> At 08.58 01/10/01 -0500, you wrote:
> >Timm Murray:
> > > I don't think any ammount of "Freenet for Dummies" documentation
> 
> ... no, not for dummies (albeit this is a good idea), I mean
>   technical documentation.

I know there was "for dummies"-like documentation already, at least for 0.3.  As for 
technical, we already have Ian's orginal paper and "Freenet: A Distributed Anonymous 
Information Storage and Retrieval System" (that last one is the best for learning 
basic Freenet concepts; the orginal paper is quite out-of-date).

> 
> > > would solve this problem. The human brain just isn't used to
> > > thinking in the terms Freenet forces it to think in. Unless we
> > > want to start telling people to take what the developers say on
> > > faith until they are smart enough to figure it out for themselves.
> >
> >To understand Freenet, do three things: ignore the developers,
> >ignore the code, read the papers.

Since the papers are likely to be written by developers, aren't points 1 and 3 mutualy 
exclusive? Or maybe Mark was just trying to get newbies to leave him alone.




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