On Mon, Nov 10, 2003 at 05:29:29PM +0000, Ian Clarke wrote:
> Martin Stone Davis wrote:
> >>1) Given the difficulty of circumventing negative trust will users 
> >>actually be bothered to do it?
> >>
> >It wouldn't be so difficult if someone else had already gone through the 
> >trouble of creating and distributing SuperFreenet.jar.
> 
> How would SuperFreenet.jar manage to run a Freenet node on multiple IP 
> addresses?  You must have found a part of the Java API that I'm not 
> familiar with.
> 
> >>2) Given the benefits of circumventing negative trust will users 
> >>actually be bothered to do it?
> >>
> >Has anyone shown the benefits to cheating to be negligible?
> 
> The correct question is whether anyone has shown it not to be 
> negligible.  There will only be benefits in cheating if nodes are 
> perpetually overloaded, which shouldn't be the case once we have solved 
> the load balancing problem.
> 
> >I think we 
> >have to take that on a case-by-case basis.  In Tom's case, for example, 
> >IF (big IF) someone could create and use N IP addresses at the same 
> >time, the greedy user would get away with N times fewer QRs.  Other uses 
> >of negative trust would have to be evaluated on their own merits.
> 
> While people navel-gaze over theoretical issues the network is barely 
> working due to these load-balancing problems.  I would rather have an 
> imperfect solution now than a perfect solution later.

Okay, who wants to run the central server? We can solve all freenet's
performance problems by reimplementing Kazaa and ignoring the
theoretical issues concerning anonymity. :)
> 
> Ian.

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