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Rather than comment or criticize the idea as a whole, there's one issue that stands out to me --

Read receipts are a terrible idea, and 'percentage read' is also a terrible idea. What's to stop people from getting an assistant to click through each message -- or, more likely, download a script that does the same?

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Personally I think read receipts on their own per message are not a bad idea but I do agree that there shouldn't be an incentive for recipients to game the system by falsely marking messages as read. It should be optional. Not all messages need to have receipts. Maybe you should charge for that as well?

note that these are for famous/important legit people with integrity -- they're not looking to earn some quick cash by making their assistant to click through each msg. Their priority is more to control the inbound flow as opposed to make a quick buck.

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