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[Ian Clarke]

Ok, and so the next question:

Why are you fueling this dumb debate by participating in it?

Ian.

On 4/24/07, Matthew Toseland <toad at amphibian.dyndns.org> wrote:
> 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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