On Wed, 02 Apr 2003 22:35:17 -0700
Art Pollard <pollarda@lextek.com> wrote:
A properly designed system would have IMHO added you to the whitelist
the moment that the student you mentioned sent you a message. If you
are good enough to communicate with (i.e., you can infer that you are
not a spammer because he sent you a message) then you should be
automatically whitelisted.
Careful, this is fragile. My envelope frequently doesn't match my
From:, and in the case of role addresses, the initial To: won't match
my
From: or envelope.
If a whitelist were implemented by your mail client, it could access
your address book and automatically adjust your whitelist based on
what's in there. You could, in fact, automatically implement a
greylist, too: