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Of course whitelist is easier, but how valuable would your email be if you only allowed your friends to email you? Goodbye order confirmations, subscription rem
by chrismeller 4y ago
Of course whitelist is easier, but how valuable would your email be if you only allowed your friends to email you? Goodbye order confirmations, subscription reminders, recruiter emails, notifications…
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- r2_pilot 4y agoSounds like a dream, really. And you could always have it be user-driven action, like "Copy this line and paste it into your email provider's whitelist", framing it as a positive win for the user since they have total control over who is allowed to communicate with them.
- prox 4y agoYeah, I feel to that is a much better system. You could have a “grey”list postbox that uses a one time code for that company. Say you enter a form at a company,and in the message box you just leave that code so they can mail you.
- anamexis 4y agoSeems like you could easily do this yourself with a couple of rules in your email client.
- iggldiggl 4y agoI do want arbitrary people to reach out to me regarding my home page, so any just-allow-whitelisted-messages proposals are useless in that regard. And in practice some minimal address obfuscation has been enough to block any address harvesters, and setting up a contact form or something comparable (and I guess especially also subsequently keeping it spam-free!) would have been much more of a hassle.