"Chris Hancock" <chris2048 at hotmail.com> writes: > From: Steven Hazel <sah at thalassocracy.org> > > >No. We want things to get deleted. Otherwise Freenet will quickly > >fill up with junk and become useless. Permanent files require a > >reputation system to ensure resource allocation based on demand. > > But surely a single copy of everything will not do this? > Thing of almot 0 demand, would only have a single available copy, > to avoid its total extinction...
A simple attack on a Freenet that worked like that would be to insert lots of random files until it was completely full. > >So what would be the point of limiting file types? > > To maintain common standards, no use if everyone uses a different > file format... No, I mean, if we somehow magically limited file formats but included .zip, people who didn't like the file formats we had picked would just zip everything up before they inserted it. So we might as well let them insert whatever they want. -S _______________________________________________ Devl mailing list Devl at freenetproject.org http://lists.freenetproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devl >From devl-admin at freenetproject.org Sat Apr 7 16:23:45 2001 Return-Path: <devl-admin at freenetproject.org> Received: from hawk.freenetproject.org (postfix@[4.18.42.11]) by funky.danky.com (8.9.3/8.8.7) with ESMTP id QAA06114 for <danello at danky.com>; Sat, 7 Apr 2001 16:23:44 -0400 Received: from hawk.freenetproject.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by hawk.freenetproject.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5C41E5803D; Sat, 7 Apr 2001 13:06:04 -0700 (PDT) Delivered-To: devl at freenetproject.org
