Sure you can do this at home ;-)<br><br>But assuming that everybody will filter the same people is a mental illusion.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Sep 16, 2012 at 3:53 PM, <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com" target="_blank">bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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Oh, but it does. at least the parts I own and pay for. I get to filter<br>
what I like.<br>
<br>
/bill<br>
<br>
On Sun, Sep 16, 2012 at 12:49:51PM +0300, Pars Mutaf wrote:<br>
> Real problem is: Who thinks that he has the right to filter email to an<br>
> organization designing the Internet.<br>
><br>
> as if Internet belonged to you ...<br>
><br>
> On Sun, Sep 16, 2012 at 12:13 PM, Michael Welzl <<a href="mailto:michawe@ifi.uio.no">michawe@ifi.uio.no</a>> wrote:<br>
><br>
> > So I changed the subject, to match -<br>
> ><br>
> > I wanted to add, to that: I once had a research project with partners in<br>
> > China. We wanted to use such a policy for our own lists, but soon gave up<br>
> > because we found that many of our Chinese partners use such email domains<br>
> > *to get their mails across*. That is, they found emails from their official<br>
> > affiliation address to often be killed by spam filters or whatnot. And the<br>
> > domains included a big company and a big University.<br>
> ><br>
> > Thus, I think that such filtering would clearly be unacceptable.<br>
> ><br>
> > Cheers,<br>
> > Michael<br>
> ><br>
> ><br>
> > On Sep 16, 2012, at 8:15 AM, Pars Mutaf wrote:<br>
> ><br>
> > Hi Ross,<br>
> >><br>
> >> This is off topic no?<br>
> >><br>
> >> Thanks,<br>
> >><br>
> >> On Sun, Sep 16, 2012 at 8:08 AM, Ross Finlayson <<a href="mailto:finlayson@live555.com">finlayson@live555.com</a>><br>
> >> wrote:<br>
> >><br>
> >>> > 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>
> >>>><br>
> >>>> Sigh, much as I basically agree with you, a number of our<br>
> >>>> serious contributors<br>
> >>>> also use gmail, etc, these days.<br>
> >>>><br>
> >>>> Not to mention the PhD students who wouldn't like to be excluded ;-)<br>
> >>><br>
> >><br>
> >> Do these PhD students' schools not have their own domain name? :-)<br>
> >><br>
> >> Note that it's possible to let gmail manage email to/from addresses that<br>
> >> use other domain names. See:<a href="http://productforums." target="_blank">http://productforums.</a>**<br>
> >> <a href="http://google.com/forum/#%21topic/**gmail/tEaJstfhzeI" target="_blank">google.com/forum/#!topic/**gmail/tEaJstfhzeI</a><<a href="http://productforums.google.com/forum/#%21topic/gmail/tEaJstfhzeI" target="_blank">http://productforums.google.com/forum/#%21topic/gmail/tEaJstfhzeI</a>><br>
> >><br>
> >> The problem is not the 'gmail' service per se (provided that you don't<br>
> >> mind your email being scanned :-). The problem is the "@<a href="http://gmail.com" target="_blank">gmail.com</a>"<br>
> >> email address suffix, which advertises to the world that you're not<br>
> >> particularly relevant. (Ditto for "@<a href="http://yahoo.com" target="_blank">yahoo.com</a>", "@<a href="http://hotmail.com" target="_blank">hotmail.com</a>", "@<br>
> >> <a href="http://aol.com" target="_blank">aol.com</a>" addresses, etc.)<br>
> >><br>
> >> Ross.<br>
> >><br>
> >><br>
> >><br>
> >><br>
> >> --<br>
> >> <a href="http://www.content-based-" target="_blank">http://www.content-based-</a>**<a href="http://science.org" target="_blank">science.org</a><<a href="http://www.content-based-science.org" target="_blank">http://www.content-based-science.org</a>><br>
> >><br>
> >><br>
> ><br>
><br>
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