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List:       razor-users
Subject:    Re: [Razor-users] Strip X-Bogosity Headers Before Running
From:       Matt Kettler <mkettler () evi-inc ! com>
Date:       2003-07-10 17:55:06
Message-ID: 5.2.1.1.0.20030710134208.01e03fa0 () xanadu ! evi-inc ! com
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At 11:00 AM 7/10/2003 -0500, Eric Rostetter wrote:
>Also note that weather those headers are significant or not in your checks
>may depend on which engine(s) you use in your checks.

 From reading the docs, the headers should be irrelevant to all engines and 
all logic_method's. If you can find a combination to which they are 
relevant, I'd like to know.

I've not actually plowed the source, but it would make little sense for 
razor to check headers, as they are likely to change. Including parts of a 
message that are likely to be different in each message is contrary to the 
fundamental point of what razor is supposed to do.

Razor really is a method of detecting messages with identical bodies to 
other messages which have already been reported as spam. Based on this 
simple fundamental function that razor performs, one can pretty quickly see 
why checking headers would be detrimental to Razor's accuracy, and I for 
one have a pretty good sense that Vipul and crew are considerably smarter 
than that.



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