On Wed, 18 Jan 2006, Brian Grossman wrote:

> On Wed, 18 Jan 2006 10:52:48 -0800
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Justin Mason) wrote:
> 
> > Andrew Pam writes:
> > > Message-IDs MUST be globally unique as defined in the RFCs, so the
> > > chance of collision is zero unless someone has very broken (or
> > > malicious) email software.
> > 
> > A good 80% of email, according to recent statistics, is indeed broken
> > and/or malicious -- spam, malware, etc. I've seen many spams with
> > duplicate or missing Message-IDs.
> 
> Is anyone here blocking messages without message-ids?  How's it working
> for you?

It's working great for me. But I haven't checked in a long time just how 
well. Last I checked (over a year ago) it stopped about 40% of my spam.

> Get many false positives?

No complaints ;-) But then I'm not a big network - just me really.

Matt.

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