Re: [Help-gnunet] Discouraging results

[John E. Kreznar]

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Christian Grothoff <address@hidden> writes:

> On Monday 01 November 2004 08:02, N. Durner wrote:
> > >1. After 50 mins., "gnunet-search whitepaper" gave no result, not even
> > >   The GNet Whitepaper http://www.ovmj.org/GNUnet/download/main.ps,
> > >   which is what I wanted.

> > Perhaps it doesn't exist in GNUnet?

> Very likely that it does not.  It's highly outdated, too...

"N. Durner" <address@hidden> writes:

> >2. "gnunet-search gnunet" gave results, but a "gnunet-download"
> >   attempt on the first of them gave nothing but empty files after
> >   several hours.

> See http://www.ovmj.org/~mantis/bug_view_page.php?bug_id=760

Apparently, I had formed false expectations for GNUnet.  I thought
that it would contain a mechanism to fetch arbitrary Internet content
in response to user requests, so that it would constantly tend in the
direction of being an anonymously accessible mirror of Internet
content that couldn't be censored.

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