................................. To leave Commie, hyper to http://commie.oy.com/commie_leaving.html ................................. On Tue, 24 Oct 2000, Jarmo Lundgren wrote: > The caption: > > "An extensive analysis of user traffic on Gnutella shows a > significant amount of free riding in the system. By sampling messages > on the Gnutella network over a 24-hour period, we established that > almost 70% of Gnutella users share no files, and nearly 50% of all > responses are returned by the top 1% of sharing hosts. Furthermore, > we found out that free riding is distributed evenly between domains, > so that no one group contributes significantly more than others, and > that peers that volunteer to share files are not necessarily those > who have desirable ones. We argue that free riding leads to > degradation of the system performance and adds vulnerability to the > system. If this trend continues copyright issues might become moot > compared to the possible collapse of such systems." well, i'm not so dumb that i would want to share my harddrives - who knows how many exploits are possible via that. i don't even trust nfs or samba. files are shared over webserver or scp. the secure way. sakke -- work > http://www.teraflops.com/ personal > http://www.vip.fi/~sakke/
