On Wednesday 05 November 2003 01:06 pm, Martin Stone Davis wrote: > Altruism: > --------- > I think the problem with any altruistic strategy is that it then lets > non-altruistic nodes get the better of us, and hordes of people would > choose a non-altruistic hack of freenet. Also, if we take your > altruistic strategy, couldn't it be argued that we would be > unnecessarily slowing down the tortoises even more? NGR takes care of > load balancing naturally.
Altruism, non-altruism, it's all the same. If Fred does not treat the packets any differently, then all routing methods are altruistic.(It is advantageous to your own anonymity not to route others packets differently.) If you want to be as selfish as possible, then route all your packets in the way that will get you the data fastest. Just doing the same to all the packets is the optimal solution. I suppose someone could mod freenet to drop everyone else's packets to save bandwidth for their own. But then again they could much more easily just be transient. _______________________________________________ Devl mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://dodo.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl
