During the past few months at Lafayette College, we've discussed the issues and process behind our decision to move e‐mail off our IBM minicomputer. Newsletter articles have mentioned the slowness of the current system (LINC, Lafayette's Integrated, Networked Campus) as the reason for moving and that during the next couple of years we'll be moving the rest of the software off that system to the PC network. We also noted that there were two paths we could take in moving, e‐mail: one was to the PC network using a package like Lotus' cc:Mail; the second to move the e‐mail to another large system like the VAX or Unix systems and use POP Mail on the PC to provide an easy mail interface. In both cases, we would keep our existing IDs in LINC and forward LINC mail to the new mailer, allowing a slow transition from the old e‐mail address to the new one.
Article navigation
1 January 1994
This article was originally published in
Campus-Wide Information Systems
