[SC-Help] Re: Giving them my email

[Mike Easter]

Erin wrote:
> I'm trying
> to cut down on my mom's spam for her, and I can't have access to her
> account (at hotmail) forever. Is there nothing I can do for her?

I've never had a hotmail account, free or otherwise, so I have to go to
msn to read about it.

Without signing up, all I get to read at msn re hotmail is this: "Spam
filtering - Choose between three spam filtering levels with Microsoft
SmartscreenT technology. Hotmail also offers the Bonded Sender Program
and Block Sender list to fight against spammers."

I can't tell if hotmail has a whitelisting system;  but whitelisted only
is a very very powerful filter method if someone isn't inclined to get
some kind of unknown wanted mail.  My provider offers a whitelisted
system as one of its 3 spamfiltering options of lo/med/hi, ie off,
known, suspect.

Tho' I don't have a hotmail, I do have a gmail account, and I have it
configured to forward to me, and it 'never' forwards spam, but it keeps
its spam for 30 days, so I go over to that account every once in a while
an look in there and see if there's any wanted mail mistakenly filtered.
Looking thru' filtered spam for a wanted mail /should/ be much faster
than looking thru' an Inbox full of spam looking for wanted mail.


-- 
Mike Easter
kibitzer, not SC admin