Hotmail and Spam?

Question

In Yahoo mail it it very clear and convinient on how to block adresses, report spam/junk, etc. It works too.....
But with hotmail there is no difinitive way that I know of. How do you control spam and junk in Hotmail?

If you block mail from addresses not in your address book you might miss something......

Answer 1

in the upper right area of hotmail select "options"

in the left navigation of the options page, select "mail"

there you will find 2 options of interest:
"Junk E-Mail Protection" and "Custom Filters"

Select "Junk E-mail Protection" and select the "enhanced" radio button. Low is too low, and exclusive may cause you to miss emails. I use this filter and it catches about 90% of the spam.

Then select "custom filters" and make sure to add filters for any news groups or others that you are expecting email from that isn't sent directly to you, such as a Yahoo! Group. If you don't these emails will be considered spam with the enhanced filter on.

Good luck.

Answer 2

Allow mail from only addresses in your address book and you won't get any spam