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?
