Real problem is: Who thinks that he has the right to filter email to an organization designing the Internet. <br><br>as if Internet belonged to you ... <br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Sep 16, 2012 at 12:13 PM, Michael Welzl <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:michawe@ifi.uio.no" target="_blank">michawe@ifi.uio.no</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">So I changed the subject, to match -<br>
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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.<br>
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Thus, I think that such filtering would clearly be unacceptable.<br>
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Cheers,<br>
Michael<br>
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On Sep 16, 2012, at 8:15 AM, Pars Mutaf wrote:<br>
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Hi Ross,<br>
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This is off topic no?<br>
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Thanks,<br>
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On Sun, Sep 16, 2012 at 8:08 AM, Ross Finlayson <<a href="mailto:finlayson@live555.com" target="_blank">finlayson@live555.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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> Even better, perhaps professional mailing<br>
lists like this should start<br>
> rejecting postings from 'hobbyist' email<br>
addresses ("@<a href="http://gmail.com" target="_blank">gmail.com</a>",<br>
> "@<a href="http://yahoo.com" target="_blank">yahoo.com</a>", etc.)...<br>
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Sigh, much as I basically agree with you, a number of our<br>
serious contributors<br>
also use gmail, etc, these days.<br>
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Not to mention the PhD students who wouldn't like to be excluded ;-)<br>
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Do these PhD students' schools not have their own domain name? :-)<br>
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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.<u></u>google.com/forum/#!topic/<u></u>gmail/tEaJstfhzeI</a><br>
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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.)<br>
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Ross.<br>
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