On 2014-07-30 16:06, Noel Butler wrote:
Certainly have done it on employers network before (a public ISP), and would have no problem doing it again if the need arose. There is no such thing as 'too big' when it comes to handling the shit storm of spam that gets spewed out of some organisations, and I'll treat Gmail and the likes the same as a ma 'n pa run outback country dialup ISP, there is no difference in my eyes, the fact that many see there is, is exactly why the likes of Gmail don't give a rats about spam complaints, if more operators started taking a stand, and directed their users bitching about blocked mail to Gmail etc, maybe Google etc, will pull their finger out of their ears (amongst other places) and not only listen, but act.
There is a difference: Gmail is a very major source of wanted, legitimate mail. Most "may 'n pa run outback country dialup ISPs" are not.
A substantial percentage of our pre-sales inquiries come from Gmail addresses (even if the final purchase use a legitimate corporate mailbox -- We're B2B, we don't sell to consumers), and a surprisingly large percentage of actual corporate addresses are hosted on Google Apps.
We literally can't afford to discard all mail from Gmail any more than we could afford to de-list ourselves from Google's search index, the hit to our business would be substantial.
If you don't care about interacting with prospective or current customers, you might be able to afford to block Gmail. At $DAYJOB, we can't.
-- Dave Warren http://www.hireahit.com/ http://ca.linkedin.com/in/davejwarren
