Re: [Asrg] Spam detection system proposal

["David F. Skoll" <dfs@roaringpenguin.com>]

On Wed, 5 Mar 2003, Vernon Schryver wrote:

> See http://www.dcc-servers.net/dcc/graphs/

Those graphs are interesting, but hardly constitute proof that
a checksum scheme can't be defeated.

> > It's very easy to prove that any (useful) checksum algorithm can be
> > thwarted.

> In theory, yes.  In practice, that has not been true since I started
> compute spam checksums to prove that that is right and Paul Vixie was
> wrong half a dozen years ago.

Only because not enough people use DCC to make it a problem for spammers.
It's the usual situation that a tool that works well now, stops working
well once lots of people use it.  Catch-22. :-)

--
David.
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