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Neomail email accounts used to sell household items or simply neglected

Have you been checking your Georgia Highlands College email account lately? If the answer is no, you aren't alone.

The Neomail account that’s given to every student enrolled at Floyd College (which can be checked at http://mail.highlands.edu) was no doubt created with the intention of being a vehicle for quick relaying of important information about happenings in the college. Unfortunately, it seems to have degenerated into an online cafeteria menu and a forum for those wishing to sell household appliances.

That’s not to say that there’s necessarily anything wrong with it being used for that; it’s just that few people seem to be using it for anything else. Those who do use it for important purposes aren’t heard because a large percentage of the students don’t even seem to be aware that they have a highlands.edu account, let alone what their username is and that their password is the last four digits of their social security number and the month they were born.

We have a great resource; we’re just not using it enough. The Neomail accounts are probably the only medium of communication that everyone involved at FC have in common.

However, like any resource, it can’t be useful if it’s left untapped and neglected. For students enrolled in “the most wired two-year school in the world,” we certainly aren’t taking much advantage of it.

Those students who would like to find out their user name and password should contact the helpdesk at (706) 295-2376.