Enzo Michelangeli writes:
 > JYA and others,
 > 
 > The first Hong Kong free crypto archive is up and running at:
 > 
 > ftp://ftp.futuredynamics.com/freecrypto/
 > 
 > At the moment I'm just mirroring ftp.pgpi.com (about 119 Mb). More 
 > stuff will be hopefully added later. Also, I hope to announce more 
 > sites soon.

Here's a suggestion I don't have time to implement (ideas are cheap):

Create a system of mirrors where files cannot be removed, only
repudiated.  Have a single piece of software which is 1) distributed
in the archive, and 2) when installed, creates and publishes a local
archive.  This piece of software checks other archives, and
incorporates content from those archives.

This kind of archive has a problem akin to the key distribution
problem (call it the archive anti-distribution problem).  How do you
keep people from wantonly adding things to the archive?

Perhaps an archive would have a list of signatures for which it is an
archive?

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