On 08/19/2013 10:55 AM, staticsafe wrote: > On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 01:26:36PM +0200, rysiek wrote: >> Dnia poniedziałek, 19 sierpnia 2013 13:10:05 Lodewijk andré de la porte >> pisze: >>> That's why he said spam-ish, not spam. >>> >>> Regardless it will make them be viewed much less. I think they're just >>> "taking eggs for their money". They know it's a lot to ask from people to >>> switch away from gmail. They love their arsefuckings. >>> >>> They might not have thought about the "big ridiculously high, then concede >>> to something high"-tactic. "Please, people, stop using gmail". Everyone: >>> "Noo! We love Gmail!". "Then at least send an e-mail back to fix gmail". >>> Everyone: "That sounds reasonable." instead of "please fix gmail". Everyone >>> "naah too much effort". >> >> This. Also, it wouldn't cost them a dime to add a sentence or two explaining >> why centralisation is the problem and how using other e-mail providers can >> help. >> >> -- >> Pozdr >> rysiek > > > Sure, lets tell them to move their e-mail from Gmail....to where? To > another big mail provider (whats the point then?). Lavabit, Silent > Circle, Hushmail, Tormail? Nope. Self host their own e-mail? Hah. Most > people don't have the resources and/or the ability to do something like > that. > > There is also the matter of trust, why should I trust $MAILHOST over > Google? > > What is the solution then? > > I hope I got my point across.
The solution *could* be to host their own mail server if it were made easy enough for them. I'm thinking something like a Raspberry Pi with very well designed web UI for simple configuration and management. Include a nice webmail client and even most non-techies could probably do this.
