Except that probably one of your friends knows someone on an other network, exchanges refs, and bang!, you've got a big worldwide network again.
On 8/25/06, diddler4u at hotmail.com <diddler4u at hotmail.com> wrote: > > > > >From: "Lars Juel Nielsen" <lars.j.nielsen at gmail.com> > >Reply-To: support at freenetproject.org > >To: support at freenetproject.org > >Subject: Re: [freenet-support] Freenet 0,5 and 0,7 > >Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2006 01:54:16 +0200 > > > >On 8/25/06, diddler4u at hotmail.com <diddler4u at hotmail.com> wrote: > >> >From: "Lars Juel Nielsen" <lars.j.nielsen at gmail.com> > >> > >> >to take down a darknet you have to find participants and trick > >> >them to letting you in and then you can start finding out which hosts > >> >are part of it. > >> > >>Wait - Wait - You don't have to be tricked into letting someone in. All > >>they > >>have to do is go to the IRC Chat and advertise they have freenet and > want > >>to > >>exchange information with someone. Someone exchanges information with > them > >>and they in. Or are you saying everyone who joined was tricked into > >>joining > >>Freenet in the first place? > >> > > > >For now that is true, they could just go on IRC and get connected but > >I'm talking about in the long run and people who are way too cautious > >to do something as silly as that. Anyway the IRC thing is just for > >bootstrapping the main network the devs are trying to create. People > >who want to have their own private darknets can easily do so too. > > > > I get it, freenet is not a worldwide community (openet), it's a bunch of > private nets (darknets). Instead of growing to be huge like 0.5, 0.7 is > inherently made to be small, unless you want to advertise on IRC. For now, > my 'advertised on IRC' machine, is used for testing purposes only. Once > things are running I remove all of my connections and build my own darknet > of people I know and we use it as a private place to meet. > > _________________________________________________________________ > FREE pop-up blocking with the new MSN Toolbar - get it now! > http://toolbar.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200415ave/direct/01/ > > _______________________________________________ > Support mailing list > Support at freenetproject.org > http://news.gmane.org/gmane.network.freenet.support > Unsubscribe at > http://emu.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/support > Or mailto:support-request at freenetproject.org?subject=unsubscribe > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <https://emu.freenetproject.org/pipermail/support/attachments/20060825/f10a7939/attachment.html>
