Best practices for white and black lists?

[Julian Field]

At 16:09 18/09/2002, you wrote:
>What is the auto whitelist feature of spamassassin and how does it work?  I
>notice that it is a feature of mailscanner to support it?  Thanks again.

I'm not sure quite how it works, but the idea is that if you get a certain
number of non-spam messages from an address, it decides that address is
definitely not a spammer and adds that address to the whitelist so that no
mail from that address will ever be marked as spam.
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