<div dir="auto">The usual culprit for losing emails are the spam traps. I know of no email system that can reliably filter out spam whilst letting through legitimate emails.<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I seem to recall that 90% of emails are spam by the way.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Cheerio John</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Oct 2, 2023, 01:06 Roland Olbricht, <<a href="mailto:roland.olbricht@gmx.de">roland.olbricht@gmx.de</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hi Courtney,<br>
<br>
> Don't even get me started on why do we still use an antiquated<br>
> communications channel when we have a perfectly good new one.<br>
<br>
While GMail is currently used for the mail to @<a href="http://osmfoundation.org" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">osmfoundation.org</a>, it is<br>
losing mail. Meanwhile multiple incidents. I have also seen similar<br>
problems with GMail but outside the Foundation.<br>
<br>
Independently, there are a couple of quirks between Google accounts,<br>
GMail and Google Maps, so I (and probably some others) consider Google<br>
services as unreliable. Not completely unusable, but caution is necessary.<br>
<br>
As this is proprietary service, we have no control whether these problem<br>
are ever fixed or other problems arise out of the blue.<br>
<br>
Opposed to this, when I use Markdown in text files piggybacking on other<br>
text processing services (online editor, eMail, VCS, whatever), I'm in<br>
full control of the content. There is a wide choice of tools to render<br>
the Markdown into printable (or screen pretty) documents. Keeping files<br>
is a well-understood task since decades, so there is practically zero<br>
risk that even any problem can happen. No one can withdraw access,<br>
because a copy of the content is on a hard disk physically situated at<br>
my desk.<br>
<br>
This is the problem with Google services: we lose control, for no<br>
important reason. In the meanwhile, various incidents have this moved<br>
from a theoretical risk to a rare but real problem.<br>
<br>
Best regards,<br>
Roland<br>
<br>
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