Whitelist The Weeding Gnome

We all know that spam is a big problem, and our e-mail providers are working hard to keep it out of our inboxes. A lot of us even add spam blocker software on top of what our e-mail provider does…

…and most of us have had e-mail that we really wanted stuffed into the spam folder by mistake.

It’s annoying when this happens, and you don’t want it to happen to your The Weeding Gnome. Here’s what you can do about it: whitelist the people you really want to hear from. Do it right from the start of your subscription, before there’s a problem and you miss an issue.

However, every e-mail provider and every type of spam blocker has a different system. We’ve collected instructions for several of the most popular ones here. To find yours, scroll down (the list is in alphabetical order).

If what you’re using isn’t listed here, you’ll have to try contacting your customer service folks for instructions. (One thing you can try no matter what you’re using is to add our From address to your Address Book or Contacts list.)

If you haven’t received an email from us yet, you can use the address Angela@Plantsnouveau.com for all whitelisting needs.

Adelphia

Adelphia will deliver anything that comes from an address in your Contacts List directly to your inbox. So, you’ll need to add our From address to your list of Contacts. There are two ways to do this.

The easy way:

* Find a message that’s from us somewhere in your Adelphia mailbox.

* Select that message.

* Click the Add Contact button. (It’s a rather small icon next to the From address.)

The slightly harder way:

* First, get the From address from your most recent The Weeding Gnome.

* Click the Contacts button.

* Select New Contact.

* You’ll see the Brief View, which is fine for this purpose. In the space provided, type or paste the From address from your most recent The Weeding Gnome.

* Enter a Display Name to go with this Contact. (You can’t create a contact without one.)

* Click OK.

That takes care of it. Thanks for whitelisting The Weeding Gnome.

AIM Mail

With AIM Mail, addresses in your Contacts list are exempt from being treated as spam. You can make sure you reliably get The Weeding Gnome in your inbox by adding our From address to your Contacts.

* In your AIM mailbox, find your most recent e-mail from The Weeding Gnome.

* Hover your mouse cursor over the From address of that message.

* When the mini-menu of options appears, click Add Contact.

* Click the Add Contact button.

That does it. Thanks for whitelisting The Weeding Gnome.

AngelFire

Angelfire uses the Lycos e-mail system. To reliably get your The Weeding Gnome delivered to your inbox, you’ll need to exempt it from the Lycos e-mail filters. To do that, you add our From address to your Sender White List.

* First, get the From address from your most recent The Weeding Gnome.

* In your Lycos mailbox, click Options. (It’s over on the left.)

* Click Spam Filters.

* Select the Add to allowed address list tab.

* In the space to the left of From, type or paste the From address from your most recent The Weeding Gnome.

* Click the Add button.

* The address you entered will be added to the list and displayed below the form.

That’s all there is to it. Thanks for whitelisting The Weeding Gnome.

AOL Mail

At AOL Mail, addresses in your Contacts list are exempt from being treated as spam. You can make sure you reliably get The Weeding Gnome in your inbox by adding our From address to your Contacts.

* In your AOL mailbox, find your most recent e-mail from The Weeding Gnome.

* Hover your mouse cursor over the From address of that message.

* When the mini-menu of options appears, click Add Contact.

* Click the Add Contact button.

That does it. Thanks for whitelisting The Weeding Gnome.

AT&T

If an address is in your Address Book, AT&T will deliver anything that comes from that address into your inbox. So, you’ll need to add our From address as a Contact in your Address Book.

* First, get the From address from your most recent The Weeding Gnome.

* Open your Address Book.

* Click Add Contact.

* Select the General tab.

* Type or paste into the space provided the From address from your most recent The Weeding Gnome.

* Click Save.

That ought to take care of it. Thanks for whitelisting The Weeding Gnome.

CA Anti-Spam

CA Anti-Spam (formerly Qurb) keeps a record of the From addresses of mail you’ve approved and allows messages from those senders, so whitelisting the newsletter is just a matter of approving the first message you receive from us.

* Find any e-mail message from The Weeding Gnome and open it.

* Click the Approve button.

That should be all there is to it. Thanks for whitelisting The Weeding Gnome.

