"Is that good or bad? Interestingly, even that many connections use very little of my bandwidth."
It's rather good. It's way more then my average Open connections, and it indicates that it's not really a firewall/NAT problem. "BTW, how big should the cache, or 'store' be? I guess the 300 MB I've given it are not nearly enough." 300MB is very little, to be honest. But of course it depends on the size of your HD. Normally, it is (should be) set to 10% of your free HD-space. Now, may I ask you if you feel I have helped/supported you with my posts? I ask that, because I just got emailed by Ian saying he kicked me out of the project (well, at least he disabled my freenetproject account) because of my first post to you. It seems he did not think it belonged in support, but ah, we all know it has more to do with him having difficulties to cope with the critisism I give on the current performance and developmentprocess of Freenet. Which is often sarcastic, true, but he should have the maturity to keep his personal feelings of being annoyed/agitated out of the project. He asks me why that I should explain "the *support* mailing list is consistent with you having an email address that implies you are a part of this project" but at the same time says I shouldn't bother because all what I send goes directly into the bin anyhow - again not very mature. For a libertarian as he claims to be, this is rather spicious reasoning. In any case, since email isn't going to help, I will say it here: 1)First of all, being part of the project isn't just a matter of making a post on the correct list, or not. (or, the real reason: being sarcastic and critical of Freenet or not). 2)Being part of a project is, obviously, also derived from whether you do something for the project or not. So what did I do for the project? I have sought and found sponsors, I have created and maintained the freenethelp wiki, I run and test a freenode, I insert content in the network and only last week I updated the freenetproject webpage through cvs (which possibly I can't do anymore, now). Since those things are all part of the project, I conclude I *AM* indeed part of the project, whether Ian feels bitten in his ass by my comments or not. (Which can also be seen as helpful, as some other poster already indicated) 3)The main premise, that the post in question was not helpful or supportive, is debatable. Clearly Ian doesn't think so, but that doesn't mean the newbie that I responded to thinks the same. It's rather subjective, but it wasn't Ian asking support, so he should not presume to know whether it was or not. (but again, we all know the real reason). So, that's why I ask you. If you found it helpful or supportive in any way, then his presumed reason for kicking me out is untenable. And even if he doesn't, it still leaves my two other points. If I were to react so childish, I would have to say: well, if I'm not part of the project anymore, why should I keep freenethelp up, why shouldn't I revert all my changes to the website back, why should I do anything else? But such things are childish tit-for-tat reasonings, and I am not going for such a thing. If you don't like what I say, then say so, or ignore me; things a libertarian would do. Fighting for free speech but at the same time kicking someone out because you can't cope with what he says seems more then a bit contradictory to me, frankly. Anyway... I doubt Ian will change his mind; he's much to stuborn for it, and he's not really interested in being reasonable neither, as is aparent in his comment that he asks to explain myself, but won't read my explanation. _______________________________________________ Support mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://news.gmane.org/gmane.network.freenet.support Unsubscribe at http://dodo.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/support Or mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
