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Date: Sat, 5 Dec 1998 20:26:51 GMT From: Adam Back <aba@dcs.ex.ac.uk> Subject: (eternity) democracy is a bad idea on the net too!
Markus Kuhn wrote:
The main research aspect of this project is the joint administration of such distributed archives. For spam protection, you still need people who decide, which files are allowed on the distributed server infrastructure, and which are not.
I think a better deciding factor of which files remain and which don't is hard, anonymous ecash. Allow the author, or server to charge for storage, and charge for access. Allow readers to contribute ecash to the continued existance of a data. Throw the lot together and let profit maximisation sort the rest out.
There is some window for abuse in this method. It allows a well endowed entity to bias the information available. There is also the question of data degredation, in the sense of worth, over time versus the archival/historical worth of the data. Two major negatives to a free-market approach that are never discussed. ____________________________________________________________________ If I can put in one word what has always infuriated me in any person, any group, any movement, or any nation, it is: bullying Howard Zinn The Armadillo Group ,::////;::-. James Choate Austin, Tx /:'///// ``::>/|/ ravage@ssz.com www.ssz.com .', |||| `/( e\ 512-451-7087 -====~~mm-'`-```-mm --'- --------------------------------------------------------------------