[widebody911]

The first problem with doing business via email is the mistaken assumptions of instantaneous delivery and delivery at all. It just wasn't designed that way. Why, back when I was your age, we used UUCP for email, with ! notation in the addresses. Our site dialed out once a day to send/receive messages, forwarding/retrieving them from the next site, and so on. It could take a week to turn around an email.

That, coupled with getting up half an hour before we went to bed, cleaning the lake, then walking uphill both ways in the snow to get to the unheated keypunch shack with no indoor plumbing, made life very difficult, but we didn't mind.

Tell that to kids today and they won't believe you!

But seriously, a web-based correspondence system makes much more sense, although I'm not a fan of 'chat' based systems.

According to my procmail logs, I'm closing in on 100k spam messages a month, between 2 addresses I've had since '92 and '95, respectively.