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1997-08-02 - Re: non-censorous spam control (was Re: Spam is Information?)

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From: dlv@bwalk.dm.com (Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM)
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From: dlv@bwalk.dm.com (Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM)
Date: Sat, 2 Aug 1997 08:20:29 -0700 (PDT)
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Subject: Re: non-censorous spam control (was Re: Spam is Information?)
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? the Platypus {aka David Formosa} <dformosa@st.nepean.uws.edu.au> writes:

> On Thu, 31 Jul 1997, Adam Back wrote:
>

[detect multi-post]
> > That is cancel all but one groups worth of articles, and then modify
> > the Newsgroups line to cross-post to all the groups the article was
> > originally posted to.
>
> No that is worce,  it would be forgery of the orginal post.  In addtion it
> would violate the usenet requirement to avoid modifing the post.

In my opinion, the hnorable way to deal with multi-posts is to detect them
automatically and to ignore them. A NoCeM 'bot like the one run by the
Venerable CancelMoose is a good thing.

A compression scheme where many copies of the same text would be transmitted
only once even if they're posted once would be an excellent thing (given that
such traffic is a very substantial
portion of a full uncensored feed), but it's not crucial.

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Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM
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