Outbound Index: Partnering

"Win-win, and open collaboration. That's the whole idea behind the Outbound Index, because no single product or person is going to get rid of spam. Third parties are welcome to use the data in the Outbound Index to create products and services, resell them, and generate profits for their efforts. Access to the data will be restricted only if the accuracy or sustainability of the Outbound Index is threatened; we look to the community of anti-spam professionals to help us maintain this delicate balance."

- April Lorenzen, one of the founders of the Outbound Index

Partnering Opportunities

• Anti-spam service providers: Add the Outbound Index client "SIQ" (Server Index Query) support to your service.

• Highly experienced *nix administrators: Offer live chat configuration assistance and remote installation consulting to Outbound Index members. Be featured on a live chat page on the Outbound Index website.

• Anti-spam appliance makers: Include Outbound Index "SIQ" (Server Index Query) support in your appliance.

• Value-Added Resellers: Create a hardware-specific bootable CD that turns one of your server machines into a configured Sendmail-based gateway featuring, for example, SIQ support, Snert.com's milter-sender and milter-spamc, and Spam Assassin.

• Hosting ISPs: Take advantage of your volume position to create a custom value-added package to resell Outbound Index access and associated domain- and network-monitoring services to your customers.

• Mail processors: Operate a remote milter service or add "SIQ" (Server Index Query) support to your mail filtering service offering.

• Other potential opportunities: Services based on data summarization, presentation, notification, value-added services related to monitoring or legal issues.