I got nothing. No 'icon', no tags to place an icon, nothing. On 8/27/06, Nicholas Sturm <nicksturm at earthlink.net> wrote: > When I opened the message below all that displayed was an icon. When I > attempted to save the icon all hell broke loose. My mail client was > closed. After some attempts I was able to reboot and the spamblocker > (earthlink) had examined the message and found nothing suspicious. However > now I found that a message was displayed as shown below. A similar > behavior with the message immediately preceding and with the same "i" icon. > Anyone have some suggestions of what had happened or why the message > behaved so peculiarly? Incidently the icon was "utitled" when I attempted > to save it -- my common practice when a mail message appears to be peculiar. > > > > [Original Message] > > From: <diddler4u at hotmail.com> > > To: <support at freenetproject.org> > > Date: 8/27/2006 12:19:54 AM > > Subject: Re: [freenet-support] Freenet 0,5 and 0,7 > > > > I agree. I wouldn't want to be the only connection between 2 networks, or > > even one of a small few. I simply don't have the bandwidth. Maybe a T1 or > T3 > > could handle it, but not what 90+% of the people using freenet would have > to > > work with. > > > > As I follow these threads I begin to see a core group of people that are > > promoting 0.7 as the way to go. They have ideas about how it will work, > but > > so far I haven't seen convincing evidence to show how it's going to > actually > > do what they say. I understand 0.7 is in it's infancy, but it's really > > premature and living in an incubator. It's got a long way to go to be > able > > to meet the level of use people are claiming it will have. > > > > I was running 0.7, I'm in the process of changing OS on the PC that was > > running it, but I did not like having to exchange information with > someone > > on IRC. It's the first time I've ever had anything to do with IRC, and > > though some people are IRC advocates I've never been one. I didn't know > the > > people I was connecting to at all, and the only reason it didn't bother > me > > was because I was simply provide a computer and bandwidth. If I had an > > agenda, or a real reason to be using freenet, I would never have > considered > > giving out information. I was about as anonymous as if I had posted my IP > > address on Google for everyone to view. > > > > It may be called darknet, but someone forgot to turn off the light. > > > > > > >Yea, but you don't know all the nodes in the network, you just know > > >the ones your connected to. So if one of those links between the > > >networks goes down, half your downloads stall out and die. And > > >wouldn't that put a pretty big strain on certain computers? I mean, if > > >you get this global network of small networks...90% of the data you > > >request will probably be on another 'network'. The number of > > >connections between these networks is going to be a lot smaller than > > >connections within the network. Therefore the computers that connect > > >between them are gonna have a much greater strain on them than the > > >ones that are only linked to one 'network'. And if these individual > > >networks fully connect and integrate...you have an opennet. Except you > > >have to physically get your node connections from someone else. So you > > >have an opennet with much fewer connections, which doesn't seem like a > > >good thing. > > > > > > > > >On 8/26/06, Evan Daniel <evanbd at gmail.com> wrote: > > >>On 8/26/06, diddler4u at hotmail.com <diddler4u at hotmail.com> wrote: > > >> > >>Freenet 0.5 is an opennet. You connect to any random node that > > >>happens > > >> > >>to be on. Freenet 0.7 doesn't have this yet. In 0.7, there is no > main > > >> > >>network. There might be now, but the idea of the way it currently > is > > >> > >>setup is to allow small groups to connect without connecting to > > >> > >>everyone else. > > >> > > > > >> > >That is not true. Freenet 0.7 is designed to form one global > > >>network, not > > >> > >multiple independent networks consisting of small groups. > > >> > > > > >> > >Ian. > > >> > > > >> > Ian, > > >> > > > >> > How can freenet grow to be a global network unless someone in one > group > > >> > trades connection information with someone in another group? > > >> > > > >> > Hypothetical - A group of people in England, another in France, > another > > >>in > > >> > Russia, and another in China have grown individual trusted 0.7 > > >>freenets. No > > >> > one in any of these groups knows someone in the other freenet group, > > >>and > > >> > they don't want to just advertise in IRC chat to find someone to > > >>connect to > > >> > because they don't know and trust this as a way to add people to > their > > >> > freenet. How will these freenet groups become a part of a global > > >>network? > > >> > > >>They won't. But your assumptions are off -- there's lots of good > > >>reasons to assume that once a small local network passes a handful of > > >>connected users it will gain a connection to a different network. And > > >>then you have a global network. This is what is meant when people say > > >>0.7 is designed to form a global network -- there is no magic, except > > >>for the underlying properties of the social connections the network is > > >>built upon. > > >> > > >>Evan > > >>_______________________________________________ > > >>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 > > >> > > > > > > > > >-- > > ><HTML> > > ><a > href="http://www.spreadfirefox.com/?q=affiliates&id=0&t=57";><img > > >border="0" alt="Get Firefox!" title="Get Firefox!" > > > >src="http://sfx-images.mozilla.org/affiliates/Buttons/180x60/blank.gif"/></ > a> > > >_______________________________________________ > > >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 > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > > Express yourself instantly with MSN Messenger! Download today it's FREE! > > http://messenger.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200471ave/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 > > > _______________________________________________ > 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 >
-- <HTML> <a href="http://www.spreadfirefox.com/?q=affiliates&id=0&t=57";><img border="0" alt="Get Firefox!" title="Get Firefox!" src="http://sfx-images.mozilla.org/affiliates/Buttons/180x60/blank.gif"/></a>
![http://sfx-images.mozilla.org/affiliates/Buttons/180x60/blank.gif"/](http://sfx-images.mozilla.org/affiliates/Buttons/180x60/blank.gif"/){kind=link}