Peer to Peer and Spam in the Internet

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Peer to Peer and Spam in the Internet

Posted by CmdrTaco on Tuesday March 9, 2004 @07:23AM from the spam-from-all-directions dept.

RobertDHaskins writes "A very interesting series of papers from Helsinki University of Technology on the topics of P2P and spam. Written by PhD students they are a little long, but some very good coverage of the state of the art."

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Way too long by JohnGrahamCumming · 2004-03-09 07:28 · Score: 4, Funny

I don't have time to read a document hundreds of pages long, especially not one that's packed with information: I need a quick summary.

Could someone post a one line summary? For example,

Linux good; Microsoft bad; SCO evil; RMS god.

John.
1. Re:Way too long by Tuxedo+Jack · 2004-03-09 07:35 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  This is Slashdot. You don't have to read the article.
  
  See?
  
  --
  
  Striking fear in the authors of godawful fanfiction, I am here, appearing in darkness, Tuxedo Jack!
2. Re:Way too long by Hex4def6 · 2004-03-09 07:42 · Score: 3, Funny
  
  This is Slashdot. You don't have to read the article.
  
  See?
  
  I totally disagree with every point you've just made,
  will go into great detail about why I think you're
  wrong, and as an aside cast inferances on your lineage.
  :P
3. Re:Way too long by Bob+McCown · 2004-03-09 07:47 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  This is Slashdot. You don't have to read the article.
  
  See?
  
  I totally disagree with every point you've just made,
  will go into great detail about why I think you're
  wrong, and as an aside cast inferances on your lineage.
  And I'll point out your grammer and speeling mistakes, while makeing some of my own!
4. Re:Way too long by Have+Blue · 2004-03-09 08:40 · Score: 3, Funny
  
  I'll point out that you must be new here.
Re:P2P is in its infancy by jjeffries · 2004-03-09 07:33 · Score: 5, Funny

I'm sure theres even more complicated things you can do with P2P, such as organizing nodes for filesharing and so on.

P2P filesharing, what a great idea! I wonder when somebody's going to try to do that...
P2P Spamming, eh? by Anonymous Coward · 2004-03-09 07:39 · Score: 1, Funny

Can we get the RIAA to shut these guys down?
Finns do a lot of things in funny languages by Anonymous Coward · 2004-03-09 07:43 · Score: 4, Funny

The Finns have noticed that no-one understands Finnish, so they've become extremely good at putting things in more popular languages. For example you can get the news in Latin courtesy of Finnish Radio (today's headline: Kerry candidatus democratarum.)
Re:Spam is very simple to fix. by Anonymous Coward · 2004-03-09 07:43 · Score: 2, Funny

Parent wrote: "You will end up having to hit that stupid "charge sender" button repeatedly, the same way you delete spam now. "
Raise the price to $0.50 / email, I'd actually enjoy it.
If I can get through 5 spams / minute I'd be making and extra $100/hour just for reading email.
Re:Spam is very simple to fix. by powerpuffgirls · 2004-03-09 07:43 · Score: 5, Funny

That'll probably create another 'profession' after the Spam-Boom.

(Note in all lower cases now in the post-Spam-Boom era)
work from home and make $3000 a day by clicking the charge button
Re:Helsinki? Finland? Why in english then? by Anonymous Coward · 2004-03-09 07:44 · Score: 5, Funny

In Northern Europe people can speak generally 3 languages fluently. The have good schools there. They generally have better goverments as well.

Did I say that ?

I meant to say that they are a bunch of liberal left-wing socialist radicals who get their english training in order to become terrorists.

Am I American again ?

Phew!
Re:Spam is very simple to fix. by Anonymous Coward · 2004-03-09 07:55 · Score: 4, Funny

The other question then is who gets this money?

Simple. I do. Hand it over.

Sincerely,
Darl McBride
Re:Spam is very simple to fix. by WormholeFiend · 2004-03-09 07:59 · Score: 2, Funny

I've already blocked Russia ip adresses from sending me email.

I dont know anyone there, yet the security department at Microsoft.ru kept sending me friendly patches attached to their messages.
Re:P2P is in its infancy by Dukael_Mikakis · 2004-03-09 08:21 · Score: 2, Funny

a replacement peer to peer trusted reviewer system should be perfectly viable using encryption to guarantee the validity of a particular vouch for a link. Good reviewers, identified by their public key, build their reputation by word of mouth (or text of keyboard)

You mean like a poster/moderator/meta-mod system such as implemented right here on /.? Yeah, that's worked wonders for quality assurance on these message boards!
Re:Helsinki? Finland? Why in english then? by Anonymous Coward · 2004-03-09 08:50 · Score: 1, Funny

100 years from now it will probably be klingon...
And you can't forget... by danielsfca2 · 2004-03-09 08:52 · Score: 2, Funny

And I'll post using the login New Here and say "No, I'm New Here."

And I'll keep thinking it's funny each time I do it.