None follow Ian's call for opinion about the
 fproxy insertion capability removal.

My opinion about it is that was a bad(TM) idea.

I cannot imagine a good technical reason for that.

 From a normal user point of view, this fact transform
 a read/write media in a readonly media; something that
 the RIAA and other organization from the Dark Side
 can just dream of.

It is unreasonable that a normal user install and understand
 other programs just to have the basic feature of writing a file
 on Freenet; maybe the only good change would be to put a size
 limit on that.

An artist friend of mine, that was partecipating to "Ars Electronica"
 exibition in Lintz, showing an installation that use a Freenet gateway,
 had major problems because she lost the ability to insert
 without warning; I downgrade a node for her, but this was just
 a stop-gap solution.

So I strongly suggest to reenable some kind of Fproxy in fred,
 at least as option.

FWIW.   Ciao. Marco


-- 
* Marco A. Calamari  marco at freenetproject.org *

il  Progetto Freenet - segui il coniglio bianco
the Freenet  Project - follow the  white rabbit


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