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."