Re: My Gnutella spam reduction idea revised

just_courtney_girl wrote:
> As I was brainstorming, it dawned on me,
> why not make this idea into a single step,
> and make it an integral part of the searches?
> So we can still chop off a letter from the
> search terms, but we do the comparison on
> the individual machine, not across the
> network.  Here is an example:

Hi Courtney,

Sounds like a good idea in principle, but I believe some Gnutella 
clients match partial words to provide more intelligent reponses to 
things like plurals, common suffixes and apostrophes. Instead of 
chopping up one of the query terms, how about adding an extra query term 
that's unlikely to occur in any real hits (eg a made-up word)? It's easy 
to use a letter/digram/trigram frequency table to generate 
realistic-looking words (too realistic, actually - you'd probably need 
to filter them through a dictionary to remove any real words that were 
generated by accident).

Just a thought,
Michael