On Wednesday 22 October 2003 10:27 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> The user himself can add bookmarks using the Bookmark Manager. And if
> there aren't any bookmarks defined, instead of showing an empty "Bookmarks"
> box, the Web Interface could display a message on how to find some keys
> to start with, e.g. "You could google for 'freenet ssk'".
Don't we want Freenet to be as self contained as possible, without all the
issues of depending on the regular web for anything besides initial download?
And won't newbies get somewhat annoyed by this step? Imagine if, when you
first got Internet service, you were advised to call friends to ask for good
websites to start you off.
> I know this has been discussed earlier but there is a new reason to ship
> Freenet without any bookmarks:
>
> I see some people complaining (on the mailing lists and on IIP) that
> they can't reach "the" FProxy bookmarks. And it seems they are always
> blaming Freenet for not doing so.
>
> I have the impression that they even never ever consider (or they are
> too newbie) that these DBR-freesites just haven't been *inserted*?!?
Why not have one-shot and edition freesites there too, with basic directories
and help information?
> I can imagine that it is a bad newbie experience.... Newbie gets latest
> stable (*dust*), nearly all freesites on the Web Interface are not
> retrievable. Conclusion: Freenet sucks. And toad is to blame. ;)
>
> Some old reasons to have no bookmarks on the Web Interface:
>
> - Legal issues. If I were a bored lawyer I'd try to sue Freenet for linking
> to sites that link to child pornography. Be it legal or not, it would
> make too much fuss Freenet shouldn't have to face.
There is unlikely to be much way to get around this. SeXe42k (or whatever he
calls it now), for one, has both illegal porn and interesting non-adult
material, and is heavily linked to. And you'd have to push TFE, TFEE, YoYo,
and other non-censored directories down into the underworld to avoid the
charge that you are linking to them. And the chances of that happening are a
joke.
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