I don't get this point at all.
Some educational institutions don't have a .edu for its home. How contour
this? Maybe registranting these institutions who could not fit in the model.
I don`t know if it will work.
It's a strange way to promote (or do not) their products in students' mind.





On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 5:04 AM, William "Chops" Westfield
<westfw@mac.com>wrote:

>
> On Oct 14, 2009, at 12:05 AM, Vitaliy wrote:
>
> > how about just requiring that the package be shipped to a school
> > address and addressed to a Prof.
>
>
> What part of "profs don't want more work" didn't you understand?
>
> Actually, a couple of manufacturers (National?) have said (at some
> time in their sample program) that they'll only ship samples requested
> from a valid .EDU email addresses (and .com); no more using the
> generic email providers like gmail, yahoo, etc...  That sort-of works,
> but has its own set of issues...
>
> BillW
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