Re: gmail users read on... [bozo subtopic]

[Hector Santos <[e-mail]>]

One solution to all this is for the IETF to offer their own [e-mail] "registration" account to participants.  

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Hector Santos
http://www.santronics.com

> On Aug 29, 2014, at 4:10 PM, Brian E Carpenter <[e-mail]> wrote:
> 
>> On 30/08/2014 03:00, Mary Barnes wrote:
>> On Fri, Aug 29, 2014 at 9:48 AM, Ross Finlayson <[e-mail]>
>> wrote:
>> 
>>>> Gmail, like Yahoo and Hotmail and AOL, is sporadically useful for casual
>>>> purposes where mail transmission and receipt isn't terribly important.
>>>> But it's much too poorly operated to be acceptable for professional use.
>>> Plus the fact that "@yahoo.com" and "@gmail.com" (etc.) serve as good
>>> first-level 'Bozo Filters'.  DMARC serves as yet another reminder that
>>> serious professionals should not be using such email addresses.
>> [MB] I guess I am a terribly unserious professional. You might consider
>> that some of us switched to gmail because corporate filters are often
>> TERRIBLE about periodically blocking email from IETF mailing lists. And,
>> trying to convince some of those 'Bozos' not to do so is a exercise in
>> futility.  If you're lucky, they'll provide you with a daily list of some
>> of the messages they've quarantined and you can then go and retrieve those.
>>  So, I've had a much better experience since I switched from using
>> corporate email for professional use to gmail for 'unserious' professional
>> use.
>> [/MB]
> 
> Exactly. Since I switched to gmail for IETF traffic, I have changed
> employers, retired, un-retired and moved countries three times, with
> a stable email environment and no need to fight any corporate or ISP
> policies. The threat of DMARC hassle is the first real problem I've had.
> 
>   Brian
> 
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