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I assume you mean on Yahoo! Mail?

If you're willing to pay 19.99 a year (for Mail Plus) you wouold actually have that as an option.

Otherwise, you'll have to create individual filters for each person. I reccomend creating a new folder first(maybe call it friends). Then goto your mail options and click the "Filters" link. Click the "ADD" button and for a filter name, use the name of the first email you want to add. Then in the blank line on the "From header" line, put the first email adress you want to keep. In the bottom where it says "Then..." open the pull-down box and choose the folder you created for your friends then click "Add Filter" button on the left. Now, everytime that person emails you, their email will automatically be sent to the "Friends" folder.

Using the "ends with" filter you can add entire domains (IE: any email ending with yahoo.com). And, since this is obviously gonna take a while making all these filters, you could take the time to create seperate folders for each friend or maybe sort them into folders like "Friends" and "{Best Friends".

Or pay the 19.95 a year for Mail Plus and get customized Spam Gaurd settings.