On Sun, Jun 03, 2001 at 05:03:29PM -0400, Benjamin Coates wrote: > >From ian at hawk.freenetproject.org (Ian Clarke) > >> This system will certainly require > >> some kind of web of trust rankings system to provide useful search results. > >Not nescessarily, both Gnutella and Napster get along without them. > I was under the impression that spam was a rather serious problem on > gnutella, > despite it being a non-anonymous protocol where spammers can be > filtered/retailiated against, and have to invest a fair amount of bandwidth.
Not in my experience, however through implementation of my "unrequest" idea for searches could combat that problem by permitting collaborative filtering on search reply quality. Ian. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 232 bytes Desc: not available URL: <https://emu.freenetproject.org/pipermail/devl/attachments/20010603/caddc2a1/attachment.pgp>
