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Michael Rogers wrote:
> jdaviestx wrote:
>> I'm curious - for those of you who have had success with the Darknet approach, how did you approach your peers?  Did you happen to know in person three people who frequent this mailing list, or did you e-mail a link to the freenet home page to a few friends and say "are you interested?"
>>
>> Once you did... what was on your network?  Were you all pulling things off of Usenet and WWW or ripping CD tracks and injecting them into your personal network?  Did you find it worthwhile?
> 
> Sorry if I'm misunderstanding, but are you suggesting that people have
> already set up private Freenet networks? That's not something that had
> occured to me. Wouldn't we get horrible b0rkage if somebody accidentally
> bridged two networks? Maybe if people are really setting up private
> networks we should introduce some kind of network name (like WASTE has)
> to prevent accidental bridging?
> 
> Cheers,
> Michael

Why would you want to do that? After all if somebody is willing to act as a bridge it's
that much better. Of course that person will have to stay online for a long time, and
things like frost boards would probably misbehave when that person is offline.

Bridging networks that already exist should be encouraged i think.

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