On Wednesday 16 January 2008 15:53, Michael Rogers wrote: > This is an old idea of mine that could be implemented with N2NMs - similar > to Syndie but with an F2F distribution mechanism. > > A journal is a series of articles signed with the author's private key. The > articles in the journal may be written by the user or reposted from other > journals, either manually or automatically (syndication). When a user > writes or reposts an article it's sent to her online friends and queued for > her offline friends. Articles can be marked 'friends only', in which case > they should never be reposted, but obviously this can't be enforced - you > just have to trust your friends. > > A user who reads a reposted article and wants to subscribe to the author's > journal (to read and/or syndicate it) sends a subscription request to the > friend in whose journal she read the article. If the friend is already > subscribed to the requested journal, she forwards subsequent articles to > the requester. If the friend reposted an individual article but doesn't > subscribe to the journal herself, she can forward the request to the friend > in whose journal she read the article, and so on. (Requests to offline > users are queued.) Eventually the publisher or a subscriber will be found > and the new subscription path can be established. > > Any thoughts?
What is the benefit of doing it over N2NMs rather than over simple USK feeds? > > Cheers, > Michael -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available URL: <https://emu.freenetproject.org/pipermail/tech/attachments/20080116/0305e45f/attachment.pgp>
