Shareaza

If G2 is in hub mode, do blocked hashes/filenames and such in Security effect the search results the leaf nodes get? Or, does it not work that way? If it doesn't do that but COULD, that would be awesome...

If I remember correctly a chat session the developers had a while ago (I was just lurking) LimeWire ultrapeers do some filtering but Shareaza doesn't filter spam and the like on the hub level. It's up to the end user (or those who initiated the research) to filter the results, with the default settings or with an additional filter.

no shareaza does not filter spam on the hub level, but would you really trust someone else to decide for you what is spam and what is not? What if the hub blocks legitimate results? A feature like this would only be abused by anti-P2P groups. Even if used properly it would only give people a false sense of security.

ok, that's just the people with mal-intent though. What about the people who do not even realize that they are acting as a hub? what about the people who do not realize that there filters are affecting other users? what about people in countries who need to filter certain content because of the laws there(eg: porn) - content that is perfectly legal elsewhere.

perhaps a better solution would be to have a separate (hard-coded?) less aggressive filterset for hub level filtering.

Also, what about the extra resources that would be required for hubs to filter all these search queries? Would this not give incentive to NOT act as a hub? This goes beyond internet connection speed and enters the realm of computer processing power.

Personally I do not trust anyone else to decide what content I can and can't access. It goes against the basic core principles of net neutrality, and it would ruin the best thing about P2P - your choice to access whatever you want, even if that is spam or viruses. If you want to screw up your own search results that is your problem, but leave mine alone!

From one side you are right, from the other hub filtering of "mal-queries" launched intentionally to overload G2 net would help effeciency. Perhaps hub owner should have ability to choose if he want to filter or not, and this filtering should be limited to trash-traffic like malformatted packets if they are realy malformatted, not only unrecognised by Shareaza IMHO. Perhaps a compromise would be hub with filtering but limited filtering.