On Fri, Aug 29, 2014 at 12:05 PM, Paul Hoffman
<paul(_dot_)hoffman(_at_)vpnc(_dot_)org> wrote:
On Aug 29, 2014, at 8:54 AM, Ross Finlayson
<finlayson(_at_)live555(_dot_)com> wrote:
The fact that such services are useful is undeniable. As is the fact that
"@yahoo.com" and "@gmail.com" email address look unprofessional. They just
do.
More unprofessional than making blanket statements for the whole world based
on your personal opinions?
Quite.
I have my own domain and use it because that avoids the trap of being
dependent on some other party's email service. But
phill(_at_)hallambaker(_dot_)com is forwarded to hallam(_at_)gmail(_dot_)com
I didn't move from gmail because I considered it unprofessional though.
I moved to using gmail for all my IETF mail a long time ago because it
floods the corporate mail server otherwise and I really don't like
waiting for POP or IMAP to sync. It took four days to sync my Gmail
account to a new machine (I am using 9GB).
But the long term solution has to be to take mailing list applications
off SMTP. SMTP is not a good protocol for the requirements and the
legacy infrastructure is horrid.