Matthew Toseland wrote: > On Wed, Jun 28, 2006 at 09:38:26AM +0100, Volodya wrote: >>> Or perhaps searching keywords over nodes within a hop or two? >> I am a person who is "pushing" for this thing, but two hops would be >> horrible, since you will have to trust a person further away from you. I >> will have some level of trust in friends of my friends, but when it's >> friend of friend of friend it then i don't have much trust in them at all. >> Look at WAYN/Hi5 and other such "friendship networks" you try to follow >> links and you see that friends of your friends sometimes share your views >> and ideas, but by the second hop it is almost like a general population, >> which you trust as much as the stranger. > > Well, do you trust your friends to tell you about mutual friends' node > references? You may not want to tell everyone you know that you are > running Freenet. > > So a flag meaning "expose my name to nearby peers and let them send me > messages" might be useful, no? It would let people see that some of > their friends are already on the network, confirm this out of band > (without having to tell everyone you know about freenet), and then > connect internally.
Interesting. Of course currently many people have names for the nodes which are as non-descriptive as their frost identities. -- Hi! I am a .SIG virus! Copy me to your SIG so that I can spread! http://freedom.libsyn.com/ Voice of Freedom, Radical Podcast http://www.whengendarmesleeps.org/ When Gendarme Sleeps, Anarchy's Zine of Poetry ======================== "None of us are free until all of us are free." ~ Mihail Bakunin
