Re: gmail users read on...

Rich Kulawiec <rsk@gsp.org> Fri, 29 August 2014 12:11 UTC

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On Fri, Aug 29, 2014 at 05:05:53PM +1200, Brian E Carpenter wrote:
> I hate to bring this topic up again but people should perhaps be aware
> that some legitimate IETF mail is now being automatically spam filtered
> for gmail recipients. 

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.
And of course it's well-known that attempts to contact a clueful human
behind the Google monolith are nearly always destined to fail.

---rsk