On Sat, May 05, 2001 at 05:01:40PM -0700, Ian Clarke wrote:
> On Sat, May 05, 2001 at 05:29:31PM -0500, Brandon wrote:
> > I think it would better to disallow DMI in CHKs altogether. That would
> > make everything must simpler. You can put the DMI for small CHKs in a
> > redirect.
> 
> I disagree, this means that a redirect would be required just to insert
> a small image into Freenet if we wanted to associated a MIME-type with
> it.  That would (on average) double the time required to retrieve the
> image.  Ditto for HTML pages, and anything else too small to split, but
> which uses a MIME-type.

I agree. The problem is that the metadata formats have been worked out for
flexibility, where as to work for CHKs we need it to be strict as fuck.
What is needed is a strict as fuck subset of the metadata standard for
CHK data to use.

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