> Ok. How do you see it working with other indexes? > Concerning Frost boards, I'm thinking to just implement basic actions concerning files sharing : Allow users to obtain the files' list on a given board (keeping a list of known boards), and allow him to create a new thread on this board with, as attachments, their files (I think implementing more would be like rewriting Frost).
> How do you see indexes > relating to one another, and being uploaded by users? Some sort of web > of trust? Or some sort of broadcast forum? > With a specific index format, I think we can do the both: Broadcast forum: We can write in hard in the code address of a first root index, containing child index addresses, themself containing index addresses, etc. Like this, we would obtain an public indexes tree. Web of trust: We can let users create their own root index, and so, their own indexes tree. > On Tue, May 09, 2006 at 04:32:55PM +0200, Jerome Flesch wrote: > > > Okay, so this is more in the area of FreeMule? Certainly yet another > > > queue manager isn't that interesting, because they don't have to do > > > that much work in 0.7. > > > > Yes, we can roughly say that's a kind of Freemule ... > > > > > I think it's interesting... One possible problem is it's quite close to > > > traditional filesharing. > > > > Clearly, we won't be able to prevent users to do copyright infringements, > > but as Ian Clarke said, the most important point is to not specifically > > design it for that use. That's why, besides, I don't really like > > "Freemule" name ... it sounds too much "traditional file-sharing" ... > > (even if the job would be nearly the same). > > -- Jerome Flesch.
