Bobcat email not running up to par

By Joseph Tkacik
Staff Writer

Changes are in store for the Bobcat mail service to make it more efficient for students, faculty and staff.
According to the university chief information office, there has been a noticeable slowdown for the student Bobcat mail service this semester that can be blamed on the high number of student-all postings that are being produced.
“The high volume of student-all postings is taking up too much of our bandwidth,” said Jim Wolfgang, chief information officer of the office of Information and Instructional Technology. “We are just going to change the student-all list to a digested list. This is going to consolidate things a lot and take up less room.”
A digested list will be more like a newsletter in form, with the topics being listed at the top of the email and the subjects correlating with those topics being listed below. Instead of getting over 50 e-mails from individuals all over campus, students will instead just get one email.
“There will be a limited group that will be able to post to the new digested list, so this should ensure that you will not get any junk (spam) mail through the digest,” said Wolfgang. “The digest will be used for official notifications, critical items and emergency postings only; these postings will be immediate, so it is now more critical than ever that you check your Bobcat mailboxes regularly.”
There is also a new way that students can access their mail. This can be done from any machine that is running Netscape or Internet Explorer.
All you have to do is go to http://bobcat.gcsu.edu, and you will be there. All you have to do next is enter your password and email address. After this you will be asked about some security authentication.
If you accept the certificate until it expires, you will not have to repeat this process later on. The same can be accomplished by faculty and staff at http://webmail.gcsu.edu.
“We will be creating a new classifieds section in the near future so that students can notify others of things that they may be selling such as books, etc,” said Wolfgang. “This is a stop gap plan; we are still looking for some more alternatives.”

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