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

[Ian Clarke]

On Mon, Jun 04, 2001 at 01:32:48AM -0400, Mark J. Roberts wrote:
> > > I have no idea how the unrequest actually works. I'm under the
> > > impression that it works per-node and not per-reply, i.e., "The node who
> > > sent this response is evil! Punish it!"
> > 
> > Nope, an unrequest simply undoes the effect of a request.
> 
> I doubt that such a weak unrequest could prevent a cancer, simply
> because not every bogus search will be unrequested.

It can't be any stronger, it is essential that someone can only undo
something that they did themselves.  Whether it is effective depends on
client writers.

Ian.

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