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From: Bill Stewart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> The real problem with Gnutella and FreeNet is that they don't
> provide a good mechanism for finding other users near you to
> conserve bandwidth - leading to the problem of university networks
> getting swamped by students downloading on limited internet feeds
> instead of staying on the campus LAN, getting them from other students.
Actually, this is false, at least wrt FreeNet, everybody can simply point
their (local) nodes to a network-wide node.
> Napster was able to reduce this problem significantly by modifying their
> indexing mechanism, so students would get copies from inside,
> but systems that hide where servers are to prevent censorship
> and don't have central databases to track things are very bad at this.
But FreeNet doesn't hide where servers are - from the "down" nodes. It only
hides the originator (if he wants that) from the "up" nodes. You find out
about servers from other users (at least for now).
Mark
