On Sun, Aug 18, 2002 at 02:42:13PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > Pro-network: > Specifically pro OPN is that they really want to replace irc with > something better, and they really badly seems to need to be done. > Anti-network: > This is long-term and tenative, and we'd effectively be selling our > users for the possiblity we might one day get this. I think worrying > about depriving OPN of users and thus revenue and thus eventually losing > this is too altruistic; we should focus on what is best for us and our > users. Anyway there seems to be a lot of push away from OPN in this thread, > and if we move to some other network we lose this possible benefit > anyway. Don't really need to worry about that one. The "something better" that is in the works will make all of this moot; the conventional notion of a "network" goes away entirely. > I say all this as a long-time and mostly happy user of OPN, who has > known lilo in RL and likes him and admires his stated goals, and who has > been much more bothered by all the netsplits than the advertising, As far as the occasional splits are concerned, it's usually the result of sub-perfect network connections to servers. There are software solutions to this (and they're in the pipeline), but they are all very complicated and will take time to complete. -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : http://www.debian.org/ | Dept. of Computing, `. `' | Imperial College, `- -><- | London, UK
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