[Asrg] The fundamental misconception about paying for mail

[Alessandro Vesely]

(apologies for the delay)
David Nicol wrote on 1 Dec 2008 14:46:24 -0600:
> On Sat, Nov 29, 2008 at 4:56 AM, Alessandro Vesely <vesely at tana.it> wrote:
>> mathew wrote:
>>>
>>> [...] There's no technical reason why I should not be able to
>>> simply whitelist traffic from this list to be delivered for free.
>>
>> Is that because a list subscriber (you, I presume) happens to be the
>> postmaster at the receiving site? If not, do you mean all users have both
>> the permissions _and_ the patience to whitelist lists that they subscribe
>> to?
>>
>> I'm asking because I see no means for automated registration of opt-ins. Am
>> I missing something?
> 
> The Advenge system as operating in 2003 sent the recipient a notice
> when a message passed the whitelist due to a text search hit against
> one of their "magic phrases."  This notice contained a URL to
> whitelist the sender and a URL to whitelist the source IP for use with
> mailing lists, the assumption being that good mailing list traffic
> comes from a small set of IP addresses that only produce good mailing
> list traffic.

Did it have more authentication/verification option than GPTP?
(I only found 
http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/asrg/current/msg12583.html and 
urls mentioned therein about it.)