On Sat, Nov 08, 2003 at 07:56:41PM +0000, Ian Clarke wrote: > Toad wrote: > >You can't punish nodes that go over quota, because then people will > >simply connect from multiple identities, and take up more than their > >even share. > > Freenet has never been particularly concerned about preventing selfish > behavior - and it hasn't really hurt us. Networks that have obsessed > over the theoretical problem of leaching, such as MojoNation, seem to > choke on their own complexity before getting off the ground. Poo-pooing > a potential solution to load-balancing because it doesn't solve a > problem that Freenet has *never* tried to solve seems a bit silly and > nitpicky.
The reasons Mojonation didn't get off the ground are well documented and I don't need to repeat them here in detail; simply, they were making false assumptions about the market. > > >You can't expect nodes to stick to the quota either, because if you do, > >the surplus capacity from unused quota that you talk about won't be > >recycled, with no nodes to recycle it TO. > > ? Surplus capacity can be given to nodes which are close to using all > of their existing capacity. > > Ian. -- Matthew J Toseland - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Freenet Project Official Codemonkey - http://freenetproject.org/ ICTHUS - Nothing is impossible. Our Boss says so.
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