[Ecommerce] P2P technology to be used to block and filter spam

[James Love]

Pippa, I wonder about the problems of false signals regarding spam.
Suppose I did not agree with something some one else was saying, could I
declare it spam and block it?  If I did this, how would the sender know
anyone did this, or would they know that I did this?

Jamie

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From: "Philippa Lawson" <plawson@piac.ca>
To: <ecommerce@lists.essential.org>
Sent: Friday, April 12, 2002 10:00 AM
Subject: [Ecommerce] P2P technology to be used to block and filter spam


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> An e-mail filter that uses the technology that made Napster famous
might
> soon save e-mail in-boxes from spam.
> Code-named Folsom, the software works on a peer-to-peer network and
allows a
> user to flag junk e-mail. Because it operates on a peer-to-peer basis,
it
> can share files with other members of a network.
> Folsom will automatically transmit data identifying flagged spam,
preventing
> unsolicited
> e-mail from reaching mailboxes anywhere on its network.
> Folsom was created by the same people who developed Napster.
> The first Folsom user to open a spam message acts like the "town
crier,"
> alerting everyone else to the spam and filtering it out of other
in-boxes.
> Creators of the software said testing Folsom in e-mail streams that
> contained 40 and 60 per cent spam showed it could cut junk mail to
nearly
> zero.
>