On Tue, Jul 03, 2001 at 10:05:35AM -0700, Ian Clarke wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 03, 2001 at 12:47:22PM -0400, Tavin Cole wrote:
> > 99.9%? You're not helping your side of the argument by making gross
> > exaggerations..
>
> Don't be silly, gross exaggerations are a tradition on Freenet-devl.
A tradition from which I'd like to depart in the interests of rational
discourse :)
> > I think you are underestimating the feasibility of
> > having people obtain the initial nodereference(s) from sites other
> > than freenetproject.org.
>
> I am working on the assumption that Oskar wouldn't tolerate any reliance
> on a widely known trusted node, whether on freenetproject.org,
> slashdot.org, or farmsex.com, so we are talking about the difficulty in
> obtaining a trusted node reference that it is likely only a small number
> of other people have had access to. I am not sure I could do that
> without sending a request to freenet-devl, and everyone can't do that.
Well, if *Oskar* won't tolerate farmsex.com advertising a widely known
trusted node, I'm certain they will desist from doing so.
Anyway, if many many websites list a couple of node addresses, then it
will be easy for people to find one -- and it seems fairly likely that
once the process is clear, many many websites will do just that.
This is *good* :)
> > Um, the current network topology is utterly ruined..
>
> Actually it seems to work ok, although far from perfect - but back to
> the point. Scott researched this specific topic. He discovered that the
> announcement protocol will have a significant beneficial effect. There
> is no evidence to suggest that routing announcement messages via a small
> number of seed nodes will have a damaging effect on the network.
Well, depends on whether those nodes are compromised of course.
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