Am Mittwoch 22 April 2009 14:53:45 schrieb Arne Babenhauserheide: > Am Mittwoch 22 April 2009 14:38:29 schrieb Matthew Toseland: > > I don't know. IMHO 150 is probably too much, have you spoken privately to > > all these people? > > I think all people I know privately, including school and university, > account for maybe 100 to 120 people. Of them I'd trust about 40 as > connections :)
To test the 150 people limit for the "monkey space", my wife and I just did a test by counting all people we know personally and care about (we were walking to the supermarket, so we had some free time :) ). I got to over 200, and she got to over 300, so 150 is a bit too low as upper boundary, I'd say (the article didn't say 150, by the way, but 100 to 230 for 95%). But of these 200 I'd trust only 50 enough that they'd keep the information private that I run freenet - she'd trust about 30 people enough (less tech savvy community :) ). So for pretty communicative people who mostly know tech geeks 150 to 200 friends might be a good bet (for most tech geeks the number is likely to be lower, though). (I hope you don't mind my wording. Geek is no insult for me, and neither is Nerd) Just wanted to give you the data :) I have a question, though: Would it help routing if people would exchange refs with other people who have similar interests? If yes: Can you guess how much it would help? Best wishes, Arne -- -- Ein W?rfel System: http://1w6.org - einfach saubere (Rollenspiel-) Regeln. -- Infinite Hands: http://infinite-hands.draketo.de - singing a part of the history of free software. -- My stuff: http://draketo.de - stories, songs, poems, programs and stuff :) -- PGP/GnuPG: http://draketo.de/inhalt/ich/pubkey.txt -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 198 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part. URL: <https://emu.freenetproject.org/pipermail/devl/attachments/20090423/a5e0ed6c/attachment.pgp>
