Re: Using the DHT to find download sources

--- In [email protected], Arne Babenhauserheide <arne_bab@...>
wrote:
>
> Am Montag 04 August 2008 21:34:01 schrieb pwang708:
> > All spammer nodes can collaberate together. 
> 
> I assume that full collaboration won't happen. The xfree****
spammers likely 
> won't collaborate with the br***** s***** spammers, and there are
still the 
> payed mercenaries who attack the whole network and will be at odds
with the 
> others beause they threaten their business model (while the
mercenaries can 
> more easily switch to the next network, because their actions need more 
> background knowledge, so they should better be able to adapt). 
> 
> So I think it's safe to assume that we have several competing groups of 
> spammers with different goals. 
> 

I agree. So we have several kinds of spammers. Different kinds of
spammers may have different amount of resources (IP addresses and
bandwidth). There are several groups in each kind. Does this sound ok,
or over-complicated? 

Best,
Peng