Want to Pass? Gmail’s a No-No for One Prof

This is absurd. Power trip much, OPIM professor?

You can set Gmail to use another domain’s SMTP servers when sending mail, effectively getting rid of the “Sent on behalf of ___” header.

https://support.google.com/mail/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=22370

Maybe the data is sensitive and IRB forbids its use on non-local servers? I have no clue…

its probably to prevent students from sharing hw answers/files. id imagine its easier to track through communication over the penn email server than a third party

Errr….”Using a personal GMail account for your SAS Email” as outlined by Penn. Unless Wharton people are somehow forbidden from using common e-mail management techniques.

http://www.sas.upenn.edu/computing/help/email/gmail

sadly, even using the method provided, google shows up all over the message headers. It might not come “on behalf of” but certainly easily filterable by inbox rules using the message headers.

sorry to be the bearer of bad news.

Why is the professor’s identity being redacted and hidden? Seems liek an incredibly short-sighted policy.

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Has anyone thought to ask the Professor why he wants to do this? Or is it easier and more fun to issue gratuitous insults? Have you considered that gmail installs all sorts of tracking software on your computer which reports back to google everything to do? Are you aware that if you take steps to stop this software you won’t even be able to open the gmail page? Are you comfortable having a big faceless corporation know so much about what you do on your computer and get rich selling all this information about you? Perhaps the professor doesn’t want to become a part of that.

I have a special computer set up for accessing gmail, Google, and other such tracking sites. I give the trackers unlimited access to that computer. I have it set up so that that computer automatically searches the web 24 hours a day. I use an algorithm that seeks out the vilest most disgusting porn, bomb making sites, NAZI sympathizer sites, and other sites proffered by the the dregs of society. Google is welcome to that information.

I say bravo to this professor for fighting the invasion of our privacy.

This, while engineers fight to get Google Apps instead of a crappy school-provided service.

While I think this ban is ridiculous, it’s definitely good practice to encourage students to separate aspects of their lives. If you are going to be (eventually) a CEO, you need to learn to keep your work separate from your personal — e.g. so that your work e-mail is on an encrypted corporate account that is more secure than Gmail. (Although Gmail + 2-factor is probably more secure than Exchange, /except/ for implicitly trusting Google.)

This is insane especially since Penn, or at least SAS, uses GMail for their email client now. The students in this jackoff’s class should protest and all send via gmail and see if he has the balls to fail the whole class.

In a nutshell, these set of policies are ridiculous and it wastes everyone’s time with little tangible gain.

David, corporate gmail, like SAS, is different than personal gmail where data privacy is concerned. The professor in question did not exclude SAS, only personal gmail. If you knew either or both of those things, then you would not have written your insanely uninformed comment. John, it takes two seconds to send an email from a school email server, and this action respects the privacy wishes of the professor. If you cannot take two seconds to show respect to the person who spends hours preparing lectures to teach you, then I do not know what this institution has come to.