Comment by fluoridation
Comment by fluoridation 4 days ago
A quick back-of-the-envelope calculation says that USD 0.1 would be about 700 Wh, so, give or take, a high-performance desktop processor running full tilt for over four hours.
Personally, I'd prefer something like an expansion of how XMPP works. By default you only see what people in your contact list have sent you, and anything else is marked "dubious", and it's up to you to read it or not. I think it's a mistake that email servers have been given the responsibility to filter unwanted traffic. Email servers should have only ever simply passed along whatever they received (excluding excessively large messages, of course).
> By default you only see what people in your contact list have sent you, and anything else is marked "dubious", and it's up to you to read it or not.
Any email client could implement this policy. You could even prioritize mail over who sent it or whether it's a reply to a mail you sent or have already read.