Pine and UNIX use drop precipitously with the newer entering classes), and we're starting to endorse and support Thunderbird instead of the clunkier Eudora, so I expect this trend to continue. With the rise of Gmail, many students are also forwarding their Harvard e-mail (with a maximum 200MB quota) to Gmail accounts.</p>
<p>(I work for computer services, in case you're wondering how I happen to know this stuff.)</p>