On Tuesday 11 December 2007 17:05, Julien Cornuwel wrote: > Matthew Toseland a ?crit : > > > 3. The whether-to-enable-opennet decision page: the question at the end of the > > page is not clear. Perhaps "Do you have at least 5 friends already using > > Freenet?" > > I've had exactly the same problem during my own noob-tests of the > documentation : the person understood the opennet as being less secure > and didn't activate it. He ended up with an unusable node and had to > search the documentation why, and then to activate it on the config > page. He only did it because I pushed him this way. If not, he would > have stopped here and uninstalled Freenet. > > The question you proposed sounds good to me. I think it should be > perfectly clear for the user who has no friends using Freenet (the most > common case) that his only way to use it is to enable the Opennet.
How about this?: Connect to strangers? Ideally, all Freenet users would connect only to people they know. This is far more secure, making it very difficult for an attacker to find your node. However, if you don't know at least 5 people already running Freenet nodes, you should turn on Promiscuous Mode so that the node will automatically connect to the network using Strangers. Note that you can always turn off Promiscuous Mode later. Do you know anyone already using Freenet? Activate Promiscuous Mode: I want the node to automatically find nodes to connect to. Do not activate promiscuous mode: I have at least 5 friends already using Freenet and I will add them on the Friends page. -------------- 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/20071211/306401e6/attachment.pgp>
