On Fri, 18 Dec 2009, Justin Mason wrote:

Or we could have the whitelist rules in a meta such that they only hit when a blacklist rule doesn't, if this is a common enough problem. It might also allow people to get past the high negative score for the whitelists.

it can be measured by finding the WL rule's page on ruleqa.spamassassin.org, then examining the OVERLAP section for overlaps with BL rules.

As of last weekend's network masscheck:

T_RCVD_IN_RP_CERTIFIED
SPAM%   0.0851 126 of 148025 messages
HAM%    0.3738 746 of 199558 messages
S/O     0.63
RANK    0.185

overlap spam:  60% of T_RCVD_IN_RP_CERTIFIED hits also hit __RCVD_IN_BRBL;
overlap spam:  58% of T_RCVD_IN_RP_CERTIFIED hits also hit __RCVD_IN_ZEN;
overlap spam:  26% of T_RCVD_IN_RP_CERTIFIED hits also hit __RCVD_IN_SORBS;

T_RCVD_IN_RP_CERTIFIED
SPAM% 0.0851 126 of 148025 messages HAM% 0.3738 746 of 199558 messages S/O 0.185 RANK 0.63

overlap spam:  60% of T_RCVD_IN_RP_SAFE hits also hit __RCVD_IN_BRBL;
overlap spam:  58% of T_RCVD_IN_RP_SAFE hits also hit __RCVD_IN_ZEN;
overlap spam:  26% of T_RCVD_IN_RP_SAFE hits also hit __RCVD_IN_SORBS;

Test rules committed.

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