[freenet-dev] Moderable board system

[Dave Baker]

On Wednesday 14 March 2007 13:49:14 Jerome Flesch wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm currently writing some specs for a moderable board system:
> http://wiki.freenetproject.org/AnotherBoardSystem
>
> But before continuing I would want to know if someone can tell me if it
> could work or not at all (only on a technical aspect please) ?

I think it could work . You talk about the thread all being within one file, 
which you say will take a long time to download. However, that's the case 
with Frost now by default, and it hasn't been a problem. You do, however, 
have to check all the previous posts against their copies in the originals as 
well as, as you mentioned, checking they're still there.

I know the advantage is that the whole thread appears immediately rather than 
now in frost where later posts arrive and then previous ones trickle in, but 
unlike frost you know which to download to complete the thread, so it's not 
so much of a problem, at least considering the security complications it 
generates. I think you might be better off with 1 post == 1 insert.

I'm not sure the thread list file is necessary - why not just use predictable 
sequential keys like frost does now?

> The final idea here would be to add it to Thaw.

I though Thaw was an interface to the Freenet transfer queue, not a messaging 
program? Are you going to be adding a desktop publishing program to it as 
well? ;)

That's all I can think of right now apart from adding the point that no posts 
is ever actually made inaccessible by the moderators - they're 
only 'advising' the readers (or their clients) which messages they think are 
legit. Even the 'deleted' messages are still fetchable.

Dave