mailing lists and hapaxes

[Matthias Andree]

On Wed, 24 Sep 2003, David Relson wrote:

> Greetings,
> 
> As part of another test, I grepped my wordlist for my userid and was
> surprised to find 31,400 tokens containing it.  Checking further, I
> found the culprit to be mailing lists that have serial numbered return
> addresses, for example:
> 
> bogofilter-return-1000-relson 0 1 
> bogofilter-return-1001-relson 0 1 
> bogofilter-return-1002-relson 0 1 
> bogofilter-return-1003-relson 0 1 

That's a symptom of VERP. We might want to reduce VERP to the invariant
part.

It's commonly something like

bogofilter-return-12345-john=doe.example.com at aotto.com

-- 
Matthias Andree

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