[Gllug] Whitelist-only spam filtering

[Wulf Forrester-Barker]

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:

Inbox (from whitelist addresses)
Unclassified ('greylist'?)
Junk (from blacklist addresses)

I would imagine that the most effective way to run this would be:

1. Pull out the whitelist email and put in your priority box (because
you explicitly want to see messages from those on your whitelist)

2. Remove blacklist material into a junk folder - maybe with automatic
removal if not checked in a certain period or to keep the storage to a
reasonable level)

3. Everything left over is stored as unclassified.

On accessing each folder, you'd want the option to easily move a
particular address to the opposite list or removing it altogether
(leaving it to drop into the grey zone).

The whole system is owned and maintained by the end user, not a shadowy
corporation, and is refined over time... it seems elegant rather than
extreme.

Wulf



wulf.f-b at uhl.nhs.uk 

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