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.
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! 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