Phones were also open. Now no one answers calls from strangers because of the proliferation of spam calls.
This is a natural solution to spam and nothing to be enraged about. It is ridiculous but not for you to dictate how other people manage how you contact them.
"The requirement also doesn't yet apply to small phone companies because carriers with 100,000 or fewer customers were given until June 30, 2023 to comply. The FCC is seeking comment on a plan to make that deadline June 30, 2022 instead because "evidence demonstrates that a subset of small voice service providers appear to be originating a high number of calls relative to their subscriber base and are also generating a high and increasing share of illegal robocalls compared to larger providers."
"You'll only pay if you get a response."
How does this do anything about spam, then?
https://news.earn.com/monetize-your-gmail-inbox-with-21-co-e...
> In this example, Jeff is sending an email to Sarah. He’s not on her contact list, so he gets a bounce. He then chooses to send her a paid message, which he can easily do through her Earn.com profile. If she replies within a week, she gets paid and Jeff gets his reply.
https://www.donotcall.gov.au/consumers/register-your-numbers....
I can see the USA has the same thing: https://www.donotcall.gov/
Does it not work?
A popular form of spam pretends to call from a phone number very similar to yours (they use the same leading 6 digits) to make it look like a neighbor is calling.
Hopefully the STIR/SHAKEN implementation will widen and this will be put to bed.
It's ineffective against true spam calls, as it only binds law-abiding callers with a presence in the US.
The major issue we are not addressing is ‘legal scams’. Charities harassing old people, tradesmen faking issues to the uneducated - that kind of thing.
Pick it up, and it's "We've been trying to reach you about your car's extended warranty"
Miss it and call back later, because it's a local area code? You get some very confused, usually elderly, person who wants to know why you called them.
Earn.com was making people go through them in order to contact whoever used its service. It completely killed the open nature of email where if you had someone's email you could be sure the message directly reaches him. It was then his choice if he chose to read your mail or not.
So yes, the sender's email did get to me. Thankfully, I would be blissfully unaware of it until the sender confirms they're human. The sender needs to do it only once. There's a great chance that if the sender is not willing to go through that hoop, that they are not someone whose email I want to read.
This isn't "killing" the open nature of email. As designed, the email was delivered to me. I just added a workflow to it.
jail is just another folder. I can manually go in and whitelist with a keystroke. Or if they go through the hoops, the system automatically whitelists them and moves the mail to the inbox.
OK, in reality my mail is tag based, so I use tags instead of folders. Minor difference.
And no, I do not whitelist banks and MFA emails. As I said, it's still a folder. I can go in and read the MFA email without needing to whitelist them.
You don’t get it. I don’t want your message to directly reach me. I want you to kindly f-off and don’t waste my time with endless offers of shit that I don’t need. You think your message is worth it? Pay me for my time to look at it then. I think it is a great idea. I wish someone did it for phones as well. “p2t2p won’t answer your call as you’re not in the list of approved callers. Press hash sign to make a paid call for a small fee of 1 AUD a minute if you really think your phone call is worth it."
I used to get at least a couple of spam calls each year, but I don’t think I’ve gotten any this past year. I have no filtering or app. Of course, I don’t live in the USA.
I can't remember the last time I saw a spam email manage to get through my Gmail filter at home or my Outlook filter at work.