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.john...@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
