Re: whitelisting links (was Re: misconception in SPF)

Michael Thomas <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.ietf.asrg
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Dave Crocker wrote:
> 
> 
> On 12/10/2012 9:10 AM, Paul Smith wrote:
>> Surely this would be a browser feature (or 'Internet Security Software'
>> feature) rather than an email client feature.
>>
>> The email client will not necessarily have any access to web browser
>> history.
> 
> Sorry. I was too cryptic.  My suggestion was a whitelist that is shared 
> with the browser and the MUA, vetted by the user.  It's not about one 

We thought of this 5-6 years ago and even filed ipr on it as I recall. But
that was in a time when people mostly had one desktop/laptop. I would think
that the advent of phones, tablets, etc would significantly increase the complexity
and most likely false-positive rate.

Mike
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