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And will engineers be forced to use @seas.columbia.edu?

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<p>Every Columbia student -- grad or ugrad -- faculty, or staff is issued a UNI and a @columbia.edu address. </p>

<p>SEAS students do not get @seas.columbia.edu.</p>

<p>To the extent that you're in a department with its own server, you get both.</p>

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the CompSci department is on its own network, email server, and phone system. The professors and grad students there have @cs.columbia.edu. Others, I think are all @columbia.edu .

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<p>Yet CS profs/grad students certainly have UNIs.</p>

<p>Chem also has their own email addresses, but I don't think anyone used them.</p>

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Are you sure the change was made to avoid spam bots and not for some other reason, and did you hear that from someone in the know? You're exactly right about the change, but what I heard from the AcIS higher-ups was that it was due to some new batch process for creating the UNIs.

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I heard that from someone at AcIS but I don't think they were on the email team so it was second-hand. If you know differently, for sure, post away.</p>

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<p>Can anyone confirm the "rumor" that <a href="mailto:firstname.lastname@columbia.edu">firstname.lastname@columbia.edu</a> forwarding has been ended?</p>

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<p>I just tried emailing my friend with <a href="mailto:firstname.lastname@columbia.edu">firstname.lastname@columbia.edu</a> and it failed.</p>

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<p>Not to beat a dead horse, but I know of many other universities who let prefrosh pick their account name/email address. MIT, for example, gives you complete freedom, and UPenn gives you several choices consisting of combinations of your first and last names.</p>

<p>Can't CUIT just suck it up and just let us choose our own account name? I thought going to college meant being at least a bit more responsible...</p>

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Can anyone confirm the "rumor" that <a href="mailto:firstname.lastname@columbia.edu">firstname.lastname@columbia.edu</a> forwarding has been ended?

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<p>i tried it and it still works.</p>

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Can't CUIT just suck it up and just let us choose our own account name? I thought going to college meant being at least a bit more responsible...

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<p>u r blowing this very minor thing way out of proportion</p>

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Can't CUIT just suck it up and just let us choose our own account name? I thought going to college meant being at least a bit more responsible...

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<p>It's not responsibility. It's because the system is created and it'll be work for someone to overhaul it.</p>

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<p>firstname.lastname is working fine here.</p>

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<p>I'm guessing it only works for current students and not pre-frosh? Or am I wrong?</p>