Random e-mail rant

You know what I hate? People who do business from lame e-mail accounts. For instance, I was reading the latest issue of Skeptic this morning, and one of the authors had an e-mail address listed as somethingorother@aol.com. And this guy had co-written a book that was reviewed in a previous issue! Why can't his publishers just give him a corporate e-mail address? Of course, it could be worse - I've also seen people doing business from free accounts at Hotmail and Yahoo!

It's not that I have anything against people who use Hotmail, Yahoo!, or any other free e-mail service. They're perfectly fine services for personal use. It just annoys me when people do business from them. It's one thing to use a Hotmail account to send your cousin a link to a Dilbert cartoon, but it's quite another to use one to sell me a product, service or idea. I mean, getting your own domain is cheap these days. I only pay US$70 a year for my domain and hosting account. It isn't even hard to manage - it's got a nice web-based control panel and everything. And yet some people still expect me to take them seriously when they can't be bothered to invest a lousy $70 a year in their product? Give me a break!

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