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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 1 day ago* (last edited 18 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 7 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

That seems about as anonymous as they come.

[–] Free_Opinions 3 points 19 hours ago

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

[–] LordWiggle@lemmy.world 3 points 18 hours ago (2 children)
[–] Free_Opinions 1 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] LordWiggle@lemmy.world 1 points 57 minutes ago* (last edited 52 minutes ago)

Yeah mine too, but am not going to put my full name here. The joke was mine is almost the same, but we have different names (I guess) so they are completely different. But now I want firstnamelastname@protonmail.com. By the way, did you know your email works without the dot too? Or when you add multiple dots? You can also add +sitename before the @ so you can see who sold your data. So, first.name.last.n.a.m.e+lemmy@protonmail.com works just as well as firstname.lastname@protonmail.com and firstnamelastname+lemmy@proton.me

Edit: firstnamelastname@proton is already in use :'(

[–] Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 1 points 18 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.

[–] bobs_monkey@lemm.ee 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

What's this recent political drama?

[–] TimLovesTech@badatbeing.social 9 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.

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

[–] 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.

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.