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SpamAssassin has been using the term "autowhitelist" for this feature since about 2001 – I think we were there first 
– jmason
From http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/ManualWhitelist "the name is a misnomer. The AutoWhitelist is designed as an automatic score averaging system." Maybe score averaging system? -Roger The AutoWhitelist is designed as an automatic score averaging system