> folks), and I'm still not seeing a clear reason why freenet needs catalogs.

Catalogs are a good way to find information. Yahoo and DMOZ are both
catalogs. They are also a good way to do keyword and other metadata
searches.

> What are people going to do?  Download a catalog, grep the catalog for a 
> keyword, and then submit a fetch on the keyword.

Yes, although this will actually be done by a client and be hidden behind
a user interface.

> Freenet is getting away from the proven interface of keyword submissions; 
> Gnutella, Napster, Google...

Actually that's what we're adding with catalogs. And other metadata
searches besides just keywords as well.

> The only thing hindering the implementation of a scheme like this is the 
> combination of factors:

Catalogs *are* an implementation of such a scheme.


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