[e2e] About email domains

[Pars Mutaf]

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.
>>
>>
>>
>>
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>


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