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Summary: Google has become a big problem and Gmail is massive liability to the global E-mail system; its market share needs to be be significantly lowered (the same is true when it comes to Web browsers; therein, whatever Google does becomes a de facto 'standard')

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.

All this false partisanship is a Public Relation (PR)) tactic. Google prefers is that way.

Today we deal with this anecdotal story that "90-95% of the spam I receive originates from servers under Google's control. Do you guys bother to check outgoing messages, or do you just filter and block incoming messages?"

Google is subjecting everyone to vastly higher standards than it subjects itself to. CoC-like thinking of double standards.

There have been similiar agonising stories lately.

"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. ⬆