No, the contents of the newsgroups would have to be stored on Freenet itself, just as with Frost. The way I see NNTP over Freenet is just another way to interface to Frost-like forums (the next version of Frost should have threading etc)...
On Wed, Jul 26, 2006 at 08:43:42PM +0200, John Bäckstrand wrote: > David 'Bombe' Roden wrote: > >On Tuesday 25 July 2006 00:40, you wrote: > > > >>So it all occurs within Freenet? Alice's NNTP client talks to Alice's > >>server, which then communicates with other servers by requesting and > >>inserting keys? > > > >No, Alice doesn't have an NNTP client (well, she might have but in my > >example she's only serving :), Bob is the one with the NNTP client. And > >Bob's NNTP client connects to a daemon running on Bob's machine that > >communicates with Alice's server daemon via Freenet. I haven't yet > >worked out half the details of the communication but I'm convinced that > >something like that should be possible on Freenet. > > So this is much like running NNTP over, say, Tor? If so, the problem > with this approach is, who in his right mind would want an uncensored > NNTP-server storing its (mostly very illegal, especially if it attracts > a freenet audience) files on ones computer? I would not, and whoever did > would run a great risk of going to jail. > > --- > John Bäckstrand > _______________________________________________ > Devl mailing list > [email protected] > http://emu.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl > -- Matthew J Toseland - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Freenet Project Official Codemonkey - http://freenetproject.org/ ICTHUS - Nothing is impossible. Our Boss says so.
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