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How You Can Stop LSU Administrators from Terminating Alumni Email
Posted on 4/18/26 at 9:46 am
Posted on 4/18/26 at 9:46 am
If you are an LSU alum and want to complain (or if you believe that LSU's decision to terminate its Alumnis' email addresses is miserly, mean-spirited, and just plain wrong), you should call or write to the people who can stop this: Your Elected Representatives who decide how Your Tax Dollars are used to Fund LSU. The links below provide contact forms and phone numbers:
Louisiana State Representatives: LINK
Louisiana State Senators: LINK
Governor Landry: LINK
If you want to write but do not have time to formulate a letter, you can quote from and cite the text from a letter to the editor published in the Baton Rouge Advocate, April 15, 2016: LINK
Louisiana State Representatives: LINK
Louisiana State Senators: LINK
Governor Landry: LINK
If you want to write but do not have time to formulate a letter, you can quote from and cite the text from a letter to the editor published in the Baton Rouge Advocate, April 15, 2016: LINK
This post was edited on 4/18/26 at 2:57 pm
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Posted on 4/18/26 at 9:48 am to GeorgeWebber
Never set mine up. Zero fricks given that they are ending the email I never used.
Posted on 4/18/26 at 9:50 am to GeorgeWebber
This is a bizarre hill to die on. If you work as a professional and or for lsu you should be using your professional email. Not using generational alumni email address
Posted on 4/18/26 at 9:52 am to GeorgeWebber
Its typical that the university would do something of little value only to have it piss off the people that use the email address, who would usually be the type of Alum the university would desire to be associated with long term..
Posted on 4/18/26 at 9:57 am to GeorgeWebber
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When LSU gave me an alumni.lsu.edu account, it stated it would be permanent — available for life. My email has been passed between people in Louisiana and throughout the world. I regularly receive requests from scientists, engineers and aquaculturists for my master’s thesis, Ph.D. dissertation and peer-reviewed papers. Terminating my email will mean that future requests and questions will not reach me.
“I stand to gain monetarily from people citing my work, please don’t cut off my revenue stream”
Posted on 4/18/26 at 9:58 am to TROLA
I don’t think it’s of little value.
I’d imagine there’s a ton of manpower and costs every year associated with maintaining email addresses from years prior.
I’d imagine there’s a ton of manpower and costs every year associated with maintaining email addresses from years prior.
Posted on 4/18/26 at 10:07 am to GeorgeWebber
quote:
My research describes how oxygen and nitrogen behave in surface water, natural and constructed wetlands and biofilters for raising fish.
I had an aquarium at one time, too.
quote:If you could be so kind to let us at TD know about your new email address, that would be great, Doctor.
May 31, 2026, [ ] will be the final date to access your account[.] "
Posted on 4/18/26 at 10:12 am to GeorgeWebber
Just get a new email bro it's not that hard to do
Posted on 4/18/26 at 10:13 am to Odysseus32
quote:
I’d imagine there’s a ton of manpower and costs every year associated with maintaining email addresses from years prior.
The OP seems a silly gripe, but this seems possibly a sillier supposition.
A ton? Come on.
Posted on 4/18/26 at 10:17 am to GeorgeWebber
Gmail for the win.
Nobody gives any more thought about an email that originates from a lsu alumni account.
Nobody gives any more thought about an email that originates from a lsu alumni account.
Posted on 4/18/26 at 10:18 am to GeorgeWebber
I've never heard of "LSU Alumni Email." (And, yes, I am an LSU alum.)
What is so special about it?
How is LSU Alumni email different from "regular" email services?
What is so special about it?
How is LSU Alumni email different from "regular" email services?
Posted on 4/18/26 at 10:25 am to GeorgeWebber
You people get hung up over the dumbest shite. My fiancée has a Ph.D. in Pathology and does the same things, anything tied to her current or former academic institutions is supposed to exist in perpetuity. Does a .edu email matter that much? No, nobody really gives two shits. Older military officers are the same way, that .mil account goes away once those retirement orders are valid. Set an inbox rule to forward to a Gmail account, and an out-of-office message that future emails need to start goin to it. Easy.
Posted on 4/18/26 at 10:41 am to GeorgeWebber
I just retired from a company of 30+ years. Essentially, this was only email I ever had. Changed it upon retirement, and life seamlessly moved on. Nothing important was dropped at all.
Writing elected officials over an email is nearly equivalent to the Home Owner’s Association zealot who wants to fight the old lady with her 3-legged chihuahua who dropped a pebble poop in dude’s yard that one day.
Perhaps I prioritize life by the wrong things!
Writing elected officials over an email is nearly equivalent to the Home Owner’s Association zealot who wants to fight the old lady with her 3-legged chihuahua who dropped a pebble poop in dude’s yard that one day.
Perhaps I prioritize life by the wrong things!
This post was edited on 4/18/26 at 10:43 am
Posted on 4/18/26 at 10:51 am to Everyday Is Saturday
Sure seems like this thread took a divergent turn from where OP hoped it would go. It never occurred to me to retain an email from any former academic or other institutions once I left….
Posted on 4/18/26 at 11:01 am to GeorgeWebber
Does it really cost LSU much money to maintain the emails? I agree it’s not an important issue in the grand scheme of things but someone who would use the email address is probably a person more likely to be an active alum who donates.
I’ve got degrees from LSU and didn’t even know I could have an alumni email
I’ve got degrees from LSU and didn’t even know I could have an alumni email
This post was edited on 4/18/26 at 11:15 am
Posted on 4/18/26 at 11:26 am to GeorgeWebber
Proud LSU alumni here who never saw the need to using an alumni.lsu.edu email.... why is this a big deal?
Posted on 4/18/26 at 11:27 am to biglego
A Microsoft 365 license with a mailbox (email) is currently 7 dollars a month. That will go up in July of this to 10 dollars. I'm sure edu pricing is much cheaper. They should give you the option to pay for the account plus IT maintenance. There is costs involved so unless you're donating back to the university I'm not sure how you expect this to be free forever.
Posted on 4/18/26 at 11:30 am to GeorgeWebber
They need the server space for athlete's e-mail.
Posted on 4/18/26 at 11:48 am to GeorgeWebber
I got screwed when my lsu.edu account froze me out. I had so many things set to it. I had a melt down with the people in the office that oversee that.
Posted on 4/18/26 at 11:55 am to Odysseus32
quote:I do think it’s of little value.
I don’t think it’s of little value.
I don’t think it’s of great value.
I do think it’s of great value.
On these valid points I am most certain.
On these specious points I am most doubtful.
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