-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Avaaz in "grave danger" due to GMail spam filters Date: Sun, 18 Aug 2013 23:48:58 +0200 From: rysiek <[email protected]> Organization: Warsaw Hackerspace To: [email protected]
OHAI, I happen to be on Avaaz's info distribution list, and I got an e-mail lately that Avaaz is in "grave danger" as GMail will now filter mailings like that out to a separate folder for similar spam-ish (yet not spam per se) mailings. So what they're asking people to do is to reply directly to that e-mail, so that GMail will note that Avaaz's mailings are not to be messed around with. Instead of telling people, you know, to decentralise and use other, smaller providers. I facepalmed so hard I could cry. It's Stockholm Syndrome if I ever saw one. "GMail fucks us in the arse, so let's ask them politely to use some lubricant". My question is: does *anybody* on this list have some kind of contact within Avaaz? I'd *love* to talk to them about it. It's simply disingenuous to do such a campaign and *not* at least signal "oh and by the way, had we all been still using different, dispersed, decentralised e-mail services we wouldn't get even close to having this problem". -- Pozdr rysiek -- Liberationtech is a public list whose archives are searchable on Google. Violations of list guidelines will get you moderated: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech. Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at [email protected].
