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I doubt there will be a technology that can reliably exclude unsolicited or commercial email. How will the system know, what's unsolicited or unwanted? It can make a guess and that's what the big ones do. But it won't get better than this. I don't think there will ever be an alternative where this could be opposed.

As for unsolicited, this is already taken on by the GDPR and if you're a company that wants to sell their stuff in the EU, you pretty much have no choice than to adhere to these laws.




> How will the system know, what's unsolicited or unwanted?

Anything from an address not in my address book?


I would assume most people want to keep the possibility of someone previously unknown contacting them.


Instead of assuming, I would ask people.

Software developers trying to manipulate computer users for financial gain make lots of assumptions about what people want without ever asking them. I am not a software developer.




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