| ▲ | Misdicorl a day ago |
| > the goal should be to ensure that anyone who wants to do a thing can, with as few third party requirements as possible. This is a good starting point, but if you have no barriers then you get abuse problems which is why email is terrible. I remember being horrified in the 90s about attempts to charge 1 cent per email. Now I long for a world where that actually happened. |
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| ▲ | tshaddox 20 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| Ironically, the amount of effort I expend dealing with spam from the postal service is much larger than the amount of effort I expend dealing with email. |
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| ▲ | sokoloff 19 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | I’m pretty sure I spend less than 5 minutes a week dealing with physical spam mail. I have a recycling bin right next to where the mail arrives and most days are 15 seconds of “these go into that bin unopened” and sometimes I have to open an envelope and glance at it to see if it’s something relevant to me. Even with the best spam filtering on email, I’m well over 5 minutes a week of distraction from it. | |
| ▲ | Misdicorl 16 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | And now imagine how easy dealing with email spam would be if the marginal fiscal cost was not 0 like physical spam. All the technology and tools available and less than 1% of the viable spam surface area |
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| ▲ | creaturemachine a day ago | parent | prev [-] |
| You're paying that cent, but in the form of endless ads hijacking your consciousness. |
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| ▲ | overtomanu a day ago | parent [-] | | you can still do some setup and access mail by using applications like thunderbird, which have no ads. | | |
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