Abstract: The present invention relates to a system and/or method that facilitate viewing and organizing incoming messages based on their respective junk ratings. More specifically, the system and method provide for exposing the junk rating of substantially all messages in the user interface, thereby improving management and organization of messages. In particular, the invention involves including a junk rating of a message as an actionable property on a message. Thus, messages can be sorted, viewed, opened, and the like based in part on the message's junk rating. This can be particularly useful since messages can be misdirected to the wrong or inappropriate folders. Thus particular treatments or action rules as well as display rules can be set based on the junk rating. Furthermore, computed junk scores are categorized into a plurality of buckets thereby making it more difficult for spammers to reverse engineer the junk scores. Junk scores can also be included on the user interface.

Abstract: The present invention provides a unique system and method that mitigates viewing potentially offensive or spam-like content such as in a preview pane. In particular the system and/or method involve assigning a junk score to a message and then determining an appropriate treatment of the message based on its junk score. Messages with junk scores that exceed a challenge threshold can be hidden from a message listing such as in the user's inbox while a challenge is sent to the message sender. Upon receiving a validated and correct response from the sender, the message can be released or revealed to the user in the user's inbox. Content associated with messages with junk scores that exceed a blocking threshold can be blocked from view in a preview pane. Explicit user input can be required to unblock the content.