Matthew Toseland <mtoseland at cableinet.co.uk> writes: > On Wed, Feb 28, 2001 at 03:45:59PM -0600, Steven Hazel wrote: > > 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); I don't think that's true. Last I heard, EOF email over freenet had inboxes rather than outboxes. Anyway, I'm not talking about using email over Freenet, I'm talking about designing a mechanism in Freenet specifically for inserting keys into an index. > 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. Spam in Freenet also won't crash your server. > Freenet is a publishing system, not an email system. I think it'll work fine. > 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. How does an email key insert mechanism allow keyindex to run anonymously? -S _______________________________________________ Devl mailing list Devl at freenetproject.org http://www.uprizer.com/mailman/listinfo/devl
