> he means 'ruin how he makes money using email
No, it would ruin email in general. You are always in control of whether you want to read an email or not.
No, it would ruin email in general. You are always in control of whether you want to read an email or not.
Hard to imagine, but there might be people you do not know yet wanting to contact you in a way beneficial to you.
Maybe for a serious job offer. Somebody secretly in love with you. Somebody admiring your content, and wanting to publish it in a book. I'm sure there's more examples.
Such people would need to pay to contact you, and possibly/likely won't.
If I'm not looking, then I don't want to be contacted for job offers. Regardless, there are more appropriate channels like LinkedIn where I explicitly go regarding jobs.
> Somebody secretly in love with you.
Would you actually take such a person seriously? This is probably exactly who I want blocked as a phisher.
> Somebody admiring your content, and wanting to publish it in a book.
Good. Let them prove they want to invest in me by paying to contact me. That way I can trust a little more that they're not trying to con me.
I think it is also worth pointing out a couple solutions to these problems that Earn.com had:
> If you're a friend of mine, click below to request a spon on my whitelist. Your emails will get through as normal.
> If I don't know you, go ahead and send me a paid message. You'll only pay if you get a response.
Demonstrably false. You cannot ignore a category of information without first without interacting with it - as you must first establish that it _is part of that category_. It's impossible to know a spam message that got thru automated filters is spam or not until I read at least the subject line.