May 18, 2003

Pages A1 and C6 of the April 22, 2003 new york times
have on them an article about spam, and spam blocking.

One paragraph is about whitelisting. 

"Another approach to limiting spam, which is favored by big
marketers, is
to create a so-called white list of approved senders, but this
raises the question of who will compile such a list. ... Users
and internet service providers would then decide what sort of
mail they choose to accept."

The paragraph is promising a proposal which was to be put forth
the following day by an unnamed consortium of companies who
send mail on behalf of large corporations.  I don't know
anything about this proposal at this time.

TipJar LLC, through the RAPNAP database project, has taken
it upon itself to be a central list of genuine senders.

Also see the OMX proposal (OMX.txt, in this directory).