IT upgrades allow for e-mail aliases
About to send a grad school application listing your e-mail address as yourmama@rice.edu or slacker@rice.edu? These and other unwise choices from freshman year can now be resolved by creating up to three additional @rice.edu e-mail addresses, which are available to every Rice e-mail user. New addresses can be set up at http://apply.rice.edu.
This summer, Information Technology has also employed stronger spam protection and allowed new students and employees to obtain their Rice e-mail addresses before arriving on campus.
A “NetID” used to be the same as each user’s e-mail address. Now the two are distinct for new students and employees, allowing an e-mail address to be set up before arrival on campus.
Barry Ribbeck, director of systems, architecture and infrastructure in IT, said about 200 new students took advantage of the expedited sign-up system.
“I think it’s far enough in the process to claim a success,” Ribbeck said. “Everyone seems to think [signing up for e-mail addresses] went much smoother than in years past.”
NetIDs for returning students, faculty and staff have not changed, but new users are assigned NetIDs according to their initials and the last four digits of their student ID number, as well as a default e-mail addresses, which take the form Firstname.Middleinitial.Lastname@rice.edu.The new system also allows each e-mail user to create up to three vanity e-mail addresses. Messages to vanity addresses are forwarded to the user’s primary e-mail address.
Also, IT is now using “DSpam,” which detects about 98 percent of spam messages, Ribbeck said.
The new software allows users to alert the system about misclassified messages — those messages marked as spam that are not, or those messages not marked as spam that are. Forwarding misclassified messages to notspam-yournetid@rice.edu or spam-yournetid@rice.edu improves the filter’s future classifications.
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