[freenet-support] Re: Hypothetical question...

2005-09-19 Thread Matthew Toseland
On Sat, Sep 17, 2005 at 10:28:49PM -0400, John Meeks wrote: > It seems to me that finding people to communicate with (trust) is the hard > part, and actually communicating with them is the easy part. The opennet > allows you to not have to trust people, since everything is anonymous, and > thus so

[freenet-support] Re: Hypothetical question...

2005-09-19 Thread Matthew Toseland
On Sat, Sep 17, 2005 at 08:55:01PM +, Bob wrote: > Matthew Toseland writes: > > --snip-- > > No, there will be an opennet. It will probably operate on similar > > principles to the current 0.5 network, but will be 0.7. > > > > > > We could have a rotating public nodes system like we currentl

Re: [freenet-support] Re: Hypothetical question...

2005-09-19 Thread Matthew Toseland
On Sat, Sep 17, 2005 at 10:28:49PM -0400, John Meeks wrote: > It seems to me that finding people to communicate with (trust) is the hard > part, and actually communicating with them is the easy part. The opennet > allows you to not have to trust people, since everything is anonymous, and > thus so

Re: [freenet-support] Re: Hypothetical question...

2005-09-19 Thread Matthew Toseland
On Sat, Sep 17, 2005 at 08:55:01PM +, Bob wrote: > Matthew Toseland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > --snip-- > > No, there will be an opennet. It will probably operate on similar > > principles to the current 0.5 network, but will be 0.7. > > > > > > We could have a rotating public nodes syst

[freenet-support] Re: Hypothetical question...

2005-09-17 Thread John Meeks
It seems to me that finding people to communicate with (trust) is the hard part, and actually communicating with them is the easy part. The opennet allows you to not have to trust people, since everything is anonymous, and thus solves the hard problem (in addition to the easy one). The friends ne

[freenet-support] Re: Hypothetical question...

2005-09-17 Thread Bob
Matthew Toseland writes: --snip-- > No, there will be an opennet. It will probably operate on similar > principles to the current 0.5 network, but will be 0.7. > > > > We could have a rotating public nodes system like we currently do with > > seednodes.ref, but surely this would horribly break t

Re: [freenet-support] Re: Hypothetical question...

2005-09-17 Thread John Meeks
It seems to me that finding people to communicate with (trust) is the hard part, and actually communicating with them is the easy part. The opennet allows you to not have to trust people, since everything is anonymous, and thus solves the hard problem (in addition to the easy one). The friends ne

[freenet-support] Re: Hypothetical question...

2005-09-17 Thread Matthew Toseland
On Sat, Sep 17, 2005 at 03:53:27PM +, Bob wrote: > John Meeks writes: > > > The new information about version 0.7 sounds pretty good, but one thing > > about it concerns me. Assuming I don't know anyone who is using freenet, > > how do I get onto the network? (Remember, I'm asking this abou

[freenet-support] Re: Hypothetical question...

2005-09-17 Thread Bob
John Meeks writes: > The new information about version 0.7 sounds pretty good, but one thing > about it concerns me. Assuming I don't know anyone who is using freenet, > how do I get onto the network? (Remember, I'm asking this about the next > version, since it says you can only connect if a "

[freenet-support] Re: Hypothetical question...

2005-09-17 Thread Bob
Matthew Toseland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: --snip-- > No, there will be an opennet. It will probably operate on similar > principles to the current 0.5 network, but will be 0.7. > > > > We could have a rotating public nodes system like we currently do with > > seednodes.ref, but surely this wou

Re: [freenet-support] Re: Hypothetical question...

2005-09-17 Thread Matthew Toseland
On Sat, Sep 17, 2005 at 03:53:27PM +, Bob wrote: > John Meeks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > The new information about version 0.7 sounds pretty good, but one thing > > about it concerns me. Assuming I don't know anyone who is using freenet, > > how do I get onto the network? (Remember, I

[freenet-support] Re: Hypothetical question...

2005-09-17 Thread Bob
John Meeks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The new information about version 0.7 sounds pretty good, but one thing > about it concerns me. Assuming I don't know anyone who is using freenet, > how do I get onto the network? (Remember, I'm asking this about the next > version, since it says you can