Pushing the envelope

The java.nio stuff looks good.  The non-blocking sockets classes especially.  It looks similar in operation to the C 'select' function.  Wonder how long before some of the app. server products make use of it.  It will be interesting to see how much of a performance benefit there is compared to all the clever multi-threaded connection handling architectures that have evolved in the meantime.

Read more at:

http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2002/09/04/nio.html

SPAM.  Sigh.  It won't even start to get fixed until SMTP servers have a mechanism to athenticate each other (callback with a digest etc). [Part of the problem.....]

Paul Graham has been looking into this very subject, with an interesting approach:

http://www.paulgraham.com/spam.html.

Bayesian filtering, cool - I should have paid more attention in stats classes.