--- Ed Porter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >MATT MAHONEY=====> My design would use most of the Internet (10^9 P2P > nodes). > ED PORTER=====> That's ambitious. Easier said than done unless you have a > Google, Microsoft, or mass popular movement backing you.
It would take some free software that people find useful. The Internet has been transformed before. Remember when there were no web browsers and no search engines? You can probably think of transformations that would make the Internet more useful. Centralized search is limited to a few big players that can keep a copy of the Internet on their servers. Google is certainly useful, but imagine if it searched a space 1000 times larger and if posts were instantly added to its index, without having to wait days for its spider to find them. Imagine your post going to persistent queries posted days earlier. Imagine your queries being answered by real human beings in addition to other peers. I probably won't be the one writing this program, but where there is a need, I expect it will happen. > In a message passing network, the critical parameter is the ratio of > messages > out to messages in. The ratio cannot exceed 1 on average. > ED PORTER=====> Thanks for the info. By "unmaintainable" what do you mean? > > I don't understand why more messages coming in than going out creates a > problem, unless most of what nodes do is relay message, which is not what > they do in my system. I meant the other way, which would flood the network with duplicate messages. But I believe the network would be stable against this, even in the face of spammers and malicious nodes, because most nodes would be configured to ignore duplicates and any messages that it deemed irrelevant. -- Matt Mahoney, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----- This list is sponsored by AGIRI: http://www.agiri.org/email To unsubscribe or change your options, please go to: http://v2.listbox.com/member/?member_id=8660244&id_secret=72132605-fe415f
