Ho Ho Ho :-( I suggested this years ago and was shot down in flames in no uncertain terms....
-- jeek ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ian Clarke" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Discussion of development issues" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, October 30, 2003 11:07 AM Subject: [freenet-dev] Tit for tat > Is it fair that when 3 nodes might have sent me a vast number of > requests, thus overloading my node, that a 4th node which has never > asked anything of my node before is refused? Probably not, but how can > this be addressed? > > The obvious option is to bias QRs towards nodes in proportion to the > degree to which they are responsible for the QR being sent. Now > clearly, this is an imperfect solution as it relies on negative trust, > and there really can't be any reliable negative trust on the Internet. > Having said this, while this mechanism might not be impossible to > circumvent, it could be enough to encourage developers of high-traffic > applications such as Frost to make their users try to be better Freenet > citizens. > > Thoughts? > > Ian. > > _______________________________________________ > Devl mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://dodo.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl > _______________________________________________ Devl mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://dodo.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl
