You're probably right. Anyway, google can't find my message in freenet-devl archives. I found a reference to it here (I was [EMAIL PROTECTED] then):
http://archives.seul.org/freehaven/dev/May-2000/msg00008.html
This is definitely along similar lines - although more complicated. One potential problem is that new users get the worst deal, this is bad for the network as a whole as new users should be nurtured to encourage them to keep their nodes running.
I don't want to get over-ambitious with this type of thing since ultimately we would end up implementing some kind of MojoNation-style economic system, and I don't think that is necessary.
We just need a simple solution that is "good enough" to encourage users to be good Freenet citizens without making Freenet suck for new users. Any mechanism that meets these two criteria has to rely on negative trust, and any system that relies on negative trust will never be impossible (or even difficult) to circumvent, so we shouldn't bother making it too sophisticated.
Ian.
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