On Wed, Feb 28, 2001 at 03:45:59PM -0600, Steven Hazel wrote: > Matthew Toseland <mtoseland at cableinet.co.uk> writes: > > > On Wed, Feb 28, 2001 at 03:24:12PM -0600, Steven Hazel wrote: > > > Key insertion via email isn't likely, because I don't see the benefit > > > in making that possible. > > What don't you see? That mixmaster is much more anonymous than a web form? > > Whether or not I am inserting sensitive material (of which you index a > > lot), I > > would like a greater degree of anonymity than is available right now. > > You'll get key insertion via freenet, of course... For actual data, yes. For inserting keys into an index, email is ideal. Email over freenet is not what we need for this, as email over freenet is upside down (you listen to other people's outboxes, only those you know about); any freenet insertion mechanism would be horrendously prone to flooding. Of course you can spam an email mechanism too, but email is a point to point mechanism, and the cost of sending an email doesn't rise with the amount of spam in the system, although the latency does. Freenet is a publishing system, not an email system. And for centralised keyindexes, email is exactly what we need. It would also allow keyindexes to be run anonymously, which is also useful. And keyindexes will be with us for some time, if only for the portal owners (lament the lost Aarvark) to read new content to index from. > > -S > > _______________________________________________ > Devl mailing list > Devl at freenetproject.org > http://www.uprizer.com/mailman/listinfo/devl
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