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Tipster Stephen Wang informs Bwog that Alma Mater is going to be offering permanent email addresses for its illustrious, tech-savvy alums and seniors. Users will get to choose their own display name (!) and the emails will be able to "enjoy all the features of Google's Gmail
service while maintaining a Columbia address." So a lot like what every current student has been doing for four years.

However, our emailing tipster already sends word of a technological slip-up: "You couldn't sign up on the first day it was available... because it was broken, already."

UPDATE: Seniors: nab your first name as your display name before someone else gets it first! Ready, set, go.

UPDATE 10:13 PM: Commenter reports that lee.bollinger@caa.columbia.edu. is taken. No word yet on the.butler.marxist, princeton.sucks, et al. Hurry, hurry!

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March 5, 2008 @ 9:11 PM | Comments 22 comments | Add comment Post a comment | Link to this article | | Email this post | Share on Facebook

Posted by hi...: [#1] [reply] [track]
( posted March 5, 2008 at 9:43 PM ) (from campus)
can current students do this? wouldn't it be alumni only who could register an email address?

(I couldn't register one, it said some sort of error with my uni being in the wrong family code or something)
Posted by ZvS: [#2] [reply] [track] (in reply to #1)
( posted March 5, 2008 at 9:46 PM )
It appears you must be a senior.
Posted by yup: [#3] [reply] [track]
( posted March 5, 2008 at 9:58 PM ) (from campus)
i'm a junior and can't register.

way to get my hopes up, bwog.
Posted by yay: [#4] [reply] [track]
( posted March 5, 2008 at 10:10 PM ) (from campus)
woohoo 2 new email addresses! Thanks, Columbia Alumni Association! This must be where my tuition is going...free Columbia Gmail for life!
Posted by senior: [#5] [reply] [track]
( posted March 5, 2008 at 10:10 PM ) (from campus)
just snagged my first name @caa.columbia.edu awwwwwwww yeaahhhhhh

Thank you, Bwog.
Posted by um..: [#6] [reply] [track]
( posted March 5, 2008 at 10:13 PM )
i was able to register first day

(just set it to forward to my regular email)

also lee.bollinger@caa.columbia.edu is now taken
Posted by takeoutbox: [#7] [reply] [track]
( posted March 5, 2008 at 10:48 PM ) (from campus)
can barnard seniors get it to?
Posted by hrm: [#8] [reply] [track] (in reply to #7)
( posted March 5, 2008 at 10:50 PM ) (from campus)
Get it to what? Jump? Roll over? Shake?
Posted by cc08: [#9] [reply] [track]
( posted March 5, 2008 at 11:03 PM ) (from campus)
got my first name! awesome! i love you bwog.

to #7, barnard students can't get this because it's the COLUMBIA alumni association :)
Posted by EAL: [#10] [reply] [track]
( posted March 5, 2008 at 11:09 PM ) (from campus)
Whoever takes princeton.sucks@caa.columbia.edu would earn an automatic A in my book for school spirit.
Posted by takeoutbox: [#11] [reply] [track] (in reply to #8)
( posted March 5, 2008 at 11:58 PM ) (from campus)
im sorry asshole...

can they get the address in addition to cc seniors/alums?
Posted by ignore: [#12] [reply] [track] (in reply to #11)
( posted March 6, 2008 at 12:00 AM )
the moron

some alumni apparently haven't graduated out of a mindset of pettiness and arrogance
Posted by Armin Rosen: [#13] [reply] [track]
( posted March 6, 2008 at 12:05 AM ) (from campus)
The Butler Marxist has a name, y'know. I even tried talking to him once: [ external link to www.bwog.net ]
Posted by barnard girls: [#14] [reply] [track]
( posted March 6, 2008 at 12:31 AM ) (from campus)
can't get it....hahahahahaha
Posted by or...: [#15] [reply] [track] (in reply to #12)
( posted March 6, 2008 at 12:32 AM ) (from campus)
Or they are still bitter about the fact that Barnard chicks don't work nearly as hard as Columbia students and yet graduate with the same degree.

Posted by as a cc student : [#16] [reply] [track] (in reply to #15)
( posted March 6, 2008 at 12:47 AM )
for 4 years I can guarantee the barnard students spent just as much time procrastinating until their papers were due or hitting the heights/1020/etc 4 nights a week as their cc counterparts

seas kids on the other hand...
Posted by question: [#17] [reply] [track]
( posted March 6, 2008 at 3:05 AM ) (from campus)
how do I log into my customized name account? I seem to only be able to log into my uni@caa account.
Posted by SEAS kid: [#18] [reply] [track]
( posted March 6, 2008 at 12:47 PM ) (from campus)
I can assure you, we don't spend nearly as much time working as CC kids do.

Problem set = 2 hours of hard work

Reading/Paper = 4 hours of brainless work

Pick your poison.
Posted by uh..my point: [#19] [reply] [track] (in reply to #18)
( posted March 6, 2008 at 1:43 PM )
was that seas kids do seem to be working longer/harder

and i've taken some seas classes---if you spend two hours on a legitimately hard problem set in a seas class you're either going to pull a 2.3 or you're einstein
Posted by ...: [#20] [reply] [track]
( posted March 6, 2008 at 5:37 PM ) (from campus)


caa.columbia.edu?

why not alumni.columbia.edu or alum.columbia.edu? that seems to be the pattern that practically every other university on the planet uses...

(and yes, i know it stands for columbia alumni association... the point still stands. for anyone who doesn't know columbia jargon, caa means nothing.)

Posted by damn: [#21] [reply] [track]
( posted March 6, 2008 at 5:52 PM ) (from campus)
Douchbag.McGee@caa.columbia.edu was rejected. It's a FAMILY NAME, censoristas!
Posted by also: [#22] [reply] [track] (in reply to #20)
( posted March 9, 2008 at 12:17 PM ) (from campus)
it's one letter away from caca
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