Re:“It’s time for Apple to fix texting”
by altairprime on Wednesday August 10, 2022 @12:11AM
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I have received zero spam messages over iMessage in maybe ten years, without using an allow list. Why, as a consumer, would I tolerate the degree of effort you describe when I have a perfect zero-effort solution available today?
If someone does end up in a spam list (and they don't rack up a high score across multiple targets), let them know they're in such a list and where to start looking to resolve that issue. A good enough solution for this is to have number carriers attest to have verified the government issued ID of the individual in question; and if spam happens shortly after that to yield the government ID number of that individual.
An alternate form I've considered, for email, is to pay a postage (transfer + storage) micro-transaction fee, and possibly an attention fee for prompt review. The custom might be to refund these in cases of legitimate messages.