Re: Until when?
> Most ".edu" email addresses, at least in North America, are pointing to Google
Mostly true.
I worked in a university from the dawn of email. When I retired, part of my entitlement was email for life.
When Google EDU Suite hit, it was too good to refuse. BUT the University saw that G-spying threatened their academic independence. (They took it pretty seriously, I was never worried my government was peeking at email files.) BUT students did not require secure email. Neither did Retirees. (They forget we know where the bodies are buried...)
To implement this, they set up a different subdomain. university.edu was still hosted in-house, but new peons.university.edu was Google-hosted. And I lost my cherished address from the dawn, got a new address which was a pain to type.
Maybe somebody here will find it useful to know that there may be "2 classes" of EDU addresses.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
