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   clacke (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Thursday, 26-Sep-2024 08:53:35 JST clacke

   Uuuugh.

   I was a student at Linköping Institute of Technology at Linköping University. We received an email address with five letters from your first and last name, then three digits, at a liu.se subdomain depending on the student section your program was under. After graduation or drop-out you'd lose your account. That's fair, and we knew the deal.

   My friend went to the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) in Stockholm. They had a much sweeter deal. You could pick your user name yourself, and you had an @kth.se email address for LIFE. Very cool.

   That is, until my friend received an email from noreply@kth.se just now, 20 years later, saying hey you have an email account here but you're not faculty or student, so we'll disable it in November.

   WHAT.

   Can you imagine how many places a person has been using their email address when they've had it for 20 years??

   Not cool, KTH. Not cool.

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     clacke (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Thursday, 26-Sep-2024 08:59:25 JST clacke

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     Apparently the decision was made in 2019. The aim was to kick everyone off by the year after, but apparently it didn't reach my friend until just now.

     kth.se/en/student/it/kth-accou…

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     clacke (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Thursday, 26-Sep-2024 09:10:47 JST clacke

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     The decision, excerpt translated from Swedish:

     [The principal reverts the policy from 2002 that allowed faculty and students to retain their e-mail addresses in the kth.se domain even though they no longer had a relationship with KTH.]

     [ . . . ]

     [This decision takes force on 2019-10-01.]

     [ . . . ] [The affected shall be informed by e-mail about the coming deactivation and be given the opportunity for a limited time to move their e-mail service to a different provider. The aim is for this to be finalized by 2020-03-31.]

     [ . . . ]

     Full statement, PDF 1.1 MB, Swedish:

     intra.kth.se/polopoly_fs/1.916…

     Everything rots.

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     clacke (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Thursday, 26-Sep-2024 09:21:01 JST clacke

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     Official post in English about the decision: kth.se/en/student/studier/2.95…

     #KTH

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     Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw37j1@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Thursday, 26-Sep-2024 10:29:48 JST Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}

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     @clacke That stinks. While they probably worried about security, liability, and misuse (educational e-mail accounts sometimes qualify one for special access & prices), it still seems like a bad thing to say "I know we promised this, but we're changing our minds".
     
     My last university didn't make any promise, but the e-mail account was still present for at least a couple of years. Then one time I decided to see whether it still existed and the answer was no. Since they hadn't made any promises and I wasn't using it anyway, it was not a big deal.
     clacke and hypolite like this.
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     Alexandre Oliva (lxo@gnusocial.net)'s status on Thursday, 26-Sep-2024 10:45:00 JST Alexandre Oliva

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     • Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
     /me imagines echoes of darth vader's "changing the deal" scene
     clacke, hypolite and Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} like this.
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     R. L. Dane :debian: :openbsd: (rl_dane@fosstodon.org)'s status on Thursday, 26-Sep-2024 16:49:57 JST R. L. Dane :debian: :openbsd:

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     @clacke
     Forgive me, but the hashtag needs to be #KTHxbai 🤣

     Sorry, just some random circa-2007 internet sillies still working its way through my nervous system. 😆

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     clacke (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Thursday, 26-Sep-2024 16:50:02 JST clacke

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     • Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
     • Alexandre Oliva
     @lxo @lnxw37j1 I was quoting that to my friend as well. 😁
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     Thomas (tfb@functional.cafe)'s status on Thursday, 26-Sep-2024 16:50:09 JST Thomas

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     @clacke I had a university shell/email account that got similarly disabled on short notice 15 years after creation. That was no fun.

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     clacke (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Thursday, 26-Sep-2024 16:50:14 JST clacke

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     This kind of short-sighted thinking is what undermines trust in institutions. I'm feeling guilt by association for what they did, just by being Swedish and having gone to a Swedish uni.

     Making a very cool promise and then going back on it after 20 years due to penny-pinching is not how a 200-year-old respected and beloved institution behaves.

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     clacke (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Friday, 27-Sep-2024 18:22:01 JST clacke

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     • Björn Lindström
     • excds

     @bkhl Han är här! 😊

     @excds

     Björn, jag har aldrig insett att vi har en delad cirkel utanför fedi, du är en fediperson för mig. 🤣😅

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     Björn Lindström (bkhl@social.sdfeu.org)'s status on Friday, 27-Sep-2024 18:22:03 JST Björn Lindström

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     @clacke du borde få Swärdet att komma hit. :-)

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     clacke (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Friday, 27-Sep-2024 19:32:28 JST clacke

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     • Björn Lindström
     • excds

     @bkhl Han är här! 😊

     @excds

     Björn, jag har aldrig insett att vi har en delad cirkel utanför fedi, du är en fediperson för mig. 🤣😅

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     excds (excds@berlin.social)'s status on Saturday, 28-Sep-2024 13:41:48 JST excds

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     • Björn Lindström

     @bkhl @clacke tlhIngan Hol Dajatlh'a'?

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