Re: My Gnutella spam reduction idea revised

That is why I propose it only as a user
selectable filter.  If the user wanted
just flower, they would search for it (and
possibly get hits for flowers as well,
except maybe with older clients).  It
probably would not be good to communicate
such discrepancies to other nodes as a
warning, since that could falsely finger
a machine.  Or, do not do this type of
search for words ending in S.  But then
again, the spammers will figure that out
and add an S to whatever doesn't already
contain one.

Yes, lets keep the case scenarios going.  I
imagine there are things that can be done to
make things a little easier.  This might
not be a good solution at all, or it may
be a filter plugin that only a group of
users would want to use.  I would think of
it more as an adjunct than a solution.

                        Courtney

--- In [email protected], "Sam Berlin" <sberlin@...> wrote:
>
> Courtney,
> 
> What would happen if the user searched for "flowers"?  According to
> your scheme, the program would shorten it to "flower", and then all
> clients that returned a result containing only "flower" would be
> considered spam.  Should we condemn ourselves to a life without a
> flower?
> 
> This is not to say there isn't merit behind the idea, but merely that
> implementing without banning half the network as spammers is a lot
> more tricky than just dropping a letter.
> 
> Sam