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BoxBe Filter for Gmail, AOL Mail and Yahoo Mail

When I first visited BoxBe, it sounded promising. If you're using one of the mail services from Gmail, AOL Mail or Yahoo Mail, it claims it can reduce the clutter of email overload.
It does this by using something akin to social networking. If you interact with someone via email, they will be automatically put into your friends list. If not, then they will be put
in a waiting list for you to approve. It's to get emails that matters to you most (your friends and business contacts) first and hides other less important messages (newsletters, spam mails) until you approve them.

Even if you don't use the above services, you can use a forwarding email address such as yourname@boxbe.com which can be forwarded to your real email address. This "public" email address can be put on webpages, blogs, social networking sites, etc and no one will find out your real email address. It can also do the above filtering so people who correspond with you initially will be put in a waiting list until you approve them. It's like the challenge/response spam filtering that was used several years ago but lost popularity due to the effort of the sender to prove that they are human (wasn't very effective with automated robot senders like newsletter like Future Shop). This is different as the sender no longer needs to do anything.

The only issue I have with this service is you must login to another website, Boxbe to approve/reject people that have messages in the Waiting List.

That's my opinion but other websites such as Wired, New York Times and many others are raving about it! It's free! Give it a try and let me know.

Kevin Liang
CTO / SEO Guru
Canadian Web Hosting

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