[Mnet-devel] Re: [p2p-hackers] Freenet, Mnet, GNUnet, Circle

[Ian Clarke]

Greg Bildson wrote:
> We spent a year dealing with those "spammy client" issues on Gnutella.  Most
> of the offenders ended  up dying an early death after we devised both
> specific and general mechanisms for dealing with offenders.  Having a
> rapidly evolving protocol helps to some extent.

I am curious as to what the general mechanisms were.  Clearly, it would 
have been easy enough for us to hardcode some limits in a user's freenet 
node to prevent them from spamming the network, but since they have 
access to the source code, they could easily remove these.  We wanted a 
network-wide solution that would remove the incentive to spam the 
network but that didn't rely on a user being policed by code that they 
are free to modify.

Ian.