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Ted Faber <faber@isi.edu> Fri, 29 August 2014 15:36 UTC

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On 08/29/14 08:20, l.wood@surrey.ac.uk wrote:
> Counterpoint: I know of a 20person company that ran off google apps and gmail (under an owned domain) for over a year, and are only transitioning off it to inhouse corporate Exchange after the subsequent acquisition and IPO.
> 
> Many use these services, because they're better and more reliable for their purposes than the alternatives available to them. They're making professional choices.

I agree.

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.

I think that it is unwise to use gmail as a "bozo filter" these days.

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