The idea is much older, but was popularized 22 years ago by Bill Gates: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/fee-based-e-mail-way-to-can-spa...
Show HN: Make senders work to get into your inbox
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#72Earlier quoted context omitted.
Do you often sign up for new services using your actual email? In gmail, I get spam in my primary mailbox maybe once every few months, usually after I've signed up for something. After marking mails as spam a few times, they are usually sent to the spambox automatically and I have a tidy primary inbox again for a long time.
Especially if you signed up for something, rather than just unsubscribing marking it as spam is a dickish move given that it has the potential of that mail also being filtered for people wanting to receive it.
If you don't want that you'll have to make your marketing emails opt-in instead of opt-out after signup is complete. If I have to disable a ton of auto-enabled marketing options on every page, you deserve to be listed as spammer.
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#75Your post advocates a ( ) technical ( ) legislative (X) market-based ( ) vigilante approach to fighting spam. Your idea will not work. Here is why it won't work. (One or more of the following may apply to your particular idea, and it may have other flaws which used to vary from state to state before a bad federal law was passed.) ( ) Spammers can easily use it to harvest email addresses (X) Mailing lists and other le…
Nicely done! For completeness, this refers to a 20+ years old meme that went around, specifically related to why anti-spam solutions would not work. [0]
[0]: https://trog.qgl.org/20081217/the-why-your-anti-spam-idea-wo...
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#78This should be the case even for phones as well
100%! AFAIK apple is working on a pre-screening for unknown callers for the same reason. And it would be interesting to explore if pay to call / captcha to call would be feasible :)
I would not even go to the extent of pay to call, just pay to be let through, regardless of whether I pick up or call. Don’t even want to get into chargebacks coz I didnt pickup lol.