Facebook email is launching Monday. That'll make spam filtering a lot more straightforward: to my mind the algorithm goes something like this. If email is from a Facebook contact, send to inbox. If not, send to spam. To whitelist senders, add them to Facebook. What's not to like from Facebook's point of view? LinkedIn should probably do the same, and then we'll have two email systems, one for work, one for friends, and no-one new will be able to pester us ever again.
Update: hey, Craig Newmark thinks so too. Cool!
Update2: Charles Arthur at the Guardian does not. FB just ain't that great at filtering viruses or spam, so actually Fmail users will end up with lots of stuff they don't want from their allegedly trusted network. Sounds quite likely - it'll take FB a while to get email-quality filters in place, unless they've somehow done it already.
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