Ian Clarke wrote:
> 
> > True, but if people are going to use it (and we can't stop them), we may
> > as well make it efficient.
> 
> On this subject, there is nothing terribly wrong with inform.php, but
> there should be loads of them spread around the net thus keeping with
> the avoid reliance on centralised server thing.  Nobody has to use it if
> they don't want to.

The Gnutella experience is useful here.  There are node lists around the
net, but they are pretty unreliable.  In practice what happens is that
users go onto IRC or some similar forum and look for a node.  Once they
find one, the protocol uses it to identify lots of other nodes (in the
case of Gnutella, all of them).

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