Meanings
- participlepastsimple past and past participle of whitelist
- colloquialnot comparableExplicitly and specifically approved by appearing on a whitelist, and therefore having greater access or preference.
[…] to accelerate the flag’s attempts to become ‘whitelisted’ at IMO […]
2001, Angelo Mouzouropoulos, quoted in Elizabeth R. DeSombre, Flagging Standards: Globalization and Environmental, Safety, and Labor Regulations at Sea, MIT Press (2006), page 1135 more examples
He may never be entirely successful, but the difference in being "blacklisted," "greylisted," "bluelisted" or "whitelisted" is considerable.
1956, John Cogley, Report on Blacklisting: Radio-television, page 121[…] is the only client-side antispam tool that quarantines any incoming mail that doesn't come from a whitelisted sender.
2002 November 11, James Kobeilus, “The Pick: iHateSpam”, in Network World, volume 19, number 45, page 70This means that many spam senders will never become whitelisted and email will never be accepted from them.
2004 September, Joel Sing, “Combatting Email Borne Pests using Open Source Tools”, in AUUGN, page 84One way is to create whitelist email addresses, a special email address that can be given to senders who are not yet whitelisted.
2005, Jonathan A. Zdziarski, Ending Spam: Bayesian Content Filtering and the Art of Statistical Language Classification, No Starch Press, →ISBN, page 33Hotmail utilises this scheme and is the only method of becoming whitelisted with Hotmail.
2007, S Duffy, “A guide to email deliverability for B2C email marketers”, in Journal of Direct, Data and Digital Marketing PracticeAntonyms: blacklisted
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectiveExplicitly and specifically approved by appearing on a whitelist, and therefore having greater access or preference.
Translations
Finnish valkoisella listalla
- valkoisella listallaTranslations
German gewhitelistet
- gewhitelistetTranslations
Polish na białej liście
- na białej liścieTranslations
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