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Re: gmail users read on...

2014-08-29 10:41:21
On Fri, Aug 29, 2014 at 11:00 AM, Mary Barnes 
<mary(_dot_)h(_dot_)barnes(_at_)gmail(_dot_)com>
wrote:

On Fri, Aug 29, 2014 at 9:48 AM, Ross Finlayson 
<finlayson(_at_)live555(_dot_)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.



 [MB] I guess I am a terribly unserious professional. You might consider
that some of us switched to gmail because corporate filters are often
TERRIBLE about periodically blocking email from IETF mailing lists. And,
trying to convince some of those 'Bozos' not to do so is a exercise in
futility.  If you're lucky, they'll provide you with a daily list of some
of the messages they've quarantined and you can then go and retrieve those.
  So, I've had a much better experience since I switched from using
corporate email for professional use to gmail for 'unserious' professional
use.
[/MB]


++1 to what Mary said:
Ease of use, general reliability, multiple device support w/o requiring a
VPN/SmartCard/etc.  Huge win to keep personal email (or, even,
"semi-professional") email separate from actual / critical work-related
emails.  I really don't understand classifying all users of those services
as "bozos" ... ?
/TJ