On Sun, 03 Jun 2001, Ian Clarke wrote: > On Sun, Jun 03, 2001 at 05:03:29PM -0400, Benjamin Coates wrote: > > >From ian at hawk.freenetproject.org (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.
The problem I have with unrequests is a question of when to use them. Say I make a request and I get back some good answers and some bad answers. Should I unrequest to make sure the bad don't propogate at the expense of keeping the good results from propogating as well? What if there's only one bad answer? "one bad apple..." If people were trying to spam the searching, I could reasonably expect bad responses in all but the most specific, obscure searches. Then the only way to stop bad metadata would stop good metadata as well. Thelema -- E-mail: thelema314 at bigfoot.com If you love something, set it free. GPG 1536g/B9C5D1F7 fpr:075A A3F7 F70B 1397 345D A67E 70AA 820B A806 F95D -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 232 bytes Desc: not available URL: <https://emu.freenetproject.org/pipermail/devl/attachments/20010604/ecf71e2a/attachment.pgp>
