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Originally posted by cultiv8r
A much better solution to this issue would be to deny sending a result to a freeloader. Queryhits are usually bigger, even when the broadcasted Queries are summed up.
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Isn't this still the same? If you stop routing Query or Queryhits, whatever, you will cut off any user behind this freeloader and so harm the network.
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I've followed some discussions here about that as well. The best one I've seen, and also something I'm looking to implement in my client, is a "rating".
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I have listed this under the terms of 'Mojos' (
see my anti-freeloading list, section D). I think local Mojos (even hash based) could be allways faked by patching your client, by changing stored client statistics or simply by using a client that doesn take part at your Mojo system. Guess how long it would take until the first Mojo-Freeloading tool hits the network? Only remote or central hosted Mojos (e.g. similar to FTP-Server or IRC-based Fileserver) with a IP/user based ratio and authetification prevents cheating.
I personally do not believe in Mojos: IMHO Gnutella should be designed to stand against bad clients/abuse, be free as possible (think about the web, free and easy information access was the success) and we still have many other unused possibilites left to prevent freeloading.
Greets, Moak