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

[Philippa Lawson]

Good question.  I wonder the same.  I was just forwarding a news item for 
everyone's information.  We should forward these questions to the 
makers/promoters of Folsom.  Unfortunately, I don't have any more info. 
than that provided below.  Will see what more I can learn about this.
Pippa

>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
>
>----- Original Message -----
>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
>
>
> >
> > Subject: [news] P2P technology to be used to block and filter spam
> > For more information on this item please visit the CANARIE CA*net 3
>Optical
> > Internet program web site at http://www.canet3.net/news/news.html
> > -------------------------------------------
> > 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.
> >
>
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