Avaaz in "grave danger" due to GMail spam filters

CryptoFreak cryptofreak at cpunk.us
Mon Aug 19 09:32:14 PDT 2013


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.




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