SPAM-rant: I personally feel that a system needs to exist/replace email... which uses some sort of low-tx-fee crypto to "cost money" for each and every email sent. The recipients could then "refund" such fees, optionally & consentually, when they've determined that sender worthy of free-contact.
Everybody else should have to pay to call/text [Ω]. Since no such system publicly exists: I opt-out.
[†] personal anxiety is my biggest reason for hating inbox-opening
[Ω] e.g: similar to postal mailings
I've been noodling with concepts for what I see as my ideal email client and orienting it towards "conversations" instead of "todo list" is a key aspect I want
We probably both grew up on AOLim... which to me was a fantastic, globally-accessible solution.
Several employers over the past decades have had IRC groupchats, but it's internal-only, and not quite AIM's glorydays.
Although I imagine if instant messengers were more popular, today..: they'd be just as scammy as everything else-s become.
Should anybody in my contact list need to "email something," we do so while on a phonecall via a temp-burner receiving address (auto-deletes after 10 minutes).
== no email to-do list
If later somesuchbody says "did you get my email, I sent it yesterday?" I can legitimately and verifiably respond "nope."
[¬] the latter, recently; service isn't "on" yet but soon... will not have a ringer, page-only
