8 Sep
2000
8 Sep
'00
2:20 p.m.
On Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 06:12:27PM -0400, Bill Stewart wrote:
Servers are the price of scalability.
Correction - servers are the price of *easy* scalability. See Freenet for an example of self-organizing networks that are efficient. But it isn't easy, self-org networks are complex and subtle beasts. It depends on if the extra work is worth it (I'm writing a Freenet node and I can tell you it's a significant chunk of work) AGL -- The Street finds its own uses for technology.