[Twisell]

And I would love to see EFF a little more involved in that matter. If things continues to goes downhill this far how many years left before big players decide to outright reject mail that doesn't come from a curated whitelist of their own?

The responsible answer should be IRL legal actions against real spamers because they'll always adapt to new arbitrary protocol rules faster than legitimate users, it's their jobs!

Even from an environmental standpoint I get tired of user-shaming articles about why you should delete your email for the planet. Maybe as engineers our duty is somewhat to propose a new version of the mail protocol that doesn't allow this much crap to fly around in the first place. Current solutions seems to revolve around the concept of "everybody should duck and cover if anything is suspicious" thus blocking some legitimate message that no sane human would reject should they be in charge instead of a basic AI.

PS: I'm not suggesting by any mean that you should punish any human being with manual moderation.

PS:PS: Maybe a NGO whitelist system is a solution, I'm just fearfull about which entity will end up with such power. But actually domain filtering is already kind of an implicit unpredictable non shared whitelist build on top of ICAAN register... So here we are already...