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Re: [Asrg] 6. Email Path Verification (hashcash benchmarks)

2003-09-14 14:16:34
At 12:07 PM -0400 2003/09/14, Eric S. Johansson wrote:

 camram puts all of its efforts into the interpretation where because
 that's where you need to make the decisions about spam.

If you are looking at the content, there is no other way you can do that. However, my view is that this decision needs to be made while the sender is still connected, so that you can decide what kind of SMTP Reply code to generate.

If you look at the message and decide what to do with it after-the-fact, then you've already lost. If nothing else, you open yourself to being used to DoS someone in a joe-job.

 PS, I've been living with stamp generation for the past four months
 on a Pentium II/333 in foreground mode and it doesn't suck too bad
 although it would be better in the background.  Check the headers.

Lots of things work acceptable well in small-scale use, but fail completely when you try to scale them up.

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