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I don’t know that email is worth saving. I barely look at my inbox. It’s 90% spam and ads and the only functional use I get out of it is password resets and MFA.

Just let it gradually die of neglect like newsgroups. It’s was built around the idea of lifting a communications paradigm from the physical world in exactly the same way that newsgroups were a riff on a message board.

There’s all kinds of newer ways of organizing communication on line. We don’t have to try and recreate the experience of writing a letter on the internet any more.




I use Gmail which accurately blocks 99% of spam for me. Have you tried it?




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