> This makes a lot of sense if you think about the equilibrium situation
> we want to achieve, where no node in the routing table is allowed to
> have a ridiculously large number of refs (i.e., be an ubernode).  It's
> also an elegant way to address the "honest cancer" attack, where a node
> resets the DataSource to itself more than it should to attract refs.
> 
> I've mentioned this to a couple people and the general reaction is that
> the approach is "too strong."  Maybe so.  One compromise would be to
> only drop the "top dog" if the number of refs owned by that node exceeds
> maxRefs/maxNodes.
I agree that it may be too strong.  Perhaps you should drop it if it
exceeds some percentage of the total number of refs.  I do like the
'deleting from the top end' though.

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