MSN and AOL running a freenet 'portal' is a thought too horriffic to contemplate. I imagine we need some sort of distributed database of initial nodes for new nodes to connect to. The hosts involved in this database could be hard-coded into the node. Don't give the user the option of entering 'freenet.spawn-of-satan-corporation.com'.
On Thu, 10 Aug 2000, 1723 wrote: > not running own nodes will cause a big handicap. > > assume MSN makes a big node and says to its users: "if you want to use > freenet, > type xx.yy.zz.aa:bbbb as node." their users 'd do that, and 'd cause > the network to be very centralized. (o.k, there'd be a AOL-node, too). > > when they run own nodes, the nodes will learn about other nodes; MSN (or > whatever) won't be more important than anything other with time. the network > 'd be decentral. when restarting the node, the node still knows the other > nodes. the users node won't be known by anyone since it doesn't store data, > and therefore doesn't change datastore fields. > > (hope i tell the truth) _______________________________________________ Freenet-dev mailing list Freenet-dev at lists.sourceforge.net http://lists.sourceforge.net/mailman/listinfo/freenet-dev
