Usenet has a bunch of holes that allows for censorship. Have a look at the Co$ channels for some of the more extreme examples of attacking it. And personally I do not consider "every ISP in the world" enough to be comforted: I do not want human freedom resting in corporate hands. We must free ourselves.
But the way Usenet works is completely contradictory to Freenet. Usenet features no load balancing, no self sorting, no smart routing, etc etc. You can't just magically start listing the messages that would be needed to receive and post data to a newsgroup, and then think that that is somehow magically enough to make it work. It is not - by far. Public forums along the model of Usenet or Slashdot are certainly cool application for Freenet. But they need to be implemented within Freenet's design perimeters - and the first thing anybody who thinks they know how to do that should do is explain exactly how this will work taking into account exactly what can, and cannot, be done on Freenet. What messages would be needed in the protocol is about as important as what font you are planning to typeset the next great drama in just as soon as you have written it.... On Thu, 18 May 2000, Travis Bemann wrote: > On Thu, May 18, 2000 at 04:32:41PM +0100, Alex Barnell wrote: > > Travis Bemann wrote: > > > > > > That was a silly idea. NNTP already exists, and there is little or no > > > reason to > > > replace it. > > > > Until the RIAA sue Usenet for allowing the trading of mp3s ;) > > But the RIAA can't sue the Usenet anymore than they can sue Freenet when it is > *fully deployed*. Suing the Usenet would be equivalent to suing every ISP in > the *world*, because most ISPs have one or more news servers. > > -- > Travis Bemann > Sendmail is still screwed up on my box. > My email address is really bemann at execpc.com. > > _______________________________________________ > Freenet-dev mailing list > Freenet-dev at lists.sourceforge.net > http://lists.sourceforge.net/mailman/listinfo/freenet-dev -- Oskar Sandberg md98-osa at nada.kth.se _______________________________________________ Freenet-dev mailing list Freenet-dev at lists.sourceforge.net http://lists.sourceforge.net/mailman/listinfo/freenet-dev
