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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>Breidbart Index</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../B.html" title="B"/><link rel="previous" href="breedle.html" title="breedle"/><link rel="next" href="brick.html" title="brick"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">Breidbart Index</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="breedle.html">Prev</a><EFBFBD></td><th width="60%" align="center">B</th><td width="20%" align="right"><EFBFBD><a accesskey="n" href="brick.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="Breidbart-Index"/><dt xmlns="" id="Breidbart-Index"><b>Breidbart Index</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/bri:d<>bart ind@ks/</span></dt></dt><dd><p> A measurement of the severity of spam invented by long-time hacker
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Seth Breidbart, used for programming cancelbots. The Breidbart Index takes
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into account the fact that excessive multi-posting
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<a href="../E/EMP.html"><i class="glossterm">EMP</i></a> is worse than excessive cross-posting
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<a href="../E/ECP.html"><i class="glossterm">ECP</i></a>. The Breidbart Index is computed as follows:
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For each article in a spam, take the square-root of the number of
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newsgroups to which the article is posted. The Breidbart Index is the sum
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of the square roots of all of the posts in the spam. For example, one
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article posted to nine newsgroups and again to sixteen would have BI =
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sqrt(9) + sqrt(16) = 7. It is generally agreed that a spam is cancelable
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if the Breidbart Index exceeds 20.</p><p>The Breidbart Index accumulates over a 45-day window. Ten articles
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yesterday and ten articles today and ten articles tomorrow add up to a
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30-article spam. Spam fighters will often reset the count if you can
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convince them that the spam was accidental and/or you have seen the error
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of your ways and won't repeat it. Breidbart Index can accumulate over
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multiple authors. For example, the “<span class="quote">Make Money Fast</span>” pyramid
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scheme exceeded a BI of 20 a long time ago, and is now considered
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“<span class="quote">cancel on sight</span>”.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="breedle.html">Prev</a><EFBFBD></td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../B.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"><EFBFBD><a accesskey="n" href="brick.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">breedle<EFBFBD></td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"><EFBFBD>brick</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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