Qurb

Qurb (newer versions are called CA Anti-Spam) keeps a record of the From addresses of mail you’ve approved and allows messages from those senders, so whitelisting the newsletter is just a matter of approving the first message you receive from us.

* Find any e-mail message from The Weeding Gnome and open it.

* Click the Approve button.

That should be all there is to it. Thanks for whitelisting The Weeding Gnome.

Charter.net

At Charter.net, addresses in your Contacts list are exempt from being treated as spam. You can make sure you reliably get The Weeding Gnome in your inbox by adding our From address to your Contacts.

* First, get the From address from your most recent The Weeding Gnome.

* Select the Addresses tab.

* Click the New Contact button.

* You’ll see the Brief View, which is fine for this purpose. In the space provided, type or paste the From address from your most recent The Weeding Gnome.

* Click OK.

That ought to do it. Thanks for whitelisting The Weeding Gnome.

Choicemail

To get Choicemail to deliver your The Weeding Gnome to your inbox, you’ll need to exempt it from the filtering Choicemail does. You do that by adding our From address to your list of Approved Senders. There are a couple of ways to do this.

The easier way:

* First, get the From address from your most recent The Weeding Gnome.

* Open Choicemail and go to your Unknown Senders list or your Senders Waiting for Your Approval list.

* Select our From address from the list.

* Click the Approve Sender button.

The slightly harder way:

* First, get the From address from your most recent The Weeding Gnome.

* Open the Senders menu.

* Select Manually Approve a Sender.

* Type or paste into the space provided the From address from your most recent The Weeding Gnome.

* Save.

Thanks for whitelisting The Weeding Gnome.

CleanMyMailbox

To get your The Weeding Gnome, you’ll need to exempt it from the filtering CleanMyMailbox does. To do that, you add our From address to your Whitelist.

* First, get the From address from your most recent The Weeding Gnome.

* Open CleanMyMailbox and click the Whitelist button.

* Type or paste into the space provided the From address from your most recent The Weeding Gnome.

* Click the Submit List button

That’s all there is to it. Thanks for whitelisting The Weeding Gnome.

Cloudmark

To reliably have your The Weeding Gnome get to your inbox, you’ll need to exempt it from the blocking Cloudmark does. To do that, you add our From address to your Smartlist.

* First, find the most recent The Weeding Gnome that Cloudmark mistakenly put in your spam folder or Deleted Items.

* On the Cloudmark toolbar, click the Unblock button.

* When Cloudmark asks whether you want to always receive e-mail from this sender, click Yes.

That’s all there is to it. Thanks for whitelisting The Weeding Gnome.

Comcast

If an address is in your Address Book, Comcast will deliver anything that comes from that address into your inbox. So, you’ll need to add our From address as a Contact in your Address Book.

* First, get the From address from your most recent The Weeding Gnome.

* Open your Address Book.

* Click Add Contact.

* Select the General tab.

* Type or paste into the space provided the From address from your most recent The Weeding Gnome.

* Click Save.

That ought to take care of it. Thanks for whitelisting The Weeding Gnome.

Compuserve

Compuserve will reliably deliver any message from an address in your Address Book to your inbox. So, you’ll need to add our From address as a Contact in your Address Book.

* First, get the From address from your most recent The Weeding Gnome.

* Open your Address Book.

* Click Add Contact.

* Type or paste the From address from your most recent The Weeding Gnome into the Other e-Mail box.

* Make sure to click the radio button marks this as our primary e-mail address.

* Click Save.

That should do the job. Thanks for whitelisting The Weeding Gnome.

Cox

If an address is in your Address Book, Cox will deliver anything that comes from that address into your inbox. So, you’ll need to add our From address as a Contact in your Address Book.

* First, get the From address from your most recent The Weeding Gnome.

* Click Addresses to open your Address Book.

* Click Create Address.

* Type or paste into the space provided the From address from your most recent The Weeding Gnome.

* Click Save.

That’s all there is to it. Thanks for whitelisting The Weeding Gnome.

Earthlink

Earthlink will deliver anything that comes from a Contact address in your Address Book directly to your inbox. So, you’ll need to add our From address to your Address Book.

* First, get the From address from your most recent The Weeding Gnome.

* Open your Earthlink Address Book.

* Click the Add button.

