Re: [freenet-support] Countdown to 0.7.0

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Author: Matthew Toseland
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CC: bbackde
Subject: Re: [freenet-support] Countdown to 0.7.0
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gpg: Signature made Wed Apr 30 14:36:58 2008 UTC using DSA key ID E43DA450
gpg: Good signature from "Matthew John Toseland <toad@amphibian.dyndns.org>"
On Wednesday 30 April 2008 14:11, bbackde@??? wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 1:36 PM, Matthew Toseland
> <toad@???> wrote:
> > On Wednesday 30 April 2008 02:47, vinyl1 wrote:
> > > I think the lack of a reliable messaging system is really going to

impact
> > > interest in Freenet. Unfortunately, FMS is not easily usable by

ordinary
> > > end users, and it is not packaged with the core software.
> >
> > Nothing we can do. FMS and Frost are separate projects. We're not

bundling
> > Frost because it doesn't work, and we're not bunding FMS for other

reasons.
> > And we don't want to delay the release while waiting for third party devs

who
> > may or may not get their act together.
>
> Currently I am very busy with my real life.
>
> The question to toad could be: what could YOU do to support reliable
> messaging systems?
> I am not sure if fms using ULPRs is the final solution for freenet

messaging...
>
> The problem started when the spammer used KSK redirects to invalid or
> missing data.
> What was the reason not to add a KSK like key type that works like on 0.5?
> Maximum size 32K, must be inserted in one piece. Wouldn't this help? I think

so.

Why would it help?
>
> > > I don't know what to do about this problem, other than figure out some

way
> > > to get Frost working again. This is really too bad, because the core
> > > functionality of Freenet seems to be improving. All the popular sites

load
> > > very quickly, it is almost getting to be like the regular internet.