At 8:02 PM -0400 5/29/03, Eric D. Williams wrote:
Just for the sake of performing some definition normalization, please
(if you
haven't already - I'll check the archives on this thread) define
'whitelisting'
as it is being used in this discussion.
Well, if no one else is going to pick up on this, I'll make a first pass.
Whitelist (v)
To add information to a whitelist (n).
Whitelist (n)
A list of attributes which is used to match against incoming email.
Mail that matches a specified attribute or attributes is
automatically passed through. Attributes are generally pulled from
the headers. If it's information from the body it's more likely to
be called "filtering".
Hmm...
Most commonly people when people talk about whitelisting, they mean
to let something through that is from a given user. That typically
means matching the address in the From: line. The next most common
attribute is the domain name of the sender. However other attributes
can be stored an used for whitelisting,
I think the common usage (for "users") is generally limited to "filtering"
based on the commonly exposed headers; Subject, To, From, etc. Admins
(rather than users) will often white/black list by IP (& IP range) as well.
The common element is some lookup of some obvious ("easily" determined)
message attribute in some list, and carrying out some accept/reject/modify
policy based on the result.
--
_______________________________________________
Asrg mailing list
Asrg(_at_)ietf(_dot_)org
https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/asrg