[freenet-dev] Story Submitted to Slashdot

[Matthew Toseland]

On Tue, Apr 24, 2007 at 01:10:29PM +0200, Marco Gruss wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Ian Clarke wrote:
>  > I woudn't bother, enough time has been wasted on this pointless
>  > feud already.
> What's with this "feud" anyway? Anybody care to shed some light on this
> for the people not hanging out on IRC?

It's more Frost than IRC. As I understand it:
- Lots of people are still on 0.5.
- But probably fewer than are on 0.7 (I have reason to believe the 0.7
  network size estimates are an underestimate).
- Newbies no longer come to 0.5: Freenet has never been able to handle
  churn (install -> this sucks -> uninstall) very well.
- More of the people still on 0.5 have huge datastores.
- Result: 0.5 is faster. Duh!
- It was much slower when it was mainstream, because it had more users
  and a lot more churn.
- One guy from 0.5 posts lists of files available on 0.5 to various
  boards (often off topic) on 0.7, regularly, as Anonymous, in the hope
  of getting newbies onto 0.5. This has provoked a lot of flame wars,
  especially as most Frost users are reluctant to block Anonymous posts
  (a lot of interesting posts are unsigned).
- Somebody has been spamming 0.7 Frost boards recently. Sometimes he
  posts messages which are made up of random words stuck together in a
  pattern resembling old messages, more recently he's been copying
  messages from one board to another or within a board (because of a bug
  in Frost this can be done while preserving the signature; the recent
  frost release introduces a new message format which fixes the
  problem).
- Some people think the spammer and the 0.5 guy are the same person.
- Some people think it would be interesting to attack 0.5 in order to
  demonstrate that it is insecure, and more generally to attack opennet
  to demonstrate that opennet is insecure.
- Some people think I am deliberately sabotaging 0.7 to keep the
  paedophiles and warez doods out.
- And of course, the traditional hatred of all things darknet.
> 
> TIA!
> Marco
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