On Wed, 12 Dec 2007 00:30:22 +0000, Michael Rogers wrote:
>Matthew Toseland wrote:
>> "Connect to strangers?
>>
>> Ideally, all Freenet users would connect only to people they know. This is
>> far
>> more secure, making it very difficult for an attacker to find your node.
>> However, if you don't know at least 5 people already running Freenet nodes,
>> you can instruct the node to connect to nodes run by people you don't know
>> (Strangers). Note that you can always turn this off later.
>>
>> Do you know anyone already using Freenet?
>>
>> Yes, I have at least 5 friends already running Freenet and I will add their
>> nodes on the Friends page.
>> No, I want the node to automatically find untrusted nodes (aka Strangers) to
>> connect to."
>>
>> Is this clearer than the previous wording?
>Sounds good to me. Maybe we can even get rid of "node" for the most
>part, since that's a technical term? How about this:
>... This is far more secure, making it very difficult for others to tell
>that you are using Freenet. However, if you don't know at least 5 people
>already running Freenet, you can choose to connect to strangers...
>...Yes, I have at least 5 friends already running Freenet and I will
>enter their details on the Friends page.
>No, I want Freenet to automatically find strangers to connect to.
Well. For my personal taste it is necessary to be technical to a degree.
To propose to use "Freenet" for everything is not correct.
There is
- the "Freenet Project" - the overall project, just like "Mozilla Firefox",
"Microsoft Windows", etc.
- the "Freenet" - the network and it's structure - like "the Internet"
- the "Freenet", again - as the complete concept how the network shall work
- the "node" - a more theoretical descrition of a participant, a singe "point",
of and within the network
- the node's implementation "FRED" ("Freenet REference Daemon") - the java
program within the .jar, that, when run, provides functionalies of a node
- the node's HTTP-user interface "FProxy" - to browse freesites, enter other
node/FRED references, see statistics, etc.
and you want to smush everything together to a single term "Freenet" ?!!
Like "I downloaded teh Internet" ;)
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