At 12:06 AM -0800 3/26/03, william(_at_)elan(_dot_)net wrote:
Standard way to report things is good. URLs are good, but they are added
for specific protocols, so do you have a new protocol in mind for
whitelisting?
Not for implementing whitelisting. And not a protocol per-se
(leastwise I don't tend to think of mailto: as a protocol--it's more
like a single-call API with an optional set of arguments). (Then
again, I've already been chastised once off-list for my loose use of
the word "protocol" :-).
It seems to me that whitelists have two major drawbacks.
1. User doesn't whitelist in advance, or know what *to* whitelist in advance.
2. Spammers can take advantage of them.
I have no intention of trying to solve #2. But there seem to be a be
a lot different solutions out there that depend on whitelisting. I
think that they would benefit from a mechanism whereby a
list-maintainer could provide a simple clickable URL that would
provide the necessary whitelist information to the whitelisting
software. E.g. "whitelist:list(_at_)example(_dot_)com". Presumably a set of
optional arguments would be specified that would allow use by more
sophisticated whitelisting systems.
"whitelist:list(_at_)example(_dot_)com?pgpkey=xxxx&iprange=yyy-xxx".
I don't think I'm the right person to do this. To me whitelisting is
what someone does when our software has a bug :-). But if nobody
else is willing to pick it up then I guess I can try see if I can't
come up with a list of information used by current whitelisting
systems.
Again (since I've received a couple messages about this offlist), I
have no interest in discussing pros and cons of different
whitelisting systems. I just want to make life easier for someone
who maintains a mailing list and is getting sick of the growing
number of subscriber bounces.
--
Kee Hinckley
http://www.puremessaging.com/ Junk-Free Email Filtering
http://commons.somewhere.com/buzz/ Writings on Technology and Society
I'm not sure which upsets me more: that people are so unwilling to accept
responsibility for their own actions, or that they are so eager to regulate
everyone else's.
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