[Mldonkey-users] Credits system and rare files

[Alois]

Hi,
I've got an idea how the uploads of rare files could be faster in spite 
of the credits system:
The reason why a credit system "kills" transfers of rare files is, that 
normally, as a source, you have already downloaded the whole file you 
are spreading. So no one of the people who try to get an upload slot 
won't have any credits, because they can't give anything to you. So the 
upload of already downloaded files should be excluded from the credit 
system. That would cause other problems (for example you don't need the 
credits you get in their upload slot, because normally you don't need 
anything of them and you get less credits from clients that you're 
downloading from because you are uploading less to them), but I think 
the positive effect on spreading rare files would be very good. You can 
still give extra priority to clients you have already downloaded from, 
especially to ones who use the official client. Emule people shouldn't 
get too many credits because it seems that they can still get enough 
upload slots even without credits. Here's an extract of my client_stats 
after running about one hour:
From eDonkey: 57029153 (85.53 %)
From new eMule: 3563520 (7.22 %)

To eDonkey: 1921024 (6.85 %)
To new eMule: 21281792 (80.91 %)

P.S.: Is ocaml good at handling dynamic arrays? If it is, I will learn 
Ocaml and try programming a real upload queue...

P.P.S.: If this issue has been discussed already, then just ignore this 
mail...