On Mon, Oct 08, 2001 at 09:24:03PM -0500, thelema wrote: > > And why is this approach better than having an "Export reference" option > > in a taskbar icon or in something like FreeWeb? > > > Because it: > 1) encourages and actively gets people sending their reference to > others, or at least thinking about it, instead of just ignoring an > option in a menu they might not see ever
There is no reason that this option would have to be obscure in my proposal, and no reason why this option might not be obscure with your proposal, so this point doesn't differenciate the two in any way. > 2) doesn't require shutting down the node to accomplish The same is true of my proposal. > 3) only has to be done once per install, and you definitely want to > replace it when you re-install, so forcing the user to do it each > install will make sure they're not giving out bad references. And again, the same can be true of my proposal. Can you give me one, just one reason that your proposal is preferable? If not, why are you wasting both of our time with this silly debate? Ian. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 232 bytes Desc: not available URL: <https://emu.freenetproject.org/pipermail/devl/attachments/20011009/c1b9c81b/attachment.pgp>
