On Fri, Aug 29, 2014 at 12:05 PM, Paul Hoffman <paul.hoffman@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Aug 29, 2014, at 8:54 AM, Ross Finlayson <finlayson@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> The fact that such services are useful is undeniable. As is the fact that "@yahoo.com" and "@gmail.com" email address look unprofessional. They just do. > > More unprofessional than making blanket statements for the whole world based on your personal opinions? Quite. I have my own domain and use it because that avoids the trap of being dependent on some other party's email service. But phill@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx is forwarded to hallam@xxxxxxxxx I didn't move from gmail because I considered it unprofessional though. I moved to using gmail for all my IETF mail a long time ago because it floods the corporate mail server otherwise and I really don't like waiting for POP or IMAP to sync. It took four days to sync my Gmail account to a new machine (I am using 9GB). But the long term solution has to be to take mailing list applications off SMTP. SMTP is not a good protocol for the requirements and the legacy infrastructure is horrid.