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  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of whitelist.

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Examples

  • The security tool also lets the user create what are called whitelists and blacklists of Web sites allowed to be visited.

    Dell offering free Web browser security tool 2010

  • "whitelists" the mqsvc. exe process for certain network protocols, meaning that (for example) any TCP port which mqsvc. exe opens to listen on causes the firewall to automatically allow packets to that port.

    MSDN Blogs 2009

  • These have all been lists -- commonly referred to as blacklists or whitelists -- containing names and personal information with the expressed and unapologetic intent of punishing and striking fear.

    Jorge-Mario Cabrera: Blacklisting Immigration Reform 2010

  • Certainly, but while this is true, and the arms race will simply move to a new context, in the least, from a single service provider perspective with multiple “surface areas” that use unified account mechanisms, you can start to more effectively filter across your properties, or to share whitelists with related parties, in the way that Akismet leverages countless WordPress blogs to improve its spam fighting heuristics.

    Ma.gnolia moves to OpenID-only sign ups | FactoryCity 2008

  • All large ISPs keep whitelists of senders with a good track record, so Goodmail is basically a somewhat pricey way to outsource some of the whitelist management. —

    Goodmail Is Back Trying to Sell Access to Your In-Box - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com 2008

  • These have all been lists -- commonly referred to as blacklists or whitelists -- containing names and personal information with the expressed and unapologetic intent of punishing and striking fear.

    Jorge-Mario Cabrera: Blacklisting Immigration Reform 2010

  • And because it's a single innocuous message, it doesn't necessarily trip your defenses, and your anti-comment-spam software whitelists the IP address it came from.

    Discourse.net: What's the Point of This Stuff? 2008

  • Entering the email contact in the address book or contacts no longer whitelists the sender

    We're Moving... 2009

  • Being able to federate whitelists of identifiers would make cross-collaboration much more facile and I think would be a boon to independent open source development.

    My OpenID Shitlist, Hitlist and Wishlist for 2008 | FactoryCity 2007

  • BNA's Electronic Commerce & Law Report reports that a federal court in Colorado has ruled that attorneys have a duty to add courts to their spam filter whitelists.

    August 2nd, 2007 2007

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