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What if a single email cost $0.001 cent to send, and it was paid to the recipient? For $10, you could send 10,000 emails. For recipients, every 1,000 emails the

by ebcode 2mo ago

What if a single email cost $0.001 cent to send, and it was paid to the recipient? For $10, you could send 10,000 emails. For recipients, every 1,000 emails they get is a dollar in their wallet. You’d need something like a blockchain for this to work because the traditional payment processors still haven’t figured out micropayments.

wahern 2mo ago
If snail mail cost $0.001 per recipient people would be getting much, much more junkmail. Likewise, if e-mail cost as much as even bulk snail mail, there'd be much less spam. Some sort of payment scheme is really the best, most durable option. The problem of mailing-lists and personal correspondence could be solved by an exclusion mechanism where the recipient effectively whitelists senders, explicitly or implicitly (e.g. whitelist a replying-sender automatically if a recipient initiates a conversation).
- ryandrake 2mo ago
  The problem with a payment scheme is that spammers (who make money by spamming) will happily pay as a cost of doing business (or negotiate discounts/deals), but Joe User might just look at the cost and say, "you know what, maybe I'll send this as SMS instead of E-mail." So the end result will be more spam and fewer legit E-mails.
  - stevenicr 2mo ago
    I've wondered if it cost $10 to get through my email box the first two times what they would mean. Hormozi could charge $1,000 to get into his read box. We could refund people, add them to a whitelist - and return a 405? payment required by default and things change in interesting ways when the amount is variable.
    - grodriguez100 2mo ago
      There are platforms based on this idea: pay to reach a public person’s inbox, often with guaranteed responses (“guaranteed” as in “you get a response or you money back”). For example: https://mypublicinbox.com/en/ https://mypublicinbox.com/en/
locknitpicker 2mo ago
> What if a single email cost $0.001 cent to send, and it was paid to the recipient? For $10, you could send 10,000 emails. For recipients, every 1,000 emails they get is a dollar in their wallet. I'm not sure you realize your proposal's only contribution is to worsen spam. You are unwittingly creating an incentive for email providers to lift anti-abuse filters and to maximize the volume of spam delivered to you.
mjmas 2mo ago
> $0.001 cent https://verizonmath.blogspot.com/2006/12/verizon-doesnt-know-dollars-from-cents.html?m=1 https://verizonmath.blogspot.com/2006/12/verizon-doesnt-know...

by ebcode 2mo ago

wahern 2mo ago

If snail mail cost $0.001 per recipient people would be getting much, much more junkmail. Likewise, if e-mail cost as much as even bulk snail mail, there'd be much less spam. Some sort of payment scheme is really the best, most durable option. The problem of mailing-lists and personal correspondence could be solved by an exclusion mechanism where the recipient effectively whitelists senders, explicitly or implicitly (e.g. whitelist a replying-sender automatically if a recipient initiates a conversation).

ryandrake 2mo ago
The problem with a payment scheme is that spammers (who make money by spamming) will happily pay as a cost of doing business (or negotiate discounts/deals), but Joe User might just look at the cost and say, "you know what, maybe I'll send this as SMS instead of E-mail." So the end result will be more spam and fewer legit E-mails.
- stevenicr 2mo ago
  I've wondered if it cost $10 to get through my email box the first two times what they would mean. Hormozi could charge $1,000 to get into his read box. We could refund people, add them to a whitelist - and return a 405? payment required by default and things change in interesting ways when the amount is variable.
  - grodriguez100 2mo ago
    There are platforms based on this idea: pay to reach a public person’s inbox, often with guaranteed responses (“guaranteed” as in “you get a response or you money back”). For example: https://mypublicinbox.com/en/ https://mypublicinbox.com/en/

locknitpicker 2mo ago

> What if a single email cost $0.001 cent to send, and it was paid to the recipient? For $10, you could send 10,000 emails. For recipients, every 1,000 emails they get is a dollar in their wallet. I'm not sure you realize your proposal's only contribution is to worsen spam. You are unwittingly creating an incentive for email providers to lift anti-abuse filters and to maximize the volume of spam delivered to you.

mjmas 2mo ago

> $0.001 cent https://verizonmath.blogspot.com/2006/12/verizon-doesnt-know-dollars-from-cents.html?m=1 https://verizonmath.blogspot.com/2006/12/verizon-doesnt-know...