Hotmail tries to fry more spam
C|Net | at | by Mike
Taking a new twist on an old antispam method, Microsoft plans to use white lists for its free Hotmail e-mail service. Days after Yahoo unveiled new mechanisms for controlling spam on its free Web e-mail service, Microsoft sent Hotmail account holders an e-mail that pledged to upgrade its services with the white lists next month, and offered a sneak peak of how the system will work. A white list checks incoming mail against a list of addresses that the account holder has already approved.