On Sun, Jun 03, 2001 at 10:16:37PM -0700, coderman wrote:
> "Mark J. Roberts" wrote:
> > If the descriptions are actually descriptive, my evil nodes will not
> > be able to imitate them very well. So the user could plausibly pick
> > out the bogus replies and Unrequest them. But I suspect that users
> > often will simply use the filename as the description, or some
> > simple permutation of it. And that can be faked.
>
> It is also interesting to consider what happens when a large number of
> hits are found. The user would have to actually retrieve the files in
> order to determine if they are valid or not. So, you may spam a large
> number of queries, and much of it will go unnoticed in such a
> situation, and this would further increase the apparent validity of
> the spammed results.
>
> At least, that is my understanding.
Requesting the URIs returned wouldn't affect the search system, afaict.
As I understand it, requesting and searching are separate things.
Anyway, I don't believe that many people need searching--especially for
popular content, which will certainly be catalogued. Searching is only
useful for obscure documents that would not ordinarily be noticed and
catalogued. Such documents probably won't survive on Freenet!
Most people who advocate searching argue that it'll make Freenet more
like Napster or Gnutella. They're right, and that's why it doesn't
belong in Freenet. (OK, maybe that's extreme. But there is some truth to
it.)
--
"...it must be held that third-party electronic monitoring, subject
only to the self-restraint of law enforcement officials, has no place
in our society..." Mark Roberts | [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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