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I believe that Hey does something like this:

1. A stranger send you an email

2. Hey asks you if you want to whitelist the sender or not

3. If rejected, you won’t be bothered anymore by any of their emails

4. Otherwise you just get their email moving forward and can decide to reject them later if necessary

https://hey.com/features/the-screener/



I don't understood how this is revolution. Doesn't hey just do what any email account can do with filters, but wrap it in a nice UI?


Obligatory link to Dropbox’s Show HN comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224


Yeah I don't think it's not useful, just not revolutionary. Gmail's spam filtering is already pretty good.


It’s a whitelist of senders as far as I understand, not a spam filter. That results in spam being ignored but for other reasons that what a spam filter would do


Sounds like LinkedIn?




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