RE: Some gmail questions

2011-01-09 Thread Edward Ned Harvey
> From: discuss-boun...@blu.org [mailto:discuss-boun...@blu.org] On Behalf > Of Jerry Feldman > > > What's the downside? I'm genuinely curious. > > > None that I can see. He's an Exchange Guy The exchange comment seems unrelated, except, that in MS land, SPF is called SenderID. _

RE: Some gmail questions

2011-01-09 Thread Edward Ned Harvey
> From: discuss-boun...@blu.org [mailto:discuss-boun...@blu.org] On Behalf > Of Tom Metro > > To clarify, having a PTR record for your mail server's IP is generally > required, but having the PTR record match the HELO (EHLO) domain should > not be required, and rejecting messages that violate this

So little actual software development in software engineering roles

2011-01-09 Thread Mark Woodward
I have been looking around for positions having had my last project canceled. I'm so tired, it seems like "software development" is more "software integration" these days. Maybe I'm old and washed up. I don't know, but jeez, I LOVE writing software. I mean, I love it. Problems wake me up in the

Re: So little actual software development in software engineering roles

2011-01-09 Thread Jack Coats
I feel your pain. The term generalist seems to be a death knell too. I have 15+ years of mainframe software development then went into systems programming (mainframe) that is basically systems administration. Then went to UNIX of various flavors of administration. But finding jobs at any level