From: Michael S. Lorrey (mike@datamann.com)
Date: Thu Mar 02 2000 - 20:16:21 MST
Lee Daniel Crocker wrote:
> > > http://freenet.sourceforge.net/
> > > Why is Freenet interesting?
> >
> > I suspect that this will quickly become bogged down in spam. They might as well
> > skip it and start calling it SpamNet from the start.
>
> Freenet is a pull-only medium. There's no way to "send" anyone anything.
> One can only publish, and hope someone requests, information. Further,
> the actual storage of the information is determined by its pattern of
> requests--information that is not requested gets "garbage collected".
> Finally, since it is designed from the ground up to to prevent censorship,
> if there's a piece of information you like with an advertisement on it,
> anyone is free to post it without the ad as well, and no one will be able
> to tell who posted it, who's reading it, or even where it is stored.
So lets say I'm a spammer that wants to pollute the medium just because its free.
here's what I do:
a) I post my infollution (hey I just coined a new word!) to 'FreeNet'.
b) I have a bot that requests that information on a regular basis.
c) I use this information in concert with email, usenet, ICQ and other spam messages
(links in the push spam messages to the FreeNet infollution) to use freenet as a
means of storing lots of information for my business for free (to me).
d) As freenet gets clogged up by jackasses like me taking up all of the 'free' space
with our infollution, more and more freenet participants get sick of giving a free
ride to freeloaders, and start charging or demanding advertising space. Voila - no
more FreeNet.
There truly is no such thing as a free lunch.
--
TANSTAAFL!!!
Michael S. Lorrey
Director, Grafton County Fish & Game Assoc.
http://www.lorrey.com/gcfga/
Member, Extropy Institute
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Member, National Rifle Association
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"Live Free or Die, Death is not the Worst of Evils."
- General John Stark
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