Make people pay to get into your inbox

Re:Make people pay to get into your inbox by benrutter on Wednesday July 15, 2026 @09:16AM (#48920405)

I like the idea of trying to make email more about human-to-human connection with less focus on automated-stuff-to-human.

The bit I don't understand, is what about where you need the automated-stuff-to-human, like, authenticating a new account? Would this just block those types of emails? Is the expectation if you used this, that you'd have seperate emails for contacting people vs accessing online services?

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Re:Make people pay to get into your inbox by felixdoerp on Wednesday July 15, 2026 @09:21AM (#48920473)

for new sign ups that would indeed make it difficult. The tool checks what senders have sent you transactional looking emails and puts them on a whitelist.

if you sign up to a new service you would have to look into your archive for the sign up email.

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