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I want to sign up for a service that charges people a penny to deliver an email to me -- otherwise the email is undeliverable. Even a minor cost to delivery wil

by tomrod 10mo ago

I want to sign up for a service that charges people a penny to deliver an email to me -- otherwise the email is undeliverable. Even a minor cost to delivery will dramatically reduce spam.

BLKNSLVR 10mo ago
Micropayments are the next big thing after fusion power...
skrishnamurthi 10mo ago
Proof-of-work was originally proposed precisely for email (specifically spam), by Dwork and Naor back in 1993! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proof_of_work https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proof_of_work
Imustaskforhelp 10mo ago
I thought about it so much that I started to get an mail api on one of my servers to thinking of implement it but it has some serious flaws Firstly, the fact that either you are mentioning that there is directory of lists where your email is shown and then the cost of it (lets say a penny) which I assume would become targets of spams so not really worth it And the other when the other person already has your email and it requires them to send a penny to you to just send it to you but that feels as if an extreme restriction and if you are already facing something like this, then at this point, you probably shouldn't read the messages or create better filters than a penny cost since a penny might not impact spammers but how are you gonna show that it costs a penny for an average person and the average fees of things would make it harder Honestly at this point a better idea could honestly be to have a signal or matrix or anything where people can message you since it can have higher friction and if someone wants to send you a message, they can send it there as an example as compared to lets say mail. I still didn't understand the purpose of microtransactions and I thought about it for half an hour but this does feel like it doesn't have much use case. Let me know what you think.

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I want to sign up for a service that charges people a penny to deliver an email to me -- otherwise the email is undeliverable. Even a minor cost to delivery wil

by tomrod 10mo ago

I want to sign up for a service that charges people a penny to deliver an email to me -- otherwise the email is undeliverable. Even a minor cost to delivery will dramatically reduce spam.

BLKNSLVR 10mo ago
Micropayments are the next big thing after fusion power...
skrishnamurthi 10mo ago
Proof-of-work was originally proposed precisely for email (specifically spam), by Dwork and Naor back in 1993! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proof_of_work https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proof_of_work
Imustaskforhelp 10mo ago
I thought about it so much that I started to get an mail api on one of my servers to thinking of implement it but it has some serious flaws Firstly, the fact that either you are mentioning that there is directory of lists where your email is shown and then the cost of it (lets say a penny) which I assume would become targets of spams so not really worth it And the other when the other person already has your email and it requires them to send a penny to you to just send it to you but that feels as if an extreme restriction and if you are already facing something like this, then at this point, you probably shouldn't read the messages or create better filters than a penny cost since a penny might not impact spammers but how are you gonna show that it costs a penny for an average person and the average fees of things would make it harder Honestly at this point a better idea could honestly be to have a signal or matrix or anything where people can message you since it can have higher friction and if someone wants to send you a message, they can send it there as an example as compared to lets say mail. I still didn't understand the purpose of microtransactions and I thought about it for half an hour but this does feel like it doesn't have much use case. Let me know what you think.