On Wed, Feb 06, 2002 at 11:09:07AM -0500, Gianni Johansson wrote: > I never expected this to create such a ruckus. > > My intent has nothing to do with censorship. I don't personally believe that > Client Delete is a very useful censorship tool. Determined censors could do > much better by writing a servlet which lives in the same JVM as Fred or by > hacking the node implementation directly. I added ClientDelete because I > thought it would make it easier for client writers to write insertion tools > that actually work. > > Freenet needs more content. I figured if fewer non-technical people throw up > their hands and walk away from Freenet forever after trying to keep a > freesite up, that that would be a good thing. > > While my intentions are good, and while I believe that those who think they > are providing any real protection to the Network by limiting access to key > deletion to those people capable of reading the Fred source code are deluding > themselves, I can't deny the sincere and well intentioned opposition to my > changes. > > So here's what I propose to do. Could I please get a "thumbs up" or "thumbs > down" vote from the other significant Freenet contributors (At least Ian, > Oskar, Scott, Sebastian, Thelema) ? If the "thumbs down" vote predominates I > will back out all my changes before the midnight PST snapshot > build tonight.
My position on these things is, if you can't stop people from doing it, make it a feature. The only thing I would add is that an option not to cache the data locally with ClientGet/ClientPut would be more useful than the ClientDelete command for the purpose you're putting it to (if the insertion tools supported it). > --gj > > p.s. I will back out the key list in NSS regardless, since that is truly > evil, though no one seems to have noticed. Don't bother, I'm not going to back out DSConsole or FSConsole. -tc _______________________________________________ Devl mailing list Devl at freenetproject.org http://lists.freenetproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devl
