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With respect to emails, most emails that I read are actually written by people important to me. You may or may not think my boss is important but I'm going to r

by adityar 15y ago

With respect to emails, most emails that I read are actually written by people important to me. You may or may not think my boss is important but I'm going to read his email. It's going to be really hard to find a common metric that measures the non-spam-ness of a person. It's all relative. Maybe, if you took it to the next level, and said each person has their own custom importance function... Even then, it's still email (less spam, maybe) and not a replacement per se.

padobson 15y ago
I agree that the quality of an incoming email needs to be measured relative to the recipient. By using some sort of genetic algorithm that takes the recipient's interactions with other emails (e.g. keywords that attract them, types of emails they respond to), then you should be able to build a system that only allows in quality emails relative to the recipient. When someone responds to an email, this could be the ultimate judge of quality - especially if the email came in from the outside.