[e2e] About email domains

[bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com]

 Oh, but it does.  at least the parts I own and pay for.  I get to filter
 what I like.

/bill

On Sun, Sep 16, 2012 at 12:49:51PM +0300, Pars Mutaf wrote:
> Real problem is: Who thinks that he has the right to filter email to an
> organization designing the Internet.
> 
> as if Internet belonged to you ...
> 
> On Sun, Sep 16, 2012 at 12:13 PM, Michael Welzl <michawe at ifi.uio.no> wrote:
> 
> > So I changed the subject, to match -
> >
> > I wanted to add, to that: I once had a research project with partners in
> > China. We wanted to use such a policy for our own lists, but soon gave up
> > because we found that many of our Chinese partners use such email domains
> > *to get their mails across*. That is, they found emails from their official
> > affiliation address to often be killed by spam filters or whatnot. And the
> > domains included a big company and a big University.
> >
> > Thus, I think that such filtering would clearly be unacceptable.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Michael
> >
> >
> > On Sep 16, 2012, at 8:15 AM, Pars Mutaf wrote:
> >
> >  Hi Ross,
> >>
> >> This is off topic no?
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >>
> >> On Sun, Sep 16, 2012 at 8:08 AM, Ross Finlayson <finlayson at live555.com>
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >>>     > Even better, perhaps professional mailing
> >>>> lists like this should start
> >>>>     > rejecting postings from 'hobbyist' email
> >>>> addresses ("@gmail.com",
> >>>>     > "@yahoo.com", etc.)...
> >>>>
> >>>> Sigh, much as I basically agree with you, a number of our
> >>>> serious contributors
> >>>> also use gmail, etc, these days.
> >>>>
> >>>>  Not to mention the PhD students who wouldn't like to be excluded ;-)
> >>>
> >>
> >> Do these PhD students' schools not have their own domain name? :-)
> >>
> >> Note that it's possible to let gmail manage email to/from addresses that
> >> use other domain names.  See:http://productforums.**
> >> google.com/forum/#!topic/**gmail/tEaJstfhzeI<http://productforums.google.com/forum/#%21topic/gmail/tEaJstfhzeI>
> >>
> >> The problem is not the 'gmail' service per se (provided that you don't
> >> mind your email being scanned :-).  The problem is the "@gmail.com"
> >> email address suffix, which advertises to the world that you're not
> >> particularly relevant.  (Ditto for "@yahoo.com", "@hotmail.com", "@
> >> aol.com" addresses, etc.)
> >>
> >> Ross.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> --
> >> http://www.content-based-**science.org<http://www.content-based-science.org>
> >>
> >>
> >
> 
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