Fight for ETS by sending snail-mail instead of email. Because almost all gov agencies in Europe use MS Outlook. (fedia.io)

submitted 5 days ago by ciferecaNinjo@fedia.io to c/ETS@europe.pub

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If you send an email to a recipient whose email account is hosted by Microsoft, or you share you email address with such entities, you are part of the problem.

I refuse to be part of the problem. So before contacting a recipient (gov agencies in particular), I do an MX lookup on their email address. It almost always points to MS servers.

So snail mail it is. Otherwise sending them email serves as a signal to the recipient that MS is okay for email.

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[-] blackbeard@europe.pub 2 points 1 day ago

I'm working on a ECI (a sort of petition at EU level), the scope is the Fediverse, however, after that step I'm sure we can push for other changes as well. I totally agree with you but the change has to come from us.

[-] ciferecaNinjo@fedia.io 1 points 10 hours ago

Glad to hear you can help drive that from the EU side. Until then, I will continue sending paper correspondence. It would help if more people would insist on paper correspondence to create a bit of motivation.

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