On Mon, 10 Apr 2000, Oskar Sandberg wrote:

> This ought be mentioned in the docs somewhere.

I'm writing this into the installation notes right now, and reading
the notes, something that disturbs me is that the Freenet Node is
being refered to a Freenet Server everywhere. Nodes are not servers,
they are nodes. Refering to it as a server is bad because:

a) It gives the impression that a normal Freenet user does not need
to / should not run one.
b) If they are servers they are not allowed by a lot of TOS
agreements. The reason for these agreements is that ISPs wish to
protect their server hosting and keep it off the local bandwidth, but
no one else can run your Freenet Node for you, it has to be local.

Could we please stop refering to it as a server?


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