Jon Udell has a good article on Palladium and trust. He remarks that trust is a good way to curb spam. He's right.
But what about other ways to build trust. I still think the whitelist idea is good. The whitelist contains mail addresses that I will accept mail from. If I get an email from an address that is not on the whitelist, then my system automatically sends a response back to that address and tells the sender how to get on the whitelist. What I really like about the whitelist idea, is that it means you only get mail from humans. I hate getting mail from machines.
Posted by Doug Sauder at July 10, 2002 09:58 AM