A thought just occured to me. > > Problem is, how does the sub-space founder know > > that those who connect are abiding by the > > no-bomb-recipe rule? > >The way I imagine it would be something more akin to >USEnet. I would be a member, and thus contribute my >precious HD space to [EMAIL PROTECTED], >genomeresearch.freenet, and mp3.freenet. These would >be the only spaces I would be a 'member' of and thus >contribute HD space to. > >Now granted there's nothing stopping someone from >inserting divx movies in the mp3 freenet space, but >what I'm _hoping_ is that instead of joining the mp3 >freenet space and inserting divx movies, they would >join the divx.freenet space, and insert movies there. > >If the freenets were segregated like this, I would >think that pr0n would be likely to 'fall off' the >marsexploration.freenet space. The model would make it >beneficial for people to insert data into the >appropriate sub-space.
Yes! A lot like Usenet. And a lot like Frost. Frost is exactly what you're talking about. In Frost, you put only the boards you want, and thus get only the stuff you want from only the "channels" or "sub-spaces" you want. You could still get pr0n in the marsexploration board, but it's actually a benefit for people to insert their stuff in the appropriate board. >It would seem to me that if freenet was divided into >these 'sub-spaces', I gain two advantages. One is that >I'm not participating in a network full of stuff I >don't care about, and two, I would imagine that it >would be a lot more efficient, considering that all my >sub-space neighbour-nodes are in the same sub-space as >myself, and thus more closely connected. You get these advantages anyway. Your node learns over time which nodes typically have the info you want, and will go to them first, in the future. At least that's the way it's supposed to work. I seem to recall the developers mentioning, a while back, that they were seeing evidence that the network was doing this. >The physical location of "lovers of day-old spam" may >be widely dispersed, and thus when Kirk inserts his >recipe, it's very likely to fall off the global >freenet, because he's so many hops away from the other >lovers. The physical location doesn't matter. Their location in the network does. Any given node talks to other nodes not based on where they are in the world, but just by IP number. -todd _______________________________________________ Tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://hawk.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech
