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EMAIL ACCOUNT
If you are a senior, your email account at Carleton and all of the messages it contains will be deleted after Thursday, July 14th, 2005,
slightly more than a month after graduation. Anything in
email at that time will be lost and not recoverable.
Mail sent to this student address will no longer be
delivered after that time, so seniors should start now to set
up a non-Carleton email account and give that address
to people who need to reached after July 14.
To help you establish a persistent, easily memorable
address, ITS can provide an Alumni Forwarding
Address to redirect mail to a new account. See below
for details.
If you want to save the email in the student account,
print it out, save it to a disk, or
transfer it to another account. For instructions and
suggestions, see the Alumni Computing Page at
http://www.carleton.edu/campus/ITS/alumni/
EMAIL FORWARDING
It's not possible to redirect mail sent to a student
account after July 14th -- graduating seniors' usernames
have to be available for reassignment to future students.
However, you can request a permanent email address at
Carleton. This address isn't an account -- you can't log
in and check mail -- but it can be set to forward mail to
another address.
The forwarding address has the form
FirstName.LastName@alumni.carleton.edu
and you can change where it forwards to at any time.
This gives a permanent address that one can give to
people, without the overhead of an additional account
that you have to check on periodically.
You can set up a forwarding address now and have it
point to a student account until you get another
account wherever you're going next. When your student
account expires, you can switch the forwarding to your
current address.
To set up a forwarding address, use the form on
the web page listed above.
NETWARE (HOME) ACCOUNT AND FILES
When a student account expires on July 14, one will
no longer have access to files on the Netware
servers, and those files will be permanently deleted
shortly thereafter. It's also not easy to work with
your Netware files from off-campus, so unless you're
planning to stay in Northfield after graduation, you
should deal with your files before Commencement.
It only takes a few minutes to save the contents of your
HOME directory (and any comps or special course folders)
the hard drive of your computer on the ResNet or a CD-R.
Just allocate some time for the task before graduation
so you don't end up losing all those hours of paper-writing.
YOUR ALUMNI ACCOUNT
All Carleton alumni have usernames and passwords so that
they can access the online Alumni Directory and other
personalized services from Alumni Affairs.
Senior student accounts will be converted to an alumni
accounts after midnight CDT on July 14.
The new account will have a username that consists of
your current username plus _2005. The password will
remain the same as it is when the conversion happens.
The alumni account will allow you to access the Alumni
Directory, update your directory information, and access
other services on the Alumni web site at
http://www.carleton.edu/alumni/ -- it will also give
you continuing access to Caucus and the ability to log
in and manage your email forwarding address.
WHAT YOU NEED TO DO
Here's a quick checklist of things you need to do in
order to not get caught off guard or lose any valuable
files.
Right away:
1. If you want a permanent forwarding address, create
it now and start giving it out to people.
2. If you don't have one, explore getting a non-Carleton
email account. You've got until July 15 to direct your
mail there.
Before Graduation:
3. If you own any mailing lists or Caucus conferences,
or lead a student organization with online resources,
transfer ownership to a current student or close them
down, as appropriate. See the Alumni Computing page
(link below) for instructions.
4. Print, save, or redirect the email you want to save.
This is much easier while you're still on campus.
5. Copy off anything you want to keep from your HOME
folder and any other network folders. This will be
difficult once you leave campus.
6. Return any borrowed network cables or hardware to the
SCIC desk in the CMC.
By July 14:
7. Complete the tasks above if you haven't already.
8. Remember that your username will be changing to an
alumni username after July 14.
Instructions and more information about all of these
tasks can be found at the Alumni Computing Page:
http://www.carleton.edu/campus/ITS/alumni/
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