We still use FirstClass and give all faculty, staff and students email
accounts. We have a number of folders we use to get out messages to
targeted groups - announcements folders; class business folders;
sports, club and organization folders; course folders; and purely
social folders (i.e. 'Book Reviews" or "Junior Lounge"). They are
heavily trafficked, and generally thought to be of great use for a
variety of reasons. So I find myself wondering how schools who
outsource email deal with this information-disseminating,
community-building aspect of in-house email systems - simply find
other ways to serve those purposes, set up a number of "dummy" email
addresses that redistribute messages to pre-determined groups, or
what.
Thanks!
Take care,
Bll Ivey
Stoneleigh-Burnham School
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