Comments on: Boxbe - the spammy anti-spam tool http://saunderslog.com/2008/04/20/boxbe-the-spammy-anti-spam-tool/ A daily round table on the tech industry with experts and callers from all over the globe. Join us as we pick apart the news and get to the meat of what\'s happening out there. Sun, 06 Jul 2008 10:46:21 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Alec http://saunderslog.com/2008/04/20/boxbe-the-spammy-anti-spam-tool/#comment-722065 Alec Mon, 21 Apr 2008 20:07:11 +0000 http://saunderslog.com/?p=3977#comment-722065 Randy -- thanks for the response. As I said in the post, I am very hopeful for these kinds of services. Email spam is the scourge of my existance! Randy — thanks for the response. As I said in the post, I am very hopeful for these kinds of services. Email spam is the scourge of my existance!

]]> By: Randy Stewart http://saunderslog.com/2008/04/20/boxbe-the-spammy-anti-spam-tool/#comment-722020 Randy Stewart Mon, 21 Apr 2008 19:27:56 +0000 http://saunderslog.com/?p=3977#comment-722020 Alec- Sorry you didn't have the best experience signing up for Boxbe. I'm the product manager of the site and I wanted to address a couple of your points and see if I can answer any questions that you might have. We import your contacts during sign up and we do ask you to invite your friends. Even thought it makes the service better, you can select to not to invite your friends. This "social white list" of senders has been our most popular feature as it can greatly expand your list of "good" email addresses and make it easier to use the service. As for Vista support, we are in a beta period for the plugin. While we're polishing the plugin, we're only supporting Windows XP and Outlook 2003. That said, the plugin will ship with Vista and Outlook 2007 support in the next 30 days. I can contact you then if you would like. Luca - Sorry... we are working on a fix for that today. No one should receive that many invites. Jonathon - Our sync is only one way. We don't modify or add to your existing contacts. I've had similar problems with contact syncing solutions. Cheers, Randy Stewart Boxbe Product Manager randy@boxbe-inc.com Alec-

Sorry you didn’t have the best experience signing up for Boxbe. I’m the product manager of the site and I wanted to address a couple of your points and see if I can answer any questions that you might have.

We import your contacts during sign up and we do ask you to invite your friends. Even thought it makes the service better, you can select to not to invite your friends.

This “social white list” of senders has been our most popular feature as it can greatly expand your list of “good” email addresses and make it easier to use the service.

As for Vista support, we are in a beta period for the plugin. While we’re polishing the plugin, we’re only supporting Windows XP and Outlook 2003. That said, the plugin will ship with Vista and Outlook 2007 support in the next 30 days. I can contact you then if you would like.

Luca - Sorry… we are working on a fix for that today. No one should receive that many invites.

Jonathon - Our sync is only one way. We don’t modify or add to your existing contacts. I’ve had similar problems with contact syncing solutions.

Cheers,
Randy Stewart
Boxbe Product Manager
randy@boxbe-inc.com

]]> By: Mum http://saunderslog.com/2008/04/20/boxbe-the-spammy-anti-spam-tool/#comment-721626 Mum Mon, 21 Apr 2008 14:33:28 +0000 http://saunderslog.com/?p=3977#comment-721626 I didn't download it yesterday because I did not have time. I think I will leave it off my "to do" list in view of your experience. I didn’t download it yesterday because I did not have time. I think I will leave it off my “to do” list in view of your experience.

]]> By: Jonathan Jensen http://saunderslog.com/2008/04/20/boxbe-the-spammy-anti-spam-tool/#comment-721168 Jonathan Jensen Mon, 21 Apr 2008 08:55:15 +0000 http://saunderslog.com/?p=3977#comment-721168 Ever since I wrecked my Outlook contacts folder with an add-on, I'm wary of anything that interacts directly with my contacts. And anything that 'spams' all my contacts - no way. Ever since I wrecked my Outlook contacts folder with an add-on, I’m wary of anything that interacts directly with my contacts. And anything that ’spams’ all my contacts - no way.

]]> By: luca http://saunderslog.com/2008/04/20/boxbe-the-spammy-anti-spam-tool/#comment-719963 luca Sun, 20 Apr 2008 21:21:56 +0000 http://saunderslog.com/?p=3977#comment-719963 Received from you... and trashed :-) Not because it was from you, but because it was the 23th I received today... It seems it's not intelligent enough to realize that I received that invitation from other 22 friends already... Baaaaaaad. Received from you… and trashed :-) Not because it was from you, but because it was the 23th I received today… It seems it’s not intelligent enough to realize that I received that invitation from other 22 friends already… Baaaaaaad.

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