Avaaz made it clear a year ago on this very mailing list that they have no interest whatsoever in engaging with our community.
On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 12:32 AM, Moritz Bartl <mor...@torservers.net>wrote: > -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: Avaaz in "grave danger" due to GMail spam filters > Date: Sun, 18 Aug 2013 23:48:58 +0200 > From: rysiek <rys...@hackerspace.pl> > Organization: Warsaw Hackerspace > To: cypherpu...@cpunks.org > > 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 > compa...@stanford.edu. > -- *Note: *I am slowly extricating myself from Gmail. Please change your address books to: jilliancy...@riseup.net or jill...@eff.org. US: +1-857-891-4244 | NL: +31-657086088 site: jilliancyork.com <http://jilliancyork.com/>* | * twitter: @jilliancyork* * "We must not be afraid of dreaming the seemingly impossible if we want the seemingly impossible to become a reality" - *Vaclav Havel*
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