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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.

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.