On Sun, Mar 16, 2003 at 03:25:06PM -0800, Ian Clarke wrote: > We should consider support for content which deletes itself at a preset > time. This would be useful for several reasons: > > Much of the content in Freenet is only useful for a limited amount of > time (eg. DBR freesites) - it would be nice if old content didn't stay > around cluttering things up if it isn't necessary. > > If we ever get Freenet radio, then live Freenet streams will definitely > want to delete old blocks to conserve space.
I'm not sure about that. The idea of free, automatic, meritocratic archiving of the streams has some appeal even if it complicates the UI slightly. > > Remember that no author will be forced to use this functionality, but I > think that many will decide that it is in the interests of Freenet to > take advantage of it. Note also that we could make freenet nodes reward > such content a-little in some ways (permit higher HTL perhaps, or be > more reluctant to delete it if it will be deleting itself soon). > > Thoughts? > > Ian. > > -- > Ian Clarke ian at locut.us > Coordinator, The Freenet Project http://freenetproject.org/ > Founder, Locutus http://locut.us/ > Personal Homepage http://locut.us/ian/ -- Matthew Toseland toad at amphibian.dyndns.org/amphibian at users.sourceforge.net Full time freenet hacker. http://freenetproject.org/ Freenet Distribution Node (temporary) at http://80-192-4-36.cable.ubr09.na.blueyonder.co.uk:8889/99TXlPMEUZI/ ICTHUS. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available URL: <https://emu.freenetproject.org/pipermail/devl/attachments/20030317/b4468169/attachment.pgp>
