Boxbe is a free service that prioritizes and screens
spam
Spam most often refers to:
* Spam (food), a consumer brand product of canned processed pork of the Hormel Foods Corporation
* Spamming, unsolicited or undesired electronic messages
** Email spam, unsolicited, undesired, or illegal email messages
...
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.
Bulk anonymous data is provided to their parent company, which provides an email validation and tracking service.
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
Gmail is the email service provided by Google. it had 1.5 billion active user (computing), users worldwide, making it the largest email service in the world. It also provides a webmail interface, accessible through a web browser, and is also ...
(including
Google Apps
Google Workspace (formerly G Suite, formerly Google Apps) is a collection of cloud computing, Productivity software, productivity and Collaborative software, collaboration tools, software and products developed and marketed by Google. It con ...
),
AOL,
Yahoo! Mail and their affiliates lets Boxbe stay up to date so it can screen email.
History
Boxbe was founded in 2005 by Thede Loder and Corbett Barr. Venture capital firm
Draper Fisher Jurvetson
Draper Fisher Jurvetson (DFJ) is an American venture capital firm. In January 2019, DFJ Venture, the early-stage team, spun out and formed Threshold Ventures. DFJ Growth continues to be managed by co-founder John Fisher and co-founders Mark Ba ...
and
Esther Dyson
Esther Dyson (born 14 July 1951) is a Swiss-born American investor, journalist, author, commentator and philanthropist. She is the executive founder of Wellville, a nonprofit project focused on improving equitable wellbeing. Dyson is also an ang ...
were both investors, with Dyson and
Steve Jurvetson serving as board members. 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), 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. Technically capable users can assemble many of these functions, such as
whitelist
A whitelist or allowlist is a list or register of entities that are being provided a particular privilege, service, mobility, access or recognition. Entities on the list will be accepted, approved and/or recognized. Whitelisting is the reverse of ...
ing.
Acquisition
In 2012, . purchased the assets of Boxbe, Inc.
See also
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Comparison of email services
References
External links
Official siteOfficial blog
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