On Monday 20 June 2005 10:19 pm, Todd Walton wrote: > On 6/20/05, Gregory K. Ruiz-Ade <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Getting paranoid because my formerly large inflow of mail has dropped > > off over the weekend. > > I wonder if there are Internet-scale ebbs and flows of email traffic. > > -todd
Yep. Lot's of work has been done to analyze email traffic. Here is one of many examples: By looking for patterns in email traffic, a new technique can quickly identify online communities and the key people in them. The approach could mean terrorists or criminal gangs give themselves away, even if they are communicating in code or only discussing the weather. http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn3550 boblq -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
