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Re: [Asrg] Please critique my anti-spam system



On 2005-01-07 20:02:31 -0500, Seth Breidbart wrote:
> > for a sufficiently large ISP (think AOL, or a cable modem business),
> > keeping track of the tuples of <sender, recipient> for any length of time
> > will require a _substantial_ database infrastructure.
> >
> > i was going to do some back-of-envelope computations on sizing, but
> > this is your proposal, mitch, so why don't you do them and share the
> > results with us.
> 
> Under 1K of data.  Remembering stuff is doing it the hard way.  Create
> the lhs of the Message-ID signed with a private key that changes
> daily.

That assumes that the Message-ID is created by the MTA. Many MUAs create
the Message-ID themselves, and the MTA should not (indeed must not, per
RFC 2476 and 2821, if it is syntactically correct) replace it, because
that would make the "In-Reply-To" and "References" headers useless.

	hp

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