Webmail woes
How do I loathe the new U of T Webmail? Oh, let me count the ways…
While we U of T Webmail users have recently been treated to a bland yet much-welcomed facelift to our webmail accounts, we’ve also been subjected to an obtrusive, craptacular new interface and a system that is even slower than the paleolithic-era detritus that it replaces.
Worse yet, it won’t let me log in to my webmail 90 per cent of the time. Login failed? I’ve been using the same login and password for five years now! Login failed, yeah right! Then, after suffering the indignity of being told that I’m an impostor, it locks me out!
I’m not ready to call for a Luddite uprising yet-there may yet be value to this new webmail interface. I do like the fact that it tells you how much space you’ve used in your account, and I like the less static, more ‘interactive’ feel of it. The problems I mentioned may just be kinks in the new system that will be worked out in due course. But please, IT, do something soon to get it working properly!
Ari David Kopolovic
