It's much more about the email than AFS at this point. The average user who knows what AFS is is competent to transfer the files out to somewhere else; the average user who knows how to read their mail via webmail is not as good at self-supporting to download all their email to somewhere else using an entirely different mail program. :-\
Providing a site (or a thumb drive, or whatever) with downloadable copies of everything you own would probably make them happier, but would be a ton of work to implement, and more work to support (and answer questions a year later about how to read the thumb drive) and yeah, they're not really our clients at the point at which we are trying to pry their fingers off of our infrastructure, so doing the ton of work for them is probably not going to be anyone's priority.
(AFS backups are in fact kept around for ages; kerberos principals are (this is new) unable to get tickets after deactivation, so it's harder to do much to get at the old AFS stuff even with a local account.)
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Providing a site (or a thumb drive, or whatever) with downloadable copies of everything you own would probably make them happier, but would be a ton of work to implement, and more work to support (and answer questions a year later about how to read the thumb drive) and yeah, they're not really our clients at the point at which we are trying to pry their fingers off of our infrastructure, so doing the ton of work for them is probably not going to be anyone's priority.
(AFS backups are in fact kept around for ages; kerberos principals are (this is new) unable to get tickets after deactivation, so it's harder to do much to get at the old AFS stuff even with a local account.)