This doesn’t seem to solve the problem, which is compensating someone for the attention to evaluate if your email is worth responding to. If I’m sending a substantive response, I’m probably glad I got the e-mail.
I assume this is done to keep people from soliciting lots of email solely for the money, but it doesn’t solve that problem, since you can always send a pro-forma response.
This doesn’t seem to solve the problem, which is compensating someone for the attention to evaluate if your email is worth responding to. If I’m sending a substantive response, I’m probably glad I got the e-mail.
I assume this is done to keep people from soliciting lots of email solely for the money, but it doesn’t solve that problem, since you can always send a pro-forma response.