[freenet-support] Thanks Matt

2006-03-31 Thread John Meeks
This isn't about *technical* support, I just wanted to tell Matthew thanks for working on this project. The US government is really scaring me and I'm glad someone's working on this. You're doing a great job man. One question I have is that the paypal balance on the home page usually says someth

[freenet-support] Thanks Matt

2006-03-31 Thread John Meeks
This isn't about *technical* support, I just wanted to tell Matthew thanks for working on this project. The US government is really scaring me and I'm glad someone's working on this. You're doing a great job man. One question I have is that the paypal balance on the home page usually says someth

[freenet-support] Re: Hypothetical question...

2005-09-17 Thread John Meeks
It seems to me that finding people to communicate with (trust) is the hard part, and actually communicating with them is the easy part. The opennet allows you to not have to trust people, since everything is anonymous, and thus solves the hard problem (in addition to the easy one). The friends ne

Re: [freenet-support] Re: Hypothetical question...

2005-09-17 Thread John Meeks
It seems to me that finding people to communicate with (trust) is the hard part, and actually communicating with them is the easy part. The opennet allows you to not have to trust people, since everything is anonymous, and thus solves the hard problem (in addition to the easy one). The friends ne

[freenet-support] Hypothetical question...

2005-09-17 Thread John Meeks
On Sat, 17 Sep 2005, Matthew Toseland wrote: > You will have to use the opennet, which is considerably less secure. I didn't realize that there will still be an "opennet". Will this be in version 0.7, or will there be two different versions, depending on whether you want to use the opennet/dar

[freenet-support] Hypothetical question...

2005-09-17 Thread John Meeks
The new information about version 0.7 sounds pretty good, but one thing about it concerns me. Assuming I don't know anyone who is using freenet, how do I get onto the network? (Remember, I'm asking this about the next version, since it says you can only connect if a "friend" lets you. Assuming I

Re: [freenet-support] Hypothetical question...

2005-09-17 Thread John Meeks
On Sat, 17 Sep 2005, Matthew Toseland wrote: > You will have to use the opennet, which is considerably less secure. I didn't realize that there will still be an "opennet". Will this be in version 0.7, or will there be two different versions, depending on whether you want to use the opennet/dar

[freenet-support] Hypothetical question...

2005-09-17 Thread John Meeks
The new information about version 0.7 sounds pretty good, but one thing about it concerns me. Assuming I don't know anyone who is using freenet, how do I get onto the network? (Remember, I'm asking this about the next version, since it says you can only connect if a "friend" lets you. Assuming I