* The Add Contact screen opens. Find the Internet Information box.

* In the top E-mail box, type or paste in the From address from your most recent The Weeding Gnome.

* Click Save.

That ought to do the job. Thanks for whitelisting The Weeding Gnome.

EmailProtect

To get your The Weeding Gnome, you’ll need to exempt it from the filtering EmailProtect does. To do that, you add our From address to your list of Safe Addresses. There are two ways to do this.

The easy way:

* In the system tray, double-click the EmailProtect icon to open EmailProtect.

* Find and select your most recent e-mail from The Weeding Gnome, whether in the Quarantine list or the Inbox History.

* On the toolbar, click Accept.

* Click OK.

The slightly harder way:

* First, get the From address from your most recent The Weeding Gnome.

* In the system tray, double-click the EmailProtect icon to open EmailProtect.

* On the toolbar, click the My Filters option.

* Select the Safe Addresses tab.

* Type or paste into the space provided the From address from your most recent The Weeding Gnome.

* Save the addition to your list.

Thanks for whitelisting The Weeding Gnome.

NetNanny

NetNanny uses the EmailProtect spam filtering system. To get your The Weeding Gnome, you’ll need to exempt it from the filtering EmailProtect does. To do that, you add our From address to your list of Safe Addresses. There are two ways to do this.

The easy way:

* In the system tray, double-click the EmailProtect icon to open EmailProtect.

* Find and select your most recent e-mail from The Weeding Gnome, whether in the Quarantine list or the Inbox History.

* On the toolbar, click Accept.

* Click OK.

The slightly harder way:

* First, get the From address from your most recent The Weeding Gnome.

* In the system tray, double-click the EmailProtect icon to open EmailProtect.

* On the toolbar, click the My Filters option.

* Select the Safe Addresses tab.

* Type or paste into the space provided the From address from your most recent The Weeding Gnome.

* Save the addition to your list.

Thanks for whitelisting The Weeding Gnome.

Excite

If an address is in your list of Contacts, Excite will deliver anything that comes from that address into your inbox. So, you’ll need to add our From address as a Contact in your Address Book.

* First, get the From address from your most recent The Weeding Gnome.

* Select the Addresses tab to open your Address Book.

* Click the New Contact button.

* Type or paste into the space provided the From address from your most recent The Weeding Gnome.

* Click Save Changes.

That ought to take care of it. Thanks for whitelisting The Weeding Gnome.

gmail

Google’s gmail will deliver anything that comes from an address in your Contacts list into your inbox. So, to whitelist your The Weeding Gnome, you’ll need to add our From address to your Contacts.

* Open your most recent e-mail from The Weeding Gnome.

* Click to the right of the “Reply” button to open the Options mini-menu.

* Select the Add (name) to Contacts List option.

That’s all there is to it. Thanks for whitelisting The Weeding Gnome.

Windows Live (Hotmail, MSN, Sympatico, etc.)

If you get your e-mail through a Microsoft provider—including Hotmail, MSN, or Sympatico—Windows Live is the way you do it. (If you’re still using one of these without Windows Live, keep reading.)

To reliably have Windows Live deliver your The Weeding Gnome to your inbox, you’ll need to add our From address to either your Address Book or your list of Safe Senders. (In the old versions, it’s called your Safe List.) The Address Book method works for all versions, so let’s start with that one.

* Open your most recent e-mail from The Weeding Gnome.

* Windows Live: Click the Add Contact link just below the From address.

* Old versions: Click the Save Address button on the right, at the top of the e-mail.

* If necessary, click OK.

You can also add our From address to your Windows Live list of Safe Senders like this:

* First, get the From address from your most recent The Weeding Gnome.

* Click Options (over on the right) to open the mini-menu.

* Select More Options at the bottom of the list.

* Choose Safe and Blocked Senders.

* Click Safe Senders.

* In the space provided, type or paste the From address from your most recent The Weeding Gnome.

* Click the Add to list >> button.

Thanks for whitelisting The Weeding Gnome.

iHateSpam

For your The Weeding Gnome to reliably get into your inbox, you’ll need to exempt it from the filtering iHateSpam does. You do this by adding our From address to your Friends list.

* First, get the From address from your most recent The Weeding Gnome.

* Select Options from the iHatespam menu.

