Robert Centor has been doing a excellent job discussing this. He addresses some reader concerns on the issue.
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I don’t think it’s such an easy topic even from the technical standpoint kevin. we’ve been using email with referring offices for years and between spam, misspelled addresses, etc.. there is a high risk of an email not getting through. When it’s a high stakes email the chance has to be near zero which means a closed system (eg. everyone is on the network not emailing you from hotmail or something). Once you say yes to email you’re then responsable for maintaining it such that the risk of error is low and that is very expensive. I think the issue is oversimplied when we just talk about privacy and payment concerns.
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