Playing with the basics

It's always amazing to watch how panicky students can get when you take away one of their favourite common tech tools. Over the last couple of days as senior students begin writing assignments, they've discovered that the district has blocked their ability to attach things to Hotmail. You see, we have a new student email program as part of our website. We'd like students to use it to get around all the issues we have with attachments that can't be opened in Linux and vice versa.
I've demonstrated this new email program a few times in the last couple of days and students catch on quickly and are pleased at how simple it is. I've even been able to demonstrate how much more professional it is, than sending an assignment to someone from Captain****head@hotmail. Because it's easy and because they won't have conversion problems anymore, they seem happy. I know it won't discourage them from Hotmail, but it will allow their personal email to be personal and their school assignments and school communications to be a little more professional.