What’s Up with Paul Oppenheim

I spammed a pal the other day, who happens to have founded Boxbe, a company fighting spam in a neat way. Just like when you sign up for a new account online, someone who hasn’t mailed you before has to copy text from a garbled image. if they don’t want to do that, they can give you some money instead. Otherwise you never see the email. That’s Boxbe in a nutshell. i still haven’t seen any money from it, but my tide of spam has turned into a trickle. Here’s hoping enough people sign up to make spamming less profitable, and targeted advertising a viable option.

The things I learn from spamming people.