Emails going to spam folder in gmail

[Nigel Johnson]

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