Texts… maybe…but email? I don’t think so. It’s like posted mail. You open it - if you open it at all (unless you are expecting one) - when you feel like it.

I also watch "Black Sails". That might meet your approval. I can't comment on Global Warming because that would be outside the limits of this topic. We should communicate more on E-mail or phone since we have such a common philosophy.

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That's the best suggestion I have ever heard, great answer. .

I have rules when using outlook,
i have several spam filters which do a great gob. .

but it doesn't work unless I am using outlook, and using the apple mail app on meh iPhone, the rules aren't activated, so I have to look through all the spam. .

I don't allow my iPhone to get to my microsoft account,
the whole issue started with a web page mail response only, and I responded late at night to the reply, instead of calling in the morning, as there were questions asked in the first email

BrianL has the best answer I have heard so far, and will investigate it further for us. .

Email functions well enough, its a matter of how the recipient mananages his/her email. Email can handle ongoing conversations almost as well as texting if set up, monitored and maintained correctly.

Phone calls, Texts and Email are all at your disposal for how you wish to use them. Years ago you answered every phone call without knowing who was calling and there were no Texts or Emails. As time went on Email and then Texts evolved. Now you have the ability to know who's calling or texting or emailing and its up to you whether you answer the phone or read the email or respond to the text. No one says you have to have an Email address or allow Texting to your device(s) just as no one ever required you to have a Telephone. You choose how accessible you are by each method of communication. Today's environment makes it easier, especially for businesses, to contact you by Text and Email. How would you contact 100 people in a single day?

Today's environment expects communication of all forms to be available and to be monitored in a timely fashion, but you may choose to manage Email, Texts and phone calls however you like.

Thoughts are, business people are Working, I am not the only person that needs to be contacted that day.

Second if they are driving your email can give them address, information, or anything for that matter. Employees is probably driving, many times in that all important phone call that every one craves they need to stop driving (I hope) to write down whatever you think is wasting your time by them using an email.

Third and the most important, if you find an email too impersonal, just find the OLD guy business that has no idea how to email, or text. Then both are in the same age bracket.

Not sure why so many receive 50-100 emails a day. I keep one email just for junk, most of that crap goes to spam. I use it for unimportant and random companies.

One just for financial and banking, medical and only use that one device.

My Iphone is family and close friends, only texts and rarely emails. I also have a second phone that use exclusively for businesses to text with the email set just for that reason.

If you're getting too much of what you don't want, and your email or phone doesn't auto-move them to trash (thank you iPhone for your awesome auto-trash features!), you can do two things:

1. Reply to any unwanted text with the words "STOP.";
2. Reply to any unwanted email with the words "Unsubscribe."

If #2 isn't working for you (see a doctor?), almost every spam advertising email has a very small link at the bottom for "unsubscribe." Click on it to go to a page to unsubscribe from that spam list.

Hope this helps.

iOS (iPhone) does not have an "auto-trash" feature, except for "2-Factor Verification Codes" via Messenger, which also has an option to delete texts after a certain time period (wanted or unwanted).

Any other "auto-trash" is App specific..

As for Email Spam, that is regulated by the Federal Can-Spam Act.

CAN-SPAM Act: A Compliance Guide for Business | Federal Trade Commission

Essentially, emailers are required to provide either "One Click" or "Two Click" methods for opting out of spam mail, depending on their volume of emails. Experian Consumer Services was fined $650,000 for violations, last August.

Text are whole other matter and primarily regulated by the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) of 1991. Back in 2017, DISH Network was ordered to pay $280M in fines for violation of TCPA.

Well, I don't know if it is called "auto-trash," but 99% of emails I get that are junk, magically end up in a file called "Trash" that I did not set up. They do not end up in my "Inbox" and I never see them. That's on both my iPhone and my MacBook. If I am using the inherent Apple email client on the MacBook, there is often a button at the top of the email (a menu bar popup) that says something along the lines of "This message is from a mailing list. Unsubscribe?" with a button to click on that says 'Unsubscribe." It's awesome!

IDKADGAF about the various Consumer Protection Acts or what DISH was ordered to pay. All I know is that the Apple ecosystem works wonderfully to keep junk crap out of my inboxes and I am grateful to them for that and their phenomenal lack of viruses and other crapware that PCs seem to get added onto them even when they are new out of the box. YMMV. Well worth the extra cost of Apple's products to enjoy an experience that is smooth and trouble free web surfing, data backing-up, internet using, and email / texting for many years instead of the crapware-laden bloated $300 Dell cheapie that gets so bogged down with blue screens of death and 30 minutes update cycles that one wants to throw it at the wall and replace it every year or two.

"Buy once, cry once" as my old man used to say. Quality costs more upfront but is cheaper in the long run.