Boxbe

Boxbe is a free service that prioritizes and screens spam in personal email. Users can select which email they want to receive, and which email goes to spam. It presents a challenge to the sender that requires a human response.[1] Bulk anonymous data is provided to their parent company, which provides an email validation and tracking service.[2][3]

Boxbe
Founded2005 (2005)
FoundersThede Loder
Corbett Barr
Websiteboxbe.com

Service

Boxbe starts with the user allowing Boxbe access to all of the user's email contacts. Boxbe then gives priority to contacts that users allow. Integration within Gmail (including Google Apps), AOL, Yahoo! Mail and their affiliates lets Boxbe stay up to date so it can screen email.[1]

History

Boxbe was founded in 2005 by Thede Loder and Corbett Barr. Venture capital firm Draper Fisher Jurvetson and Esther Dyson were both investors, with Dyson and Steve Jurvetson serving as board members.[4] As a way to filter spam beyond challenge response, Boxbe initially used the option of allowing recipients to define a price that senders must risk to deliver the initial message (paying a fee to deliver the email, which they called the Attention Bond Mechanism),[5] which they later abandoned. Boxbe company founder Thede Loder along with Marshall Van Alstyne and Rick Wash wrote the initial paper on Attention Bond Mechanism.[6][7][8] Technically capable users can assemble many of these functions, such as whitelisting.[9]

Acquisition

In 2012, eDataSource, Inc. purchased the assets of Boxbe, Inc.[10]

See also

References
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  2. "Home". edatasource.com.
  3. "Boxbe - Data Use Explanation".
  4. "E-mail Marketing Company, Boxbe Raises $1.5 Million". Archived from the original on 2009-04-20. Retrieved 2009-07-29.
  5. "Boxbe: Get a Cut of Your Email Spam". 9 November 2006.
  6. "InformationWeek, serving the information needs of the Business Technology Community".
  7. "The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy". Archived from the original on 2009-09-08. Retrieved 2009-07-29.
  8. "Set a price to be contacted with Boxbe email - Download Squad". Archived from the original on 2008-04-16. Retrieved 2010-08-21.
  9. "How to Start an Online Business & Make Money Doing It | WebMonkey". 19 September 2019.
  10. "Boxbe saved my Inbox. It can save yours too". Archived from the original on 2017-01-28.
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