Folks, Take a look at "http://www.paganini.net/ask/";. This is a discription of how "Active Spam Killer" works. Could be useful as an option for auto whitelisting. Basically, the first time email is recieved from somebody, they are sent a message asking them to confirm their identity before mail is delivered. Perhaps what we could do is, after we've recieved enough non-spam emails from somebody, we make this request. If we do not get a response in X days, we reset their counter to 0. After Y attempts for confirmation, we add them to a "whitelist-ignore" list which basically means they will never be autowhite-listed. I'd say X=3 and Y=2 would be sufficient. The biggest problem I see with this is mailing lists where the reply-to is set to the list. I don't know that there's a good way around that (except to add anything with priority "bulk" to the whitelist-ignore" from the out-set... that would cover well-behaved list servers). What do you think? Don
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