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Too Expensive

I think you have identified the problem, but the solution is too expensive. I can give someone my home address, my phone number, and my email address. I get a lot of spam via snailmail, but it's relatively easy to sort and the ratio is under 100 to 1. Phone spam has quietly been legislated nearly out of existance. Only email is currently a severe problem with its huge noise ratios. But Segmail's mechanism would make it inconvenient to give out my email over the phone, or on a scrap of paper. I would rather try to find another way to properly authenticate a sender that didn't require cluttering up the easily-remembered address. Segmail would work fine for newsletters, though.

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