[Mailman-Developers] Thinking about list footers

[Stephen J. Turnbull]

Murray S. Kucherawy writes:
 > On Wed, Jun 4, 2014 at 8:39 AM, Stephen J. Turnbull <stephen at xemacs.org>
 > wrote:
 > 
 > > If I understand you correctly, we actually already have the mechanics
 > > for this in place.  Most sites like Yahoo! allow you to whitelist a
 > > sender.

"You" here is the individual Yahoo! user.  The whitelists are per-user.
 
 > If that's the case, you still have the scaling problem of populating the
 > whitelist.  How would Yahoo! go about doing that, for example?  They claim
 > at least 30,000 such cases that ideally would land in that list
 > automatically somehow.

It's not "the" whitelist, it's all the users' personal whitelists.

I don't know if Yahoo! offers such whitelist capability, or if they
simply use some heuristic based on the users' contact list, or what.