>Chris,
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>Hotmail has a feature to choose to recieve mail only from people on your address list. Everything else is supposed to go into the junk box.
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>I'm not sure how well it works.
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>Also, NEVER reply to unsolicited e-mail that tells you to reply to opt out. As others have said, it just confirms a live e-mail address.
>

I'm reasonably satisfied with the way Hotmail handles it

Any mail from someone in your address book is passed to your inbox.

You also have a "Safe List" which I use for newletters, support groups, etc.

Everything else gets passed to a Junk folder.

The biggest problem is that the Junk folder counts against your total space quota. If you've been as careless as I originally was about giving out email address, you constantly have to monitor and clean out the Junk folder since all the spam can chew it up.