29 Dec
2020
29 Dec
'20
8:53 a.m.
Yes, I know.? I have an email from 2005 saying that I was forced to give
it up 'a few years ago' with them saying they were being discontinued,
but don't have the original email.? I lost some stuff when I converted
from Eudora to Thunderbird.? However I dropped my
membership of the
computer society and printed the ieee address on all my cards, so
didn't
go back.
cheers,
Nigel
Nigel Johnson, MSc., MIEEE, MCSE VE3ID/G4AJQ/VA3MCU
Amateur Radio, the origin of the open-source concept!
Skype: TILBURY2591 nw.johnson at ieee.org
On 2020-12-29 11:23 a.m., Chris Zach via cctalk wrote:
My original
email alias was from computer.org.? Then I got a mysterious
email saying that they were no longer going to offer computer.org email
aliases, so I switched to ieee.org.
Really? When did that happen, you should still be able to re-sign up
for one using that link. Give it a try.
I had one site refuse to let me use my ieee.org
email address to log on
since the initial request came from a google server!? He called it a
freemail account!
That I can believe. Strangely enough when we built it we assumed that
people would simply use the From: header as computer.org so they could
get replies. However this breaks a lot of SPF obviously (because
computer.org is not going to say they support coming from you) but spf
didn't exist back then.
Ah well. Still cool though. Let me know if it still works for you and
if you have that message forward it to me off list.
CZ
>
> Strange world we live in!
>
> cheers,
>
> NIgel
>
> IEEE member for 20+ years now - so I missed the computer society debacle
> of which you speak.
>
>
>
> Nigel Johnson, MSc., MIEEE, MCSE VE3ID/G4AJQ/VA3MCU
> Amateur Radio, the origin of the open-source concept!
> Skype:? TILBURY2591 nw.johnson at ieee.org
>
>
>
> On 2020-12-29 10:43 a.m., Chris Zach via cctalk wrote:
>> You're kidding? I actually *wrote* the entire E-account, E-Alias, and
>> E-commerce system used by the IEEE Computer Society back in 1995, and
>> I keep my membership because of the mail forwarding to my home address.
>>
>> Amazingly enough the forms I developed are still used, and I'd guess
>> the back end code as well. Not bad for 25 years.
>> http://cs-ems.ieee.org/
>>
>> I left the Computer Society in 2000 after that complete fuckage
>> takeover trick by Daniel Senese from the IEEE. Since then they haven't
>> done much of a thing to support either computing or technology.
>> Innovation there pretty much died...
>>
>> The fact that they would use a non-standard, monopoly, proprietary,
>> privacy stealing email solution is just not a surprise at all.
>>
>> Ah well, things happen. We did have an amazing run there for 6 years
>> but all good things....
>>
>> CZ
>>
>> On 12/29/2020 10:07 AM, Nigel Johnson via cctalk wrote:
>>> The IEEE also uses google!
>>>
>>> One of my NetBSD correspondents simply blocks all mail from google
>>> servers on his system!
>>>
>>> cheers,
>>>
>>> Nigel
>>>
>>>
>>> Nigel Johnson, MSc., MIEEE, MCSE VE3ID/G4AJQ/VA3MCU
>>> Amateur Radio, the origin of the open-source concept!
>>> Skype:? TILBURY2591 nw.johnson at ieee.org
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On 2020-12-29 10:04 a.m., Chris Zach via cctalk wrote:
>>>>> Google has more resources than me. How about they update their
>>>>> systems to
>>>>> match Internet email standards?
>>>>
>>>> The big problem isn't google doing it: They can do whatever they
>>>> want.
>>>>
>>>> The problem comes when state and local governments switch to google
>>>> mail services and now your constituents can no longer contact their
>>>> govt officials. This happens here and it is *extremely* annoying.
>>>>
>>>> CZ