On Saturday 17 March 2007 08:53:10 Jerome Flesch wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > I'm currently writing some specs for a moderable board system: > > > http://wiki.freenetproject.org/AnotherBoardSystem > > > > > > But before continuing I would want to know if someone can tell me if it > > > could work or not at all (only on a technical aspect please) ? > > > > I think it could work . You talk about the thread all being within one file, > > which you say will take a long time to download. However, that's the case > > with Frost now by default, and it hasn't been a problem. You do, however, > > have to check all the previous posts against their copies in the originals as > > well as, as you mentioned, checking they're still there. > > > > I know the advantage is that the whole thread appears immediately rather than > > now in frost where later posts arrive and then previous ones trickle in, but > > unlike frost you know which to download to complete the thread, so it's not > > so much of a problem, at least considering the security complications it > > generates. I think you might be better off with 1 post == 1 insert. > > > Hmm, yes, someone on Frost makes me notice that if a "bad guy" inserts > an empty thread list, all the clients will try to re-insert it > simultaneously. > > > > I'm not sure the thread list file is necessary - why not just use predictable > > sequential keys like frost does now? > > > In fact it should be done also for the messages, because the same > attack is possible on them. I will have to redesign it ... :) > > > > > The final idea here would be to add it to Thaw. > > > > I though Thaw was an interface to the Freenet transfer queue, not a messaging > > program? Are you going to be adding a desktop publishing program to it as > > well? ;) > > > At the moment, I see Thaw as a Swing interface to the Freenet node > (after all, Frost will be also an interface to the Freenet transfer > queue, no ?)
Ah, okay. But surely that means that this functionality would be added to the node then, along with an FProxy and FCP interface to it; Thaw supporting the latter? (It would also imply that Thaw will first get support for adding/removing/viewing darknet peers, editing config options, and the other things that are available through FProxy...) Dave > > > > That's all I can think of right now apart from adding the point that no posts > > is ever actually made inaccessible by the moderators - they're > > only 'advising' the readers (or their clients) which messages they think are > > legit. Even the 'deleted' messages are still fetchable. > > > Yes, of course. Since you can't remove any files from Freenet ... :)