* Select the Friends List tab.

* Click the Add button.

* In the space provided, type or paste the From address from your most recent The Weeding Gnome.

* Click OK.

* Check that the address you just entered is in the Friends List.

* Click OKto close the Options.

Thanks for whitelisting The Weeding Gnome.

Juno

If an address is in your Do Not Block List, Juno won’t prevent messages from that address from reaching your inbox. So, you’ll need to add our From address to your Do Not Block List.

* First, get the From address from your most recent The Weeding Gnome.

* Open your Juno inbox.

* Click Advanced Features.

* Select Do Not Block to open your Do Not Block List.

* In the space provided below Add Address to Do Not Block, type or paste the From address from your most recent The Weeding Gnome.

* Click Add.

* Click Save.

You’re done. Thanks for whitelisting The Weeding Gnome.

Lycos

To reliably get your The Weeding Gnome delivered to your Lycos inbox, you’ll need to exempt it from the Lycos e-mail filters. To do that, you add our From address to your Sender White List.

* First, get the From address from your most recent The Weeding Gnome.

* In your Lycos mailbox, click Options. (It’s over on the left.)

* Click Spam Filters.

* Select the Add to allowed address list tab.

* In the space to the left of From, type or paste the From address from your most recent The Weeding Gnome.

* Click the Add button.

* The address you entered will be added to the list and displayed below the form.

That’s all there is to it. Thanks for whitelisting The Weeding Gnome.

Mailblocks

For your The Weeding Gnome to reliably get into your inbox, you’ll need to exempt it from the filtering Mailblocks does. You do this by adding our From address to your Accept Mail From list.

* First, get the From address from your most recent The Weeding Gnome.

* Open Mailblocks.

* Select the Addresses tab.

* Click New.

* In the space provided, type or paste the From address from your most recent The Weeding Gnome.

* Under Receiving Options, select Accept Mail From This Address.

* In Other Options, un-select Display in People Picker.

* Click Submit.

* Click OK.

That’s it. You’re done. Thanks for whitelisting The Weeding Gnome.

MailShield

If you want your The Weeding Gnome to reliably get past MailShield and into your inbox, you’ll need to exempt it from MailShield’s filters. You do this by adding our From address to your list of Friends.

* Open your Inbox.

* Get the From address from your most recent The Weeding Gnome.

* On the MailShield toolbar, click Friends.

* Click Add.

* In the space provided, type or paste the From address from your most recent The Weeding Gnome.

* Click the OK button.

That’s all there is to it. Thanks for whitelisting The Weeding Gnome.

MailWasher

To have your The Weeding Gnome reliably get to your inbox, you’ll need to exempt it from MailWasher’s filters. You do this by adding our From address to your list of Friends.

* First, get the From address from your most recent The Weeding Gnome.

* In MailWasher, select Tools.

* Next, select Blacklist & Friends.

* In your Friends List (over on the right), click the Add button.

* Select the Plain e-mail address option.

* In the space provided, type or paste the From address from your most recent The Weeding Gnome.

* Click OK.

* Click OK again.

…and you’re done. Thanks for whitelisting The Weeding Gnome.

Matador

For your The Weeding Gnome to reliably get into your inbox, you’ll need to exempt it from the filtering Matador does. You do this by adding our From address to your Friends list.

* Find your most recent e-mail from The Weeding Gnome.

* Open it.

* Click the Add to Friends button.

You’re finished. Nothing to it. Thanks for whitelisting The Weeding Gnome.

Mindspring

Mindspring will deliver anything that comes from a Contact address in your Address Book directly to your inbox. So, you’ll need to add our From address to your Address Book.

* First, get the From address from your most recent The Weeding Gnome.

* Open your Mindspring Address Book.

* Click the Add button.

* The Add Contact screen opens. Find the Internet Information box.

* In the top E-mail box, type or paste in the From address from your most recent The Weeding Gnome.

* Click Save.

That ought to do the job. Thanks for whitelisting The Weeding Gnome.

Netscape

Netscape will reliably deliver any message from an address in your Address Book to your inbox. So, you’ll need to add our From address as a Contact in your Address Book.

* First, get the From address from your most recent The Weeding Gnome.

* Open your Address Book.

