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Over the next few weeks, we’ll be talking about all the features Boxbe has to offer, but today we’ll start with the public forwarding address.

Public Forwarding Address

Your Boxbe public forwarding address is a protected email address. A message sent to your public forwarding address is sent to your real inbox only if the sender:

1. is pre-approved or “whitelisted” by you,
2. passes a test, or
3. pays a fee.

You can share or publish your public forwarding address online without concern because of this protection. The forwarding email address is very handy if you own a blog, a MySpace, Bebo, or YouTube account and would like people to be able to reach you outside those accounts.

Email on Steroids

Since most people have existing email addresses at both home and work or school, you might be asking yourself, why do I need another email address? A Boxbe address isn’t meant to replace those addresses. It’s meant to enhance them.

Personally, I’d never put my Yahoo! or Gmail email address on the internet as it is likely to attract email that I don’t want. Boxbe’s public forwarding address provides a way for me to post my email address anywhere on the internet and not worry about unwanted email.

I use my Boxbe address when posting in online discussion groups or communities, posting to my blog or commenting on someone else’s. I also use my Boxbe address on MySpace and basically anywhere I want people to be able to reach me. Best of all, it’s a forwarding address, so the emails that I want will be delivered to my regular inbox.

Who should use the forwarding email address?

I’ve mentioned a few uses of the forwarding email address for social media sites (blogging, MySpace, discussion boards), but we realize that not everyone participates on those kinds of sites. Boxbe can protect anyone’s email address from unwanted email. Chances are, even if you’ve not posted your email address in a public place, you receive email that you don’t want.

At our core, we’re here to cut down on the email you don’t want to receive and encourage the email that you do want to receive.

This entry was posted on Wednesday, February 14th, 2007 at 10:04 am and is filed under About Boxbe, Email Address, Features, Unwanted Email. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Responses are currently closed, but you can trackback from your own site.