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If you can get people to use centralized anti-spam white lists, you do not need proof of work at all. But having such list will make email effectively centrall
by theamk 6y ago
If you can get people to use centralized anti-spam white lists, you do not need proof of work at all.
But having such list will make email effectively centrally controlled. I would hope we never end up in this situation. The current system is bad, but making it centralized is even worse - just read what happens to businesses when Facebook/google bans them.
- enchiridion 6y agoI don't think it needs to be centralized. Why not have a white list per account? When you sign up for a list or service you can add certain domains to you personal list. Of course some of the larger services may offer a default white list for common domains.
- theamk 6y agoSo every time I type my email somewhere, I also have to go to my mail provider and pre-emptively whitelist the sender? This does not sound like a very good UX. I suppose you can have a special system where you have a browser plugin which automatically generates some sort of subscription token and pastes it alongside email into subscription form.. but this will need cooperation from every mail-sending app, and will not handle non-web uses cases at all...
- victor_e 6y agoI use Hey.com which allows me to screen first time senders [1] and it works really well. This is in combination to a spam filter. [1] https://hey.com/features/the-screener/ https://hey.com/features/the-screener/