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Developing High Performance Asynchronous IO Applications (O'ReillyNet)

[Posted October 13, 2006 by ris]

O'ReillyNet looks at asynchronous IO and spam. "Why do spammers send billions of email messages advertising ridiculous products that most of us would never in our lives consider buying? How can someone possibly make money from this endeavor when the vast majority of spam either gets filtered out or at the very best read and discarded by a disgruntled end user? What makes spamming profitable is huge volume."

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Posted Oct 15, 2006 2:10 UTC (Sun) by Baylink (subscriber, #755) [Link]

Um, yeah.

It is a good idea. Even if the first guy to think of it apparently doesn't think so any more. I think he's wrong.

I think that if the top 20 commercial ISPs implemented something like it, spam would *stop*. Completely. It wouldn't be commercially feasible anymore.

Developing High Performance Asynchronous IO Applications (O'ReillyNet)

Posted Oct 21, 2006 15:18 UTC (Sat) by tekNico (subscriber, #22) [Link]

Most of the article describes an ad-hoc reimplementation of Twisted in a less clean language.