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Re: [Asrg] Economic model is borken. (sic.) Let's fix it



Yes, typically when you buy something online, you KNOW to expect an email response pretty quickly so you can go look in your 'holding pen' for it.

However, this problem could be solved completely in the short term if we could get merchants to provide an extra field in the form you fill in. You as a user would add any text or code you like to that field. When the merchant sends you any email, they include the contents of that field in the subject line of their message.
You then create a single permission rule (either in your spam blocker or indeed in any email client that supports basic filters) that allows anything with that text to come through. Since each user would have a completely different code there, it would be unbreakable by spammers.

D


Sometimes I whitelist the domain beforehand, most times I just check the
'holding pen' folder for a message from the merchant some time later.

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Nate Waddoups


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