On Friday 14 Dec 2012 19:40:53 Robert Hailey wrote:
> 
> On 2012/12/14 (Dec), at 1:32 PM, Matthew Toseland wrote:
> 
> > Invites can be very simple, if we make several dubious assumptions:
> > - The inviter is port forwarded, their IP doesn't change before the invite 
> > is used
> 
> Couldn't we programmatically detect:
> (a) that the port is not forwarded, or
> (b) if their IP has recently changed, or
> (c) if they are a low-uptime node
> 
> ...and deny/warn/hide the invite feature if that is not the case?

Yes.
> 
> > ... and they are online at the time the invite is used.
> 
> I think it would be "a good thing" to encourage people to leave their node 
> running, and a simple footnote in the invite page might suffice for that.

Maybe. Most people have laptops, so they're not gonna get left on. Having said 
that, they may not want to run Freenet at all... :|

The future belongs to Raspberry Pi's and so on.
> 
> Still reading up on the TURN server...

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