While processing an online donation to a nonprofit I volunteer for, this issue came up. A new members email with membership info was "returned" with this message. This means that unless the org "jumps through hoops"; they can not send the normal semi-automated email membership greeting. The general feeling I have heard is that anyone who uses this kind of "service" deserves not to get any email they are rejecting.
While spam is a pain, personally, even with the lightest spam "filtering" the percentage of good stuff put in the spam file is too high to be acceptable (and that means you have to look through the spam anyway). It seems like you might as well not use email at all as to use this kind of approved sender approach.
Thoughts.
Clif
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"It seems that this would stop any kind of buying on line as I cannot imagine large vender's would be able to deal with this.
"I apologize for this automatic reply to your email.
To control spam, I now allow incoming messages only from senders I have approved beforehand.
If you would like to be added to my list of approved senders, please fill out the short request form (see link below). Once I approve you, I will receive your original message in my inbox. You do not need to resend your message. I apologize for this one-time inconvenience."
Click the link below to fill out the request:"
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