[liberationtech] Fwd: Avaaz in "grave danger" due to GMail spam filters

[LS]

Ricken at avaaz.org executive director and milena at avaaz.org CTO

On Sunday, August 18, 2013, Moritz Bartl wrote:

> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Avaaz in "grave danger" due to GMail spam filters
> Date: Sun, 18 Aug 2013 23:48:58 +0200
> From: rysiek <rysiek at hackerspace.pl <javascript:;>>
> Organization: Warsaw Hackerspace
> To: cypherpunks at cpunks.org <javascript:;>
>
> 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
>
>
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