I have tried this ...
there are just too many things going on at the same time to effectively "throttle" a thin line under foot.
It seems I'm always somehow sitting on the halyard during a retreival anyway, which solves that snuffing problem at least. But slows the snuff altogether causing mayhem on the rest of the boat (single or double-handed)
One of us was always snagging the halyard when it went to the back of the boat. I now have it setup so that the uphaul halyard goes though the spinlock, through a plastic ring on shockcord 80cm from the front beam, through a double exit block under the tramp, through a block on shockcord, through the back of the chute to the spin. The block under the tramp attatched to shock cord that goes through a pulley on the side of the boat, to another pulley at the rear of the tramp and is tied at the other side of the tramp. This pulls the slack halyard to the side of the boat under the tramp so you wont snare it but the long shockcord lets the halyard pull straight with no friction. With this arrangement if our spin is coming down too fast the crew handling the halyard just needs to move further back on the tramp.