Matt Kettler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> 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".

It's true that the function is hard to give a short name to, 
but using "whitelist" in the name makes it far worse than other 
short-and-thus-incompletely-descriptive names.  The name 
naturally gives people the impression that AWL is somehow 
connected with the whitelist options, but it's not related at 
all.  It's also confusing to have an "autowhitelist adjustment" 
that can be positive.  Besides, the adjustments it makes are in 
most cases not large enough to be referred to as whitelisting 
or blacklisting.

"Score averaging" or "historical adjustment" or any other 
possibility that avoids "whitelist" would be preferable and 
avoid a lot of confusion.

-- 
Keith C. Ivey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Washington, DC

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