On Wed, Jun 28, 2006 at 12:44:26AM -0700, Ian Clarke wrote: > > Well, I have never heard or read that Toad said that, but the > response to anyone that did say that is that the darknet is there so > that it is available to those that need it. If people don't need the > security offered by participating in a darknet, then they should use > the opennet.
I disagree. I think we should give darknet a reasonable chance before we implement opennet, because it is necessary to build a big darknet in the long run, and that will be throttled before it starts if we build an opennet immediately. As Oskar stated once, he can find people for a WASTE cell very easily. I believe exponential growth of a darknet is entirely feasible and realistic once it reaches a certain level. What is necessary to reach that level is bugfixing and continued slow growth. > > >If really nobody wants to use darknet, whats the point in keeping > >it with all > >forces? > > Even if most people don't need a darknet, it doesn't mean that nobody > needs a darknet. I would expect that the people that most need > Freenet probably need a darknet, but the majority of Freenet users > probably don't fall into that category. Chinese users need a darknet (if the administrators of the firewall aren't complete imbeciles, which is a subject of some debate). French users will need a darknet in the very near future. Because in both countries freenet is either illegal, soon will be illegal, or is blocked in some way. > > >In fact I think toad is right, but my conclusion is completly > >different. Three > >months of 0.7 leads me to the conclusion that darknet is not a > >killer feature. > > Perhaps not, for you. > > Ian. -- Matthew J Toseland - toad at amphibian.dyndns.org Freenet Project Official Codemonkey - http://freenetproject.org/ ICTHUS - Nothing is impossible. Our Boss says so. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: Digital signature URL: <https://emu.freenetproject.org/pipermail/devl/attachments/20060628/28bb0c62/attachment.pgp>
