On Sat, 4 Aug 2001 05:13:44 -0400 (EDT), Thomas Mueller wrote:
> (begin quote)
> It's actually not particularly hard.
> Server-side, if you have the server doing cyclic
> redundancy checks, or hashes and storing them for each
> e-mail message, then not allowing the message to come
> through more than say, 4 times in total...and not more
> than once to a single person - you can block mass
> messages --- this being much more effective the more
> users you have...
What if you are just forwarding a joke to someone and many of
the recipient's friends and relatives have also received the
same joke and are forwarding the same? Just because it is the
same message being sent to the same person doesn't necessarily
mean that it is spam. The recipient might even be interested
in learning that the joke is really getting around and it is
now getting quite old.
Sam Heywood
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