On Tue, May 29, 2001 at 07:20:16PM -0400, eigenman wrote: > These arguments are dry and outdated. > Installing a program is not a massive task.
No, but writing and maintaining a piece of software for multiple web browsers, and multiple platforms, and persuading newbies to change their browser proxy settings, should not be undertaken without a very good reason, and such a reason seems conspicuously absent to me. > I suppose these were the same arguments used when the HTTP protocol of FTP > protocol were invented > and people wold just say "OH you can just type in all the commands you want, > with these enormous lexigraphs" The existing mechanism allows people to surf Freenet without any "enormous lexigraphs", and without having to play with the proxy settings of their web browser. It is your protocol which increases the barrier to entry, the existing system is working excellently and has been for several months.
