Hi Ross, <br><br>This is off topic no?<br><br>Thanks, <br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Sep 16, 2012 at 8:08 AM, Ross Finlayson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:finlayson@live555.com" target="_blank">finlayson@live555.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><div class="im"><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 ("@<a href="http://gmail.com" target="_blank">gmail.com</a>",<br>
</blockquote><blockquote type="cite"> > "@<a href="http://yahoo.com" target="_blank">yahoo.com</a>", 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></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/#%21topic/gmail/tEaJstfhzeI" target="_blank">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 "@<a href="http://gmail.com" target="_blank">gmail.com</a>" email address suffix, which advertises to the world that you're not particularly relevant. (Ditto for "@<a href="http://yahoo.com" target="_blank">yahoo.com</a>", "@<a href="http://hotmail.com" target="_blank">hotmail.com</a>", "@<a href="http://aol.com" target="_blank">aol.com</a>" addresses, etc.)</div>
<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div><br></div><div><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>Ross.</div><div><br></div></font></span></div></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br><a href="http://www.content-based-science.org" target="_blank">http://www.content-based-science.org</a><br>
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