Avaaz in "grave danger" due to GMail spam filters

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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.
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