ryan kennedy’s blog

This is pretty exciting, Boxbe is announcing their Yahoo! Mail integration. Boxbe is a service that “cleans up your inbox and stops spam“. Mail from new senders is put into a quarantine. One of the ways of getting out of that quarantine and into your inbox is to pay some money to the mailbox owner (that would be you). You get to set the price…so you can say “Spammer X has to pay $100 to get a message into my mailbox.” Most likely Spammer X won’t pay it and you’ll never see the message. If he does pay, you get a piece of spam and $100. I’m sure you’ll be really broken up over it. I’ve oversimplified the offering a bit, so definitely read up on what they offer.

Boxbe’s a neat product and all, but that’s not really what I’m excited about. I’m excited about the fact that this is the first commercial entity to use the Yahoo! Mail Web Service. I’ve actually been working with them a bit to get them going on the technical details. Previously, it’s mostly been a small handful of hackers playing around with the web service. Boxbe marks the first commercial integration and I doubt very much that it will be the last. Congrats to Randy, Thomas, Thede and the rest of Boxbe on their progress so far and best wishes on a successful launch.

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