[e2e] About email domains

[Pars Mutaf]

Sure you can do this at home ;-)

But assuming that everybody will filter the same people is a mental
illusion.

On Sun, Sep 16, 2012 at 3:53 PM, <bmanning at vacation.karoshi.com> wrote:

>
>  Oh, but it does.  at least the parts I own and pay for.  I get to filter
>  what I like.
>
> /bill
>
> On Sun, Sep 16, 2012 at 12:49:51PM +0300, Pars Mutaf wrote:
> > Real problem is: Who thinks that he has the right to filter email to an
> > organization designing the Internet.
> >
> > as if Internet belonged to you ...
> >
> > On Sun, Sep 16, 2012 at 12:13 PM, Michael Welzl <michawe at ifi.uio.no>
> wrote:
> >
> > > So I changed the subject, to match -
> > >
> > > I wanted to add, to that: I once had a research project with partners
> in
> > > China. We wanted to use such a policy for our own lists, but soon gave
> up
> > > because we found that many of our Chinese partners use such email
> domains
> > > *to get their mails across*. That is, they found emails from their
> official
> > > affiliation address to often be killed by spam filters or whatnot. And
> the
> > > domains included a big company and a big University.
> > >
> > > Thus, I think that such filtering would clearly be unacceptable.
> > >
> > > Cheers,
> > > Michael
> > >
> > >
> > > On Sep 16, 2012, at 8:15 AM, Pars Mutaf wrote:
> > >
> > >  Hi Ross,
> > >>
> > >> This is off topic no?
> > >>
> > >> Thanks,
> > >>
> > >> On Sun, Sep 16, 2012 at 8:08 AM, Ross Finlayson <
> finlayson at live555.com>
> > >> wrote:
> > >>
> > >>>     > Even better, perhaps professional mailing
> > >>>> lists like this should start
> > >>>>     > rejecting postings from 'hobbyist' email
> > >>>> addresses ("@gmail.com",
> > >>>>     > "@yahoo.com", etc.)...
> > >>>>
> > >>>> Sigh, much as I basically agree with you, a number of our
> > >>>> serious contributors
> > >>>> also use gmail, etc, these days.
> > >>>>
> > >>>>  Not to mention the PhD students who wouldn't like to be excluded
> ;-)
> > >>>
> > >>
> > >> Do these PhD students' schools not have their own domain name? :-)
> > >>
> > >> Note that it's possible to let gmail manage email to/from addresses
> that
> > >> use other domain names.  See:http://productforums.**
> > >> google.com/forum/#!topic/**gmail/tEaJstfhzeI<http://google.com/forum/#%21topic/**gmail/tEaJstfhzeI>
> <http://productforums.google.com/forum/#%21topic/gmail/tEaJstfhzeI>
> > >>
> > >> The problem is not the 'gmail' service per se (provided that you don't
> > >> mind your email being scanned :-).  The problem is the "@gmail.com"
> > >> email address suffix, which advertises to the world that you're not
> > >> particularly relevant.  (Ditto for "@yahoo.com", "@hotmail.com", "@
> > >> aol.com" addresses, etc.)
> > >>
> > >> Ross.
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> --
> > >> http://www.content-based-**science.org<
> http://www.content-based-science.org>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >
> >
> >
> > --
> > http://www.content-based-science.org
>



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