On Sun, Aug 18, 2013 at 11:48:58PM +0200, rysiek wrote:
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
Gmail's new e-mail sorting system divides mail into three categories by default - "primary", "social", and "promotions". The user can train the filter by dragging and dropping and by creating new categories. A quick look at avaaz.org's SPF record shows that they are using Sendgrid, I doubt they will be having difficulties with deliverability. -- staticsafe O< ascii ribbon campaign - stop html mail - www.asciiribbon.org Please don't top post. Please don't CC! I'm subscribed to whatever list I just posted on.