On Fri, Mar 28, 2003 at 08:20:50PM -0800, todd at hardboot.org wrote: > Quoting fillament at iipmail.net: > > > Just had an idea that could work as an optional client but would be better > > as > > part of fproxy for new users. I keep seeing messages on the dev list about > > "windows users should update". That's important info that's only getting to > > those on the list where they are posted, where as such information would be > > beneficial to everyone. I think that fproxy could be set up to read an SSK > > out of it's configuration and check once a day for > > SSK at abcdefjaklj/YYYYMMDD-bulletin.txt, or just have it as a basic DBR. It > > checks once a day for the bulletin and asks the user if they'd like to read > > it. > > > > If no one is interested in the resposibility of doing it by hand, a daily > > archive of the dev list could be inserted at that SSK automatically. This > > would be much more verbose so it should just be an option on the gateway > > page. > > > > Just a thought. > > FillaMent > > That's a good idea. More generally, it might be useful to have "Freenet > Bulletin" or "Freenet Announce" available from the Web Interface. Simple > enough > would be to make anything posted to announce at freenetproject to be > inserted. The > node could retrieve bulletins in the background and post them to the bulletin > page, kind of like a log. Freenet users then wouldn't have to connect to > freenetproject, protecting anonymity, and could even disable this, were they > to > have some reason to. Surely upgrade announcements and security/performance > notices are important enough to beam out to every freenet user?
Certainly. However there is the key compromize issue, and until we have resolved this (by implementing revocable SSKs), we are not going to do anything approaching a project freesite or anything else that requires a project SSK. > > -todd -- Matthew Toseland toad at amphibian.dyndns.org/amphibian at users.sourceforge.net Full time freenet hacker. http://freenetproject.org/ Freenet Distribution Node (temporary) at ICTHUS. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available URL: <https://emu.freenetproject.org/pipermail/devl/attachments/20030329/3c9eb014/attachment.pgp>
