On Wednesday 24 September 2003 08:31 pm, Pascal wrote: > Interesting story on Slashdot today. I wonder how hard it would be to > implement in Freenet? > > http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/09/24/132216
Not only could Freenet provide a solution, but it could be used as a source of income for the project. Consider this: Someone gathers money to setup somesort of anti-spam database using whatever existing technology. Then add some code that would enable users to make their node a publicly accessible node, but on a different port that only allows access to a select few keys. Then sell the anti-spam service on the cheap. Anyone that ran a Freenet node could get it for free and everyone else would pay a monthly fee towards the project. They would have a program that had a large list of the publicly accessable nodes that allow them to download the Anti-spam SSK. Then every so often they would be sent updates to the list. (Not everyone should get the same list) It would be hard to attack because there would be too many targets and I'm sure many people would allow their node to be used if it benefited the project. It would take very little cost to setup, and almost surely be profitable. Even if large numbers of people decided not to pay for it, and instead run a Freenet node, then you could really increase Freenet's popularity, and have a very concrete and defensible legal use for Freenet, that would make much harder for most countries to outlaw it. _______________________________________________ Devl mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://dodo.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl
