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thought you guys would find this blog post from Brian Leiter today funny. he's a pretty good guy and a respected scholar so no shade on him, clearly just misinformed. i wonder if this is in some way downstream of the recent political drama around proton.

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[–] adespoton@lemmy.ca 44 points 1 day ago

I think you may be missing his real point: he’s asking people to stop sending anonymous non-attributed emails, as he deletes those.

I do the same; it’s not a proton/gmail/etc. thing, it’s a “did you say who you are in the mail” thing. He then points out that most of these anonymous messages are coming from protonmail/gmail accounts.

He’s essentially saying he doesn’t want anonymous tips/feedback. Nothing to do with the delivery service.

[–] Free_Opinions 4 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago) (2 children)

My email is firstname.lastname@protonmail.com so it's not exactly anonymous.

Edit: My real email obviously has my actual name on it.

[–] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 6 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

That seems about as anonymous as they come.

[–] Free_Opinions 3 points 16 hours ago

Naturally I don't include my real name in the example.

[–] LordWiggle@lemmy.world 3 points 15 hours ago (2 children)
[–] Free_Opinions 1 points 15 hours ago

That's just an example. My real email has my actual name on it.

[–] Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 1 points 15 hours ago

So it's your fault they had to add a period between firstname and lastname!

Now it's a race to get a good number like firstnamelastname69 or 112358.

[–] Unabart@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 day ago

Dude needs to update to the latest Moodle. Looks less like a Geocities inspired html abortion.

[–] bobs_monkey@lemm.ee 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

What's this recent political drama?

[–] TimLovesTech@badatbeing.social 7 points 1 day ago (2 children)

One of the board members has been posting very pro-Trump nonsense.

[–] bobs_monkey@lemm.ee 5 points 1 day ago

Oh boy, gotta kiss the ring

[–] femtech@midwest.social 2 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Damn, well maybe I won't get a subscription now. I was migrating everything off Microsoft.

[–] onlinepersona@programming.dev 4 points 22 hours ago

Not only did he post that, his opinion was then posted with the official account on reddit. Supposedly a miscommuniction between him and the media team 🤷

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[–] Makhno@lemmy.world -4 points 1 day ago

Damn, well maybe I won't get a subscription now.

That'll show 'em

[–] onlinepersona@programming.dev 0 points 22 hours ago

Some people are still stuck in the past. What can you do? 🤷 But if you're a registered student or faculty, you can send emails with the university's email, can't you?

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[–] dukethorion@lemmy.world -1 points 1 day ago

I think its funny that he considers GMail "anonymous".

Dude probably uses AOL.