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Thanks for your reply. One comment, though: > Ask them what they want, do what the want, cash the check. That person is very much not tech-savvy, and I consi

Thanks for your reply. One comment, though: > Ask them what they want, do what the want, cash the check. That person is very much not tech-savvy, and I consider my role to help them find out what they need (not "want"). (Also, there's no check involved - this is a friend of someone in the family, I'm doing this for free.)

brudgers 3y ago
What you consider your role is irrelevant. Your role is what the client wants it to be. For example, they don’t want your role to be setting up a gmail account even though that would make the spam problem mostly disappear (and avoid a bunch of other email footguns) so you aren’t doing that. Even though they need a gmail account because potential customers will expect and accept it. And if your client already has email and use it, they already have practice dealing with spam because putting an email address on the web hasn’t been necessary to attract spam for a couple of decades.
- bruce511 3y ago
  Im not downvoting you, but I disagree that Gmail is a good email address to have. Our organisation considers Gmail addresses as "suspect" when processing orders. Gmail itself is hard to deal with as a company address when integrating to internal systems (they keep changing things.) I personally would strongly caution against using a Gmail address for your company.