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Because it's no better an idea than it was 25 years ago when Spam first became a thing and there was another genius throwing this idea around every other day.
by brazzy 7y ago
Because it's no better an idea than it was 25 years ago when Spam first became a thing and there was another genius throwing this idea around every other day.
First, there are some important use cases it would destroy (especially mailing lists).
Second, it's impossible to implement gradually. Protocols and infrastructure would have to change drastically, everywhere at once. Not feasible.
- DennisP 7y agoGradual implementation wouldn't have to be hard. Gmail already sorts your inbox into several buckets. If you have one bucket for "paid/whitelisted" and another for others. You can leave the rest to the user.
- brazzy 7y agoSo basically "pay to bypass the spam filter", is that really what we want? And I don't think it would lead to gradual adoption; as long as people still have to pay attention to the other bucket, there is little incentive to start paying at all.