Set a price to be contacted with Boxbe email

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Set a price to be contacted with Boxbe email

by Chris Gilmer Nov 10th 2006

Imagine a time when advertisers actually had to pay you for spamming you with adverts and deals. Okay, that time is here! Liz Gannes breaks the news on an interesting new email services called Boxbe. The service, which charges marketers to email its users, launched this week. Users simply sign up and use the email to sign up for "junk" emails like contests, forms, newsletters, etc. Then when companies try to contact you, Boxbe contacts them and gives them the option of paying a fee to deliver the email to your Boxbe account. Both Boxbe and the email user will share the profit. What do you think? Would you use it?

Tags: advertising, boxbe, email, internet, mailing list, MailingList, marketing, spam

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

janey said 1:07AM on 11-11-2006

I will be skipping this one, it just doesn't interest me at all. I spend too much time as it is dealing with fraudulent emails etc, I just can't be bothered.

Techflock said 2:28AM on 11-11-2006

Am almost convinced that we are in Bubble 2.0 zone now.

Skip said 3:30PM on 11-11-2006

I signed up and routed my domain's spam through it to see what happens. If it sucks, that's fine. The only downside I see is that it will generate assloads of cross-chatter firing back an email for each of the thousands of spams it will receive each day through my domain....

Thede Loder said 4:11AM on 11-25-2006

Hey Chris, thanks for writing about Boxbe. To add to your list of uses, a sweet spot for us is bloggers (like yourself) and anyone who wants to publish an email address in a public profile (Friendster, MySpace, Facebook). You can put your Boxbe address in these places without worry.

Richi Jennings said 8:05AM on 12-13-2006

Oh no. Boxbe is effectively a spamhaus. Challenge/response is a really TERRIBLE idea. This will all end in tears.

Guys, there’s no way to correctly “reply” to a spammer — they forge the return address. However, that’s exactly what Boxbe tries to do. Oops. Commenter #3 is right to be worried.

See http://richi.co.uk/ for more.

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