Matthew Toseland schrieb:
> 
> On Wed, Jan 29, 2003 at 09:18:50PM +0100, Michael Schierl wrote:
> > hi matthew,
> >
> > Matthew Toseland schrieb:
> > > > Another idea. Or switching it on automatically, if you have as many
> > > > failures that you cannot complete the file and no successful block.
> > >
> > > I don't get it.
> >
> > set paranoid checking to true. try to dl the splitfile.
> >
> > if it fails because there were too few blocks decodable, and if there
> > was no single block decodable, retry with paranoia off.
>
> With any splitfile inserted with FIW, all the blocks will be regarded as
> corrupted.

Yep, right; and the probability that you see that somewhere in the wild
with your code is nearly zero. 

So I thought it's a good check for heuristics - if checking whether a
block has metadata is too difficult.


> > > Mostly, this would be illegal.
> >
> > Why? Does GJ live in a country where free speech is not permitted?

> Sorry, I misread. Most splitfiles inserted with FIW are likely to be
> illegal. 

they are likely, but are all of them? 

Of course that depends on the lawyers as well. www.xenu.net is seen as
illegal by some of them as well - they don't like one picture, and when
it's removed they don't like another one...

My point is, transporting files w/ freenet is not illegal, storing files
is not either, healing files is not either, so if you set up a script
that converts old splitfiles into new ones and you don't look at their
contents, where is the difference?

> Hey, we almost completely ignore Frost, mostly because they completely
> ignore us (thankfully this is changing... there is a beta with FEC
> support), despite the fact that Frost comprizes a LOT of freenet
> traffic, probably more than the whole freenet web put together (the
> spikes at 2k, 16k, 256k in your datastore are Frost, mostly).

> Yeah. The incentive is purely that the splitfiles it inserts will work
> significantly better through healing.

Time will show that. I also think it is a good idea to heal files - but
not ignore unhealable files completely.

mihi



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