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.?
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!
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