"XL NXXoS" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I don't see why we couldn't convince them... If you have nothing to hide
> and are not abusing, you shouldn't fear this feature right? If you don't
> use it, you are a potential kill target, and servers might be able to
> refuse bot connections from unknown bots. That should be enough reason to
> use this feature I think!
If one has nothing to hide, what does one get from using this feature?
Every email so far has identified ways that bots could be restricted,
with only the stick ("Use this or your bot is a kill target") as
incentive to use it. Where is the carrot that makes bot owners *want*
to use it?
While it is very good to think of limitations that work to make the
network more responsive to users at the (possible) expense of bots, it
seems impractical to convince the bot owners to want to use the flags.
Until there is something that will convince them, it would be more
productive to focus on other ways to detect or penalize over-use of
network resources.
Entrope
