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by ghm21992 days ago |
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upvoteby seanhunter2 days ago|
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Seems to me that a very high percentage of people would set their agent policy to “I’m never interested in spam” and then the spammers would try to circumvent that and we’d be back where we are now except with everyone spending more computation.
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upvoteby ghm21992 days ago|
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If you did that then you are better off never being targeted by emails/messages by the company at all. It is in the benefit of the company to know that. Right now its a tedious unsubscribe process that requires me to keep doing it all the time and company that does not know just blasts everyone who signed up. Its a ridiculous thing to do.
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upvoteby ghm21992 days ago|
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This would require an inversion of dynamics based on quantification and collective realization of a couple of things:

0. Emails suffer from a "misclassification" of intent issue on a time*attention scale. Imagine time of the day/week/year on one axis and their attention on email inbox on the other. Emails have to arrive at the right (x,y) point for a user to act on. But they rarely do.

1. Well being of a user is proportional to their current state of mind to receive an message from X. Which is proportional to how likely they are to listen what you have to say.

Both of these suggest a negotiation of messages between two parties, much like when a bartender asks you if you want a refill and you can say yes/no.

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upvoteby em-bee2 days ago|
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for me the problem is as simple as not allowing a third party to classify what i consider spam. i do that on my own. and what i classify as spam has no bearing on anyone elses classification and vice versa.

most critically however, i would like my email client to track which email i used to subscribe somewhere. which emails are replies to emails i sent out. which senders i approve of or are in my contact list (or are addresses i set email to before). these should be overriding any global classification as spam. subscription emails should be classified as such and not as spam either.

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