"You are receiving this email as you signed up for our newsletters"

[engine]

No, I did not, and suggesting that is just stupid.

Christmas messages from businesses where there's no relationship. Tiresome, this year.

Would you do business with these people?

[ronin]

In terms of passive-aggressive assertion, that's up there with:

This email is NOT spam.

Given it's so compromised I'm surprised that "open" email has lasted this long.

(Note: after using email for 24 years, I abandoned open email in late summer 2018.)

I think the future of email - email in web3? - is (or should be) exactly the way that Instant Messaging (or indeed RSS) works.

That is: you have a whitelist that you have 100% control of.

Anyone not on your whitelist cannot send you an email.

[engine]

Anyone not on your whitelist cannot send you an email.

I can't see that happening in "open email" but, as you suggest, in web3. Also, I can't see email being abandoned for a long while yet.

An interesting statistic from Statista suggests that global spam volume as a percentage of total e-mail traffic is down from 80.26% in 2011, to 45.56% in 2021. Of course, the total volume of emails could be up, accounting for the apparent decline in spam emails.

I am also seeing many more claims of

This email is NOT spam.

, but, that is a matter of opinion.
Email harvesting is still rife.

[Marshall]

I have a mail server and assign a unique email to any site/transaction that requires one. Then, if I get spam or unsolicited emails, I know exactly which account shared the information, or got hacked, and subsequently to disable. Has worked rather well for me over the years.

[blend27]

Years ago I learned that creating an Email Alias to send mail to was the only way to combat email SPAM as Desktops, E-Mail Clients and as of only few years ago(:)) Mobile Devices get HACKED/Compromised.

^^^ for less savvy people that is.

Now my relatives emails are accepted TO the aliases only, everybody gets an alias where to send that Argent Email.

An assistant at Urology Office or a local soon be closed National Chain Supper Store Cashier, when asks for my email, gets a flat answer - I do not have any. So does the guy that mixes the custom paint at the local ACE store(i used the service 2 times in the past 25 years).

I look at it this way, if I can't get an email address from the ^2 above - why should I give up "one second"<<< waiting for "Hi, My name is BukaMadu - The Chief Eagle River Ambassador of..." and we have a specials on pant for yo Tail Pipe.

Can't count on one hand how many times I got a phone cal from Mrs. Klaus(one generation UP responsible for me being born) that the Email does not work or the Phone is acting up minutes after receiving a strange message that the there is a "Better Tail Pipe performances if I buy A, B and C".

Nuke the Alias and move on.

^^What Marshall said.

Waiting to that latest Twitter HACK emails to start rolling in, will be fun to watch!

added: Oy, and I only have a Land Line, would you like a number for that(while playing stupid and faking it as NO PikaLing accent)?