Wow, that's not a bad idea. It seems like it would start exactly the sort of web Freenet would run on best. You'd get someones node refs, then the next day you'd get even farther through the network. Also, through the act of retrieving the node refs, you'd propagate them, solidifying the network as well. You'd end up with nodes that might specialize in that sort of content? Or would the hashes cause it not to specialize?
Anyways, it seems like once you have 1 node ref that works, you'd quickly get access to the rest of the network. Maybe starting nodes would retrieve refs more often, say every few minutes, thus integrating everyone very quickly. I really like the idea, jrandom! -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <https://emu.freenetproject.org/pipermail/devl/attachments/20030310/15f50fcb/attachment.html>
