* Matthew Toseland <toad at amphibian.dyndns.org> [2006-05-08 21:26:54]:
> I think Freemail is quite an important app. I think it would be very > useful from a political standpoint (it tops Guerra's wishlist), from a > self hosting development standpoint (the rest is easy once we have > email), and for various other reasons. > > Should it be in the top 4 SoC apps? We will have to make choices ; Even if I do think that freemail is cool and important, I don't think it can be "easy" to use and setup by the average newbee. And therefore, I wouldn't put in in the top 4 :) NextGen$ There will be crypto involved, so do SMTP/POP configuration => not easy >If not, can you give me a specific > reason why not? I admit that its implementation in the current system > will be a bit ugly, but I'm not sure this is a serious problem *as long > as routing works*. 0.8 might introduce server messaging and so on, but > IMHO we should use the storage layer as much as possible; this is why I > want to use passive requests to implement pub/sub. Anything that relies > on a server being up right at the instant of the message being sent is > susceptible to intersection attacks; we should play to our strengths, > namely non-real-time communication. (I insert ... you request). > -- > Matthew J Toseland - toad at amphibian.dyndns.org > Freenet Project Official Codemonkey - http://freenetproject.org/ > ICTHUS - Nothing is impossible. Our Boss says so. > _______________________________________________ > Tech mailing list > Tech at freenetproject.org > http://emu.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: Digital signature URL: <https://emu.freenetproject.org/pipermail/tech/attachments/20060508/318b2223/attachment.pgp>
