On Mon, May 24, 2004 at 11:32:50AM +0000, Wayne McDougall wrote: > Phillip Hutchings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > One thing that I can think of is limiting the size of incoming files > > not requested by the node directly - stop splitfiles and things going > > through. I'm more interested in the information, not movies, but I > > can't think of a tidy way to implement this in a few minutes. I know > > it's not really in line with the freenet ideal, and also it could > > compromise privacy, but it's a thought. > > So you not only don't want to store large files in your data store - > you don't want to relay them either? It should be easy enough to stop such > files being stored in your data store - according to freenet.ini it doesn't > store files larger than 1/100th of the size of your datastore, in your > datastore. That 1/100 calculation would be easy to find and tweak so you don't > store files of 1 Mb (and these days all the large files I see are in chunks of > 1,026 Kb). The question is whether you can identify whether incoming data is > part of an incoming 1 Mb message bfore you accept it. My guess, only a guess, > is yes.
This is true. > > I would think that "information" as opposed to files would normally be under 1 > Mb. ZIP manifest freesites, the Diebold files, even some "informative" videos... > > For my part I'd like to contribute as much bandwidth to Freenet as a whole, but > when in a capped triage situation I certainly understand wanting to prioritise > traffic. NGR will take into account your transfer rate when deciding whether to route a request to you. Hopefully you'd get fewer requests for big files... -- Matthew J Toseland - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Freenet Project Official Codemonkey - http://freenetproject.org/ ICTHUS - Nothing is impossible. Our Boss says so.
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