Patent ID: 7469292

Claim:
A system for managing the delivery of an electronic message, the system comprising: a data storage device comprising at least one computer-readable medium; system contact information stored on the data storage device, the system contact information including user contact information for a plurality of users, the user contact information identifying one or more contacts; an electronic messaging management module configured to access the system contact information and configured to determine whether a challenge-response process should be initiated at least in part based upon the accessed system contact information; the electronic messaging management module further configured to perform the following: determine whether the system contact information includes at least one non-rejected contact for the sender; determine whether the sender has exceeded an activity limit; determine whether the system contact information includes a minimum number of contacts for the sender; and determine whether the number of rejected contacts in the system contact information exceeds a threshold; and the electronic messaging management module further configured to deliver the electronic message to an inbox of a recipient specified in the electronic message if; the sender is included in at least one non-rejected contact for the system contact information; the sender has not exceeded an activity limit; the system contact information includes a minimum number of contacts for the sender; and the number of rejected contacts in the system contact information does not exceed a threshold.