- From: Jacob Palme <jpalme@dsv.su.se>
- Date: Wed, 3 May 2000 20:47:58 +0200
- To: discuss@apps.ietf.org
At 21.25 -0700 0-05-02, Dan Kohn wrote: > I believe the issue here is a misunderstanding on what level of heuristics a > mailer could be expected to achieve. I strongly suspect that it is > computationally infeasible to avoid both false positives (denial of service > attacks) and false negatives (having two versions of a message because, for > instance, one of the mailing lists adds unsubscribe information to the > body). I am an moderator of a LISTSERV mailing list. Sometimes, the same message is sent twice to the mailing list. The LISTSERV software recognizes this, even if the Message-ID is not identical. The LISTSERV then asks me as a moderator whether this, presumably identical message, should really be sent to the mailing list again. This seems a good and proper way to handle it - note the possible correlation, ask a human what to about it. -- Jacob Palme <jpalme@dsv.su.se> (Stockholm University and KTH) for more info see URL: http://www.dsv.su.se/jpalme/
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