On Thu, Oct 30, 2003 at 11:36:40AM +0000, Ian Clarke wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >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.

Maybe it will be in the end, but I have heard that MojoNation's economic
model is unsuitable and maybe GNUnet have something closer.
> 
> 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.

Maybe. Please debunk my suggestion in my other mail.
> 
> Ian.

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