Comments on: CentMail: Do Good, Fight Spam

By: Daniel Carrera

Daniel Carrera — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 00:10:04 +0000

Any idea when you’ll launch? I think CentMail is a brilliant idea. In addition to all the spam-fighting reasons, I think CentMail has the potential to get people thinking about charity. In particular, research shows that people are more willing to donate to charity if they realize that other people are donating too. So CentMail might actually do a lot of good for the poorest people in the world. That’s a nice win-win: Reduce spam, increase charitable giving. I love it!

When will you launch?

By: dreeves

dreeves — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 20:23:54 +0000

Thanks Vishal, we do cite the paper by Thede Loder et al in our technical paper. And I'm a fan of boxbe, too. Thanks everyone else for all the interest in CentMail! We're not sure about any specific charities but hope to have some with international appeal when we launch. Nothing else about CentMail precludes international users.

By: Daniel Carrera

Daniel Carrera — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 15:25:50 +0000

I read the technical paper and the FAQ. CentMail sounds really promising. I’m very excited about it. Will it be available in other countries? Will I be able to select non-US charities? (e.g. Oxfam in the UK).

By: Vishal

Vishal — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 20:08:22 +0000

check out boxbe [http://www.boxbe.com]. Thede should be able to supply underlying academic work...

By: pch65

pch65 — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 13:25:18 +0000

I wonder will it available for all countries ?
I’m living in France.

By: Alistair Jardine

Alistair Jardine — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 21:29:28 +0000

I wonder Will it available for Great Britain? (Pennymail)
and benefit British Charity’s.?

By: Gordon Rios

Gordon Rios — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 16:57:37 +0000

Haha, brilliant! Like the inverse of a “safelist” … let the real email senders pay to charity in order to self-identify. Email clients already do network lookups for Real Time Bl(o)cklists to filter out some of the spam traffic but the Safelist has always been problematic since it required the receiver to be precognitive in order to pass through new senders.

By: dreeves

dreeves — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 02:12:43 +0000

Thanks for asking! We’ll be in touch…

By: Jeff Doyle

Jeff Doyle — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 23:42:06 +0000

Your frequently asked questions says that you will provide a list of eligible charities. I assume that any legitimate 501c3 organization is eligible but how do we get on the list?