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The way I see it, the parties who may want to pay to write me an email are the ones I don't want to read anyway.
by broken-kebab 7mo ago
The way I see it, the parties who may want to pay to write me an email are the ones I don't want to read anyway.
- NikoBlack 7mo ago[flagged]
- Guestmodinfo 7mo agoIn a world of spam, the cost of reaching an actual person for soliciting is very high for a genuine free lancer like me. I wish the cost was not so much and I could reach effectively the people i want to reach by paying them even.
- bramhaag 7mo ago> Spammers won't pay even $0.08 per message because their whole model depends on sending millions for free. Your LLM forgot that SMS exists. Even a 0.01% success rate on tens of thousands of messages can be lucrative.
- galgglgglglelg 7mo agoAI slop response.
- colecut 7mo agoYou created an account to say that. Inefficient human response.
- stingraycharles 7mo agoThe irony of someone using AI to create slop to talk on HN about spam. Maybe HN should start charging people to write comments.
- c7b 7mo agoPaying to write someone (ie, physical mail) was the standard for all communication before we had widespread telefax/internet messaging adoption. I don't know how bad the spam problem was there, but the concept doesn't strike me as being necessarily awful. What's your concern?
- stingraycharles 7mo agoThe concern is that free alternatives exist now, so you have to explain to people the value they get out of paying to contact me.
- grey-area 7mo agoThat’s not quite the same - you were paying for delivery by a third party, and you still do that when you pay for your email provider. This is pay to play to contact someone - more akin to donors paying politicians for access at a dinner.
- mystifyingpoi 7mo ago> I don't know how bad the spam problem was there For every legit paper mail, I've had 5-10 garbage leaflet advertisements shoved into my mailbox by half-legally working teenagers earning $1-2/h in exchange for everyone's annoyance. 99% of these went into trash immediately without looking.
- w4yai 7mo agoWell. At least I would get paid for clicking "delete". Good for me.
- kman82 7mo agoJust raise your price then. Until it becomes lucrative for you