Re: My Gnutella spam reduction idea revised

Michael Rogers <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.network.gnutella.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Zlatin Balevsky wrote:
> Very interesting thought, Michael.  The only issue is
> backwards-compatibility.  Current clients will not respond to a multi-word
> query unless all words match.  If you add a new made up word, they will not
> answer at all.  Do you have any ideas how to work around that?

Good point, it would require two queries - any peer that responded to 
the query containing the made-up word would be removed from the result 
set of the genuine query (and perhaps from future result sets).

Cheers,
Michael
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