Comment by frankfrank13
6 hours ago
I think this is a really solid move. This gives OSS contributors a lot of flexibility. You could set the limit to 0, and manually add contributors. You could set it to 1-3 to allow people to get their foot in the door. But the de facto limit today is infinite, which is spammed. Imagine if GMail did this! If I don't whitelist or reply within `n` emails, youre done. I would KILL for that.
I get a lot of emails that I want to get but never reply to. I would not want to have to remember to whitelist all of those.
Yeah fair, then you could set it higher, even 100. Or default it off.
HEY email service does something like that:
https://www.hey.com/features/the-screener/
> Imagine if GMail did this!
It would be very annoying? Spammers can still spam one message, but now your friends can't email you twice. Awesome.
This is a barely-better-than-nothing blunt tool.