29 Dec
2020
29 Dec
'20
7:43 a.m.
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