Re: [cdin] Re: Distributed Data
Kyle R. Rose (krose nospam at theory.lcs.mit.edu)
09 Mar 1999 17:49:15 -0500
> > This would seem to distribute responsibility for the system rather
> > than keeping it in the hands of a few. Everyone gets to be their own
> > moderator -- if they so desire. No personal data is kept anywhere.
>
> This is the right way of doing this, IMO. With the current databses that
> people are proposing and creating, we're once again putting all the
> information in a centralized database, leading to the same problem that
> lead to all of this.
Well, we also want to consider the problem of dead links. In other
words, a central server with mirrors avoids the problem of people
losing their net connections, or stupidly setting up servers on
part-time PPP connections, etc.
Kyle
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