* Click Add Contact.

* Type or paste the From address from your most recent The Weeding Gnome into the Other e-Mail box.

* Make sure to click the radio button marks this as our primary e-mail address.

* Click Save.

That should do the job. Thanks for whitelisting The Weeding Gnome.

NetZero

If an address is in your Do Not Block List, NetZero won’t prevent messages from that address from reaching your inbox. So, you’ll need to add our From address to your Do Not Block List.

* First, get the From address from your most recent The Weeding Gnome.

* Open your NetZero inbox.

* Click Advanced Features.

* Select Do Not Block to open your Do Not Block List.

* In the space provided below Add Address to Do Not Block, type or paste the From address from your most recent The Weeding Gnome.

* Click Add.

* Click Save.

Thanks for whitelisting The Weeding Gnome.

Norton Antispam

To have your The Weeding Gnome reliably get to your inbox, you’ll need to exempt it from the filtering that Symantec’s Norton Antispam does. You do this by adding our From address to your Allowed List.

* First, get the From address from your most recent The Weeding Gnome.

* In Norton Antispam, open the Options.

* Check the AntiSpam box to make sure Allowed List is selected.

* Click Add.

* In the space provided, type or paste the From address from your most recent The Weeding Gnome.

* Enter a Description for this address that you’ll be able to easily recognize later.

* Click OK.

* Click OK again.

That’s all there is to it. Thanks for whitelisting The Weeding Gnome.

Oddpost

With Oddpost, you can exempt your The Weeding Gnome from filtering by flagging it as “Not Spam”. Unfortunately, you can only do that if it’s been misidentified as spam at least once.

* Search your Probably Spam folder for an e-mail from The Weeding Gnome.

* If you find one, select it.

* Click Move to Inbox and Mark as Not Spam.

That should prevent future misidentifications. Thanks for whitelisting The Weeding Gnome.

Outlook 2007

In Outlook 2007, the spam filters are tougher than ever. To reliably have your The Weeding Gnome delivered to your inbox, you’ll need to either add our From address to your Address Book or to your list of Trusted Senders. The latter is more certain, but you might consider doing both, to be sure. Here’s how to add us to your Trusted Senders:

* Open the Outlook Tools menu.

* Select Options.

* In the box that opens, click Junk Mail Options.

* Select Trusted Senders.

* Click the Add button.

* Type or paste into the space provided the From address from your most recent The Weeding Gnome.

* Click OK.

That should take care of it. Thanks for whitelisting The Weeding Gnome.

Outlook 2003

There are two reasonably easy ways in Outlook 2003 to exempt an address from the filtering Outlook does.

The easier way:

* Open your most recent The Weeding Gnome, then select Mark as Not Junk.

The slightly harder way:

* Add our From address to your Personal Contacts in your Address Book.

Thanks for whitelisting The Weeding Gnome.

PacBell

PacBell will deliver anything that comes from an address in your Address Book straight to your inbox. So, you’ll need to add our From address as a Contact in your Address Book.

* First, get the From address from your most recent The Weeding Gnome.

* Open your Address Book.

* Click the Add Contact button.

* Type or paste into the space provided the From address from your most recent The Weeding Gnome.

* Save.

That’s all there is to it. Thanks for whitelisting The Weeding Gnome.

Prodigy

If an address is in your Address Book, Prodigy will deliver anything that comes from that address into your inbox. So, you’ll need to add our From address as a Contact in your Address Book.

* First, get the From address from your most recent The Weeding Gnome.

* Open your Address Book.

* Click the Add Contact button.

* Type or paste into the space provided the From address from your most recent The Weeding Gnome.

* Save.

Thanks for whitelisting The Weeding Gnome.

Roadrunner

Roadrunner will deliver anything that comes from an address in your Contacts List directly to your inbox. So, you’ll need to add our From address to your list of Contacts. There are two ways to do this.

The easy way:

* Find a message that’s from us somewhere in your Roadrunner mailbox.

* Select that message.

* Click the Add Contact button. (It’s a rather small icon next to the From address.)

The slightly harder way:

* First, get the From address from your most recent The Weeding Gnome.

* Click the Contacts button.

* Select New Contact.

