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by LorenzoLlamas
3347 days ago
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That's true of your name, your address, your DOB, SS, and your phone numbers. Nothing stopped those things from being given out and collated by third parties. Nothing will stop email being given the same treatment. All the tech tricks to try and figure out who gave who my email address are pointless exercises in time-wasting. Adding various words to your email (like with Gmail aliases) does no good because anyone can figure out your real original email. Only machines are (somewhat) fooled by this. Of course, if you owned your own domain, or paid for quality email, you could have many multiple email addresses to partially address this, but since everyone switched over to so-called free email with social graph companies, what's the point. Email will never die. Why should it? It's fast (instant, nearly) and you can send nearly anything to anyone - limited only by size (and with a few tricks, not even limited there). It's worldwide (not limited by who's on what 'network' or what is popular in whatever country). If anything, I think we are seeing (or will see) a resurgence of email as the 'de facto' way of contacting and communicating with people. It even holds up pretty well in court. Email newsletters have made a come-back (a little bit) and with the stagnation of FB and G+ (did it ever grow?) and Twitter on the verge of Ch 11, how will you communicate with others? How will companies reach you? Or did you want a fax machine? |
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That's why I'm suggesting that an email replacement not suffer from this same flaw. Just because it affects other things important to me, doesn't make it not a flaw.
>Email will never die. Why should it? It's fast (instant, nearly) and you can send nearly anything to anyone
This is why I'm suggesting that the best replacement to email might turn out to just be a wrapper around email so that you get full compatibility. As others have suggested in their replies, you can work around some of the flaws in email simply by using it differently.
If I ran my own server, I could create a new address per contact and then I could "revoke" the address by instructing my server to trash anything sent to that address. I'd do this if I ever noticed unsolicited email come in and I would know immediately who gave it up based on the receiving address. The contact would never need to know that I was doing any of this, they'd just be emailing me as normal. The only problem with this at the moment is that a lot of email servers will outright block all incoming mail from unknown servers.