I don’t disagree.

I used to run a mail server in my basement. Filtering out spam turned into a major PITA, so I eventually started using a service to filter . Google acquired that service— and when Google started giving away GoogleApps to small organizations, I jumped on board. Yes, they can read the ‘envelope’, but anything private gets encrypted. (BTW, they’re not giving it away to small organizations any more, but they are to charities).

I also used to run an asterisk PBX in my basement. I finally realized that the major reason I was running it was to torment phone-spammers who called. I don’t get human spammers anymore, so I wrote a white-list script. I found an $80 device that could do the same (force callers not in my address book to press a touchtone key before they rang through). And the next time there was a major asterisk upgrade, I witched to that