* You’ll see the Brief View, which is fine for this purpose. In the space provided, type or paste the From address from your most recent The Weeding Gnome.

* Enter a Display Name to go with this Contact. (You can’t create a contact without one.)

* Click OK.

That takes care of it. Thanks for whitelisting The Weeding Gnome.

SBCGlobal

SBCGlobal will deliver anything that comes from a Contact address in your Address Book directly to your inbox. So, you’ll need to add our From address to your Address Book.

* First, get the From address from your most recent The Weeding Gnome.

* Open your SBCGlobal Address Book.

* Click the Add Contact button.

* Type or paste into the space provided the From address from your most recent The Weeding Gnome.

* Click Save Contact.

You’re done. Thanks for whitelisting The Weeding Gnome.

Shaw.ca

Shaw.ca might offer a way for you to whitelist your The Weeding Gnome, but we haven’t found it yet. Adding our From address to your Address Book can’t hurt, but if your The Weeding Gnome is ever wrongly treated like spam, you’ll need to forward that e-mail as an attachment to this address:

reportnotspam@shaw.ca

Thanks for subscribing.

Spam Agent

To get your The Weeding Gnome, you’ll need to exempt it from Spam Agent’s filters. To do that, you add our From address to your list of Friends.

* First, get the From address from your most recent The Weeding Gnome.

* Open the Filter Options Properties.

* Select the Friends tab.

* Click Add.

* In the space provided, type or paste the From address from your most recent The Weeding Gnome.

* Click OK.

* Click OK again.

It’s done. Thanks for whitelisting The Weeding Gnome.

Spam Buster

To get your The Weeding Gnome, you’ll need to exempt it from the filtering SpamBuster does. To do that, you add an Exception to the filters for our From address.

* First, get the From address from your most recent The Weeding Gnome.

* Open the SpamBuster Spam Settings.

* Select the Exceptions tab.

* Click the Insert button.

* Set What to Domain name.

* Set Condition to Equals.

* Set Matches to [PUBDOMAIN].

* Set Case to No.

* Save and close the settings.

Thanks for making an exception for The Weeding Gnome.

Spam Inspector

If you want your The Weeding Gnome to reliably get past Spam Inspector, you’ll need to exempt it from Spam Inspector’s filters. You do this by adding our From address to your list of Friends.

* Open your Inbox.

* Get the From address from your most recent The Weeding Gnome.

* On the Spam Inspector toolbar (or the menu), select Manage Friends List.

* In the Add a New Friend area, select the E-mail option.

* In the space provided, type or paste the From address from your most recent The Weeding Gnome.

* Click the Add button, which is the one marked with >>.

* Click Close.

That’s all there is to it. Thanks for whitelisting The Weeding Gnome.

Spam Interceptor

With Spam Interceptor, you can exempt your The Weeding Gnome from filtering by adding our From address to your list of Trusted Senders.

* First, get the From address from your most recent The Weeding Gnome.

* Open Spam Interceptor

* Select Authentication Lists.

* Click Trusted.

* In the space provided, type or paste the From address from your most recent The Weeding Gnome.

* Click Add.

It’s done. Thanks for whitelisting The Weeding Gnome.

Spam Sleuth

If you want your The Weeding Gnome to reliably get past Spam Sleuth, you’ll need to exempt it from the filters. You do this by adding our From address to your Friends list.

* First, get the From address from your most recent The Weeding Gnome.

* Open Spam Sleuth.

* Open the File menu and select the Configure option.

* Find the Friends category, and select Active.

* In the space provided for the list of friends, make a new, blank line.

* On this new line, type or paste the From address from your most recent The Weeding Gnome.

* Click OK.

That should take care of it. Thanks for whitelisting The Weeding Gnome.

SpamArrest

Unfortunately, we don’t respond to challenge-response systems like SpamArrest, so if you want your The Weeding Gnome, you’ll have to make us an approved sender. You do this by pre-authorizing our From address in the Senders page.

* First, get the From address from your most recent The Weeding Gnome.

* In SpamArrest, open the Senders page.

* Select Authorized Senders.

* In the space provided, type or paste the From address from your most recent The Weeding Gnome.

That’s all there is to it. Thanks for whitelisting The Weeding Gnome.

