Replied: Thu, 14 Nov 1996 16:38:08 EST Replied: "tskirvin@uiuc.edu " From auto-replier-daemon@BLOOM-PICAYUNE.MIT.EDU Tue Oct 15 12:25:11 1996 Received: from MIT.EDU (SOUTH-STATION-ANNEX.MIT.EDU [18.72.1.2]) by bloom-picayune.MIT.EDU (8.7.6/2.3JIK) with SMTP id MAA01009; Tue, 15 Oct 1996 12:25:10 -0400 Received: from BLOOM-PICAYUNE.MIT.EDU by MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA15606; Tue, 15 Oct 96 12:23:24 EDT Received: (from daemon@localhost) by bloom-picayune.MIT.EDU (8.7.6/2.3JIK) id MAA00919; Tue, 15 Oct 1996 12:23:22 -0400 Received: from symcom.math.uiuc.edu (symcom.math.uiuc.edu [128.174.111.3]) by bloom-picayune.MIT.EDU (8.7.6/2.3JIK) with ESMTP id MAA00853 for ; Tue, 15 Oct 1996 12:22:53 -0400 Received: (from tskirvin@localhost) by symcom.math.uiuc.edu (8.7.6/8.7.3) id LAA26600 for news-answers-submit@rtfm.mit.edu; Tue, 15 Oct 1996 11:22:34 -0500 (CDT) Message-Id: <199610151622.LAA26600@symcom.math.uiuc.edu> From: tskirvin@math.uiuc.edu (Tim Skirvin) Date: Tue, 15 Oct 1996 11:22:34 -0500 Reply-To: tskirvin@uiuc.edu X-Mailer: Mail User's Shell (7.2.5 10/14/92) Old-To: news-answers-submit@BLOOM-PICAYUNE.MIT.EDU Old-Subject: FAQ: Current Usenet spam thresholds and guidelines Subject: [checked] To: news-answers-request@MIT.EDU From: tskirvin@uiuc.edu (Tim Skirvin) Reply-to: tskirvin@uiuc.edu Newsgroups: news.admin.net-abuse.announce,news.admin.net-abuse.misc,news.answers Subject: FAQ: Current Usenet spam thresholds and guidelines Followup-To: news.admin.net-abuse.misc Summary: This posting contains the current Spam definitions, thresholds, and guidelines, as used by most major spam cancellers and news administrators. Archive-name: usenet/spam-faq Posting-Frequency: weekly Last-modified: 1996/10/15 URL: http://www.uiuc.edu/ph/www/tskirvin/spam.html Original-author: clewis@ferret.ocunix.on.ca (Chris Lewis) Maintainer: tskirvin@uiuc.edu (Tim Skirvin) Current Spam thresholds and guidelines. This article is intended to describe the current consensus spam thresholds and ensure that the definitions of these terms are availible. It is believed that most, if not all, spam cancellers use these terms and definitions in their work; however, many other people use the terms inappropriately, which leands to confusion in discussions. This is an informal FAQ aimed at clarity and understanding, not anal-retentive correctness. Excessive Multi-Posting (EMP) has the same meaning as the term "spam" usually carries, but it is more accurate and self-explanatory. EMP means, essentially, "too many separate copies of a substantively identical article." "Substantively identical" means that the material in each article is sufficiently similar to construe the same message. The signature [remainder of text deleted by folder-shrink.pl]