the ultimate email filter: a whitelist

[rcjordan]

Whitelists typically allow e-mail from everyone in a user's existing address book. Other, unknown senders receive an automated reply, asking them to take further action, such as explain who they are.

slate article: [slate.msn.com...]

Interesting tidbit: 10% of hotmail users now invoke the "exclusive" setting

whitelist freeware: [tmda.net...]

[jatar_k]

Interesting article, I hadn't heard of a whitelist before.

I went to my hotmail account after that and set it up that way because I get very few legit emails through it and I know who they all are. It wouldn't work for most of my other accounts though, I would lose too much.

Anyone else using this method?

[rcjordan]

I know of a few family members and friends using hotmail's whitelist.

For me, a whitelist would be gross overkill, as MailWasher is still holding up under the load.

[jatar_k]

the whitelist is working really well so far for hotmail, I keep meaning to do the mailwasher route but never get around to it.

I have so many email accounts, a couple are just spam. By deleting everything that comes to 2 of my accounts, and now having the hotmail setup, I get rid of 90% of the garbage. The rest is pretty easy to sort through.