SpamAssassin

If you’re using SpamAssassin to filter your incoming e-mail and you have access to the configuration files, you can exempt your The Weeding Gnome from the filtering process. (If someone else manages your e-mail system, you might not have access. In that case, you’ll have to ask them to do the whitelisting for you.) You’re going to want to add our From address to the Whitelist in your User Preferences.

* First, get the From address from your most recent The Weeding Gnome.

* Search your hard drive for the spamassassin folder.

* In that folder, look for a file named user_prefs. If there’s no such file, you’ll need to create one. The instructions for how to do that are too long to put here. You can find them at:

http://spamassassin.apache.org/full/3.2.x/doc/Mail_SpamAssassin_Conf.html

(Note: Like all web pages, this one is sometimes moved. If it’s not at this URL, you should be able to find it by searching the apache.org site for the SpamAssassin User Preferences.)

* Open user_prefs with a text editor (Notepad, for example).

* Make a new, blank line in the file.

* On your new line, enter the text whitelist_from, followed by a space, then the From address from your most recent The Weeding Gnome.

* Save the file and close it.

Thanks for whitelisting The Weeding Gnome.

SpamBully

SpamBully will reliably deliver your The Weeding Gnome to the inbox if you exempt it from SpamBully’s filters. To do that, you have to add us to your Allow List.

* First, get the From address from your most recent The Weeding Gnome.

* Open SpamBully.

* Click the Allow/Block List button

* Select the Allow List tab.

* Click the Add button

* In the Type of Item selector, choose E-mail address.

* In the lower box, type or paste the From address from your most recent The Weeding Gnome.

* Click OK.

That’s it. Thanks for whitelisting The Weeding Gnome.

SpamButcher

To get your The Weeding Gnome, you’ll need to exempt it from the filtering SpamButcher does. To do that, you add our From address to your Known Senders List.

* First, get the From address from your most recent The Weeding Gnome.

* Open Spam Butcher.

* Click the Configure button.

* Choose the Known Senders tab.

* In Known Good Senders and Recipients, click Add.

* In the space provided, type or paste the From address from your most recent The Weeding Gnome.

* Click OK.

* Click OK again.

That ought to do it. Thanks for whitelisting The Weeding Gnome.

SpamCatcher

To get your The Weeding Gnome, you’ll need to exempt it from SpamCatcher’s filtering. To do that, you add our From address to your list of approved senders.

* Find a message that’s from us and click on it to highlight it.

* Click the SpamCatcher button to open the mini-menu.

* On that mini-menu, select Approve Sender.

Nothing to it. Thanks for whitelisting The Weeding Gnome.

SpamCop

To get your The Weeding Gnome, you’ll need to exempt our From address from the SpamCop filtering process. To do this, you add it to your Whitelist.

* First, get the From address from your most recent The Weeding Gnome.

* Open your web browser and go to: http://webmail.spamcop.net/

* Log into your SpamCop account.

* In the toolbar, click on the Options icon.

* Under Mail Management, click SpamCop Tools.

* Choose Manage your personal whitelist.

* Find the place where it reads “Click here to add to your whitelist”, and click on Click here.

* In the first empty slot, type or paste in the From address from your most recent The Weeding Gnome.

* Click Submit.

That’s all there is to it. Thanks for whitelisting The Weeding Gnome.

SpamEater

SpamEater will reliably deliver your The Weeding Gnome to the inbox if you exempt it from SpamEater’s filters. To do that, you have to add us to your list of Approved Senders.

* First, get the From address from your most recent The Weeding Gnome.

* Find the SpamEater sidebar and click Filters.

* Click the Approved Senders tab.

* Choose Add Filter.

* Type or paste into the Address space the From address from your most recent The Weeding Gnome.

* For Address Type, select Full E-mail Address.

* Click OK to finish.

Thanks for whitelisting The Weeding Gnome.

SpamKiller

McAfee’s SpamKiller uses filters to keep unwanted messages out of your incoming e-mail. To get your The Weeding Gnome, you’ll need to exempt it from SpamKiller’s filtering. To do that, you add our From address to your list of Friends. There are two ways to do so.

The easy way:

* Find a message that’s from us, either in your Inbox or your Killed Mail list.

* Select that message.

* Click the Add Friend button.

