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Tim Bray <tbray@textuality.com> Fri, 29 August 2014 15:37 UTC

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Subject: Re: gmail users read on...
From: Tim Bray <tbray@textuality.com>
To: Ross Finlayson <finlayson@live555.com>
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Us bozos who've been relying on Gmail for years are humbled and honored to
be in the presence of real professionals like you.  BTW, the presence of "@
gmail.com" is not a reliable criterion for detecting  Gmail use and
implicit bozo-ness. You may have been paying serious attention all these
years to some of the wrong people; how tragic.
On Aug 29, 2014 7:48 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.
>
>         Ross.
>
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