• corsicanguppy
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    24 days ago

    You don’t hate email; you hate BAD email. Probably broadcast junk.

    GOOD email is private Bank statements over a provably secure e2e transport marked clearly for filters (with a JSON section for import automatically; am I right?). It’s “here is a new copy of the plans.” It’s “Dear Aunt Helen.”

    Every now and then, although I know and support the alternate position for reasons I think have been shown as obvious, repeatedly, I sometimes think a 1¢ postage for unsolicited mail - okay, make it a buck - would be okay… IFF that could be figured so the recipient would be assured of getting half. Make it cost; make it pay.

    No no, hear me out. Unpaid transit charges for unsolicited bulk email by the person owning the domain is now inter-region or international wire fraud, and the people making a habit of it will build up enough that they’ll warrant action. Ergo, make it financial and maybe we’ll see cops raiding scam shops.

    That’s the dream anyway…

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      25 days ago

      The US was actually headed this way, starting with spam phone centers… Then the head of the FCC was replaced.

      Could be a coincidence. Could be open naked class warfare by billionaires against the rest of us. Hard to say which, for sure.

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      23 days ago

      This sounds amazing. Although I feel like they’d just pull the cruise ship thing and register their “business” elsewhere.

      But hey it’d be a great step! Remember when everyone was SO hopeful for the “National Do Not Call Registry”? Hahahaha…