From: Clive D.W. Feather (clive@demon.net)
Date: Mon Nov 08 1999 - 07:09:56 CST
Charles Lindsey said:
> There might be some benefit in a convention whereby, if a single cancel
> message was directed only against the multiple instances of a single spam
> (i.e. those that contributed to its BI) then you chose a single Message-ID
> from them according to some agreed algorithm (the least, for example) and
> use that to apply the $alz rule to.
NO !
What if there are 21 articles meeting the criteria for cancelling, but each
canceller only saw 20. They are likely to each end up with the same ID even
though the cancels differ.
I wouldn't have thought the $alz convention would be necessary for cancels
of more than 10 or so articles at once.
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