Spam will be the death of email. One of the blessings of texting and even faceboom messaging is that there is very little spam. Apparently, the texting blocks and the fact that someone is having to pay to send texts and that a massive number of texts would be a massive cost makes text spam prohibitive. Also, I don't think ISP's are doing much about preventing spam. How hard is it to monitor the gateway and see a user that normally only sends 10 or so a day jump to 50000 an hour and speculate that something is wrong and throttle that account until they are disinfected?
That is what is wrong with email- too easy and to cheap to spoof tens of thousands of addresses where texts are finite and users pay a cost, thus helping ensure that text spam isn't there and you can block who you don't know for good.
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