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It's a hard problem, since (1) there are lots of personal email hosting providers all over the world that you've probably never heard of, (2) there are lots of
by greenyoda 7y ago
It's a hard problem, since (1) there are lots of personal email hosting providers all over the world that you've probably never heard of, (2) there are lots of companies all over the world that you've never heard of, and (3) anyone can register their own domain and look like a company.
Also, some people, such as business owners or academics, may use their work email for both work and non-work communications. And lots of small businesses that don't have IT support will just create a Gmail account for business use.
Why would you need to distinguish between them?
- titanprashant 7y agoSo I am building a product where there is this concept of teams and a team is a group of people from the same organization. Now when a new user signs up with his work email I want to show this team, that he can request to join. If you see "Organization Members" section of https://asana.com/guide/help/organizations/basics#gl-people https://asana.com/guide/help/organizations/basics#gl-people they automatically join you to an existing team from your organization (if there is one)
- ClassyJacket 7y agoSo why not just group people by email address? The public email providers can just have their own group as do the private ones, and if people wanna join the gmail group for some reason... who cares? Or just block the big ones (gmail, yahoo, outlook) and call it a day. I don't think this is a problem you're going to solve the way you want to.
- greenyoda 7y agoWhat if people want to form a team based on an organization that doesn't have its own e-mail domain, such as an open source project or a community volunteer group?
- titanprashant 7y agoThis feature will not restrict team creation. It is meant for team discovery if you are signing up using work email