Method and apparatus for reducing spam on a peer-to-peer network
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Aug 10, 2006
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Feb 4, 2005
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Feb 4, 2005
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One embodiment of the present method and apparatus for reducing spam on a peer-to-peer network includes determining, in accordance with a list of known spammer nodes, whether a responding node offering data for download is a known spammer node. If the responding node is a known spammer node, communication from the responding node is discarded. However, if the responding node is not a known spammer node, the offered data is retrieved from the responding node. If it is then determined that the retrieved data does, in fact, include spam, at least one other node on the network is notified that the responding node has sent spam. This information then allows the other node to determine whether or not it would like to receive data from the responding node in the future.
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