Avaaz in "grave danger" due to GMail spam filters

[Alexander R. Krug]

On 19.08.2013 18:32, CryptoFreak wrote:
> 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.
> 

i don't quite get why everyone purportedly loves webmail clients so much?