I couldn't find this concept/ meme out there yet, so here goes. It is just like a debian keysigning party, except those with big boxen or at least enough disk space to spare and are inspired in some way by freenet can get together, build a lan of all party-goers, and have their freenet's cache each other.
The implications should probably be thought out - as I don't know the technicalities of freenet software/ protocol, I don't know all the issues, but the usual ones like - privacy (but presumably you're with a bunch of friends) - should this local lan be offline from the rest of the Internet - if so, for a specific time or until what condition is met - anonymity of what in cache is being shared At such a party it should also be possible to easily inject significant quantities of data, if that were desired (again assuming you trust those at the party). The reason is that I know that some people devote literally 100's of Gigs to their data storage needs. Efficient, immediate and accurate freenet insertion - and very short-term dissemination (albeit to a smallish (but greater than just one) initial group), given that a few mates trust each other - might really be useful for freenet overall. And the point of raising it here - how would one go about achieving this. At the moment all I can think of is everyone manually clicking on a bunch of links and hoping that pulls stuff through, but that seems terribly inefficient - you want a spider type thing - or some automatic cache-copying or something. ??? cheers zen _______________________________________________ Devl mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://dodo.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl
