On Thursday 24 Nov 2011 20:19:25 Tanya Pyatigorskaya wrote: > Steve, now I'm writing my master's thesis. > Initially it was devoted to file searching application which would provide > search mechanism via new format indexes > Now I'm writing a spam-proof,user-friendly application which allows users > to share their indexes, maintain them and download others using special > NNTP messages. It operates NNTP messages using FMS like NNTP bridge. > e.g. user chooses what files he wants to insert in Freenet, add > metainformation it and click add. After it special xml message is generated > and inserted into FMS, files are queued to be inserted into Freenet. Other > users can see that such index appeared. Also it allows to trust or not to > trust index-creators and their opinion about other people (as it is done in > FMS) to provide users from spam . It would look like something like Thaw, > something like FMS. > If you are interested in it I can give more details =)
Cool. Personally I would have made three major changes: - Insert a series of indexes as an SSK, rather than posting them as NNTP messages. This would improve performance and reduce complexity. - Use the WebOfTrust backend rather than talking NNTP to FMS. - Make it a web application in Java so it can be bundled. But it would be awesome to have such a thing even if people have to download it themselves. I understand that the first two items require more understanding of the codebase than you probably have, and more importantly, depend on having WebOfTrust working well - which it isn't really yet. Good luck. Long term Freenet does need something with the above properties IMHO. > > Best regards, > nikotyan > > Date: Sun, 20 Nov 2011 19:30:13 +0000 > > From: Matthew Toseland <t...@amphibian.dyndns.org> > > To: Discussion of development issues <devl@freenetproject.org> > > Subject: Re: [freenet-dev] Group Official Plugins > > Message-ID: <201111201930.17350.t...@amphibian.dyndns.org> > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > > > > On Tuesday 08 Nov 2011 05:42:52 David ?Bombe? Roden wrote: > > > Hi Steve, > > > > > > > Looks good. I wonder if perhaps the final group should be called "File > > > > Sharing" instead of "File Transfer"? > > > > > > If only ?File Sharing? wouldn?t sound so illegal? :) > > > > Ian is of the view that "filesharing" is legitimate, he made that clear > > some time back during a debate I think about searching. And clearly that is > > what ThawIndexBrowser does. (It's what quite a few so-far-lawful sites on > > the net do too, although some of them are having to introduce filtering > > etc). > > > > > > Greetings, > > > > > > David > > -------------- next part -------------- > > A non-text attachment was scrubbed... > > Name: signature.asc > > Type: application/pgp-signature > > Size: 198 bytes > > Desc: This is a digitally signed message part. > > URL: < > > http://freenetproject.org/pipermail/devl/attachments/20111120/f2da8b37/attachment-0001.pgp > > > > > > > ------------------------------ > > > > Message: 2 > > Date: Sun, 20 Nov 2011 17:10:23 -0500 > > From: Steve Dougherty <st...@asksteved.com> > > To: Discussion of development issues <devl@freenetproject.org> > > Subject: Re: [freenet-dev] Filesharing application for Freenet > > Message-ID: > > <CAC+9PX4FXKurqmZHD83JDsDGK9=yttwj+wptb192zogw-ju...@mail.gmail.com > > > > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > > > Have you made progress on writing up your ideas? I'm eager to help. > > > > On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 3:50 PM, Tanya Pyatigorskaya <nekota...@gmail.com > > >wrote: > > > > > Thanks guys for your responses, it's really important for me! > > > I would determine more precisely what I want to create in a next few days > > > and would consult with you after it > > > > > > Best regards, > > > nikotyan > > > > > > > > > > > > On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 2:25 AM, Matthew Toseland < > > > t...@amphibian.dyndns.org> wrote: > > > > > >> On Sunday 16 Oct 2011 20:58:13 Tanya Pyatigorskaya wrote: > > >> > Hi guys, > > >> > > > >> > I would like to say hello to all of you after my rather long absence. > > I > > >> have > > >> > been working on the task "filesharing application for freenet" due > > gsoc > > >> > 2010. Than I had to postpone my Freenet activities due to personal > > >> > circumstances. Now I am back, and I am happy to be able to continue my > > >> work > > >> > on my Freenet task. This application allows > > >> > > > >> > - select files/directories to be shared and tag them for search; > > >> > > > >> > - search file indexes published by other users (effectively view of > > WoT > > >> > filtered by filesharing context); > > >> > - manage trust settings for other user identities (using WoT). > > >> > > > >> > Since I was out of the day-to-day work in the community for quite a > > long > > >> > period of time, what I need now is to become up to date and to join > > >> > efficient development ASAP. May I ask you to let me know whether this > > >> task > > >> > is still interesting for Freenet? Which details of the task should I > > >> > consider to be of most help? Who is working on something similar, and > > >> whom > > >> > should I contact to combine our efforts for quicker and better > > results? > > >> > Certainly I would be grateful for any other relative suggestions, > > >> advices > > >> > and considerations. > > >> > > > >> > Thank you very much for your time! > > >> > > > >> > Best regards, > > >> > Tatyana Pyatigorskaya aka nikotyan > > >> > > > >> It is undoubtedly interesting, please press on! > > >> > > >> My view is that insert-on-demand isn't all that urgent, and when you do > > >> do it you'll need to be rather careful with it for security reasons. On > > the > > >> other hand, data persistence is less than perfect and filesharers > > >> habitually reinsert so you'll need something eventually. > > >> > > >> But maintaining an index of your files and searching others' indexes is > > >> core functionality. There are ways to optimise it quite dramatically, > > e.g. > > >> fetching the top and bloom filters for each identity, but these can > > wait if > > >> need be. The other core issue is how to handle spam/poisoning attacks - > > the > > >> WoT should make this easy, but you will need to provide UI. It looks > > like > > >> you're on top of all these issues, so I wish you every possible luck! > > >> > > >> My own involvement in Freenet at the moment is rather limited at the > > >> moment due to academic commitments, but hope to see you around!
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