At 12:59 PM 3/9/2004, Jon Etkins wrote:
>Your AWL scores have become positive, thus having the effect of BLACKlisting, but they're still in the autoWHITElist. Just use the --remove-addr-from-whitelist function.
I've seen several posts with this sort of issue recently. Perhaps the name "auto whitelist" is confusing people? It might be worth coming up with another name that more accurately describes it.
Someone recently described it as a score averaging system.
I'm one that commonly calls it a "score averaging system" when trying to clarify people's understanding. It comes from the AwlWrongWay contribution I made to the wiki/faq: http://wiki.spamassassin.org/w/AwlWrongWay, which generaly explains the behavior of the AWL in a long-winded, but fairly easy to understand way.
Maybe auto-adjust system or something would be clearer.
Unfortunately this is a case where you're always going to confuse someone unless the name is horrifically long.
You can name it based on how it really works, and call it "auto averager" or "auto adjuster". However, then you'll have people wondering what it's supposed to do. "what is this thing?" "why is it adjusting my scores??!"
Currently it's named after half of what it does "auto whitelist"... you could rename it "auto white black list", but people will still be confused thinking of it as "declaring spam as whitelisted for adding a negative score".
So you could name it "automatic white and blacklisting type system using long term score averages, and no it's not a bug if it gives a negative score to spam or positive score to nonspam, please read the FAQ".... but that's too long to be practical.
I'd love to see a better name used.. but unfortunately, the AWL is a slightly complicated beast that's hard to express in any short-worded way.
