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Email was solidly established on the internet before email spam existed.

The emergence and frowth of spam has greatly reduced how much people use email, though. It appears that spam is well on its way to effectively killing it.

Marketers do seem to eventually kill anything they touch.



>Email was solidly established on the internet before email spam existed.

No shit. The postal system was solidly established before postal spam existed too.

Email spam's existence was anticipated though.




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