"Doc says it?s very interesting that we still trust physical communications more than the electronic kind."
DUH.
Well, yeah: It's still the case that electronic mail is currently fundamentally broken in the following ways:
-There is no protection whatsoever against falsified information. Spammers know that they can pretend to be anybody, and that there will very likely be no technological measures to stop them.
-There is no protection whatsoever against spam entering the email system to begin with. Most of the anti-spam strategies are against spam that is already in the system, and it's a losing battle. It's really time we bought the battle closer to the spammers.
-Email spam is far easier to send than physical junk mail. Hence you get a lot more of it.
-Phishing is also very effective, especially since there's no protection against falsified information.
SMTP is the most broken protocol on our planet. It needs to be rewritten from the ground up with security in mind. It's really no wonder why people don't trust it - they don't trust it because it's not trustworthy. There is no reason to trust any email sent to you.
Spammers can pretend to be anybody they want, and they do it very effectively.
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