> Well, notice that they use two different schemes. Not the same one. It is > possible to run an nntp server that is not Usenet, which is why nntp exists. > It > is not possible to run a Freenet node that is connected to Freenet.
Sure it is. You can set up a local Freenet not connected to the main Freenet and it could be a really useful thing to do. I mean, hey, if there was a 100% perl (no modules!) version of a Freenet node and updatable data, I'd run a tiny Freenet cluster on all the machines I have access to in order to keep redundent copies of all of my files. I've been needing a decentralized, peer-to-peer backup system for ages. However, we don't need nntp://-style URLs unless we want to let web pages access people's local, isolated Freenet clusters. If web sites are going to keep their content in a Freenet cluster and allow access from the web page, then that is why it would be useful. Let me try to think of a time when someone would want to do this. You could have several entry points around the world to the web site's information (like a major FTP mirroring site, for instance). All of the data would be kept in an isolated Freenet cluster and would be served from some central machines but then be cached on the multiple entry points. This would be for fast content mirroring that got faster if people accessing a specific server favored certain information (great for a news service). I have this elaborate example because it's the only time I can think of that using nntp-style URLS would be useful. But then you could just set up a CGI gateway and it would work fine. Linking would work fine, too, although it wouldn't be as elegant looking as free:// or whatever. This leaves me with only one situation in which it would be useful, which is when you want to run an isolated Freenet system and _you_ don't want to make it accesible via a web page, but you want other people to be able to link via the web to your Freenet cluster. I can't think of a time when this would be useful or desirable. _______________________________________________ Freenet-dev mailing list Freenet-dev at lists.sourceforge.net http://lists.sourceforge.net/mailman/listinfo/freenet-dev
