On Sun, Apr 29, 2007 at 02:01:08AM +0100, Michael Rogers wrote: > jdaviestx wrote: > > The problem is, people have been building their small-world connections > > for, what, two years now? The darknet hasn't made it over to me yet... > > This is definitely one of the downsides of the darknet approach in > general. But it's exacerbated by the fact that Freenet is trying to > build one global network, as opposed to, say, WASTE, where there are > lots of small, separate networks. It's probably easier to find three > friends who want to set up a small network than it is to find three > friends who already belong to the big network, and that's likely to > remain true until the big network becomes ubiquitous. Of course we don't > want to stay in small, isolated networks forever; ideally we'd set up > small networks with our friends and merge them into the big network > later, but unfortunately I don't think Freenet's architecture can > accommodate that.
Why not? Because small, isolated networks are useless? > > Cheers, > Michael -------------- 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/20070502/c9319090/attachment.pgp>
