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.john...@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.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
