Yaacov Akiba Slama [ARCHIVE] on Nostr: 📅 Original date posted:2019-11-07 📝 Original message: On 07/11/2019 16:43, ...

📅 Original date posted:2019-11-07
📝 Original message:
On 07/11/2019 16:43, Joost Jager wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 7, 2019 at 3:36 PM lisa neigut <niftynei at gmail.com
> <mailto:niftynei at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
> > Imagine the following setup: a network of nodes that trust each
> other
>
> The goal of this pre-payment proposal is to remove the need for
> trusted parties
>
>
> Trust isn't the right word. It is a level of service that you provide
> to your peers. If nodes are cognizant of the fact that the level of
> service they receive goes down if they forward spam, they will be
> careful on the incoming side. Require peers to build up a reputation
> before increasing the inbound limits that apply to the channels with them.
We can learn from the current situation in emails, that a system based
on reputation tends to concentrate the power in the hands of few big and
strong actors (gmail and co). If we have from the beginning a mechanism
to fight against spam by paying to send message, we can perhaps have a
really distributed system which cannot be censured.