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I think the end result for email is going to be the same as with mobile numbers. Just block everything by default unless they are in your contacts.

Enormous amounts of email will be generated but no one will ever see it.

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This isn't the case with mobile numbers everywhere in the world. Spam calls here are pretty much nonexistent. It doesn't have to be this way with E-Mail either - we just need to prosecute spammers (including marketers) and make new laws where needed. Then you can accept almost all mail from cooperating countries and only need to block mail from countries that do not care about preventing spam.

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