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Re:The future of loneliness by chippy on Thursday April 02, 2015 @06:00AM (#9309625)
seems like your options, given your preferences, and the realisation that you cannot force others to communicate via other ways, are the:

telephone and postal service.

Re:The future of loneliness by toothbrush on Thursday April 02, 2015 @06:03AM (#9309633)
Fair enough. I also use email (mostly in fact), full well knowing that even if I don't directly use Google mail, they still have everything... All in all a very unsatisfactory situation.