Posted by Dr. Bob on April 25, 2004, at 9:22:14
In reply to Re: student board, posted by noa on April 23, 2004, at 14:36:34
> just letting you know that other education indstitutions around the world have .ac.xx. The UK is not the only place. eg New Zealand is .ac.nz.
Thanks, I didn't know that. .ac.nz should work now, too.
> Also, many European universities simply have the country domain names.
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> AmyHmm, can you give me an example?
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> I'm a student with an ac.uk email account, but I registered here with a different (non-uni)account - I'd rather keep my reminders etc going to the same account, but I'd have to change to my ac.uk adress to be able to post on the student board.
Yes, the way it works now, you'd need to change your email address here. Could you have reminders sent to your uni account automatically forwarded to your non-uni account? Or filtered?
> Another reason I prefer to give my non-uni email address to discussion boards is to keep it more anonymous - I don't want anyone finding out what university I go to, or who I am. Is that reasonable, or is it totally secure giving my uni address?
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> cubic_meIMO, reasonable security precautions are in place, but no, I wouldn't say it's "totally" secure:
http://www.dr-bob.org/babble/faq.html#privacy
Whether the tradeoff is worth it is up to each individual, both regarding registering at all and registering a uni address.
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> also, btw--a lot of alumni associations give out .edu type addresses to alums.
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> noaRight, I'm considering them "other university community members"...
Bob
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