On 30/08/2014 03:00, Mary Barnes wrote: > On Fri, Aug 29, 2014 at 9:48 AM, Ross Finlayson <finlayson@xxxxxxxxxxx> > wrote: > >>> Gmail, like Yahoo and Hotmail and AOL, is sporadically useful for casual >>> purposes where mail transmission and receipt isn't terribly important. >>> But it's much too poorly operated to be acceptable for professional use. >> Plus the fact that "@yahoo.com" and "@gmail.com" (etc.) serve as good >> first-level 'Bozo Filters'. DMARC serves as yet another reminder that >> serious professionals should not be using such email addresses. >> > [MB] I guess I am a terribly unserious professional. You might consider > that some of us switched to gmail because corporate filters are often > TERRIBLE about periodically blocking email from IETF mailing lists. And, > trying to convince some of those 'Bozos' not to do so is a exercise in > futility. If you're lucky, they'll provide you with a daily list of some > of the messages they've quarantined and you can then go and retrieve those. > So, I've had a much better experience since I switched from using > corporate email for professional use to gmail for 'unserious' professional > use. > [/MB] Exactly. Since I switched to gmail for IETF traffic, I have changed employers, retired, un-retired and moved countries three times, with a stable email environment and no need to fight any corporate or ISP policies. The threat of DMARC hassle is the first real problem I've had. Brian