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.john...@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.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
