----- Original Message ----- From: "Chris Hancock" <[email protected]> > But surely a single copy of everything will not do this? > Thing of almot 0 demand, would only have a single available copy, > to avoid its total extinction...
Even a single copy of every document will fill up the network eventually - unless storage capacities grow faster than the amount of data ever (!) inserted into Freenet (including files that are updated daily). That's highly unlikely. Also - how do you determine where that single copy is to be stored? What if that node goes down? No, Freenet just isn't the right place for that. (I also think I recall that this question has been discussed at length on this list.) > >So what would be the point of limiting file types? > > To maintain common standards, > no use if everyone uses a different file format... The question of file formats is regulated automatically by the entirety of users and publishers. If you offer a file in a format nobody likes, the file will eventually disappear. (As a side note, this wouldn't happen if Freenet
