The Breidbart Index, developed by Seth Breidbart, is the most significant cancel index in Usenet.
A cancel index measures the dissemination intensity of substantively identical articles. If the index exceeds a threshold the articles are called newsgroup spam. They can then be removed using third party cancel controls.
Read more about Breidbart Index: Cancel Index, Breidbart Index (BI), Breidbart-Index, Version 2 (BI2), Skirvin-Breidbart Index (SBI, BI3), BI7 and BI30, Cancel Index in At.*, Thresholds
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