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I've been doing the same for a bit over two years, but using the sender's email address and a screening process instrumented with some app I wrote (Screenr[1], shameless plug). That gives you something similar to the process in Hey.

I don't think I'm using email wrong.

Unrelated: what is controversial about Basecamp?

[1]https://github.com/cfe84/screenr/

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The controversial part may be a reference to Basecamp's last year's ban on “societal and political discussions” at work, which was apparently motivated by the desire to end internal discussions about the company itself [1].

[1]: https://www.theverge.com/2021/4/27/22406673/basecamp-politic...

I'm curious to see a list of recommendations for vendors that pass the "non-controversial" test there: every employee likes what every other employee and manager is doing (and presumably, every non-employee should too).

Indeed, what is controversial about Basecamp? Have been reading their blog (and now blogs) for over 15 years. I can't speak as a customer - or as an employee - but they seem to be one of the most humane companies I've come across.

Kerfluffle last year where they shut down their DEI committee, adopted a politics-at-work policy similar to Coinbase’s, and offered six months’ severance to anyone who wished to leave. ~40% of the company took the offer and the story was all over tech twitter, HN, etc.

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