Michael, I think it's a reasonable suggestion. I can't say I'd use it personally, as I have almost 20 years invested in my email address, but as I said on Twitter about a completely unrelated topic:
"Just because you can't see the use case for something, or don't like it, doesn't mean it isn't there or isn't valid." (For the record, I see the use case and like it, it just doesn't apply to me per se.) For people who don't have well-established email presences/identities already, a LOPSA email address might provide a good starting place. And not everyone wants to use Google for their mail (I'm okay with it myself). A service that offered spam/virus filtering and easy imap/mobile access would be useful to a lot of people, I expect. Another option would be to offer small business services to LOPSA members at a discount (there are a couple of hardware discounts on the list I believe, that are probably beyond what most individual members would buy for their spare bedroom lab, so there is precedent for LOPSA as a gateway to sub-enterprise introductions). Who knows, maybe a LOPSA member works for such a service and could help make some connections. Thanks for bringing up this suggestion. Robert On Mon, Apr 28, 2014 at 7:02 AM, Michael Tiernan <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 4/28/14 9:05 AM, Allan Irving wrote: > > Surely the majority of us host our own email servers > > Yeah. You're right. I forgot to make an unsubstantiated blanket assumption about the membership. > > Sorry I bothered.
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