On Tue, May 09, 2006 at 12:24:25AM +0300, Jusa Saari wrote: > On Mon, 08 May 2006 21:26:54 +0100, Matthew Toseland wrote: > > > 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? 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). > > Why won't you simply use Frost ? Just make a channel to serve as your > inbox, and request that people encrypt their mail with your public key > (which Frost already supports). Channelname collisions won't be a problem > either, since Frost uses SSK keys for them. Besides, nearly every Freenet > user is likely to have Frost, since it is one of the few programs that > actually do anything usefull there (no, browsing Freeweb is not usefull at > current speeds and bitrot rate, or at least wasn't the last time I tried > it).
When did you try it last? :) Frost is primarily about boards, and it can't be easily gatewayed to regular email because it doesn't have the same features. Something that could be would be useful; we could gateway the lists, for instance, and save people the considerable trouble of setting up 2-way mixmaster accounts. It's also been specifically asked for by rguerra, who has considerable experience and contacts amongst people working in dark places. > > Or, if you want to use an email program for communication, add POP > protocol to Frost. It is open source, after all. Frost doesn't do the same thing as email. > > Or have a look at FMB. That, too, offers e-mail like functionality over > Freenet. FMB is dead, and has been dead for a long time. -- Matthew J Toseland - toad at amphibian.dyndns.org Freenet Project Official Codemonkey - http://freenetproject.org/ ICTHUS - Nothing is impossible. Our Boss says so. -------------- 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/20060509/eebe1c85/attachment.pgp>
