On Wed, May 10, 2006 at 09:17:03PM +0300, Jusa Saari wrote: > On Tue, 09 May 2006 00:13:49 +0100, Matthew Toseland wrote: > > > On Mon, May 08, 2006 at 07:00:19PM -0400, Ed Tomlinson wrote: > >> On Monday 08 May 2006 17:38, Caco Patane wrote: > >> > > Why won't you simply use Frost ? Just make a channel to serve as > >> > > your > >> > > >> > Because Frost is a message board and Freemail an e-mail > >> > implementation? > >> > >> Actually he has a point. Yes Frost is a message board, but that does > >> not mean the methods and protocals it uses are not usefull for freemail. > >> The original suggestion here was use a private channel for a users > >> inbox. This probably could be done using a subset of the frost code > >> without any sort of gui - just a smtp and pop server. Image you start > >> Freemail. It generates an address for you to tell friends about and > >> tells your to save a private key. You configure your email client to > >> talk to local host and the freemail address. The private key becomes > >> your pop and smtp password. > > > > Freemail can have some level of co-operation with Frost but fundamentally > > Frost and e-mail work differently. > > Perhaps you should explain what the fundamental difference is on the > Freenet ?
They treat messages differently. Frost doesn't have email's headers, particularly the References field. > The only way to deliver messages is to insert them under a > guessable key and let the recipient to request them; there is no way to > make these keys non-publically-readable, so if you want privacy, you'll > need to crypt the messages (as Frost can do optionally). True. > > "Freemail" will simply re-implement what Frost does. It is not going to be > fundamentally different, since Freenet does not currently or in the > foreseeable future support any other communication methods. False. It's 1:1. Frost is many:many with 1:1 bolted on. Also freemail is fully compatible with real email, so we can link in the mailing list and so on. > > It just doesn't make any sense to replace a working communication tool > with another one, when the only possible difference is a different GUI and > reduced feature set. The Freenet project already has a chronic shortage of > resources, it can't afford to waste them like that. Not true IMHO. Frost is not directly compatible with email. The rest of the world uses email; you get huge networking effects by supporting email headers and so on. Further, Frost's 1:1 messaging is primitive and not optimized. -- 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/20060510/bde058f6/attachment.pgp>
