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Auto-generated emails are not the fault of email itself. Just avoid signing up for shit and if you need to sign up then take 5 minutes to visit your account settings on that platform and uncheck any notifications/spam-letters you don't care about.

I personally have only one or two auto-generated emails a week, at most, and all of those actually require my attention (expired credit card, etc). The other ones are either disabled or filtered away at the server level before they even reach my client (thanks to rules in Office 365).

> I wish voicemail could be an opt out thing, I haven't listened to a message in a decade.

Does your carrier not provide it? Here in the UK every single carrier allows it. If not, try the following USSD codes - the "cancel & deregister" ones: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Call_forwarding#Mobile_(cell)_...



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