I never expected this to create such a ruckus. My intent has nothing to do with censorship. I don't personally believe that Client Delete is a very useful censorship tool. Determined censors could do much better by writing a servlet which lives in the same JVM as Fred or by hacking the node implementation directly. I added ClientDelete because I thought it would make it easier for client writers to write insertion tools that actually work.
Freenet needs more content. I figured if fewer non-technical people throw up their hands and walk away from Freenet forever after trying to keep a freesite up, that that would be a good thing. While my intentions are good, and while I believe that those who think they are providing any real protection to the Network by limiting access to key deletion to those people capable of reading the Fred source code are deluding themselves, I can't deny the sincere and well intentioned opposition to my changes. So here's what I propose to do. Could I please get a "thumbs up" or "thumbs down" vote from the other significant Freenet contributors (At least Ian, Oskar, Scott, Sebastian, Thelema) ? If the "thumbs down" vote predominates I will back out all my changes before the midnight PST snapshot build tonight. --gj p.s. I will back out the key list in NSS regardless, since that is truly evil, though no one seems to have noticed. _______________________________________________ Devl mailing list Devl at freenetproject.org http://lists.freenetproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devl
