ListBot was a large
email list
A mailing list is a collection of names and addresses used by an individual or an organization to send material to multiple recipients. The term is often extended to include the people subscribed to such a list, so the group of subscribers is re ...
hosting service originally created by
Submit It! Inc., a privately held company based in
Bedford, Massachusetts
Bedford is a town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States. The population of Bedford was 14,383 at the time of the 2020 United States Census.
History
''The following compilation comes from Ellen Abrams (1999) based on information ...
. In June 1998, ListBot became part of
LinkExchange
LinkExchange was a popular online advertising, Internet advertising cooperative, similar in function to a webring, originally known as Internet Link Exchange or ILE.
It was founded in March 1996 by 23-year-old Harvard graduates Tony Hsieh (who lat ...
, which acquired Submit It! Inc. In November 1998, ListBot became a
Microsoft
Microsoft Corporation is an American multinational technology corporation producing computer software, consumer electronics, personal computers, and related services headquartered at the Microsoft Redmond campus located in Redmond, Washing ...
property via the acquisition of LinkExchange.
As of January 2000, ListBot was used by over a half million individuals and businesses, sending email to more than 20 million subscribers. In August 2001, Microsoft shuttered the site in favor of the
Redmond-developed
ListBuilder.
[{{cite web , url= https://www.theregister.co.uk/2001/06/25/microsoft_to_delist_listbot/ , title= Microsoft to delist ListBot in August: But it's got an alternative you can pay for , first= John , last= Leyden , date= 25 June 2001 , work= ]The Register
''The Register'' is a British technology news website co-founded in 1994 by Mike Magee, John Lettice and Ross Alderson. The online newspaper's masthead sublogo is "''Biting the hand that feeds IT''." Their primary focus is information tec ...
References
Electronic mailing lists
Companies based in Bedford, Massachusetts