Positive Score from Auto White LIst?

[Rick Duval]

Fair enough, thanks

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On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 3:29 PM, Glenn Steen <glenn.steen at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2009/3/9 Rick Duval <rick at duvals.ca>:
>> Today I got a positive (spam) score based on an auto whitelist (which
>> I don't even use). Any idea where this is coming from?
>>
>> The message in MailWatch was:
>>
>> 24.37   AWL     From: address is in the auto white-list
>>
>> Rick
>> aasts
> Since you have that score, you do indeed use the autowhitelist. Don't
> be fooled by the name, it isn't really what it seems... More like a
> "score averager" ... Matt Kettler (who has been a frequent SA guru on
> this list) is of the view that one shouldn't use it, since it doesn't
> have any "selfcleaning" feature (like bayes does), and in part because
> of that might get some really odd results.
> In this case, the sender has been a frequent sender of spam with
> really high scores, so ... the awl tries to "push" the score in that
> direction.
>
> If you don't want it, don't load it.
>
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