[Osmf-talk] Google services (was Re: Treasurer's Report)

[john whelan]

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.

I seem to recall that 90% of emails are spam by the way.

Cheerio John

On Mon, Oct 2, 2023, 01:06 Roland Olbricht, <roland.olbricht at gmx.de> wrote:

> Hi Courtney,
>
> > Don't even get me started on why do we still use an antiquated
> > communications channel when we have a perfectly good new one.
>
> While GMail is currently used for the mail to @osmfoundation.org, it is
> losing mail. Meanwhile multiple incidents. I have also seen similar
> problems with GMail but outside the Foundation.
>
> Independently, there are a couple of quirks between Google accounts,
> GMail and Google Maps, so I (and probably some others) consider Google
> services as unreliable. Not completely unusable, but caution is necessary.
>
> As this is proprietary service, we have no control whether these problem
> are ever fixed or other problems arise out of the blue.
>
> Opposed to this, when I use Markdown in text files piggybacking on other
> text processing services (online editor, eMail, VCS, whatever), I'm in
> full control of the content. There is a wide choice of tools to render
> the Markdown into printable (or screen pretty) documents. Keeping files
> is a well-understood task since decades, so there is practically zero
> risk that even any problem can happen. No one can withdraw access,
> because a copy of the content is on a hard disk physically situated at
> my desk.
>
> This is the problem with Google services: we lose control, for no
> important reason. In the meanwhile, various incidents have this moved
> from a theoretical risk to a rare but real problem.
>
> Best regards,
> Roland
>
>
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