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Why Oxford’s email sucks

2008-04-24 by spike Leave a Comment

I’m a student at the University of Oxford, and as is standard practice, they provide a email system for staff and students. It’s called Herald, and I assume it’s a home-grown email server that has evolved from code written in the 1980s. It’s a piece of crap. I kid, I kid! Admittedly, that’s probably dropping … [Read more…]

Posted in: Email, Fail, User experience Tagged: Email, oxford, webmail

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