-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 As I'm just a translator, I'm not really familiar with how exactly Freenet works, but I had some ideas on this topic so here they are:
I think a kind of public rating system could help, which stores the username of the poster, and how many people classified it as SPAM/annoying(users that are not spammers but behave (sometimes) in a annoying way)/good As something like this rating system does not need anonymity itself, just the users of it, one could think of a system that is faster than normal freesites. The rating system could have a fixed address which is known by any node but the connection to it is routed through other nodes (a little bit like tor), this way there is just one place to look for the rating file, but even if the rating system is compromised, the attacker can't tell where the request originated from. On the rating server there could be a database which holds the ratings and creates a file which can be read by Frost. Pros: - -no complicated routing needed, because there's one server who hosts the system - -no site inserts needed therefore less load on the network - -the current version of the file is always available (given the server works well) - -just the first (about) 10 people need to read the (and mark it as) SPAM and newbies will be read (unless they're marked as SPAM too) Cons: - -single point of failure (could be diminished if every node holds a copy of the file in the last version it downloaded it (which it needs to store anyway) so if the server is down the node sends a request to it's peers and gets the last version available), if the server is down "on a long-time basis" we are where we are now, but we haven't lost anything - -could be abused by spammers (marking useful posts as SPAM so the system doesn't really work and is turned of by the users) maybe the web of trust idea could work in here, so if people who are trusted by many others (or maybe many trustworthy others (starting point: the developers)) can change the rating more significantly than others. Maybe even based on the own system: only people who are rated themselves with good a couple of times may mark something as anything (or are stored in a different field so the rating differentiates between trusted and untrusted counts) Maybe the special routing system could be used for similar services too (once implemented) although I can't think of examples right now. Looking forward to hear your thoughts about it Michael -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGvNlePUBAMhFf+J4RApryAKCt+MtcAvz7P5xh1nFHZlJ5/z8bjQCaA8aV HYcK3Up97QzQKjKf23Lkvvc= =j0dy -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: 0x115FF89E.asc Type: application/pgp-keys Size: 2437 bytes Desc: not available URL: <https://emu.freenetproject.org/pipermail/devl/attachments/20070810/6409f294/attachment.key>
