And still, what has #email become but a despairing medium requiring layers of centralized and personally applied #filters, #rules and #algorithms to crudely finesse out 0.1% of “oh I want that” from the continual barrage of the #SpamPhishFraud firehose?

And we open only a fraction of what gets through—an error-prone daily routine.

Yet it’s #OpenProtocol, free, ubiquitous, and easy to use; it will outlive us all.

What lessons should we learn from it?