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Peer to Peer and Spam in the Internet

Posted by CmdrTaco on 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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  1. Google HTML Link... by bc90021 · · Score: 5, Informative

    ...for those that don't wanna read the PDF:

    Here.

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  2. Ugh, that PDF link hung my browser... by turnstyle · · Score: 1, Informative

    Just a head's up...

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    1. Re:Ugh, that PDF link hung my browser... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

      If you are using windows, it oftens appears that a PDF has hung the browser when it's actually the Adobe Reader sitting in the background with a dialog box asking if you want to upgrade your version. Try minimizing the browser window[s] and see if you can find a dialog like that.

      -- former windows guy, just trying to be helpful

    2. Re:Ugh, that PDF link hung my browser... by l1gunman · · Score: 2, Informative

      The hang-up for me comes when exiting the PDF view by going back to the linking page or exiting the browser. Takes a good 10 seconds or so to go back the first time. Seems to be less on subsequent trips back and forth. This has something to do with the interaction between the Adobe plug-in and, in my case, Mozilla.

  3. Re:Helsinki? Finland? Why in english then? by bandy · · Score: 3, Informative

    The Finns decided more than a decade ago that the Lingua Franca of Computer Science was English.

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  4. P2P. SPAM. by powerpuffgirls · · Score: 4, Informative

    I think it's worth mentioning this article talks about P2P, then about SPAM.

    While it doesn't imply they are somehow related in their functions, the common nature of these two is the bandwidth consumption, which as stated by the author, can be annoying and disruptive.

  5. Re:Spam is very simple to fix. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

    Yeah. Real easy to fix. That's why it has been fixed. Try that bs. when the spammer is in Russia and is clustered across three different ISPs. So you want to block Russia from the Internet ?

    The current spam law is absolutely going to move spam out of american internet space and into foreign countries. Then it becomes a political issue. You know how quickly political issues get solved.

    Honestly, you sound like a marketing engineer. Stay away from the network mmmmkay ?

  6. Very thorough by dj245 · · Score: 5, Informative
    What a massive article, covers gnutella, freenet, napster, NAT Translation, hordes, all the hows and the underlying technology and concepts. But...

    Why isn't there a service where you can get full-speed from behind a firewall without portmapping? College students everywhere would rejoice. When I'm home I port forward and get the full pipe, but when I'm at college the firewall keeps my download speeds nice and slow. I know this because every once and a while I'll get lucky and some BT seed will connect and start sending me 80kb/s for about five minutes and stop. They made Supernodes to make the network more scalable and to make it work with firewalls. Can they make it work at full speed with firewalls?

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    1. Re:Very thorough by E-Rock · · Score: 2, Informative

      If it's like what the Universtiy where I works does, it's using packet analysis and capping your activity. It's forcing you to share and play nice with the other 100 - 100,000 people on the network. Now, why the dorms aren't physcially segmented from the rest of campus I'll never be able to explain.

  7. Re:Helsinki? Finland? Why in english then? by laalto · · Score: 1, Informative

    If you look at the names of the authors, many of them look e.g. Russian. Not all students in Finnish universities speak Finnish.