Re: impact of Gmail's "promotions" tab on free software communities

2018-02-12 Thread Adonay Felipe Nogueira
> - are people consciously talking about the problem in other communities? Yes, and I think I also talked about this in "android" mailing list of FSFE, although I discussed the broader problem of recommending only some nodes of federated networks specifically simply because of personal preference

Re: impact of Gmail's "promotions" tab on free software communities

2018-01-31 Thread Florian Snow
Hi Daniel, Daniel Pocock writes: > There are several cases where people told me this particularly bad > behaviour, together with some specific example of how it impacted > them, was enough to make them give up on hotmail but in each case they > had migrated to gmail. The

Re: impact of Gmail's "promotions" tab on free software communities

2018-01-25 Thread Cornelia S.
I can recommend Protonmail, it works very well with linux! ​Regards, Cornelia Original Message On January 25, 2018 10:09 AM, Daniel Pocock wrote: > > There was a discussion in one community recently about essential emails > not reaching new contributors

Re: impact of Gmail's "promotions" tab on free software communities

2018-01-25 Thread Daniel Pocock
On 25/01/18 13:38, Mat Witts wrote: > It doesn't seem to me to be a great strategy to single out gmail when > Microsoft's hotmail/live/outlook mailservers regularly fail to notify > recipients that they have not delivered mail under the rule that > 'Deliverability to Outlook.com is based on your

Re: impact of Gmail's "promotions" tab on free software communities

2018-01-25 Thread Stephane Ascoet
Le 25/01/2018 à 11:09, Daniel Pocock a écrit : There was a discussion in one community recently about essential emails not reaching new contributors because they get stuck in the Gmail "promotions" tab. Hi, the "Free" FAI(no related in away way with libre computer science movement,

impact of Gmail's "promotions" tab on free software communities

2018-01-25 Thread Daniel Pocock
There was a discussion in one community recently about essential emails not reaching new contributors because they get stuck in the Gmail "promotions" tab. This is quite concerning, for example, when Debian sends out the yearly announcement for DebConf travel grants / bursaries, if only the