A Moral Dilemma: Open letter to Gnutella community

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Originally posted by podonne
I should like to point out, although I'm sure the point has already been raised, any attempt to filter content can only be applied on a per client basis, not on a network wide basis. Gnutella being a protocol, could only be stopped by filtering the packets as they pass through a router or other device, which is unlikly. If one has a client that does not feature filtering, filters are useless.

Gosh, it is working very well on our test machines. It does in fact filter out query responses that I choose to filter out and works nicely with BearShare, LimeWire, Gnucleus, Gnotella, etc. It in no way impacts the network since we opted to not block propagation.

In fact, I'm not using it so much to filter out pornography as to get rid of a lot of lengthy garbage file names (descriptions) loaded with spam keywords. I like that.

Although I do believe that the original post was an advertisment.

I would be very stupid to advertise here unless my purpose was to advertise for an angry mob to throw bricks at me. What did happen is that we received a significant amount information, suggestions, etc. that showed up weaknesses in our own thinking. In a sense, yes, we advertised for expert opinion and got it.

Dan