Hopefully the mailing list is working again. On 12/24/2013 02:09 AM, danimoth wrote: > A problem which could rise is the 'incentive' for peers to continuosly > providing bandwidth and disk space to store messages. I'm a simple dude, > with a mailflow of ~5 email per day. Why I should work for you, with > your ~10000 mail per day for all your mailing list?
Bittorrent works pretty well and handles peers with widely varying latencies and bandwidth. It has a very simple algorithm, you prefer peers providing you the best bandwidth, tit for tat. Why not do the same thing? You look for a N peers to trade for your inbox size * redundancy factor. Someone with 100x the email needs either larger or more peers to trade with. If a peer uses too much bandwidth, if you are polite you notify them, if not they should notice at the next check and look for a peer to replace you. > Somewhere on this list (or p2p-hackers?) there was a post of mine, > regardings an economic incentive between peers, which could be a > solution, but as always technical problems arose, like pricing the > services and a fair exchange between peers. I've seen many complicated proposed systems with reputation, micro payments, etc. While academically interesting I think tit-for-tat should work just fine for this purpose. Trade a chunk of storage with a peer and set the redundancy/replication factor to whatever you are comfortable with. If you want to track down peers you actually know, all the better. _______________________________________________ p2p-hackers mailing list [email protected] http://lists.zooko.com/mailman/listinfo/p2p-hackers
