I would like the ability to sort the lists by first names OR domain names. You never know WHAT the first name is, like customer service@, admin@, office@, support@, help@ etc. It can take "all day" to find the correct company by guessing what their prefix is!

This problem also allows one's own address to be blacklisted and no easy way to block spam that is spoofing your address.

Yep, I second ALL comments here!!! Also, what happens if you put a domain on the blacklist but an email-address from that domain on the friend-list (or vice versa) - which one has precedence?

In addition to Pam: there should be a search box for the lists - sometimes you know part of the (domain) name and you have to scroll down 100's of names (in a very tight window).

In general: I feel black- & friendlist should become more sophisticated (almost like a module within MW - or perhaps even some list manager that outputs the files to be placed in your MW folder).
Another thing I would like to be added - shared lists - I run a home-network where we have shared business mail accounts - now if machine A blacklists an address, it might result in blocking and deleting mail - you always have that problem, but with a shared list I could check and correct where needed. If this would be too complicated (I'm a geek...), another option would be being able to synchronize lists - compare 2 versions etc. so that you share info and grow better listst. Plus, a check on my initial issue: conflicting friend- and blacklist entries.

This is a great idea, but I would like to add a functionality that seems to have been lost as MW has grown - the ability to flag a sender as neutral, neither friend or blacklisted. Effectively, some emails, which I've asked for by buying a product, service or other action, do not constitute spam and are, in fact, occasionally read. 95% of the time they get deleted, but in prior versions they could be un-spammed without adding them to my friends list, by leaving them in the G/B column. This allowed me to sort by the status column and quickly separated the advertisements ("self-generated"), updates from actual friend's communications, and actual spam very quickly. As of now, if I click an email as good, it is automatically sent to my friends list, which I prefer to activate manually. The rest should be green, but not friends.