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Gmail is Not Email But Attack on Email
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THE other day we covered the way Google critics resorted to a partisan framing, basically distracting from Google's war on independent or small mail relays, the vast majority of which perfectly legitimate ones. Gmail is not a framework for delivering E-mail but for rejecting E-mail, usually based on some flimsy process with a corporate bias. Forget about politics.
"We need to encourage friends, family, colleagues and other peers to shun centralised E-mail systems..."I myself have long experienced the pain of ISPs (or big American companies) discriminating against mail relays like mine. In fact, at one point I was losing a lot of mail or was unable to respond to mail after a close relative lost a family member. It's hard to forget the amount of damage this caused, even if that was more than 16 years ago!
E-mail is meant to reliably send mail; but the entrepreneurs behind E-mail (the real ones, not the fraud who threatened me for calling him out) did not envision companies like Google hoarding a lot of the system and then blocking loads of relays without any oversight, let alone independent scrutiny and fines. We need to encourage friends, family, colleagues and other peers to shun centralised E-mail systems; the endgame might be the end of E-mail as an open system. ⬆