03-22-2006, 07:47 PM
for our FasterMac.net ISP service, we provide the 'Friends' system.
It allows the auto adding of e-mail address when you send mail out to people.
New contacts, when they e-mail in are given an auto response, all they have to do is reply and send it back to your address to be added that way.
In addition, you can review 'pending' messages from those not yet allowed and manually add addresses to the list by allowing messages to come through (or just release if one time only you want) - which covers things like reservation services, credit card companies, etc - which are automated themselves and wouldn't respond to the Friends invitation.
And you black list those that you don't want coming in.
I got tired of the junk filters and spam filters blocking mail that wasn't - and becoming less than useful as the spammers are ever more active in thwarting such filters.
Friends completely cleaned up my in box. Spam is no longer an issue on my Friends enabled accounts at all. And it's nice for some people since it doesn't require you be on the web to do a challenge thing for becoming an accepted sender.
It allows the auto adding of e-mail address when you send mail out to people.
New contacts, when they e-mail in are given an auto response, all they have to do is reply and send it back to your address to be added that way.
In addition, you can review 'pending' messages from those not yet allowed and manually add addresses to the list by allowing messages to come through (or just release if one time only you want) - which covers things like reservation services, credit card companies, etc - which are automated themselves and wouldn't respond to the Friends invitation.
And you black list those that you don't want coming in.
I got tired of the junk filters and spam filters blocking mail that wasn't - and becoming less than useful as the spammers are ever more active in thwarting such filters.
Friends completely cleaned up my in box. Spam is no longer an issue on my Friends enabled accounts at all. And it's nice for some people since it doesn't require you be on the web to do a challenge thing for becoming an accepted sender.