I've suggested before on the list that predefined whitelists for places like amazon.com should be much less than -100, just -10, or perhaps even -5. Enough to offset any "spamminess" that might otherwise bump them over over the threshold, but not so negative that people abusing that whitelist entry will be able to get away with their blatent spam.
So does anyone have any figures on what kind of scores messages from amazon.com and other pre-whitelisted domains have *without* their whitelisting entry ? Ideally, the negative score of the whitelist would be roughly the same but opposite as this, so for example if real amazon.com "newsletters" typically scored around 5 points, make their whitelist value -5. Surely they don't need the full -100 ?
Meanwhile Spammer X whose spam would normally score 20 but who abuses the amazon.com (or other) whitelist entry still gets a score of 15 and gets caught, instead of getting -80.
Last time I brought this idea up it was greeted with stoney silence.... :)
Shhhh... everyone get very quiet now.
Seriously, sounds like a good idea to have two or maybe three kinds of "whitelist from".. and use the weaker one in default lists... kinda like whitelist_to, more_spam_to and all_spam_to work with -7, -20, and -100 scores.
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