Method for Providing E-Mail Spam Rejection Employing User Controlled and Service Provider Controlled Access Lists

A method for passing or rejecting e-mail messages, said method comprising:

• identifying a user controlled contact list;
• identifying a user controlled reject list, said user controlled reject list being a list of e-mail addresses controlled and populated b the user;
• passing messages from a sender to a user if the sender is on the user contact list;
• rejecting messages intended to be sent to the user if the sender is on the user's reject list;
• and
• performing an authorization process for determining whether an e-mail message from a sender will be sent to the user if the sender is not on the contact list or the reject list.

A method for passing or rejecting e-mail messages, said method comprising:

• identifying a service provider controlled honorable business list;
• identifying a service provider controlled honorable user list;
• selectively passing messages from a sender to the user if the sender is on the honorable business list;
• and
• selectively passing messages from a sender to the user if the sender is on the honorable user list.