From: Lee Daniel Crocker (lee@piclab.com)
Date: Thu Mar 02 2000 - 13:18:58 MST
> > http://freenet.sourceforge.net/
> > Why is Freenet interesting?
>
> I suspect that this will quickly become bogged down in spam. They might as well
> skip it and start calling it SpamNet from the start.
Freenet is a pull-only medium. There's no way to "send" anyone anything.
One can only publish, and hope someone requests, information. Further,
the actual storage of the information is determined by its pattern of
requests--information that is not requested gets "garbage collected".
Finally, since it is designed from the ground up to to prevent censorship,
if there's a piece of information you like with an advertisement on it,
anyone is free to post it without the ad as well, and no one will be able
to tell who posted it, who's reading it, or even where it is stored.
-- Lee Daniel Crocker <lee@piclab.com> <http://www.piclab.com/lcrocker.html> "All inventions or works of authorship original to me, herein and past, are placed irrevocably in the public domain, and may be used or modified for any purpose, without permission, attribution, or notification."--LDC
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