Re: [freenet-devl] Freenet - The Next Generation : Fuzzy Searching

[Ian Clarke]

On Sun, Jun 03, 2001 at 05:03:29PM -0400, Benjamin Coates wrote:
> >From [EMAIL PROTECTED] (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.

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