Geez, I just re-read my last three entries and it seems like I’m the president of the, "I Hate Email" club.
For the record, that’s not true: I’m the president of the, "Email is Horribly Broken" and "There’s Got to be a Better Way" clubs.
Communication networks have to be authenticated (available now via alert networks).
Opt-in and opt-out have to be totally controlled by the customer/reader (available now via RSS and alert networks).
Else, it’s the Wild, Wild West (the SPAM disaster we have today).