Re: Drop Dynamic Querying - It only benefits Spammers these days

We are actively looking into the spam problem, Arne, and intend to
address it effectively.

Sam

On 1/23/07, Arne Babenhauserheide <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi,
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> I want to propose dropping dynamic querying, as it only benefits spammers
> today.
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> It is a really great idea, but it has a disadvantage, which went as far as
> making Gnutella mostly unuseable for rare file searches today.
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> When it was introduced, it greatly reduced the overhead of popular searches,
> because it stops queries when they have gathered enough results.
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> Today it mostly serves to keep the bandwidth requirements of effective
> spamming down, because a spammer just has to be among the first who send you
> query replies, and you won't find the content you search for.
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> In the case of rare files, searches simply don't get far enough anymore, to
> find even one version of a file.
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> This means, while it was intended to let rare searches travel far further, it
> now makes rare files virtually impossible to find.
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> For Creative Commons Content (as for any new content) that's especially bad.
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> So I want to propose dropping Dynamic Querying, until a solution to the
> spam-problem has been found.
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> Please comment.
>
> Best wishes,
> Arne
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