<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><blockquote type="cite"><div><blockquote type="cite"> > Even better, perhaps professional mailing<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">lists like this should start<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"> > rejecting postings from 'hobbyist' email<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">addresses ("@gmail.com",<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"> > "@yahoo.com", etc.)...<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Sigh, much as I basically agree with you, a number of our<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">serious contributors<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">also use gmail, etc, these days.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote>Not to mention the PhD students who wouldn't like to be excluded ;-)<br></div></blockquote><div><br></div></div>Do these PhD students' schools not have their own domain name? :-)<div><br></div><div>Note that it's possible to let gmail manage email to/from addresses that use other domain names. See:<a href="http://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/gmail/tEaJstfhzeI">http://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/gmail/tEaJstfhzeI</a></div><div><br>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.)</div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Ross.</div><div><br></div></body></html>