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Recently, in my customer support tickets, more and more of my users have given me email addresses "protected" by http://boxbe.com http://boxbe.com. When I writ
by always_good 10y ago
Recently, in my customer support tickets, more and more of my users have given me email addresses "protected" by http://boxbe.com http://boxbe.com.
When I write my reply to them and submit, I get an ACTION-REQUIRED from boxbe.com telling me to register + captcha so that I can get on the receiver's whitelist.
It's so invasive that I don't bother. They'll have to check their spam folder for my email.
- jcwayne 10y agoI'd never heard of BoxBe, so I took a look. Turns out they're owned by http://eDataSource.com http://eDataSource.com which provides "real-time monitoring of 1.5 million active consumer inboxes" for email marketers. No thanks.
- tomjen3 10y agoI had an email with I think bluebottle that did that, but it automatically whitelisted people if you sent them an email. Personally I think that if people aren't willing to complete a captcha to send me an email, that email is probably not so important for them. It is a moot point now, because googles spam filters are good enough that I never see spam, but I just wished there would be an easier way to mass unsubscribe marketing email.
- dmitrygr 10y agoThe problem is places like support forms. If you go to my site, click on "contact us" and fill in your message and email, you did not directly email me, as per boxbe. So if I honestly try to reply to you, I'll be forced to waste my time? You better believe you'll never get a reply then. So to reply to your "if people aren't willing to complete a captcha to send me an email, that email is probably not so important for them.". No. Replying to your request isn't that important to me. It probably was to you though....