How does SA auto white-list works?

[Matt Kettler]

Logan Shaw wrote:
> On Thu, 13 Jul 2006, Matt Kettler wrote:
>> Despite it's name, the AWL is NOT a whitelist. It's called that for
>> lack of any
>> better name that isn't huge.
>>
>> The AWL is really a "History-based average score tracking system with
>> automatic
>> whitelist and blacklist behaviors resulting from factoring past
>> performance into
>> current scores".  But HBASTSAWBBRFPPICS is a rather long acronym.
> 
> How about "Address Past History Tracker" (APHT)?  Or "Past
> History Address Tracker" (PHAT)?


Before this goes a whole lot further, this was actually the subject of a rather
lengthy thread over on the SpamAssassin list about a year ago.

See "AWL whaaat" on:
http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/spamassassin-users/200505.mbox/thread?1

And also comments under this bug:
http://issues.apache.org/SpamAssassin/show_bug.cgi?id=2534