>Users should be able to easily filter and ignore promotional email, but email hosting companies should never block it as spam. See, you still seem to think th

>Users should be able to easily filter and ignore promotional email, but email hosting companies should never block it as spam. See, you still seem to think that it's a negotiation between the senders and the receivers. My point is that you don't have the right to the end-user's attention. If the end-user wants to hire someone to filter out messages they don't want to read, using whatever criteria for "don't want to read" that they like, this is the user's right. (more relevant to the discussion, the email that is technically spam is pretty easy to block already, so a solution that requires a lot of social/political change is inferior to the technical measures we have in place.)