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

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