Peer to Peer and Spam in the Internet

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."

Comments

Spam is very simple to fix.

[Pig Hogger]

• Follow the money
• Block networks who let spammers send traffic on them, no matter if it's SMTP, DNS, FTP or HTTP

Once a few big guys find themselves turned into intranets, they'll start paying attention.

Re:Spam is very simple to fix.

[IamGarageGuy 2]

I don't think that will work. You will end up having to hit that stupid "charge sender" button repeatedly, the same way you delete spam now. Also what makes you think you will get a dime from a spammer, how would he pay without havng a Big Brother approach to all email? I wish I had a good idea instead of just shooting your idea down. I would love to see you come up with a way to make that work though.

Re:Bias?

[dreamchaser]

That wasn't the point being made. The discussion is about the enormous bandwidth requirements of both P2P and Spam on a large scale. Many a college campus network has had it's Internet pipe saturated by both spam and users of P2P software, and many an ISP has been affected in the same manner by both as well.

Re:Helsinki? Finland? Why in english then?

[Turing Machine]

Nope, not really. Far more scientific papers are written in English than in any other language, because it's the language most scientists have in common (this is different from being the language spoken by the most people; more people speak Chinese than any other language, but relatively few people who aren't Chinese speak it).

100 years ago, scientific papers were commonly written in German.

200 years ago, they were commonly written in Latin.

Times change.