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Yahoo! Mail now lets you sort email by "connections"

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Yahoo! has been talking about ways that the company can use social networking-style features to improve the email inbox. Now the company is rolling out a minor update to Yahoo! Mail that could certainly save you a lot of time and hassle, because it lets you sort your email messages so that you only wind up seeing emails from your contacts.

Here's how it works. First, you have to set up a Yahoo! profile by visiting profiles.yahoo.com. Yahoo! will scan your existing list of email contacts and suggest users that you might want to make "connections" with. Once you invite those users to be your connections, and they accept, they'll show up as connections. And then you can click the "From Connections" button in your inbox to only see messages from people you actually know.

This should help cut down on the amount of spam, bacn (does anyone still user that term?) and other less than urgent emails you have to deal with on a daily basis.

[via CNET]
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