i don't think its email/not email...i think it's the dynamics of the system. My system, www.tamago.us (I love to blatenly spam everyone now) is a hybrid, in that, a central database is used for certain types of data...i still call it p2p. So, I thik it is to the degree which independent nodes/computers require a central service which declares their p2p-ness. Tamago for example (another blatent mention) is probably 80-20, being 80% of the communications going on in the system is between peers, while 20, and maybe less, is communcation with a higher authority :) God.
I think email is not p2p b/c it is completely dependent on a central/distributed-central service. Same with any website. Clients/Peers/People have to download data from the central authority.
Florent THIERY <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Florent THIERY <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I'd say the biggest difference is that you don't host your mails. A local-user-hosted mailserver network would be P2P, in the P2P user sense.
I think on the administrative level, technically speaking, one could consider traditional mailservers or newsgroups servers (usenet) as P2P, but the end-user is not on the same plane.
How wrong am i ? :)
Regards
Florent
On 11/9/06, Tien Tuan Anh Dinh <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote:Hi,
Im taking a step back and looking at the real definition of P2P. Shriky
in his article
(http://www.openp2p.com/pub/a/p2p/2000/11/24/shirky1-whatisp2p.html)
defined P2P as a system that take advantage of computer at the edge of
the Internet. Two important properties are: treating temporary/variable
connections as norm and nodes have some autonomy.
He explained why Jabber, ICQ and Napster are P2P. I agree. But i am not
convinced by his explanation of Email not being P2P!!!: "if you drop AOL
in favor of another ISP, your AOL email address disappears as well,
because it hangs off DNS". Isn't an email address not much different
from your nickname on Jabber, ICQ or any other IM systems ? How about
web-based email ? I didn't see any violation of the two properties
stated above: users can of course leave the network at will, and he can
do anything he wants with his Pc.
Please could anyone point out my misunderstanding here.
Regards,
Anh
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