> If marketing communications were made opt-in by law (one that's actually enforced) this will dramatically cut down on the noise in people's inboxes. That did

> If marketing communications were made opt-in by law (one that's actually enforced) this will dramatically cut down on the noise in people's inboxes. That didn't even occur to me. That's a very good point. If peoples' physical mail boxes would be spammed like that everybody would be up in arms. > Privacy is the only thing here I agree with, and I believe that can be solved with public keys embedded in the DNS (itself protected by DNSSEC). The problem with that is lack of mainstream client support (whether for S/MIME or GPG); the protocols email is based on don't seem like a blocker in this case. It seems to me though that ease of use has got to be a top priority for widespread adoption and that requires digital identities to be maintained by an independent non-profit entity for this to work without compromise. Keybase seemed like a start in the right direction.