usersharing ?

[alky]

now flock came out and serverless filesharing makes a new start... always serverless sharing of (illegal) files.

why not just share users?

just today i had again problems connecting to an icq-server. and the fact that mirabilis/icq is owned by aol came to my mind.

what i would really love to see is a p2p protocol for just sharing information about users. the little app could cache a few mbs of userinformation (maybe crypted) and the own userdata. searches could go around in the network like in gnutella. of course there is a bandwith problem but a server-only app (which is then not really p2p only anymore, i know) could offer some bigger "userlists" to make the network/usersearching to be exact get faster. it just should be opensource, like opennap.

for communications between users that have already found each other (with fixed ips) there would not be a need for any searching. for users that cannot be found at the stored ip a search should be started automatically.

then i wouild like to see that code implemented (as a plugin..) in miranda/icq.

ok thats all my whishes for today... ;)

i have no programming exp. except with a little perl, but as i see, with more and more sharing apps popping up there must be some coders with some free time :)

greets
alky

[isus]

it sounds interesting, but getting people to implement it would take a while. and then some people would call it the devil, and not use it.

somebody has to try it tho.

[method]

The project I'm asking for beta-testers for (in this part of the forum!) shares part of the information (about 2%) on the last 500 users connected to/from with other users, it uses this information (and datecodes to replace old nodes with new nodes) to maintain the network structure and stay away from central servers. This is probably a bit different to what you're implying but I'm not sure..?!? maybe some comparisons?!