> folks), and I'm still not seeing a clear reason why freenet needs catalogs.
Catalogs are a good way to find information. Yahoo and DMOZ are both
catalogs. They are also a good way to do keyword and other metadata
searches.
> What are people going to do? Download a catalog, grep the catalog for a
> keyword, and then submit a fetch on the keyword.
Yes, although this will actually be done by a client and be hidden behind
a user interface.
> Freenet is getting away from the proven interface of keyword submissions;
> Gnutella, Napster, Google...
Actually that's what we're adding with catalogs. And other metadata
searches besides just keywords as well.
> The only thing hindering the implementation of a scheme like this is the
> combination of factors:
Catalogs *are* an implementation of such a scheme.
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