The slightly harder way:

* First, get the From address from your most recent The Weeding Gnome.

* In the SpamKiller sidebar, select Friends.

* Click Add.

* Type or paste into the supplied space the From address from your most recent The Weeding Gnome.

* Click the OK button.

That should ensure that you get your The Weeding Gnome. Thank you for white-listing us.

SpamNet

To get your The Weeding Gnome, you’ll need to exempt it from the filtering SpamNet does. To do that, you add our From address to your Whitelist.

* First, get the From address from your most recent The Weeding Gnome.

* In your Outlook Inbox, find the SpamNet toolbar and click Options.

* Choose Advanced.

* Click the Whitelist tab.

* Click the Add button.

* Type or paste into the supplied space the From address from your most recent The Weeding Gnome.

* Click the OK button.

* Click OK again, then Yes, then OK one last time.

You’ve done it. Thanks for whitelisting The Weeding Gnome.

SpamPal

To get your The Weeding Gnome, you’ll need to exempt it from the filtering SpamPal does. To do that, you add our From address to your Whitelist.

* First, get the From address from your most recent The Weeding Gnome.

* Click on the SpamPal icon in the Windows system tray. (SpamPal must be running, or the icon won’t be there.)

* Choose Add to Whitelist.

* Type or paste into the text box the From address from your most recent The Weeding Gnome.

* Click the Add button.

You’re done. Thanks for whitelisting The Weeding Gnome.

SpamSubtract

SpamSubtract will deliver without question any e-mail from addresses in your list of Friends. You’ll need to add us to your Friends List to have your The Weeding Gnome delivered to you.

* Highlight the most recent e-mail message from The Weeding Gnome.

* Click the Friend button.

That’s all there is to it. Thanks for whitelisting The Weeding Gnome.

Verizon

Verizon will deliver anything from addresses in your Safe List directly to your inbox. So, you’ll need to add our From address to your Safe List.

* First, get the From address from your most recent The Weeding Gnome.

* In your Verizon inbox, click Options.

* Click on the Block Senders tab.

* The Block Senders screen includes both the Block Sender List and the Safe List. Find the point where it reads, “Enter e-mail address or sub domain to always accept even if the domain is blocked.”

* Type or paste into that space the From address from your most recent The Weeding Gnome.

Save the change to your Safe List, and you’re done. Thanks for whitelisting The Weeding Gnome.

Yahoo

At the time of this writing, Yahoo! Mail is maintaining both the current interface and the older Yahoo! Mail Classic. How you whitelist The Weeding Gnome is essentially the same on both; you instruct Yahoo! to filter it to your Inbox, not the Bulk Folder.

* Open your Yahoo! Mail inbox.

* Next, get the From address from your most recent The Weeding Gnome.

* Click Mail Options. (In the new interface, it’s under Options, over on the right.)

* Click Filters.

* Next, click Add Filter.

* The top row is From header. In the pull-down menu on that row, select contains.

* Click in the text box next to that pull-down menu, then type or paste into that space the From address from your most recent The Weeding Gnome.

* Further down, find where it says Move the message to. At the pull-down menu there, select Inbox.

* Click Add Filter again.

Thanks for whitelisting The Weeding Gnome.

Others

Plenty of e-mail programs, including older versions of Outlook, Eudora, and Netscape Mail, don’t include any way of whitelisting an address or sender. If you’re using one of these and you want to make sure you get your The Weeding Gnome, you can’t whitelist us, but you can still do something about it.

First of all, try adding our From address to your Address Book, Contacts, Friends, or whatever your address book is called in your e-mail software. It can’t hurt, and in many cases, that’s enough to guarantee that you’ll get your The Weeding Gnome.

Next, you can contact the customer service people at your e-mail provider. Explain to them that this is a subscription you signed up for (or paid for, if that’s the case) and ask them if they can white-list the sender. They’ll probably ask you to send them a copy of your most recent e-mail from us, so have it handy.

If they refuse, or for some reason you still aren’t reliably getting your The Weeding Gnome, consider signing up for a free e-mail address at one of the web-based e-mail services listed here as allowing you to whitelist an address and checking your e-mail online. You can then switch your The Weeding Gnome subscription to that address.

Thanks for whitelisting The Weeding Gnome.