On Sun, Oct 15, 2006 at 09:37:35PM -0700, Ian Clarke wrote: > > On 15 Oct 2006, at 16:14, Florent Daigni?re (NextGen$) wrote: > > This isn't a good idea, I agree with Dave Baker, it is patronizing, > and reminiscent of the kind of attitude that leads to things like > DRM. If a user decides that they want to remove a connection, it > isn't our business to tell them they can't. > > Anyway, connection churn is much more likely to be due to nodes going > up and then going down permanently, than people removing peers > prematurely. > > If I could state a general principal here, remember that our software > is just a guest on the user's computer. If they tell it to do > something, it should do it. We have no business second guessing users.
Agreed, but it is legitimate to warn them when they're doing something stupid. A warning message, which can be disabled by a config option, is reasonable. > > Ian. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: Digital signature URL: <https://emu.freenetproject.org/pipermail/devl/attachments/20061024/55bca9cc/attachment.pgp>
