There has been some discussion of public gateways on IRC recently, particularly by nextgens, and by an enthusiastic person joining the channel concerned with wikileaks.
The problem with public gateways has always been that the owners of these nodes are liable to get into trouble for allowing access to Bad Stuff. I wonder if we could: 1) Have a selective gateway mode, where you only allow external access to your personal favourite sites (a checkbox when you bookmark, perhaps), AND 2) Co-ordinate between the gateways via a Web of Trust app, so that you can click on a link and have it find a gateway that has that site? AND 3) When you reach a site that isn't mirrored by anyone, try a universal gateway AND 4) If there aren't any universal gateways, or every time you see a download page, send some advertising to get the user to install Freenet, possibly with a locally served installer package (requires our packages are signed). Obviously it wouldn't scale indefinitely, and it would be possible to fetch the full mirror list. This is also possible with e.g. wikileaks' mass mirroring effort though. It might be a worthwhile effort nonetheless? Just a thought. Maybe somebody would like to write such a plugin. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 197 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part. URL: <https://emu.freenetproject.org/pipermail/tech/attachments/20101206/029d9306/attachment.pgp>
