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Thinking out loud about 2nd-gen email

Note: This is just me, thinking out loud; you absolutely do not need to think that I have carefully thought this through, or that this is a good idea. With expectations set as low as possible, let’s continue.

This makes signing up for a mass-mailing account, for whatever reason, messy; and causes countless surprise instances of legitimate emails going to Junk. The incentive to upgrading to MX2 would be simple: Your messages, while they still would arrive, would go to Junk automatically past the publicly posted date. If an email has a rich, HTML view; it should be required to come with a text-only, non-HTML copy of the body as well; for accessibility, compatibility, and privacy reasons.

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