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Re: [Asrg] Need to know

Yakov Shafranovich <research@solidmatrix.com> Sun, 25 May 2003 04:31 UTC

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Date: Sun, 25 May 2003 00:24:12 -0400

At 12:58 PM 5/24/2003 -0700, Scott Nelson wrote:

>Something Jon Kyme said brought a question to my mind; "How much
>would spam be reduced by limiting the number of recipients to one?"
>also a related question "What are the effects of limiting the number
>of recipients to one for non spam email?"
>I don't think anyone really knows,
>though doubtless many here could posit very good theories.
>
>This begs the question,
>"What would we need to know, in order to answer those questions?"

Why would limiting number of recipients make a difference? With today's 
computers and Internet connections cheap, additional SMTP sessions will be 
initiated just increasing Internet traffic.

Yakov

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Yakov Shafranovich / <research@solidmatrix.com>
SolidMatrix Research, a division of SolidMatrix Technologies, Inc.
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