On Thu, 22 Jul 2004 02:06:51 +0200 Zenon Panoussis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I would really appreciate your thoughts on these issues, especially > pointers to aspects I've missed. I don't really agree with the idea that such a pr0xy would bring exposure or users to Freenet. Joe Surfer, upon finding your gatewayed content in Google, is going to click through, access the content, and move on, not realizing that he's ventured beyond the confines of the normal web. Useful to Joe Surfer, not to Freenet. Or worse, he clicks through and gets some confusing message about "Route Not Found" that makes absolutely no sense to him. No help to Freenet or to Joe Surfer. Network resources are another issue. If suddenly there are thousands of web users trying to reach Freenet content through a gateway, that's thousands more requests flooding into the network, thousands of "leeching" users, who aren't giving any resources back to Freenet. This symptom would likely be limited to some extent by your node's own ability to handle requests. A caching pr0xy would resolve the potential for network burden, but then you've got to deal with expiring cached DBR sites, the legal issues of caching the plaintext content, ... People have run public nodes before, but Google never indexed them beyond the main Web Interface page, so their audience consisted of people who a) were already Freenet users and b) knew exactly what to search for in Google to find a public node. They also don't have a tendency to be very reliable. Bringing Freenet to the entire web would, I imagine, have its own unique set of issues. Don't let me sway you one way or another on the idea, it sounds like an interesting project and would certainly be a challenge. If you get it up and running, it would be neat to see the pr0xy's stats, e.g. which countries are sending traffic, which Freesites are viewed most often, etc. -s _______________________________________________ Support mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://news.gmane.org/gmane.network.freenet.support Unsubscribe at http://dodo.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/support Or mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
