I think there's a lot of value. IMO we should add one of two (or some combo) things: - Hashcash - Clients can send an allow list to servers; anything from an

I think there's a lot of value. IMO we should add one of two (or some combo) things: - Hashcash - Clients can send an allow list to servers; anything from an address not on the allow list goes to the spam folder Email is a foundational idea; I think if we give up on it we'll keep reinventing it (we already are: RSS, ActivityPub, etc). We can get it back if we move off of centralized machine learning as our spam solution. There is something about having to wave goodbye to corporate Internet infra though. I think we gave them a shot and we discovered they're not good stewards (web, email, chat, etc). We need to rebuild it for ourselves, and if that means people using the corporate gateways miss out on things, OK then. That was true if you were using AOL and it's true again; we know how this goes.