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0 pointsmdavis68904y ago0 comments

The problem is that just receiving the message is in-and-of itself bad for the end user. It's not the volume you think (assuming the other poster is accurate about relative volumes) - it's far, far more. Imagine getting 1000 SMS/day that all have a "spam" warning attached, or worse, no warning at all. You'd just stop getting any value from SMS at all, and ignore it.

I mean, going back to the postal service - even the weekly pile of "here, throw this away for me." dead trees we receive (in the US) is mildly irritating. Imagine THAT x 1000!

I'm grateful for the silent block in this case. I mean, my social security number is being canceled, I'm about to be arrested by the IRS, the FBI found a suspicious package with my personal information in it and my car warranty (didn't know I had one) is up for renewal. And that's just this morning. What more can I stand? One of these days I'll press 1 out of desperation...

Also I hate govt/big-corp censorship as much as the next person, but none of this seems remotely political or ideological. And consider the alternative.

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rsync4y ago

"I'm grateful for the silent block in this case."

That's not the issue - the issue is not alerting the sender that the message has failed.

It's not a big deal if the receiver never receives the message - we can find a different way of reaching out or fix the content problem or whatever. But we never find out. As far as the sender is concerned, the message succeeded.

This is a problem and the very bad spam heuristics employed by even the most competent actors (gmail, for instance) mean that anyone can be impacted by this.

dcow4y ago

Without any indication? How about

   WE THINK THIS MESSAGE IS SPAM
   _tap to read anyway_

dspillett4y ago

You missed the mentions of scale in the post you replied to (and elsewhere in the thread). Imaging needing to hit that or delete tens of times, maybe hundreds, maybe more, for every non-spam message you receive. You'd soon get sick of it. You'd soon accidentally delete, or otherwise miss, an important message in amongst the plethora of junk.

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