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Problem with your 'Solution'

Problem with your 'Solution'

Posted May 6, 2004 23:26 UTC (Thu) by yodermk (subscriber, #3803)
In reply to: Problem with your 'Solution' by pizza
Parent article: 82% of email is spam

1. These "unique" subjects are only to get around mail filters with SMTP. I don't think those type of filters will be as necessary with IM2000.

2. In the long run it's no real disadvantage over SMTP even if you *do* have to store a separate copy for each recipient. And, if joe@isp.com sends a million distinct messages, some flag would still be raised, and it would be easy for an admin to nuke all his messages.

Heck, you could set a space limit for outgoing mail ... maybe 100MB or so (up to the ISP of course). That should eliminate a million distinct messages.


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