From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Aug 3 04:25:01 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 30EC616A4DA for ; Thu, 3 Aug 2006 04:25:01 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@hub.org) Received: from hub.org (hub.org [200.46.204.220]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A021843D53 for ; Thu, 3 Aug 2006 04:25:00 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd@hub.org) Received: from localhost (wm.hub.org [200.46.204.128]) by hub.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EA19E291B07; Thu, 3 Aug 2006 01:24:58 -0300 (ADT) Received: from hub.org ([200.46.204.220]) by localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.204.128]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 05442-03; Thu, 3 Aug 2006 04:25:00 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ganymede.hub.org (blk-224-179-167.eastlink.ca [24.224.179.167]) by hub.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5C6D9291B05; Thu, 3 Aug 2006 01:24:58 -0300 (ADT) Received: by ganymede.hub.org (Postfix, from userid 1027) id A405C3B34E; Thu, 3 Aug 2006 01:25:04 -0300 (ADT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ganymede.hub.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9FCD635BEF; Thu, 3 Aug 2006 01:25:04 -0300 (ADT) Date: Thu, 3 Aug 2006 01:25:04 -0300 (ADT) From: User Freebsd To: Xiao-Yong Jin In-Reply-To: <87wt9qzh2i.fsf@photon.homelinux.org> Message-ID: <20060803011653.G6529@ganymede.hub.org> References: <20060728164526.E27679@ganymede.hub.org> <17615.30414.314802.792740@jerusalem.litteratus.org> <20060801223754.U27679@ganymede.hub.org> <20060801230301.Q27679@ganymede.hub.org> <44D09F46.6020300@dial.pipex.com> <44D0F2FE.9020507@dial.pipex.com> <20060802203604.A6529@ganymede.hub.org> <44D153D0.9000304@webanoide.org> <87wt9qzh2i.fsf@photon.homelinux.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Gotta start somewhere ... how many of us are really out there? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 03 Aug 2006 04:25:01 -0000 On Wed, 2 Aug 2006, Xiao-Yong Jin wrote: > Let me say it again. There are three problems we are trying to > solve. > > a. Bandwidth. Bandwidth, IMHO, isn't that big of an issue ... the ramp up time for this, IMHO, will be slow, so the bandwidth usage will be a gradual increase ... > b. Duplicates. Ted seems to have this covered with the CPU ID thing ... > c. Fakery. IMHO, not a *really* big issue ... I could see someone bothering to do it once or twice, but seems to be "alot of work for little gain" ... The main problem that I see is finding a method of doing this that a majority of ppl can agree with ... and then convincing Core of the merits, a group that hasn't even voiced an opinion in this conversation yet ... :( Without Core endorsement, this whole thing is a still birth, unfortunately ... ---- Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org) Email . scrappy@hub.org MSN . scrappy@hub.org Yahoo . yscrappy Skype: hub.org ICQ . 7615664