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If someone is sending a message don't they either want to send it, or not send it. It is a binary decision. Who has time or patience to figure out how this scheme works and then MAYBE send a message. I say move on to the next idea.

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Not necessarily. Think of a firing squad, where one rifle has a blank instead of a bullet so no individual member's conscience is burdened.

The application for this chancemail thing is narrow but definitely exists.

I'd assert that people who would want to use it tend to associate with like-minded thinkers, and thus are more likely to use the app effectively within their network. So it might be fine that there's not a very wide appeal.

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