[OgAstorga]

There is more than twice spam as there is legitimate email (source: ran a corporate email server). However, so far most spam is automatically detected.

In the near future, It's likely that this is no longer going to be the case and in the moment that most of your email is spam you are going to stop trusting everything you receive.

Even right now inside corps people already (should?) distrust and double checks everything that comes from another domain.

[travisgriggs]

Obviously people didn’t quit email. But I also don’t “engage” with email with anything near the intensity that I used to. 20 years ago…? One of the hottest romcoms ever, was built around our feverish engagement with email: “You’ve got Mail!” Can you imagine that being a pitch for a romcom next year? They’d laugh you out of the room. Because while people still use email, they don’t engage with it the way they used to.

I think this sense of disengagement is what the author is trying to metaphorically capture with the idea of “logging off”. It might just be my family and peer groups, but I do sense this in general. The internet and its various “social” constructs feel more and more like they’ve crossed that line in dating relationships where the other person becomes “clingy/needy” and it starts to grow wearisome and cringy. I think that causes people to quietly disengage.

[t0lo]

I can't help but wonder how we will ensure official government/legal->user communication is legitimate in the face of software that can dodge spam filters at a whim. Is it back to letters for us?