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TJ <trejrco@gmail.com> Fri, 29 August 2014 15:40 UTC

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Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2014 11:40:01 -0400
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On Fri, Aug 29, 2014 at 11:00 AM, Mary Barnes <mary.h.barnes@gmail.com>
wrote:

> On Fri, Aug 29, 2014 at 9:48 AM, Ross Finlayson <finlayson@live555.com>
> 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]
>

++1 to what Mary said:
Ease of use, general reliability, multiple device support w/o requiring a
VPN/SmartCard/etc.  Huge win to keep personal email (or, even,
"semi-professional") email separate from actual / critical work-related
emails.  I really don't understand classifying all users of those services
as "bozos" ... ?
/TJ

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