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Ross Finlayson <finlayson@live555.com> Fri, 29 August 2014 15:54 UTC

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> I've also seen many people who keep a gmail or other mass market account
> as a professional address knowing that they will move between
> institutional addresses.  As companies come and go faster and people
> transition between them more often, keeping a semi-permanent
> professional contact point is a sound strategy.

Can these people really be confident that "gmail.com" will outlive their professional life?  At the very least, they should use their own domain name - even if they use a GMail or Yahoo Mail-type service to host their email.  (As an extra benefit - to keep this message on-topic - the email that they send won't be subject to DMARC.)

The fact that such services are useful is undeniable.  As is the fact that "@yahoo.com" and "@gmail.com" email address look unprofessional.  They just do.

	Ross.

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