On Fri, Jul 19, 2002 at 03:12:53AM +0100, fredunsworth wrote: > Anyway I have been on Freenet but to be honest it is real hard work ( > no disrespect to the folk who developed are developing it , but it > takes minutes of watching the blue line go slowly along just to get > the NETWORK ERROR page time after time , I know everything takes time > but I have absolutely no idea how to start searching , I have been > clicking on the Freedom Engine , half the links dont work and the > others take 5 minutes to load , is there an easier way , and please , > how do I search without having to remember all the numbers in a key , > is there no search engine where you enter a key word and it gives you > the key number/address to find it . Sorry to sound so negative but I > have heard great things about the Freenet , so far I havent seen them > , mind you I have only looked for 4 hours , of which 3hrs50 mins was > waiting for the site/page to load .
frost allows you to search freenet. You might also check out fmn. fmn has a link on the freedom engine, and frost is on the world wide web at sourceforge. At this point, it's hard to say that anyone would use freenet for quick and easy access to information, but it's been improving. Mostly people seem to use it to send test messages back and forth to each other, though there are also a lot of files indexed in the frost newsgroups. The last time I tried freenet (about a year ago), it was much less usable than it is now. It's still got a long way to go. Maybe you should just set up a permanent node (and make sure it doesn't use all your bandwidth), and then check in every few weeks to see how freenet is doing? -- .~. /V\ Lance Simmons /( )\ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ^^-^^ _______________________________________________ support mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://hawk.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/support
