so what i'm hearing from you and seth is that having a peer network gives a certain amount of untraceability and freedom from limitation that would not be available with a central "trusted base".
What about issues of keeping the peer versions in synch, or do you prefer that every tribe roll their own...Not That Theres Anything wrong with that. for instance this calendar (which is empty right now) is a single source for information for events up to six weeks in the future. http://allie.office.efn.org/opncal/ (send me email to schedule events) But for trading shots of drew barrymore flashing her tits it's better to just search all the local peers for references. Is that correct? And yes jacob i do appreciate your concerns regarding security. but that's why you have apt-get source <package> although interoperability between dpkg and the bsd ports system would be a good thing. a very interesting project that looks like it would play well with python is the OPENCOLA clerver framework available at http://opencola.org there is a c version that looks like it would be pretty easy to call from python || perl || php <html><head><title>html sig</title></head><body><div style="font:sans-serif; font-size:72pt;line-height:84pt;color:blue1;"><ul><li>sexy is good</li><li> linux is good</li><li>qed: linux is sexy</li></ul><hr><hr><hr><hr><hr><hr> <a href="http://www.efn.org/~laprice";>laprice at efn dot org</a></body></html> On Sun, 30 Sep 2001, Jacob Meuser wrote: > On Sun, Sep 30, 2001 at 03:05:36PM -0700, larry a price wrote: > > Could someone enlighten me as to why a distributed filesharing utility > > that's not distributed from a central source aka > > debian.org or sourceforge.net is such an advantage, there's a lot of > > garbage floating around the net these days and some of it can > > damage you. so why not share the filtering from a trusted central source. > > > > Yes, people shouldn't have trusted that CS student from Helsinki either. > > Balancing trust and security is something that needs to be evaluated on > a case by case, individual basis. > > Filters can lead one to believe that something is "safe", without thinking > about the situation. Maybe for some, that is OK, but I follow the above > sentence. (Wasn't sourceforge cracked and file Trojaned a while back?) > > The idea is to let anyone share with everyone, not "those who have > submitted and been approved may share with those who use this service." > > Granted, using filters could be safer, but you'll probably miss a lot of > good stuff also. > > Basically, I'm just a scruffy geek who likes to have control over his > computing experience. > > -- > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >
