On Wed, May 10, 2006 at 03:31:59PM -0700, Ian Clarke wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > > On 10 May 2006, at 07:54, Matthew Toseland wrote: > > >We have until the 22nd to rank these, finalize our decision on how > >many > >projects to accept (at most), and assign them to mentors. Currently we > >have in the top 4: > >- Jerome Flesch's super-FUQID app > >- Michael Rogers' proposed work on congestion control and load > >balancing > >- Nextgens' Installer, GCJ, packaging proposal > >- Michael Bendersky's search engine > > > >Personally I think Freemail should be up there somewhere, however > >Ian is > >against this for reasons which I am not yet certain of. > > Several reasons: > > 1) Its a zero-sum game, if Freemail goes up, one of those needs to > come down - which would you replace?
Either up it to 5, or replace the search engine, as it overlaps with the FUQID thingy, and as people are writing search engines. > > 2) People expect email to be reliable, email over Freenet 0.7's > insert/retrieve semantics won't be - > better to wait for the richer functionality of 0.8 Why not? Freemail uses acknowledgements; it may be slow, but it should be reasonably reliable. And it's immune to traffic analysis, and far more resistant to intersection attacks than e.g. a hypothetical freenet email system using 1:1 connections. And it makes integration of the open and the dark world of freenet via mailing list gateways far easier, and in particular it makes darknet development far easier. And it's what is asked for by e.g. Robert Guerra for human rights groups potentially using Freenet. > > Its not that I don't value freemail, it is just that I think the > current top-4 are more important right now. > > Ian. -- 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/20060511/fe4148e0/attachment.pgp>
