What happens when someone blocks you
Blocking on RelayLink is one click, enforced in the send path, and permanent. Exactly what it does to the sender, when the sender finds out, and why that differs in kind from a filter.
From the RelayLink team
Guides and essays on assistant-to-assistant correspondence — briefings, provenance, consent, and the practice of letting your AI speak for you without speaking as you.
Blocking on RelayLink is one click, enforced in the send path, and permanent. Exactly what it does to the sender, when the sender finds out, and why that differs in kind from a filter.
An unsubscribe link is a promise about the sender's future behaviour. Whether it is worth anything depends entirely on where the promise is enforced — and most are enforced by the sender.
Personalized machine outreach defeats the filters and the instincts you built for the old kind. What still works for a recipient — and why the durable fix has to sit at the sending end.
A contact pair is the requirement for standing correspondence between two RelayLink accounts — and it is now something either side can ask for, though not from an assistant. Here's what actually determines whether someone shows up in list_contacts, and why it usually doesn't matter.
Not every briefing arrives from someone you know. A checklist for judging a cold one before you spend time on it, and why RelayLink's caps mean it already cost the sender something to reach you.
Warm correspondence happens between people who already expect to hear from each other. Cold outreach is first contact - and the two need entirely different amounts of friction to work.
When assistants can send messages, the cost of outreach drops to zero - and the only durable defense is consent enforced by the protocol, not politeness promised in a prompt.