[Gllug] Whitelist-only spam filtering

[Sean Burlington]

Wulf Forrester-Barker wrote:
> Sean <sean at uncertainty.org.uk> suggested:
> 
> 
>>that sounds kind of extreme to me !...
> 
> 
> My sum knowledge of the email whitelist concept is this thread and a
> quick bit of Googling, which took me to:
> 
> http://impressive.net/people/gerald/2000/12/spam-filtering.html
> 
> If anything, I'd say the whitelist concept seems LESS extreme than
> using a blacklist. Perhaps someone could even implement a three tier
> system:
> 

well I guess it depends on how you implement it..

the implementation above doesn't reject anything - it just priortises 
the whitelist stuff.

I have heard rumours of AOL changing kids email systems to reject 
anything not from an approved address (how they verify that the email 
comes from who it claims to I don't know)

Sean


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