On Fri, 29 Dec 2000, Brandon wrote:
> Mark:
> > Yes, and MSKs make it trivial to regularly insert your site. Without MSKs
> > this was a valid point, because it was not feasible to insert 10,000
> > redirects every hour. But with MSKs, inserting the updated version is so
> > trivial you could do it every minute, and as a bonus, you get an
> > easily-accessible complete archive of your previous posts, perfect for
> > news sites or moderated discussion groups where content is updated often.
>
> I've already addressed in an e-mail yesterday why there are disadvantages
> to inserting even one small file every minute. To summarize, you need
> uninterrupted Internet access, which not everyone has, and it makes it
> easier to attack a publisher because you can track them one hop at a time
> instead of requiring surviellance of the entire network.
I sent this one yesterday too, before I read yours. Sourceforge is being
evil again. (Now messages are flooding in.)
And as I wrote in reply, I agree that the tracking-down-the-publisher
problem is terrible, but I don't see why you couldn't do the same to
someone regularly updating a real updatable key.
> > Moderated discussion groups would be a good project for EOF.
>
> Yes, they're on our list.
>
> > Is anyone writing a set of daemons like this, or should I go for it?
>
> We're working on similar things except that they interface that I'm
> implementing lets you use your normal mail or news client and all of that
> stuff happens in the background. If you'd like to write a library for
> doing such things then it would be very much appreciated. Mr. Bad has
> started on a library for doing mail. It's in the EOF CVS. (freenetmail)
That's basically my idea now. On the insert side I monitor a mail spool
for new messages and if they meet the configured criteria (From: header,
etc.) then they queue up for insertion in the next batch. On the request
side I check the subspace for new data and transfer it to the user's mail
spool. But the optional HTML archive is very cool. Hopefully I'll have
something capable of inserting and requesting the freenet-* lists in less
than a week.
I'll check out freenetmail. freemail is a way cooler name IMHO.
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