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Re: Killfiling Spam

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From: The Renaissance Man
Date: Sat, 16 Mar 1996 00:00
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Quoth Zenin <zenin@best.com>:
] The Renaissance Man <alaric@babylon5.babcom.com> wrote:
] 	>snip<
] : Actually, I just finished my Suck patch, and in preliminary testing it 
] : appears to be working.  I can now tell my news system to simply not 
] : download any message crossposted to more than N groups (currently set to 
] : 10, and will be reduced if necessary).
] 
] 	Does this also check for real spams?  -eg, the same message posted
] 	(not just cross-posted) to many groups?  They are the real problem
] 	as they are harder to spot & destory.  And they eat up FAR more
] 	drive space/bandwidth.


Unfortunately, it checks only for ECP (excessive cross-posting), not EMP 
(excessive multiple posting).  EMP is MUCH harder to check for.



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From: alaric@babylon5.babcom.com (The Renaissance Man)
Subject: Re: Killfiling Spam
Date: 1996/03/16
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