On Fri, 13 Feb 2004, Robert Menschel wrote:

> I suggest that if we could store a record with three or four fields,
> message-id, checksum(subject), checksum(body), and maybe
> time(firstseen), we could use this as a database, and apply a rule
> (maybe named DUPLICATE_MESSAGEID) where either (1) checksums don't
> match, or (2) time(now) is significantly different from time(firstseen).

On Fri, 13 Feb 2004, Jon wrote:

> IANAD (I am not a developer) but I don't think I this a worthwhile
> approach for two related reasons:
> 
> * it costs us (the mail admins) too much
> * it costs spammers too little


Just two points before I go to bed:

(1) Isn't this effectively what DCC, Razor, Pyzor, etc. already do?

(2) Isn't most of this data already in the Bayes database, just being
used differently?

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