Well, in these turbulent times, many of us in this forum are changing jobs. I'm sure that some of those people find it useful to have a permanent presence on the Net that doesn't depend on the email addresses supplied by their employers. Services such as Hotmail provide a convenient means to do that, without requiring people to disclose their "real" home addresses. I can see some real advantages to that.
>--- Forwarded mail from [EMAIL PROTECTED] >[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >@@ There seems to be a new culture developing among the users in all rational >@@ forums. Previously, by 1998-99, the user forums were not having anyone with >@@ public email address like yahoo.com and hotmail.com etc.., also without >@@ proper license information. Indeed, I notice, these days, some users are >@@ with phony names too. We need to be careful in dealing with them, like >@@ giving any access to intranet or so. Please take this as a constructive >@@ suggestion. I do not mean to offend the genuine users. >Let's face it. Yahoo and Hotmail target the casual user who really doesn't >know much about computers. They simply want a easy and free method to send and >receive email. Anyone who would use such accounts on a day to day basis to >conduct business such as what is discussed on CCIUG speaks volumes about their >capabilities. The type of questions and answers that comes from these >addresses support this as well. >Didn't Rational have some policy about using accounts like Yahoo to subscribe >to CCIUG? >--- End of forwarded message from [EMAIL PROTECTED] ************************************************************************ * Rose Forum is a public venue for ideas and discussions. * For technical support, visit http://www.rational.com/support * * Post or Reply to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Subscription Requests: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Archive of messages: * http://www.rational.com/support/usergroups/rose/rose_forum.jsp * Other Requests: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * * To unsubscribe from the list, please send email * To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Subject: <BLANK> * Body: unsubscribe rose_forum *************************************************************************
