Ok, and so the next question: Why are you fueling this dumb debate by participating in it?
Ian. On 4/24/07, Matthew Toseland <toad at amphibian.dyndns.org> wrote: > On Tue, Apr 24, 2007 at 01:10:29PM +0200, Marco Gruss wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Ian Clarke wrote: > > > I woudn't bother, enough time has been wasted on this pointless > > > feud already. > > What's with this "feud" anyway? Anybody care to shed some light on this > > for the people not hanging out on IRC? > > It's more Frost than IRC. As I understand it: > - Lots of people are still on 0.5. > - But probably fewer than are on 0.7 (I have reason to believe the 0.7 > network size estimates are an underestimate). > - Newbies no longer come to 0.5: Freenet has never been able to handle > churn (install -> this sucks -> uninstall) very well. > - More of the people still on 0.5 have huge datastores. > - Result: 0.5 is faster. Duh! > - It was much slower when it was mainstream, because it had more users > and a lot more churn. > - One guy from 0.5 posts lists of files available on 0.5 to various > boards (often off topic) on 0.7, regularly, as Anonymous, in the hope > of getting newbies onto 0.5. This has provoked a lot of flame wars, > especially as most Frost users are reluctant to block Anonymous posts > (a lot of interesting posts are unsigned). > - Somebody has been spamming 0.7 Frost boards recently. Sometimes he > posts messages which are made up of random words stuck together in a > pattern resembling old messages, more recently he's been copying > messages from one board to another or within a board (because of a bug > in Frost this can be done while preserving the signature; the recent > frost release introduces a new message format which fixes the > problem). > - Some people think the spammer and the 0.5 guy are the same person. > - Some people think it would be interesting to attack 0.5 in order to > demonstrate that it is insecure, and more generally to attack opennet > to demonstrate that opennet is insecure. > - Some people think I am deliberately sabotaging 0.7 to keep the > paedophiles and warez doods out. > - And of course, the traditional hatred of all things darknet. > > > > TIA! > > Marco > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQFGLfePA9rUluQ9pFARAvNLAKCtAkqwf7OQc84iOkzXCUgBaQNNNwCfV66t > zXGoeptMoLqUwkHT2wwitfk= > =7ixA > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > _______________________________________________ > Devl mailing list > Devl at freenetproject.org > http://emu.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl > -- Founder and CEO, Thoof Inc Email: ian at thoof.com Office: +1 512 524 8934 x 100 Cell: +1 512 422 3588 AIM: ian.clarke at mac.com Skype: sanity
