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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. Spam is very simple to fix. by Pig+Hogger · · Score: 5, Insightful
    • 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.
  2. Re:Helsinki? Finland? Why in english then? by Turing+Machine · · Score: 5, Insightful

    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.