[ale] Earthlink Spam protection

[Bob Slaughter]

> I do, however, see one giant hole in the chellenge/reply scheme:
> 
> Let's say you and I are both using challenges, and we've never sent
> one another emails before. I send you an email, you send me a
> challenge - but I don't get it, because you're not in my whitelist. I
> send you a challenge, which you don't get because *I'm* not in *your*
> whitelist. The prospect of mail challenge loops looms. The obvious
> solution is to allow all challenges through, but then spammers will
> just disguise their messages as challenges, and we're back to
> square one :-(

Already handled, per the Slashdot article. Anyone *you send* email to is 
*automatically* put on your white list.

 
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