alt Hacker News> People shouldn't be able to send emails to you without your prior approval (which you can revoke at an instant).
this sounds terrible... i've gotten so many useful random emails from strangers over the years.
> People shouldn't be able to send emails to you without your prior approval (which you can revoke at an instant).
this sounds terrible... i've gotten so many useful random emails from strangers over the years.
Depends how it's designed. I've been doing something similar for almost a decade. If I get an email from a non-whitelisted person, they get an auto reply asking them to go through a simple hoop. Once they do that, the email lands in my inbox.
Yes, many people go through that hoop!
I can still see their emails if they don't. They site in a Quarantine folder. I used to look at it frequently to catch the occasional straggler, but I rarely do that now. I've set up an LLM to go through all my quarantined emails in the last N days, and send me an email on which of the quarantined emails probably should be viewed.
I'm OK missing out on a (very rare) good email if it means I don't have to deal with crap mass mails. And let me tell you: Life is great when you don't deal with mass mails.