Re: automated spam detection

[Jan Meijer <]

> These thoughts derive from some recent discussion I spotted on
> Usenet...
>
<scheme for "logging" MD5 hashes with "central" server>
>
> What are the potential problems of this approach?
>
What about _legitimate_ (opt-in) mailing list traffic?

Indeed.  Think the discussion about recognizing spam should focuss on the
definition of spam.  In the end I think it will be concluded that there is
no sound definition of spam.  Only way is content-filtering, and that's not
an option to me.

Grt, Jan

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