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by peterwwillis 4789 days ago
Some thoughts:

"We have a strategy how to wipe out spam for good. [...] Phishing is going to be just a story too."

Whitelisting pretty much solves this. (Multiple accounts also help; one you give to people directly, and one you use for everything online, helps bump personal communication to the top)

"Are your important messages always delivered? We will guarantee a delivery in less than a second."

Those are two different things. Immediate delivery has nothing to do with guaranteed delivery.

"Get a receipt from a local store directly to your inbox formatted the way for use in an accounting app."

Are you writing RFCs for receipts? If not, this probably won't be picked up by anyone but customers of the accounting app.

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In our experience, whitelisting really doesn't solve the problem. I often get email from people I don't know about things I want to read about ("hey, I'm a VC who wants to give you money!").

Automagically parsing receipts is certainly cool, and several mail vendors are working on it, including us (Inky).

Guaranteed delivery isn't really possible without controlling both sender and recipient's client; nor is immediate delivery.

You're right about delivery. This is something we are going to work on. Don't think of us as a competitor. We want to create an infrastructure and we need client solutions to work with us ;-)
- We have a plan to replace current infrastructure that will make it impossible for spam even occur.

- True. There needs to be both. How email works today is laughable.

- Parsing receipts or anything that is possible to and will make life easier is something we all want.

We fully understand the difficulty of all this to happen but we will start lean. All this is just the future, not so distant though.