Gnutella scanning instead of service providers.

Joseph Ashwood ashwood at msn.com
Wed Aug 22 17:05:19 PDT 2001



----- Original Message -----
From: "Gary Jeffers" <jeffersgary at hotmail.com>
To: <Cypherpunks at einstein.ssz.com>
Sent: Wednesday, August 22, 2001 1:43 PM
Subject: CDR: Gnutella scanning instead of service providers.


>    My fellow Cypherpunks,
>
>    It has been stated that Gnutella is completely decentralized. This is
> not so. In order to get started with a Gnutella search, you need to use
> a Gnutella search provider to find Gnutella groups.
>
>    Would it be possible to write some kind of scanner that would look
> at an ISP, say for example, htc.net and display all the Gnutella users
> there? We seem to be over the "fax effect" (a Snelling point?)
> magnitude where automated hunting for Gnutella users would be practical.
> Also, maybe the scanner could search thru various ISP's as well as
> particular ones. If it did close ISPs 1st, then it could help with the
> efficency of file searches.
>
>    Also, note that Gnutella deals in files - ANY kind of files. I
> suppose that most? Cypherpunks know that - but just to be sure.
>
>    If a scanner were written and widely deployed, then I think that
> the problem of crushing Gnutella would be at least a magnitude harder.
> Maybe the Gnutella support sites would promote and distribute such
> a scanner?
>
> Yours Truly,
> Gary Jeffers



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